Rays 2B Daniel Robertson wasn't sure if Boston's Eduardo Nunez was serious when he first asked him for help during Saturday's game.

Nunez had just gotten to second base in the second inning, and noticed his left shoe was untied. Umpire D.J. Reyburn called time, but Nunez – with a sliding mitt on his left hand and a batting glove on his right – wasn't sure exactly how to proceed.

"He looked helpless," Robertson said. "He was like, "Can you help me?' I was like, "What? Are you serious? This is a joke, right?" He was like, "Can you please help me?" … He was so sincere, sounded so sad, I was like, "All right, whatever.'

"So I just went over, bent down and tied his shoe."

Robertson said the umpire thanked him for "helping out with the pace of play" – since it would have taken Nunez a while to get the gloves off and back on – and the Fenway Park crowd acknowledged his good deed.

"It was a good moment," Robertson said. "It was funny. … Weird but funny."

As much as Robertson looked the nicest man in baseball for doing so, he did admit he could have taken a more evil approach in tying Nunez's laces together, as Rays TV man Dewayne Staats suggested on the Fox Sports Sun broadcast

"If they were both untied, then yes," Robertson said. "But just one of his shoes being untied I just got the job done and got out of there."