VIDEO: Nationals' Anibal Sanchez Laid Down the Most Perfect Bunt Ever With Bases Loaded Against Cubs
By Michael Luciano
When you're a career .075 hitter, it pays to work on your bunting skills. Despite facing a bases-loaded, two-out scenario against the Chicago Cubs with Jon Lester on the mound, Washington Nationals starter Anibal Sanchez made every little league coach who kept screaming at him about working on his fundamentals proud. He dropped down the perfect bunt right in between Lester, Jonathan Lucroy and Kris Bryant to bring home a run.
Two outs.
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) August 23, 2019
Bases loaded.
Pitcher at the plate.
Aníbal Sánchez lays down the greatest bunt we've ever seen for an RBI single. pic.twitter.com/fAb7AUOlfl
Perfectly equidistant from all three, stopping right next to the foul line. It's like a work of art.
There are two lessons you can take away from this if you're either a pitcher or infielder. For pitchers, keep working on your bunts, it'll earn you trust in big situations like this. For infielders, work on your bunt defense! Otherwise you give runs away like this.