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Alex Presley came up juuuuuust a bit short on this dive, had to crawl across home plate

Alex Presley belly flops then crawls across plate

They always say that you've got to crawl before you can walk, but Astros outfielder Alex Presley demonstrated that sometimes you have to crawl after you slide, too.

Presley was on first when Max Stassi lined a hard single into the left-center gap. Jon Singleton scored from second easily, but Presley had his work cut out for him. He took a bit of a tumble heading into home and allowed his momentum to carry him into a belly flop-ish crawling manuever so that he could score ahead of the throw:

Presley

He would have medaled, but the French judge was unimpressed with the technical execution of the routine.

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