You always hurt the ones you love

After hitting a walk off grand slam for the Angels on Saturday, Kendry Morales jumped into a mob of his teammates at home plate and broke his leg. Talk about experiencing a range of emotions in a few seconds. I haven’t seen a celebration go that bad since Derek Zoolander ran on stage and accepted Hansel’s male model of the year award.

Baseball players are always eager to run out onto the field and celebrate, even when what they’re celebrating about isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things. Morales’ game winning shot ended a contest in May between two teams with losing records. But the way the Angels celebrated, you would have thought they had just won the ALCS.

So when the two teams hooked up again on Sunday and the Angels got another walk off homer (this time from Howie Kendrick), the celebration that ensued was much more subdued:

This isn’t the first time that an unruly bunch of baseball players has injured one of their own while celebrating. Remember the Twins’ Denny Hocking catching the final out of his team’s divisional playoff win over Oakland back in 2002? He wound up underneath a pile of happy teammates, got spiked and took stitches in a finger and was sidelined for the duration of the ALCS against the Angels.