Cardinals’ Willson Contreras chews on bat tape during at-bat to avoid automatic strike: ‘It was a bad taste’

Catcher Willson Contreras, St. Louis Cardinals, made an interesting decision against the Twins of Minnesota on Saturday.

On the contrary, he realized that his grip tape began to stand out at the bottom of his bat, during his seriousness, which had full. The contradictions in the divided second decision decided to use teeth to disguise and turn it off.

Cardinals Slugger used to have used its single cessation at AT-BAT and the playing field in 11 seconds. Given that the contradictions decided to disguise his tape and put it in his mouth rather than pocket.

Hakobes finished the next field, but they knew that it was a suspicious decision.

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“It was a bad taste, really bad” said after the gameA number “I’m not trying to post [pine tar or sticky spray] On my [bat]but was disgusting. It was a bad taste. “

Cardinals Catcher revealed that he was the first time he had to swim ribbon in his mouth.

“Through this watch you have to do things that are out of your control, and I had to do it instead of surprising,” added contrasts. “Well, I’m the same, I hit it rather, but I would rather rotate than around the clock.

“I don’t think [chewing the tape] It was a bad thing to do, but I was just running. I didn’t have time. “

After a strong spring, the contradictions have rude to the regular season. He went to three on Saturday for 5 games on Saturdays and still needed in three disk games.