In baseball, a two-o’clock hitter is one who hits well in batting practice, but not during the game. It used to be that games traditionally started at 3 p.m., with batting practice an hour before. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Two-O’Clock Hitter”
Grant, you know what a two o’clock hitter is?
In baseball?
In baseball.
A two o’clock hitter?
Don’t know.
I have no idea what it is.
Yeah, I was going to guess that a two o’clock hitter would be like out to right field or something.
You know, thinking about the face of a clock, but that’s not it at all.
No.
No, it dates back to the time when most games started at 3 o’clock and batting practice started at 2 o’clock.
So if you’re a 2 o’clock hitter, you hit really well in batting practice and then you get to the game.
And you’re a dud.
Yeah.
Oh, that sucks.
Yeah, I know.
I can identify.
Once the pressure is on in the realities and they’re not lobbing softballs across the plate.
Yes, exactly.
And that’s one of the things that I really like about baseball lingo is it’s so applicable to real life.
You have a rehearsal that goes really, really well, and then you get to the performance.
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