11-pitch battle ends with an odd home run, a breakdown

we had a really fun 11 pitch battle between two rookies tanner hawk and wander franco reyes and red sox from a couple weeks ago this one's brought to you by draftkings the number one sportsbook app when you download the app use promo code jomboy to let him know i sent ya and then just bet on the rays to win because they're so good and all they do is win and as a yankee fan it's infuriating but here watch this battle now either franco steps up to the plate with a predetermined plan saying i'm going to attack the fastball or after taking this fastball for strike one he kind of says yes i'm gonna attack that pitch that's the one i want because he's gonna be dead red fastball this entire at-bat and everyone kind of knows it but no one can do anything about it the next pitch is off speed that's like a split change that's very non-competitive just stays away the entire time franco doesn't even blink then they go fastball little outside he's late on it they're going to go fastball again he's going to be right on this but fouls it straight back now the catcher knows he's right on that so he's like hey let's get away from the fastball pitcher says no i want to throw another one so he shakes to an inside fastball and now franco's rocking and rolling and bam he's on that one but now he's ahead so he's kind of timed it up a little every single which way now it's one and two as a pitcher you still have chances to get him to swing at a pitch that's not in the zone you're three pitches ahead you can throw three more balls you only need one more strike so he's thinking he's thinking he's thinking he likes the fastball but he's understanding he probably should go away from it one two pitch coming they're gonna go slider back foot slider decent pitch almost gets franco going but no takes it two and two back to the fastball outside fouled off that's the pitch he's swinging at so here's the breakdown you went fastball strike looking split finger non-competitive ball fastball fouled it back late fastball right on it fastball fouled it again slider ball fastball fouled it back again so you're looking at this you either need to make a hell of a pitch with the fastball or you got to try something off speed here while you still got the chance to throw another ball so the 2-2 pitch coming he's thinking he's looking which pitcher they're going to go with the split change again and that's just as non-competitive as the first one a ball from his hand to the glove and franco doesn't even care so now they got to figure it out 3-2 you don't want to walk them you want to attack them it's rookie on rookie we're having fun they get together and they say let's go with the slider he's hunting the fastball let's go slide her in the zone let's be ballsy let's get it done here's where franco wins the at-bat he fouls that one off that's not the pitch he's looking for but it's 3-2 so he's in protect mode then they try to call a fastball again he says no let's throw the slider again because i got him swinging at that one so if i get him swinging at this one maybe he swings and misses or induces weak contact or what of it and franco just fouls that one back as well so now they finally go all right dude we gotta throw a fastball it's just gotta be our fastball first his fastball swing we gotta attack him let's see what happens here's the pitch one two three fastball bam middle middle not a great location on a 3-2 fastball and that is a home run a double they throw it in the second fr franco's like wait hold up everyone's like hold up cash is like hold up hold up let's take a look what the hell just happened the umpires are going to get together and talk about it and this is a weird fenway park rule because it hits the wall on the left of the yellow line which is a double but it ricochets onto the roof which is behind the fence this can't really happen at a lot of other parks where it hits the front facing of a wall in play and ricochets out of play and they get together like what do you think it was what do you think oh wait are you saying what i think you're saying it hit the wall but then it went over so it's so that's a home run right yeah it's a home run yeah home run franco did it what a battle man 11 pitch at bat went up there hunting fastball made him throw all his pitches fouled off the sliders enough got to it gets to celebrate with his friends they're all happy and they go up three to one weird rule but that's why baseball's fun all these quirky fields if every field was cookie cutter it would be boring in the 80s they did a lot of cookie cutter stadiums and people did not like it because they were kind of boring and ugly oddities are what make baseball so fun next pitch fastball absolutely rocked off the monster that bounces off the monster but into the field of play so that's just a single and hawks day is done and tampa just does it because they're so good and it's infuriating go to draftkings promo code john boy bet on the raise 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Length: 5min 12sec (312 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021