Talking Chop · Nov 10, 2018
The magic of full counts
Even Mike Trout guesses wrong sometimes. This is a photo taken after he was rung up a called third strike during a full count.Here’s a fun question: what’s your favorite count in baseball? Given that you read the title of this post before clicking it, you can probably guess mine: the full count. This is probably not surprising — isn’t the full count everyone’s favorite count? When you were a kid, you didn’t recite to yourself,
“World Series Game 7, bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, down by three, 2-1 count... the stretch, the pitch... and the batter takes a fastball on the corner and it’s now 2-2!