Blog: The Sly Oyster

Tom Scocca pays homage to ball two, or what he describes as the most boring play in baseball. "Ball two stands alone, above any of the other dull business on the diamond. The intentional walk at least adds a base runner to the game. The halfhearted throw to first to check the runner is a sign that the pitcher is feeling tension. But ball two signifies almost nothing," he writes for the Boston Globe . It is disapointing then, that for a self-professed baseball lover, Scocca misses the mark of the significance of ball two. [...]