Stayin' alive

Classic baseball situation: number eight hitter up at the plate - ball one, strike one, ball two, foul ball (strike two). Four pitches, 2-2 count, nothing extraordinary about that - happens dozens of times a day in ballparks across America. However, you could watch baseball for another fifty years and never, ever see again what followed in Alex Cora's at-bat against Matt Clement in the Dodgers' 4-0 win over the Cubs: after taking the count to 2-2, Cora then fouled off another thirteen consecutive pitches (making it fourteen in total), before taking Clement deep for a two run home-run.

Motto of the day? All things come to he who waits...