Chase Utley's Controversial Slide

In the seventh inning of the second game of NLDS Chase Utley slides into Ruben Tejada to break up the double play. What is a common occurrence in the MLB today can be viewed by many as wrong and bad for the sport. Utley did not even go near the bag he was going directly for Tejada and that's targeting, and the result of the slide was Tejada breaking his leg. So now the Mets are down their starting shortstop the rest of the postseason in result to a dirty play. Utley is suspended for 2 games and is appealing it as if he did nothing wrong, as a baseball player sliding at someone is common and fair but when the shortstop isn't near the bag at all sliding towards them is cheap. Most people would view this as ethnically wrong to try and take out another human for the sake of saving an out, and especially in a situation were the injury risk is very high. But professional baseball players see Chase Utley's slide as getting the job done and the Dodgers rallied and won the game. Instead of a 2-0 going home to New York the Mets are tied up at one game a piece in big thanks to Chase Utley.