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Yonder Alonso slides into second, rips pants, is embarrassed

Alonso rips pants on slide

Imagine this scenario:

You're in front of thousands of people who are looking right at you, in a city you aren't entirely familiar with, and you look down to discover that there's a big rip on the backside of your pants.

That'd be embarrassing, right? Well, unfortunately, Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso suffered that very wardrobe malfunction during Saturday's Padres-Braves game.

Just after sliding into second after teammate Chris Nelson knocked a two-out pitch foul, Alonso realized that his pants didn't entirely survive the interaction with the Turner Field dirt:

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His face said it all:

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