There was nothing wrong with wondering what the hell was going on in those first two ABs. They were awful and he corrected it and got a hanging curve to damage.
Some people don't baseball on here
As you said - he laid off the first breaking ball for the 1st time tonight and forced the pitcher to throw him something over the plate
And he hit it to Bellaire - good at bat for sure by nothing other than making him throw you a strike
Still not sure why anyone throws him one- it won't end well a lot of the time