Pablo Sandoval Benched For Liking Woman's Instagram Photos During Red Sox Game

Not to blow up the dude's spot, but uh...is Pablo Sandoval on Instagram during the game? pic.twitter.com/q8X4HoFDOT
— Jared Carrabis (@Jared_Carrabis) June 18, 2015

Barstool blogger Jared Carrabis noticed Pablo Sandoval liked a couple photos from this Instagram account during Wednesday night’s Red Sox game in Atlanta. The team found out. He apologized and was benched for Thursday’s game, via violation of the team’s social media rules. Considering the Red Sox are 28-39 this might not go over too well, even if this is mostly harmless especially in context of the six-month, 162-game baseball season.

Sandoval benched, admits that was him liking photos of woman on Instagram during game Said he was using bathroom at the time
— Gordon Edes (@GordonEdes) June 18, 2015

These appear to be the two photos Sandoval liked:

Figure that stuff like this may become more commonplace going forward across all sports, since everyone is (unfortunately) addicted to their phones. We also saw Instagram likes become a semi-issue with Jadaveon Clowney (or at least enough of one for a blog post) during the last NFL season.