Big Papi’s broken bat single leads off our top 25 baseball Vines of MLB’s first half

David Ortiz has made a career out of hitting the baseball a long, long way. Halfway through his farewell season, Big Papi has already collected another 22 homers to take his career total to 525 — good enough for 19th place all time.

With a career punctuated by walkoff home runs and clutch hits, it’s no surprise that Ortiz was recently frustrated by managing only an innocuous single versus the Rangers.

While most broken bat singles occur when the ball hits the bat, Ortiz busted his bat over his thigh on the way to first base and headlines our top 25 Vines of the MLB’s first half.

[fusion_title size=”4″]DAVID ORTIZ: BROKEN BAT BASE HIT[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]CHASE HEADLEY: SWING AND A MISS[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]CHASE UTLEY WITH ASSIST TO ADRIAN GONZALEZ[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]SCOTT STEINER: HOW TO CLOTHESLINE A PIEROGI[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]PIRATES BALLGIRL: BAREHANDED CATCH[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]TEXAS RANGERS: DOUBLE PLAY[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]MANNY MACHADO: MAD MAN[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]3RD BASE COACH: LYING DOWN ON THE JOB[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]ST. LOUIS CARDINALS: TRIPLE PLAY[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]GEORGE SPRINGER: BUGGING OUT[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]JORGE SOLER: CUP SCOPE[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]MICHAEL MARTINEZ: MAJOR LASER[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]BRANDON PHILLIPS: TWO HITTER[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]DANNY SALAZAR: DELAYED REACTION[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]JON LESTER: GLOVE TOSS[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]MANNY MACHADO & JJ HARDY: TEAMWORK[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]YASIEL PUIG: CAN’T TOUCH THIS[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]DALLAS MASCOTS: MIKE TROUT FISHING[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]DAVID ORTIZ: SLO-MO STEAL[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]BARTOLO COLON: SAY HEY![/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]CARLOS GOMEZ: KARATE KICK[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]GERRIT COLE: FOOLED BY CAMO[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]IAN KINSLER: EASY OUT[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]YASIEL PUIG: ROCKET ARM[/fusion_title]

[fusion_title size=”4″]CLAYTON KERSHAW: KER-PLUNK[/fusion_title]