He took a terrible swing at a first-pitch slider, then hit the next pitch for an RBI double just beyond the reach of a sliding McCutchen deep in the right-center field alley.
He had made 11 quite comfortably when he pulled a short one from Butler and Nathan McCullum dived forward to take an outstanding low catch at deep mid-wicket, sliding his fingers along the turf.
With just three minutes remaining he was guilty of an even worse miss when substitute Martin Petrov's deep ball found him unmarked eight yards out only for his sliding effort to balloon over the bar.