Jordan Hicks And Luis Guillorme's 22-Pitch At-Bat Was The Most Electric Thing We Saw All Weekend

I need a cigarette after this at-bat. Yesterday we saw the at-bat of Spring so far with Jordan Hicks of the Cardinals and Luis Guillorme from the Mets. Hicks entered in the 5th to get his reps in, toss some pitches, get some outs, head to the showers. Little did he know he'd be stuck in an at-bat that lasted as long as a full episode of Friends. 

Guillorme starts the at-bat down 0-2 and then that is when the battle begins. He fouled 2 more pitches off before seeing the first ball, then 5 more foul balls, 2 pitches out of the zone to get it to 3-2, and then Guillorme really starts to fight it. 9 straight foul balls before Hicks finally concedes and missed low. Hell of an at-bat by both guys, Hicks never really gave in and was throwing filthy stuff up there, Luis was just too good at getting bat on ball. He kept just getting enough on them to foul them away, that has to frustrate Hicks a ton. Hicks is a flame thrower too, he had 10 of his 22 pitches over 99 MPH. Like 10 years ago there were guys who would hit 100 MPH in a season like once, now we have a guy doing it 6 times in one at-bat, that can't be fun to face for 22 pitches. 

The best part was the Mets dugout, the boys were buzzing watching this performance. Hooting and hollering with every pitch, and it even looked like some of them lost track of the count because it was going on for so long. You want a way to rally the guys and get your team some excitement and energy? Get a 22 pitch at-bat going. If it happened in the regular season it would have been the longest at-bat by pitch count since they started keeping track in 1988. But since it's just Spring Training it's just a fun moment to checkout. Not fun if you're the Cardinals or Jordan Hicks though. Was the only batter Hicks faced so it was kind of a quick appearance for him?

Luis is kind of a Spring Training hero though, he knows when the bright lights are on him down there. He now holds 2 of the more memorable moments in Mets' Spring Training history, good for you Luis.