Twerp

In game 4 two nights ago, Dustin Pedroia took what I thought was an extremely awkward slide into first attempting to avoid a tag from Victor Martinez on a routine ground ball to first; he sort of fell down head first into the ball. This is one of the few occasions where a player actually should slide into first, but I remember wondering why he didn't go in feet first. It appears, in retrospect, that he was doing an imitation of Boston's favorite role model.