Just before his highest moment, Alex Bregman stared at his lowest body part. His left foot—his front foot when he hits—had been betraying him for something like two years, and just as he had started to figure out how to put it where he wanted to, he lost it again.
After his second at bat of Saturday’s Game 2 of the World Series, which his Astros would win 5–2 over the Phillies to even the series, he returned to the dugout looking disgruntled. He had put good swings on the ball in both at bats, but his back hip was drifting backward and leaking forward, which slid that left foot a few inches behind where he wanted it to go. The result was a pair of grounders to shortstop.
“I’m flying open,” the third baseman lamented to hitting coach Troy Snitker.
