JJ Wetherholt's Cardinals debut home run came on a mind-blowing pitch compared to outcome
This is a pretty crazy result.
JJ Wetherholt's Cardinals debut home run came on a mind-blowing pitch compared to outcome originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The pitch was a ball.
Frankly, it was well off the plate, not even borderline. St. Louis Cardinals phenom JJ Wetherholt didn't care.
And despite standing just 5-foot-9, he decided it was time to show off some rare power. Wetherholt hit his first home run on Thursday as part of his MLB debut. But it didn't come on your standard home run pitch.
It came on an offering more than five inches outside off the plate. And somehow, Wetherholt reached out and crushed it 425 feet to dead centerfield. The pitch that JJ Wetherholt hit out yesterday had a plate side of -1.