It’s only spring training and it didn’t exactly come against the stiffest of competition but when a hitter punishes a baseball to the extent that Boston Red Sox second baseman Michael Chavis did on Wednesday afternoon, it’s going to grab our attention.
Chavis stepped to the plate in the fifth inning of a tie game against the Pittsburgh Pirates but the score wouldn’t remain knotted for long. A breaking ball that didn’t quite break floated over the plate and Chavis crushed it into orbit to give the Red Sox a one-run lead.
The deep fly ball flew out of left field like a rocket, clearing everything in the ballpark to presumably land somewhere off the coast of Florida.