Jose Ramirez Utterly Baffled By Utility Man Brandon Dixon's 10th Straight Curveball

This is wonderful. Reds utility man Brandon Dixon made his first career pitching appearance Monday night, in the ninth inning of an eventual 10-3 loss to the Indians. His pitching line was great: Dixon threw 10 total pitches; no one of them was harder than 74 miles per hour; the slowest came in under 66 miles per hour. MLB’s play-by-play, perhaps overwhelmed by this feast of slow-balls, decided to label every one of them a curve.

You’d think, by the tenth straight curve, one of baseball’s great mashers would’ve been all over that sucker, but there you would be wrong. Have a look at what Dixon’s loopy deuce did to Jose Ramirez, to end the inning:

Fucking owned! Dixon got three outs on 10 pitches, without allowing a baserunner, and almost certainly achieved the greatest moment in his pitching career, such as it is.