THE D-BACKS' KETEL MARTE DIDN'T RUN ON A GAME-ENDING DOUBLE PLAY AND OF COURSE JONATHAN PAPELBON NOTICED

While baseball does have its share of silly unwritten rules, the expectation for players to show effort is absolutely reasonable. And nearly nine years after Jonathan Papelbon's in-dugout altercation with Bryce Harper, he's still bothered watching players cost their teams by not running out ground balls.

The Arizona Diamondbacks lost Wednesday afternoon's game against the Cardinals, 5-1. And though it was unlikely that the D-backs would have been able to put together a four-run, two-out rally, Ketel Marte should have at least been on first base to give Arizona the chance.

Instead, he did this on a grounder to first base to end the game.

https://twitter.com/CodifyBaseball/status/1783219402403635373

Marte did not expect Cardinals closer Ryan Helsley to be able to cover first base on the turn for the double play, so he basically went to first on a half jog. And by the time he realized that Helsley was going to be there, Marte was only able to get within a step of beating the throw back to first. Had Marte hustled out of the box at all, he would have been safe easily to extend the game.

Of course, the video made its way over to Papelbon who tweeted about Marte's poor effort there.

https://twitter.com/TheRealJPap58/status/1783228238111584284

Marte should probably consider himself lucky that the former MLB pitcher wasn't in the dugout waiting for him after that one.

https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1574756592846864388

We know how that would have turned out.

This article originally appeared on For The Win: The D-backs' Ketel Marte didn't run on a game-ending double play and of course Jonathan Papelbon noticed

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