"I don't know. That was kind of weird. It was the first time that happened to me. I don't think that's happened too many [other] times, either, so it just was weird."
"In the at-bat before, when I hit the ground ball to shortstop, I felt something weird on the bat. I felt something with the contact. It didn't feel the right way. And in the next at-bat, I just broke it."
"I tested it. I tried to see if it was broken, but I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel anything wrong with the bat. But in my mind, the sound was weird in the at-bat before, but I didn't expect the bat would break like that."
During a spring training game between the Red Sox and Pirates, right fielder Wilyer Abreu checked his swing on a breaking pitch that sailed into the dirt. Despite not making contact and holding up his swing, the bat completely splintered and snapped in two. Abreu was assessed a strike despite the unusual circumstances. He later explained that he felt something odd during his previous at-bat when he hit a ground ball to shortstop, though he tested the bat and detected nothing obviously wrong. Abreu theorized the bat may have been compromised from the earlier contact, though he didn't expect it to break so dramatically.
Read at Boston.com
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