![Sean Murphy's Butt Sean Murphy Butt meme and viral video depicting an image of MLB player sean murphy being hit by a pitch in butt.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/040/134/Screen_Shot_2022-04-13_at_12.56.09_PM.jpg)
Sean Murphy's Butt
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About
Sean Murphy's Butt refers to a viral video of baseball player Sean Murphy, the catcher for the MLB team Oakland Athletics, getting hit in the rear-end by a pitch. The clip quickly spread among baseball fans on Twitter in mid-April 2022 due to the way Murphy's butt looks in the video, drawing comparisons to Ned Flanders in the Stupid Sexy Flanders meme, as well as being used as an exploitable in memes and other jokes about Murphy's butt.
Origin
On April 11th, 2022, Oakland A catcher Sean Murphy was hit in the butt by a pitch from the Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Chris Mazza. That evening, Twitter user @PadresGeekster[1] reposted the footage from the televised broadcast of the incident, showing the ball hitting Murphy's butt in slow motion. The tweet gained over 71,000 retweets, 20,000 quote-tweets and 400,000 likes in roughly 48 hours (shown below).
โ ๐ช (@PadresGeekster) April 11, 2022
Spread
People quickly commented on the shapeliness of Murphy's butt as the video spread on Twitter. For example, on April 11th, 2022, Twitter user @fergoe[2] jokingly referred to him as "Thickey Henderson," a play on former baseball player Rickey Henderson's name (shown below, left). Murphy's teammate Tony Kemp[3] joked, "Murph got cake," using two cake emojis, gaining over 200 retweets and 2,700 likes in one day (shown below, right).
![Thickey Henderson local blogger @fergoe ... Thickey Henderson @PadresGeekster ยท Apr 11 Show this thread 16.4M views 0:00 / 0:07 4ร x*](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/358/acc.png)
![Murph Got Cake Tony Kemp @tonykemp ... Murph got @PadresGeekster ยท Apr 11 Show this thread 0:04 16.4M views 10.16 RM . Apr 11, 2022 ยท Twitter for iPhone](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/359/550.png)
Others posted photoshops about the incident. In particular, many posted a comparison between Murphy's butt and the Stupid Sexy Flanders meme. User @ParkerMolloy[4] tweeted such a comparison, gaining over 200 retweets and 1,900 likes in one day (shown below, left). Twitter user @jessespector[5] also posted a similar comparison, gaining over 40 likes in one day (shown below, right).
![Stupid Sexy Murphy Parker Molloy @ParkerMolloy ... 9:13 PM ยท Apr 11, 2022 ยท Twitter for iPhone](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/361/ce9.png)
![Stupid Sexy Flanders](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
On April 12th, 2022, TikToker @oksurewaitwhat posted an edit of the video featuring a bell sound when the ball hits Murphy's butt, gaining over 12,000 likes in one day when he reposted it to Twitter (shown below).
โ Jesse Tabit (@tabitj) April 12, 2022
Various Examples
![everywhere i go Everywhere I go. I see his ass](https://a.kym-cdn.com/assets/blank-b3f96f160b75b1b49b426754ba188fe8.gif)
![good for baseball Will Hailey ... @WillDaBeast755 Sean Murphy did more for baseball in three seconds than Rob Manfred has done in ten years Bunkie Perkins @BunkiePerkins ยท Apr 11 AMERICA'S ASSTIME 0:04 16.4M views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/366/671.png)
![Moneyball reference Moneyball Memes @MoneyballMemes ... Billy, this is Sean Murphy. He's a catcher. He is one of the most undervalued players in baseball. His defect is that he's double cheeked up. @PadresGeekster ยท Apr 11 Show this thread 0:02 16.4M views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/368/f7e.png)
![Baseball needs to recover Dervantek Carrdams SZN ... @emachulate BREAKING NEWS: Baseball to 10 day IL after getting demolished by Sean Murphy's cheeks. @PadresGeekster ยท Apr 11 Show this thread 0:05 16.4M views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/369/0b8.png)
![Bootylicious Justin Havelock #SayTrans #SayGay ... @HavelockJustin Sean Murphy absolutely needs to change his walk-up song to Bootylicious now @PadresGeekster ยท Apr 11 Show this thread 0:02 16.4M views](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/370/8c7.png)
![Butt For A Hit Fernando Gallo ... @FernandoRGallo Did Sean Murphy just butt for a base hit? @PadresGeekster ยท Apr 11 Show this thread 16.4M views 0:00 / 0:07 4ร k? 9:02 PM ยท Apr 11, 2022 ยท Twitter for Android](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/346/419/fc9.png)
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