Dee Gordon Stops Batting, Watches Himself Strike Out in Most Bizarre Fashion

Let's start with this: I have no idea what happened here.

Dee Gordon, good baseball player and human roadrunner, went down looking in the strangest way during Wednesday night's tilt between the Miami Marlins and New York Yankees.

Sitting on a 2-2 count in the top of the first against Yankees pitcher Michael Pineda, Gordon sheathed his bat and leaned over the plate to ogle an 85 mph strike right down the middle. He then gripped up lumber and promptly stepped to the dugout—which is the part that makes this all so very weird.

The Marlins second baseman didn't step back for another cut, which you'd do if you lost track of the strike count and thought you had another chance coming. Gordon watched it into the glove and walked off—before the umpire even made the call!

According to Cut 4's Ben Cosman, Gordon said he didn't think Michael Pineda would go for the gusto.

"I wanted to see if he could throw the strike," Gordon said. "I didn't think he would, and he did. That's part of it."

This is still strange reasoning, and I prefer to think this was some kind of mind game Gordon was playing. He's going to take this strikeout just to make Pineda question everything he ever thought he knew about baseball. It's one of those futile gestures that sits in the back of your mind and gnaws away at your sanity. I know it's doing that to me.

Dan is on Twitter, Gordon-truthering.