Ok…funny story.
It’s a scorching hot Alabama summer day and I am playing in a USSSA tournament.
It’s about 2:30 so it’s just absolutely miserable out.
We are beating this team (leaving this team unnamed but you know who you are) by 27 runs and it’s one of those games where we are just trying to get out and can’t do it.
So it’s my third at-bat of the third inning and I want nothing more than to speed this game up and go sit in the shade for a couple of hours.
So I bat left handed. Of course this is news because I am a righty, but to be honest my left handed swing isn’t awful.
That is the disclaimer. I am a righty who NEVER bats lefty BUT in the cage I’ll take a few cuts and the swing is not terrible.
So I am walking to the plate and I’ve got a little smirk on my face. My teammates see it and they know what is about to happen.
I step through the batter’s box and across the plate…I am batting lefty.
You know something great is about to happen or I wouldn’t be writing so I’ll get the technical stuff out of the way.
(I was using a 2011 Worth Titan Resmondo 26 oz bat)
Now I know this pitcher and he gave me the eyeroll like “really” your are really about to do this.
Yep. I am.
So the first pitch comes and I take a hack. I swing so hard that my left foot crosses my right foot all the way out of the batter’s box and I fouled the ball back over the backstop.
Needless to say, it was an ugly attempt.
I am back in the box after laughing that swing off and ready to take another hack….and not expecting a whole lot.
Well I made contact on the next pitch…and it went over the fence.
Like way over.
I just hit a left handed homerun. The caveat is that it was an out officially because we were out of allowed homeruns, but I hit the ball over the fence left handed and I had to tell……..
EVERYONE!
So keep lacing them up fellas and don’t get discouraged. It’s the dog days of summer but there’s still fun to be had.
Not Promising you will hit lefty homeruns but this bat is killer….but you know that already.