Here are August's 15 most tweeted MLB plays
If videos could be trending topics, these would be them. Presenting the 15 most tweeted MLB plays from the month of August:
1. August 6 -- Bryce Harper, who homered in his previous at-bat (see No. 11), gets drilled in the thigh with a pitch by Julio Teheran causing benches to clear
2. August 10 -- After not seeing the ball lobbed to Evan Longoria behind him, Juan Uribe briefly takes his foot off third base and is tagged out
3. August 18 -- Ryan Dempster throws four inside pitches to Alex Rodriguez, resulting in a hit by pitch and Yankees manager Joe Girardi's ejection
4. August 7 -- Dioner Navarro holds on to the ball after a collision at the plate to keep the score tied but exits the game with a leg injury
5. August 17 -- Jordan Schafer scores the Braves' second run of the game on Stephen Strasburg's third consecutive wild pitch in the second inning
6. August 25 -- Parent ejected while exchanging lineup cards
7. August 12 -- On a slow grounder to short, Jose Iglesias makes an outstanding off-balanced throw to nab Josh Phegley in the sixth inning
8. August 5 -- Yasiel Puig makes a strong throw to Nick Punto who relays to A.J. Ellis at home to nab Allen Craig at home plate to end the fifth
9. August 21 -- Hanley Ramirez intentionally drops a line drive to start a double play, but the umpires realize his intent and only award one out
10. August 8 -- Outfielder Ryan Raburn fans Matt Tuiasosopo to notch his first career strikeout
11. August 6 -- Bryce Harper drills a solo homer to straightaway center field to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead over the Braves in the third inning
12. August 17 -- Giancarlo Stanton gets all of Matt Cain's offering in the sixth, clobbering a two-run moonshot to deep left field
13. August 26 -- Yasiel Puig crushes a Michael Bowden offering deep into the left-field seats to extend the Dodgers' lead to 6-0 in the eighth
14. August 10 -- Former Mariner great Ichiro Suzuki congratulates Ken Griffey Jr. on his induction into the Mariners Hall of Fame
15. August 21 -- Ichiro Suzuki collects his 4,000th hit between the Majors and Nippon Professional Baseball with a single to left in the first
