ryan howard first pitch swinging like the "unintelligent athlete" (substitute your own colorful comments) he is
at one point mets commentators said torres had thrown 13 pitches in series, 12 for balls, 1 for strikes, then he got galvis and plunked utley.....u would think with bases loaded and how intimidating the situation is, perhaps someone would tell Howard "maybe u wanna see if he hits u or throws one to the backstop"