Marlon Byrd breaks bat on a whiff (Video)
By Mike Dyce
This might be one of the strangest things you’ve seen in baseball, on a day where we’ve already seen some strange things happen. Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Marlon Byrd is up at the play in a tie-game and swings his bat at the pitch.
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He misses and doesn’t connect with the ball at all, yet some how the bat breaks. It isn’t entirely unusual to see a bat break, but usually it comes after a collision with a baseball traveling the opposite direction at over 90 miles per hour, this is just weird.
Clearly the bat had to be cracked before the swing to break like that. He clearly doesn’t check the swing and the act of trying to pull the bat back cause the bat to break.
Fortunately, no one was hurt by the bat the chunk of bat flying towards right field. They just brought him out another one and the game continued.
It makes you wonder how the bat could break like that for seemingly no reason, I’m not accusing Byrd of foul play or corking a bat but it is interesting nonetheless. Let’s see if we can get those sports science guys on the forces at work to make it happen.