High fives, sneezes, and imaginary spiders: An ode to dumb baseball injuries

Go ahead and laugh — because the players sure are

Glenallen Hill sleepwalking down the stairs as he dreams of scary spiders.
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Last week, Oakland Athletics relief pitcher Shawn Kelley made a valiant bid for the Dumbest Baseball Injury of the Year with an incident now known as "the dishwashing mishap." During the event, which involved Kelley's hand getting acquainted with a knife, the pitcher "nearly cut the tip off his thumb," ESPN reports.

Subsequently, the Great Dishwashing Mishap of 2018 was filed into the annals of baseball players doing really stupid things to injure themselves — a niche obsession among many fans, including myself.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.