St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras found an innovative way get rid of some batting tape on his baseball bat on Saturday.
During his team's home afternoon tilt against the Minnesota Twins, Contreras decided to remove some batting tape from his bat's handle by ripping it off with his mouth and then putting it into his mouth to chew on it while at the plate.
While we doubt he actually swallowed the batting tape after chewing on it, this was ... not expected!
Y'know, we're not going judge Contreras on his unusual plate etiquette, but we don't recommend doing this when it's your turn in the batting order.
Just rip off the errant tape and chuck it to the side! It probably tastes terrible!
Forget chewing gum. Chewing batting tape is the way to go 馃槅
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