Hey Batta Batta

reason to celebrate                                                            AP/David J. Phillip

Was it the email or something else entirely? New York Mets second-baseman Daniel Murphy has no idea and probably doesn't really care as long as his hitting streak continues. One more homer, in fact, and he'll join the very tiny eight-homers-in-a-single-postseason club. Murphy credits his hitting coach, Kevin Long, who, after watching video of him at bat, sent him an email last winter with suggestions about the mechanics of his swing, and they resonated. So now everyone's watching. Can he do it again? Science seems to be telling us there's no such thing as a "streak" or even a "zone." Conventional wisdom seems to be telling us there is: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/25/the-science-of-an-insane-hitting-streak.html and http://nypost.com/2015/10/25/daniel-murphys-enlightenment-began-with-hitting-coach-email/