Padres star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. caused quite the stir when he drilled a 3-0 pitch from Rangers pitcher Juan Nicasio for a grand slam in Monday night’s 14-4 Padres win. Rangers manager Chris Woodward said his team was annoyed that Tatis would be swinging 3-0 with a seven-run lead and even Padres skipper Jayce Tingler admonished his player. Baseball’s “unwritten rules” are ironically getting bat flipped on social media, though. “Swinging in a 3-0 count should not be against any rules, no matter the score,” Red Sox pitcher Colin McHugh wrote on Twitter. Swinging 3-0, to me, is the same as swinging first pitch of an AB.

Source: Fox News August 18, 2020 20:37 UTC