Kurt Suzuki slides, collapses, ends up face-first on ground with only himself to blame

Slides are supposed to be graceful and help you to avoid tags. This one ends up with a face in the dirt and did not avoid any tag. Kurt Suzuki needed to move fast. He'd been on first base with two outs, and there was a throwing error on Jordan Schafer's infield single that allowed him to go all the way from first to third. But it didn't quite go far enough to allow Schafer to get to second. This meant his goal was clear: he had to get home before Schafer got caught in his rundown. It did not go ...