When Yasiel Puig did it, he got benched.

When Cody Bellinger did it, he got benched.

What happens to Andrew Toles for doing it remains to be seen, but it could very well mean a one-way ticket back to Oklahoma City, and this time Dodger fans may not object.

The ‘it’, of course, is dogging it; not running full speed out of the box which, in Puig’s and Bellinger’s case, meant losing an extra base.

The difference in Toles’ case is that in addition to losing an extra base, it also cost the Dodgers the game against the Angels of Anaheim on Saturday afternoon in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 53,797.

With one out and the Dodgers trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the 10th inning, Toles lifted a 92-mph fastball off of Angels left-hander Jose Alvarez to deep left field. The problem is, it wasn’t as deep as Toles thought it was. The extremely popular 26-year-old Decatur, Georgia native and 2012 third-round draft pick by the Tampa Bay Rays (out of the University of Tennessee) thought that he had just hit a game-tying opposite field home run.

He did not.

Instead, and only because Angels left fielder Justin Upton got turned around, the ball – which should have been caught – bounced off Upton’s glove for what absolutely positively should have been a triple for the extremely speedy Toles.

It was not.

There is zero doubt that Toles thought he got all of it, as evidenced by the home run trot he went into as he approached and rounded first base instead of running all out. As he rounded first, he was observed – on national television, no less – raising his hands in a “what the ….” gesture when he realized that he hadn’t gotten all of it and that Upton had been unable to make the play. But because Toles had not run full speed out of the box, he had to settle for a one out double instead of being the tying run on third base with one out.

No, Andrew, you did not hit it out.
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Sure enough, on Alvarez’s very first pitch to Dodgers second baseman Chase Utley, Angels catcher Martin Maldonado was unable to handle it and the ball went to the backstop. And even though Toles was able to easily take third on the passed ball, he absolutely positively would have scored the game-tying run if he had already been on third base, as he absolutely positively should have been.

Utley then flied out to Upton in short left field, on which Toles could not tag up and score, and Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal (batting right-handed) struck out to end the game in a 5-4 loss that returned the Dodgers to second place in the NL West.

“We expected him to be on third,” a visibly annoyed Dave Roberts told the media after the game.

Yeah, us too, Doc.
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Roberts would say nothing more about it which, quite frankly, he should not have and did not need to. This is clearly an in-house behind-closed-doors matter. Whether that means Toles gets benched in Sunday’s series and first-half finale against those same Angels or a flight back to Triple-A Oklahoma City remains to be seen. But there is zero doubt, none whatsoever, that Toles did not help his cause to remain with the big league club … especially when you’ve got guys like Alex Verdugo and Kyle Farmer down on the farm who absolutely positively would have busted it out of the box.

Shame on you, Andrew.