Major League Fail: Cubs Player Wears Wrong Game Uniform

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Chicago Cubs' Emilio Bonifacio (64) is greeted by teammate Junior Lake (21) after scoring on a single by Anthony Rizzo during the first inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh on April 3, 2014.

Image: Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

By Connor Finnegan2014-04-03 23:21:57 UTC

We've all been there: You're late for work, you get dressed in a rush and you end up wearing mismatched socks or your shirt inside-out. Then you have to hide your blunder at the office all day.

Unfortunately for MLB player Junior Lake, however, his Thursday fashion foible was broadcast across the nation.

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Lake somehow donned a different gray road-uniform model than the one all his Chicago Cubs teammates were sporting against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

NBC Sports was quick to point out the blunder on Twitter, turning many fans into amateur fashion critics.

Had this happened to almost any other team in professional sports, viewers may have simply had a quick laugh and moved on. But since the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908, and are known for a sort of endearing ineptitude, the joke quickly became that the poor Cubbies can't even perform the simplest tasks correctly.

Lake and his teammates got the last laugh, though, as the Cubs went on to defeat the Pirates, 3-2. Maybe this is the beginning of a beautiful winning strategy for the championship-starved Cubs.

Either way, the moment when Lake apparently realized he was the odd man out is pretty hilarious — and we have it in GIF form, thanks to SB Nation.

Image: Grant Brisbee, SBNation

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