At a picnic table under the spring training sunshine, in what seems like a lifetime ago, Kolten Wong talked about the battle of batting.
“You get basically one pitch (to hit) in an at-bat,” the Cardinals second baseman said. “You miss that one pitch, you’re battling the rest of the at-bat."
There were many things frustrating about the Astros’ cheating scandal, in which the 2017 World Series champs used video to steal catchers’ signs and banged a trash can to alert the hitter. We can talk about the integrity of the game, and we can talk about the message it sent to young fans and all of that.