Trevor Bauer has Twitter meltdown during Game 4 of the ALDS

Trevor Bauer was a surprise pick by Cleveland Indians’ manager Terry Francona to start Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the New York Yankees, over team ace and Cy Young Award winner and 2017 candidate Corey Kluber.

At the time, he made Francona look like a genius (or at least like he knew something that the rest of us didn’t) pitching 5 1/3 hitless innings and allowing a total of two hits, one walk and eight strikeouts as he pitched into the seventh inning.

Four of those strikeouts came on at-bats by the Yankees rookie slugger, Aaron Judge.

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Unfortunately, Bauer wasn’t quite on in Game 4, pitching on short rest, and the curveball that the Yankees couldn’t hit last Monday night were suddenly not so unhittable or really they learned to layoff of it.

His four earned runs and early exit were the cause of the curveball and the four errors made by his teammates.

Yet that didn’t stop Bauer from being upset about having to leave the game early. And he let Twitter know about it from the Cleveland Indians’ clubhouse during the game.

He also took a political stance and went on a blocking spree, blocking anyone who doesn’t agree with how  President Trump has handled his presidency.

Even the reporter who broke the story about Bauer’s Twitter tirade, Barry Petchesky of Deadspin, was blocked by the pitcher who goes by the Twitter handle @BauerOutrage.

Many of his tweets have since been deleted, as I have seen since am not yet “Twitter blocked” by Trevor Bauer.

There is a small problem with Tweets however, and that is no matter how fast you delete them, someone always manages to grab a screenshot!

This next guys’ Twitter account’s bio reads, “@BauerOutage blocked me on Twitter during a postseason game in which he was the starting pitcher.” And the Tweet pinned to the top of his timeline is below:

A lot of the backlash came also from Bauer’s prior political tweets. Bauer blocked anyone who challenged him on President Trump’s success, or really, lack thereof.

Some of these tweets were written prior to his Game 4 Twitter blocking spree but there were quite a few responses from as recently as Tuesday. One noting that 690% “is not mathematically possible.”

So be careful what you say to Bauer on the web because you may get Twitter blocked, but at the same time after reading some of these Tweets (most courtesy of Deadspin) maybe you do want to be blocked.

Either way a couple of questions remain. Why and how was Bauer doing all of this during a postseason game? And do the Cleveland Indians have any kind of policy about using Twitter during games?

Nothing has been said about it so they probably don’t, but we all remember when the Boston Red Sox benched Pablo Sandoval for going on Instagram during a game while, um, using the restroom, so it’s a possibility.

There is also the MLB rule that electronics cannot be used in the dugout during games, does the rule apply to the clubhouse as well

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Given that this happened rather quietly a couple of days ago, it seems unlikely that Bauer will face any kind of penalty.

Still his tirades on President Trump “making America great again” and his responses and blocking of fans during, not just any game but, a postseason game seems a bit extreme, don’t you think?