{"id":124145,"date":"2025-06-23T02:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/124145\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T02:26:10","slug":"red-sox-prospect-had-unusual-plate-appearance-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/124145\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Prospect Had Unusual Plate Appearance Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

The sun was shining, and the temperature was hot for the contest between the Woosox and Buffalo Bisons on Sunday. The home team won in a 12-10 slugfest that took three hours and 34 minutes. <\/p>\n

Fans in attendance, trying to stay cool, were thrilled about the implementation of the pitch clock, because the game could have taken even longer thanks to one peculiar plate appearance. <\/p>\n

In the bottom of the third inning, Nick Sogard stepped to the plate<\/a> against Bisons pitcher Lazaro Estrada. He quickly found himself in a 1-2 count. After the second strike, Sogard fouled off five of the next seven pitches to work the count full. At 3-2, the switch hitter continued to fight. He fouled off another eight pitches before taking a ball in the dirt for ball four. <\/p>\n

The entire plate-appearance lasted 19 pitches. <\/p>\n

The plate appearance took place in Triple-A, so it doesn\u2019t qualify for any major league records. If it did, it may be the longest plate appearance in which the hitter reached base. Brandon Belt worked a 21-pitch at-bat in 2018, but ultimately flew out. <\/p>\n

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Red Sox manager Alex Cora<\/a> is also high on the list. In 2004, Cora saw 18 pitches, homering off Matt Clement to cap off the meeting. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Second base defense was an issue for the Red Sox against the San Francisco Giants. Sogard could be called upon to man the position. The bat-to-ball skills he flexed on Sunday could help a lineup that\u2019s near the top of the league in strikeout rate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sun was shining, and the temperature was hot for the contest between the Woosox and Buffalo Bisons…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[858,5,141,48,2542,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-124145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-alex-cora","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-bostonredsox","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114730316187562360","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}