While the Nationals certainly aren't White Sox bad or Marlins bad, nobody is going to confuse them with a good baseball team. For one play, though, they did look like a last-place team with some base running that belonged nowhere near an MLB game.

In the eighth inning of the Nationals' eventual win against the Yankees on Wednesday, José Tena drove a line drive over Aaron Judge's head and bouncing off the wall. But for whatever reason, Joey Gallo had a terrible read over at second base, which led to a late break on the base path. As he was rounding third, he hesitated and then decided to, uh, run towards home from a complete stop.

That awful idea was only made worse by Juan Yepez deciding to go to third and then retreating to second with Tena inexplicably running back to first from second base. It was mayhem.

Yepez should have stayed at third and let Gallo get tagged out. The Nats would've had runners at second and third. Instead, they nearly ran into a phone number for an 8-6-2-3-2-5-4 double play.

No wonder MLB fans had jokes for the abysmal base running. That scorebook must have been something else.

This was how Twitter/X reacted

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This article originally appeared on For The Win: MLB fans had so many jokes after the Nationals' dreadful base running led to an 8-6-2-3-2-5-4 double play