I'll preface this by saying that Padres rookie pitcher Eric Lauer objectively does not suck. During his final year at Kent State, he led all NCAA pitchers in 2016 with an ERA of .69 and spent just one season in the minors before getting called up to the Padres. He made his MLB debut against the Rockies last night. Which...admittedly did not go well.
"Whether or not it is unclear to you," Max Ehrmann wrote in his Desiderata, the one that graces coffee mugs and adorns the cubicles of entry-level account coordinators across the U.S., "the Universe is unfolding as it should." Surely that sentiment prompted Lauer as he watched this waking nightmare unfold:
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) April 25, 2018
Look: if this happened to you in your Major League debut, knowing that you're going to make the next day's highlight reels for all of the wrong reasons...well, sometimes all you can do is laugh. And hey, at least this happened:
#Padres @ #Rockies— Ballpark Videos (@BallparkVids) April 25, 2018
Lauer singles in ML debut (00:44)
MLB Gameday: https://t.co/uM7aDONbdd pic.twitter.com/8nWWZ3qApl
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