The kids who never played past Little League won’t think this is impressive, but this is impressive as hell. Tonight, our guy Pat McAfee is playing for the Washington Wild Things of the Independent Frontier League. He has never played baseball in his life. Not high school, not AAU, not Little League, not even tee ball. The pitcher that he faced in his first at-bat is coming off a complete game shutout and homeboy checks in at a svelte 270 pounds.

We had Pat on Starting 9 today (download, rate, subscribe and listen to the episode here) and we gave him some pointers. Turns out this pitcher gives up north of 13 hits per nine innings. With that in mind, Dallas Braden and I told him to time this pitcher in the on-deck circle, under the assumption that A.) he’s probably only going to throw him fastballs and B.) the first pitch is more than likely going to be the best pitch he sees. Swing at the first pitch.