Santiago Casilla, Jose Ceda and the best walk of 2011

Was Santiago Casilla(notes) feeling allergic to the batter's box? That's certainly what it looked like when the San Francisco Giants reliever, uh, stepped in for his first career plate appearance against Florida's Jose Ceda(notes).

Talk about exploring the space. You could have lined a few Joe Wests shoulder to shoulder in the area between Casilla and the plate's inside corner. As for the bat planted on Casilla's shoulder: The last time we saw someone so willing to take every pitch, Kelly Leak was trying to prove a point to Morris Buttermaker.

But if we thought the comedy ended at Casilla's stance and unwillingness to swing the bat — or even pretend like he was going to try — we weren't anticipating the possibility of Ceda upping the hilarity quotient during San Francisco's 5-2 win. Ceda somehow walked Casilla on four straight pitches, giving his colleague a perfect 1.000 OBP for his career.

As Drew Fairservice writes on The Score, "if (that) isn't a passive-aggressive attempt to publicly quit your job, I don't know what is."

Video at link.
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Santiago-Casilla-Jose-Ceda-and-the-best-walk-of?urn=mlb-wp15998

Announcers: "Why in the world was he wearing batting gloves?"