Why you might need to be a lefty after all

In baseball, not in politics

Sometimes our coach—my father—would send us righthanded batters up to bat lefthanded when the automatic 3-0 take was called for, especially if he thought we needed baserunners more than we did a chance for a hit.

Essentially, this was to make sure we didn’t swing, hopefully throw the pitcher off his game a little bit by changing his sight lines, and take…