TORONTO — Bo Bichette dropped to his knees and smashed his bat on the ground in anger after a 97.1 m.p.h. pitch hit his forearm and narrowly missed his head on Monday.
All that emotion had dissipated by his next at bat, however, as Bichette hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2.
Bichette joked that his life flashed before his eyes when the ball almost hit his face but added that he really wasn't thinking about the close call when he later stepped back into the batter's box.