After hitting a miserable .169 so far this season, Adam Dunn had lost all confidence in himself. He was desperately trying to find a way to end his atrocious slump, and the solution came at a community baseball diamond, where there was an 11-and-under tournament going on.
“I was driving home after another terrible game,” said Dunn. “I had just gone 0-5 with 3 strikeouts and felt like sh*t. Then I drove by this ball diamond where a bunch of kids looked like they were having fun, and I thought I would stop by and maybe sign a couple autographs. But then before you know it, they were begging for me to play with them, and I just couldn’t resist.”
Dunn took the field as a pitcher, and all of the kids could hardly wait for their turn to bat against Dunn. He started by lobbing them pitches underhand, but before long he was throwing as hard as he could, laughing hysterically every time he struck somebody out.