Will Smith opened and closed the ninth inning of the Giants’ 3-2 win over the Dodgers last night with strikeouts. In between was a 67.9 mph soft single to left field by Austin Barnes and a flyout to right by Russell Martin. Neither represented what MLB’s Statcast would deem a “barreled” ball:
The Barrel classification is assigned to batted-ball events whose comparable hit types (in terms of exit velocity and launch angle) have led to a minimum .500 batting average and 1.500 slugging percentage since Statcast was implemented Major League wide in 2015.