04/16/2021
There have been some bad MLB scoreboard errors over the years, including player name mispellings at the 2019 All-Star Game. The latest case of a scoreboard getting it very wrong came with Asdrúbal Cabrera’s return to Nationals Park Thursday as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Cabrera played for the Washington Nationals in 2014 and then again in the last months of 2019, helping lead them to a World Series victory and starting at second base for them in Game 7. He played for the Nationals again in 2020, then signed with Arizona this February, so Thursday marked quite the notable homecoming for him, and the Nationals even put together a tribute video for him. But a scoreboard error that managed to mispell both his first and last names didn’t exactly help make him feel welcomed back: