"Fernando Tatis Jr loves to do a little crime in right field. He is tall, and the wall out there in San Diego is so short, so how can he help it when the ball is so beautiful and so appealing and so available to be robbed? All season, he has been tracking the ball to the wall, leaping up, and snatching it just before it becomes a home run."
"All of this is getting a little ridiculous. The Robbin' Padres will not stop doing robberies. They cannot be shamed! They cannot be punished! No matter what anyone does, the Padres want to rob. On Tuesday, when I watched this Fernando Tatis Jr highlight, I did not want to write about it. Maybe, I thought, this website was part of the problem. By covering the Robbin' Padres' constant robberies, were we in fact pushing them to rob more?"
"But it turns out, the Robbin' Padres rob because there is robbery in their hearts. They rob for the love of the game. They do not just do it for the headlines. They do it because they have to. I know it because on Wednesday, despite no encouragement from me whatsoever, they robbed again. In that game, left fielder Ramón Laureano wanted a robbery of his own."
Fernando Tatis Jr consistently tracks balls to the short right-field wall in San Diego, sprints at full speed, slams his hip into the padded wall and stretches over to snatch would-be home runs. The Padres' outfield repeatedly turns potential home runs into outs, earning the nickname "Robbin' Padres'" through frequent, spectacular robberies. The team shows no signs of stopping, performing robberies out of instinct and competitive drive. Ramón Laureano also executed a similar play, jumping from the warning track and extending his arm above the wall to obliterate a home run.
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