Didi can’t run away from his lazy play

Et tu, Didi?: After swinging and missing at strike three in the dirt, Wednesday, Didi Gregorius just stood and waited for the catcher to secure the ball then tag him out. Conspicuous, inexcusable bad baseball. On YES, Michael Kay, David Cone and Paul O’Neill said nothing as if perhaps we didn’t notice what we couldn’t miss.

Monday, Howie Rose said the Braves’ Freddie Freeman, vs. Jacob DeGrom, swung at the first pitch, adding that Freeman now always looks to hit the first pitch. Perhaps the better-idea anticipation that the first pitch will be the best one to hit, especially against better pitchers, is why Freeman has gone from hitting .259 in 2012 to .335 today.

Saturday on FS1, the Royals played the Rangers — both teams more than 10 games under .500. Still, the best seats in the house, starting behind the backstop, were filled. The Yanks, since their new Stadium opened in 2009, have rarely come close to such a reality — except in John Sterling’s bogus descriptions.

Reader Nicholas Longo suggests that Mets’ GM Sandy Alderson will be asked to select his pitchers among those to appear at the All-Star Game — to throw batting practice.

Another week in which Twitter has proven both the paradise and Waterloo of megalomaniacs — those who feel that the world at all times must know what they think about everything, all day, every day. As Verne Lundquist said, the most dangerous word in our language has become “send.”