Before he got flooded with donkey-related T-shirts, most days before a Reds game, you would see Zack Cozart wearing a red one with white letters reading:
“MOZZY.
PEPPY.
OVEN.”
Mozzarella. Pepperoni. Oven. That’s Cozart’s way of hitting — putting the pizza in the oven.
In a game that’s increasingly fascinated with high launch angles and home runs, Cozart found his way to the All-Star Game by using a mindset from a YouTube video. The video, from someone who calls himself "Coach Justin," introduces a hitting drill to emphasize a level swing by imagining putting a pizza in an oven.