Near the end of spring training, Josh Harrison and Sean Rodriguez were walking around at LECOM Park to take batting practice when Rodriguez made the suggestion:
This season, he said, let’s do left turns.
After a big hit, Rodriguez said, the Pirates should make a left turn, a steering-wheel-like gesture to the bench. If Rodriguez was the brains behind the idea, Harrison was its most vocal evangelist, and he didn’t need much persuading to help put it into effect.
“You run the bases, you’re going to make left turns,” Harrison said. “You make a right turn, you out.