Collisions and Kindness at Dwelling Plate
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It’s beginning. The playoffs are coming, and the baseball is getting extra intense. Bats will flip. Tempers will flare. Players will curse much more than they do already. That’s nice. Everybody loves playoff baseball. But that additionally makes this a very good time to understand baseball’s tender facet. I want to draw your consideration to 2 performs that occurred on Tuesday. Both had been performs on the plate, and in each, the catcher and the baserunner crashed into one another. And then, in each, instantly after crashing into one another, the catcher and the runner checked to ensure that the opposite was okay. Our subject for the day will not be sensual baseball, however reasonably delicate baseball.
It’s not simply that I really like these moments, i...