Meredith Marakovits

Cruz’s splitter is one of the nastiest pitches in baseball. The right-hander learned the grip in 2010 and began deploying it a few years later. It has neutralized some of the best hitters in the game, who offer frustratingly fruitless hacks at the dive-bombing pitch. “The batters tell me with their swings,” Cruz says.

Yankees reporter gets hit with bucket full of gum, follows it up with hilarious interview What seemed to be just another day at the ballpark for Yankees reporter Meredith Marakovits took an entertaining turn when she ended up on the wrong end of a gum toss, courtesy of Didi Gregorius. The stunt was aimed at Gleyber Torres, who hit a walk off single in the 10th inning to win the game for the Bronx Bombers, but unfortunately the gum fell short.