🎧 Podcast: Giants fans are angry. Are you angry? Kerry and I discuss how the Giants move forward on Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else.
I don't think it's easy to play Major League Baseball. The Giants certainly don't make it look easy.
Hitters have it especially tough. You're suppressing human instinct to tolerate 90+ mph projectiles coming within inches of your body. To get any kind of hit, then, is a minor miracle reserved for .001% of us who can stand in the batter's box with a wooden stick and expect to be OK.
On Friday night we caught a glimpse of what it would be like if the rest of us tried to do what the .001% are doing.
Grant McCray, 6'1'' and 190 lbs, reacted to a 93 mph fastball torpedoing up and in on him. He hacked at the pitch, snapping his bat in half, and stumbled backward onto the dirt. As the ball—and half the bat—flew toward second base, Humpty Dumpty lay on the ground.
It was as if the force of redirecting a baseball at 93 mph was so great, how could you possibly stand upright? How could anyone? It was the perfect reaction—the most human reaction.
A victory for the 99%.
Up next: What, you wanted to hear about not scoring with the bases loaded and no out, again? Ha! Justin Verlander (1-9, 4.53 ERA) takes the mound at 6:05 pm tonight against the Rays. Enjoy the game.