You might have seen the highlights from the Dodgers’ come-from-behind victory against the Mets on June 5. No disrespect to Michael Conforto’s game-winning hit, the more memorable play will likely be remembered as the Pinball Wizard play.

Brett Baty botched a throw home on an Andy Pages grounder, and hilarity ensued as Reed Garrett and Francisco Alvarez had an impromptu mosh pit at home. You had Orel Hershiser riffing about traffic jams and basketball, while Joe Davis remarks about catcher’s interference against one’s own team.

Baty, to his credit, did not shy away from his miscue after the game.

“It’s just a very, very dumb mistake. It can’t happen in that situation.”

Brett Baty says he made a “terrible play” on his error in the 8th inning: pic.twitter.com/I1XDRhE6cF

— SNY (@SNYtv) June 5, 2025

Normally, some would make a Pinball Wizard remark and go about the rest of their day. But for those in the know, the name of Brett Baty should be quite familiar to the True Blue LA faithful.

We flashback to July 15, 2023 at Citi Field with the Dodgers playing the New York Mets in gloomy weather.

In the top of the ninth inning, the Dodgers held a slim lead. Max Muncy hit a pop-up to the third baseman Brett Baty, and hilarity ensued.

What a disaster indeed, as the Dodgers never looked back.

Or maybe Joe Davis’ “Oh no” is too bourgeois for you. Maybe you need an alternate angle of the dumbest play I have seen a non-Dodger do in my presence.

Unfortunately, the winner of the dumbest play I have ever seen in my presence was in April 2018 when Pedro Baez fell off of a dry mound to balk in the losing run in Oracle Park against the San Francisco Giants.

Yup, still absolutely infuriating seven years later.

One would not expect Brett Baty to make a blunder at third base that costs his team a victory against the Dodgers, after all, that’s Max Muncy’s job, but it’s odd that it has happened twice, which isn’t a lot. Still, it is weird that Baty has essentially gifted the Dodgers two wins, right?

Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern, and four times is a standard.

At the risk of angering the baseball gods, which should be okay because I made us relive the Baez Breakdance of 2018, I suppose we should expect blunder number three in approximately two years in New York based on the current pattern.

We have had a failed catch resulting in a shot to the face and a blown throw resulting in an impromptu basketball game. My guess would be a ricochet off a body part that goes into the dugout, but I think I will let life find a way.

How he does it, I do not know. But the Mets’ third baseman sure plays a mean pinball.