The old saying goes that shortstop is the hardest position to play in all of sports. Just ask Bobby Witt Jr.
In Monday night’s game against the Tigers, the Royals shortstop allowed Riley Greene to pick up a key eighth-inning hit with a bizarre mistake you rarely see in a big league game.
Greene fought off a tough slider from Kansas City reliever Aroldis Chapman and hit a weak groundball toward Witt at short. It should have been a routine play for Witt, except he took his first step in the complete opposite direction of the ball. Why? Chapman’s pitch broke Greene’s bat and Witt started running toward where the bat was flying, not the ball.
