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Maikel Franco and Madison Bumgarner engaged in the basepaths staredown of the century

Franco and Bumgarner have staredown on basepaths

Madison Bumgarner doesn't often run the bases. Occasional dinger off of an MVP aside, he much prefers keeping batters off of the bases to being on them himself. It's a lot of work, after all -- there's all that running, and it requires actually getting on base in the first place. 

So, uh, maybe he's not familiar with how the whole baserunning process works. Because when Phillies third baseman Maikel Franco fielded a grounder and noticed MadBum on his way to third, the Giants starter's response was to ... well, we're really not sure what his end game was here:

Franco MadBum

We take this opportunity to run down a few possibilities:

1) He tried to convince Franco that he was actually looking at his reflection in a mirror.

2) He was taking the "If I don't move, he won't see me" approach. 

3) He was protesting the act of baserunning altogether, planting himself in the middle of the diamond to shed light on the plight of exhausted pitchers everywhere.

Thank god Freddy Galvis eventually showed up, or else they'd probably still be there staring at each other. 

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