Corey Dickerson is now, for the time being, the luckiest guy in all of baseball. The hot-hitting left fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays swung at a pitch he definitely shouldn’t have swung at, and since he swung definitely should have whiffed, but somehow ended up golfing a stand-up double. Why is that so lucky? Because the pitch bounced in the dirt before Dickerson got his bat on it.
What makes Dickerson’s hit even crazier is that he’s done it before. Back in 2013 he got a double on another pitch that bounced in front of the plate! But it doesn’t matter how many times Dickerson has done it, you can’t talk about a batter hitting a bad pitch without mentioning bad-ball virtuoso Vlad Guerrero.
Dickerson doesn’t necessarily need any help getting hits from the baseball gods, as he’s hitting .346/.390/.615 on the season.