Austin Meadows and Carlos Peña appear in MLB Network plakata commercial
Austin Meadows, Carlos Peña featured in MLB Network plakata commercial “Plakata’s just an expression my brothers and I used when we were kids,” Peña, a Gold Glove winner and Silver Slugger recipient, responds. “It means good, solid contact, usually resulting in a home run. So, if you go deep, it means you just went plakata.”
Meadows scribbles down Peña’s answer on his notebook. At the end of the commercial, he swings and makes contact with a ball — screaming, “Plakata!” after his follow-through. The commercial promotes the insight featured on MLB Tonight, “answering baseball’s toughest questions.”