Over his first 11 plate appearances in his Major League career, Luis Matos swung-and-missed at a pitch out of the zone once.
A 98 MPH sinker from Bo Miller lace-high—it was the 27th pitch out of the zone and 43rd pitch he saw. It was only his second whiff of his inchoate career and impressively just the third time he had chased a pitch out of the zone. The other two occurrences resulted in contact: a spoiled pitch foul and line drive that traveled 345 feet.
It wasn’t until his 22nd trip to the plate that a big league pitcher would be able to jump him for three strikes.