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Starling Marte steals second, Brandon Phillips jokingly tries to steal it back

Brandon Phillips kids with Marte, moves foot off base

When Starling Marte stole second base in the first inning of Wednesday night's Reds-Pirates game, Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips tried to steal it back. In a strategy familiar to any older sibling, he simply moved Marte's foot out of the way and signaled Mom, er, the umpire:

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But just like Mom, the umpire gave Phillips a "you behave nice, now" finger wag and sent him back out to play.

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