Apparently an “unwritten rule” of baseball means that one of the game’s most exciting young players shouldn’t swing at a dead-red fastball on a 3-0 count, as if he was playing in Little League and not the big leagues.
That’s what Chris Woodward believes. The Rangers manager said he “didn’t like it” when Padres shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. came to the plate with the bases loaded in the eighth inning as San Diego led 10-3 in Arlington and proceeded to blast a 3-0 fastball 407 feet into the right field seats.
“When you’re up by seven in the eighth inning, it’s typically not a good time to swing 3-0,” Woodward told local media.