@money.balls4: October's best at-bat? Nobody had seen more than 10 pitches from Yoshinobu Yamamoto all season. Then Jake Bauers stepped in. NLCS Game 2. Dodgers up 2–1, two outs, two on. Jake Bauers, a guy on his seventh organization who'd never hit more than 12 homers before this year, against the reigning World Series MVP. Full count in five pitches. Then Bauers fouled off a 97.0 four-seam, a 77.7 curveball, a 95.7 sinker, a 97.4 off the plate, a 93.7 cutter and the splitter John Smoltz said would get him. Pitch 12 bounced. Bases loaded. Two pitches later Christian Yelich lined a two-run single, and Yamamoto was out of the game in the 3rd: the shortest start of his postseason career. Every pitch broken down with Statcast: velocity, movement, bat speed, contact point, and why a 97 followed by a 77.7 is so hard to cover. Six or more fouls at 3–2 in one plate appearance happened 13 times in 184,328 regular-season plate appearances in 2026. #Brewers #Dodgers #NLCS #MLBPostseason #Statcast @Brewers

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