It is a question asked not only by every 2023 World Series broadcaster and analyst, but by every baseball fan on the planet:

“Why do the Arizona Diamondbacks continue to pitch to Corey Seager?”

I mean, even though the 29-year-old Charlotte, NC native and (ugh) Dodgers first-round draft pick in 2012 out of  Northwest Cabarrus High School in Concord, NC is 4-for-17 (.235) through the first four games of the Fall Classic, three of those four hits have been home runs and the fourth a double.

And that’s only the half of it. There’s this:

That record-setting third home run came with two outs in the top of the second inning of Game-4 of the 2023 World Series at Chase Field in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday night to give Bruce Bochy‘s Texas Rangers an early 5-0 lead in their eventual 11-7 win over Torey Lovullo‘s Diamondbacks … because, for reasons only he knows, Lovullo had 27-year-old Dbacks left-hander Kyle Nelson actually pitch to Corey Seager.

The burning question is, of course: Will Lovullo have his pitchers pitch to Seager in Game-5 on Wednesday night with Texas now up three games to one and on the brink of capturing their first World Championship in franchise history, or will he take the bat out of the hands of the soon-to-be 2023 World Series MVP by intentionally walking him – every at-bat?

How does that old proverb go?:

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

…or four times.

Play Ball!

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