Given the opportunity, Erik Karlsson just might be able to place a puck on home plate and take a slap shot that would sail out of Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Park.
But the closest the Senators captain came to hitting a home run on a windy (blowing in from left) Thursday afternoon was a one-hopper off the wall.
Not bad, considering that Karlsson had never before swung a baseball bat outdoors. Yet it was not enough to win a friendly wager with teammate Kyle Turris, another baseball neophyte who failed to prove himself as a threat to go deep.