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Ryan Goins' single knocked Tyler Naquin's hat clean off

Two days after his dramatic, King James-aided walk-off inside-the-park home run, Tyler Naquin was still riding high. But on Sunday, he learned that just as the fickle impulses of a baseball can turn one's heroics into a Photoshop meme, so too can they render one haplessly picking his cap off the trodden dirt beneath his feet.
When Ryan Goins blooped a single into shallow center field in the fifth inning of the Indians' 3-2 win over the Blue Jays on Sunday, Naquin rushed in to field it. But he was just a second late, and the ball landed, giving Goins a two-out single. And on the bounce:

You win this one, baseball.
And hey, at least it wasn't his sunglasses. There's nothing worse than losing your glasses.

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