VIDEO: Hanley Ramirez benched for jogging after ball

A. Isaac Senior Editor

Don’t mind Hanley Ramirez. He’s just going to take a leisurely stroll down the left field line to get a ball. I think he was waiting for the peanut vendor to come back around.

In Ramirez’ defense, the Baseball Tonight guys said he had taken a foul ball off his leg and may have been injured in the previous inning. If that’s the case, he probably shouldn’t have been in the game if his top speed is one notch below the venerable Bengie Molina.

Marlins manager, Fredi Gonzalez, had some rather stern words about Hanley after the game…

“You guys call him a marquee guy,” Gonzalez said of the player often referred to as the “Face of the Franchise.” “I’ve got 25 guys all wearing the same uniform. All with the Marlins insignia on the front. If anybody did it, not just the one guy.”

“I told [Ramirez] that he needed to go inside,” Gonzalez said. “We’re going to run Barden out there, who has a sprained ankle, by the way. He battled for eight innings with a sprained ankle. Probably killing him. But that’s the effort we’re looking at as an organization, as a team. That’s that.”

On a completely related note, there appears to be about 25 people in the stands during the game. I knew that the Marlins struggled with attendance but that borders on New Jersey Nets territory.

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