The perfect connection, the pop of ball striking bat in just the right place, is really the absence of feeling. The sting of making contact near the hands, or down at the end of the barrel, disappears. The sweet spot is aptly named.
“They all feel the same,” Aaron Judge said late Wednesday at Citi Field, where his skyscraping homer off Robert Gsellman might have scrambled the radar systems at La Guardia Airport. “Usually when you get on the sweet spot of the bat, you don’t really feel it.”
Judge has yearned to feel that more often since showing off for the baseball world at the All-Star Home Run Derby last month.