Scott Robinson sends a link to this video of a Johan Santana base hit. The bat breaks and gets out ahead of the ball. The ball hits the bat, and bounds past the fielder for a single.
You always see something new when you watch baseball.
This is one of the times you wish MLB would release the short clips they have of games to post on blogs.
A higher quality clip is available here:
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200809233537065&c_id=nym
Isn't that a one-stroke penalty?
