MIAMI - When he stepped up to the plate at Marlins Park on Wednesday, as usual, all eyes were on Connor McDavid.
He didn’t play baseball in his youth — he was too busy perfecting his game on the ice — so the stage was not one the 18-year-old hockey wunderkind was all that comfortable with.
But when the National Hockey League took six of its top prospects for batting practice prior to the Miami Marlins-St. Louis Cardinals game, McDavid embraced it as another experience he didn’t want to miss.
“You only go through this process once, so I’ve just been trying to enjoy myself.