There is nothing I enjoy in baseball quite as much as I enjoy the sight of a fielder taking the mound to pitch. They are often terrible, rarely used except in the most dire of situations, and almost always goofily entertaining. Well yesterday's Padres-Mariners game was no exception. After James Shields got shelled for 10 runs, something wonderful happened. Christian Bethancourt, who had started the game at catcher while also getting time at both second base and left field in the game, was given the ball in eighth inning to try to go get some outs. After all, what's the point of burning your bullpen when you're already down 16-4. The result? It was perfect.

Bethancourt got two fly-outs in his eighth inning. He walked a guy and hit a guy. But what was really amazing was the fact that he mixed up speeds in a crazy, impressive, amazing way.

The speed of Bethancourt's slowest pitch? A 53 mph "knuckleball"/"eephus."

The speed of Bethancourt's fastest pitch? A 96 mph fastball.

This is a guy who hadn't pitched since he was in high school. Now I hope they let him do it a little more often, because he turned the eighth inning of a blowout into a surprisingly entertaining bit of baseball.