Watching Alec Asher last night in the bottom of the 8th inning, the big-browed righty snuck a pitch past Matt Wieters that was the baseball equivalent of LeBron James dunking over some rookie second-round schlep.
You know, the kind of pitch that makes you aggressively nudge the person next to you like a jaw-dropped Elaine Benes.
Like, what are you supposed to do with a two-seamer that looks like it will miss on the inside, but ends up devouring the corner of the plate? Nothing, that’s what. Though Michael Taylor sent the next pitch over the fence for a two-run dinger on a get-me over first pitch fastball, Asher was really, really good yet again.