Fernando Tatís Jr., the San Diego Padres’ 21-year-old shortstop, has emerged as the biggest story in baseball this week for a perplexing reason: He had the audacity to try to do his job as well as he could. With his team up by seven runs in the eighth inning Monday night, Tatís blasted a three-balls, no-strikes meatball 407 feet into the sea of cardboard cutouts in the right-center field seats for a grand slam. The hit set off a firestorm: Texas Rangers reliever Ian Gibaut responded by hurling a fastball behind the next batter,...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 20, 2020 12:22 UTC