Tigers' Riley Greene Shreds Pants Sliding Into Home Because MLB Uniforms Just Can’t Work Properly

Another week, another problem with Major League Baseball's new batch of uniforms.

This time around the wardrobe malfunction victim was Detroit Tigers outfielder Riley Greene.

Gio Urshela hit a line drive to centerfield that knocked in two runs thanks to a bad throw to third base, which also allowed Urshela to get to second.

On that play, the first runner to come across the plate was Greene, who hit the dirt with a routine slide.

One that shredded the side of his pants.

It looked like he was wearing a pair of those tearaway pants with the buttons but they got caught on something and separated. I've had nightmares where I'm in high school and that happens, and unfortunately in those nightmares, I'm not wearing long tights under them like Riley Greene was.

Of course, that's a bad look for these new uniforms from Nike and Fanatics, both companies that have experience on the MLB uniform front. Fanatics has been making uniforms for the league since they bought Majestic in 2017, and that includes Nike-branded uniforms which debuted in 2020.

You'd think that baseball pants would be built to withstand a routine slide across home plate. Shouldn't there be stress tests or something to make sure they don't disintegrate? 

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I know baseball pants aren't made out of Kevlar, but I'd expect them to last a little longer than two weeks, which is about as old as they could be if Greene wore them from the start of the season.

It's tough to give the benefit of the doubt when we already knew that the pants were thin and the new uniforms altogether had a multitude of other problems (including not arriving on time), but let's give Fanatics and Nike the benefit of the doubt for a moment.

That's because earlier in the game, Greene had a tremendous catch out in left field.

Note the way his right leg goes up and to the left. That's a lot of stress on the outside seam of those pants. Obviously, the rip didn't happen there, but perhaps a thread or two went "plink" and that's why an easy slide into home left Greene feeling a breeze.

Could that be the explanation? Possibly, more research and Zapruder film-like direction of that catch may be necessary before we say for sure.

But whatever the case, it's another bad bit of press for these new MLB get-ups.

Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated when Fantatics first started producing MLB uniforms.