Kurt Suzuki grounded out on a ball that hit directly off the knob of his bat
We all know that baseball is a game of inches. Inches often separate balls from strikes, home runs from fly outs and a stolen base from a caught stealing.
During Thursday afternoon's matchup with the Reds, Braves catcher Kurt Suzuki learned that inches also separate being hit by a pitch and grounding out harmlessly to a pitcher. Any slightly different placement of this ball would have hit Suzuki and not aligned perfectly with the knob of his bat:
Reds starter
It was just inches that separated Suzuki walking back to the dugout from him standing on first base.