Not too long after Trayvon Robinson was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers, his coaches came to him with an idea. They were like, hey, Trey, you're so young, we want to try something with you. I'm like, what are you going to do to me? So they were like, we want you to learn how to hit left-handed. Have you ever hit left-handed before? I'm like, yeah, on a video game, I don't ever hit left-handed before. like what are we doing?

Trayvon. We want you to learn how to hit left-handed. Have you ever hit left-handed before? Like, yeah, on a video game.

I don't ever hit left-handed before.

Like, what are we doing?

Trayvon was a right-handed batter.

Trying to bat left-handed would take a tremendous amount of work.

But he was game.

I took about hundreds of swings every day.

I took more swings after we were done with the day. After countless practice sessions, he started trying to bat left-handed in games. My first hit actually hit left. It was unofficially, so I won't include it. There was a guy named Jumbo Diaz. He was throwing 100 miles per hour. Bam, I hit it right back of the middle. And everybody was shocked.

And I was like the talk of the instructional leader. Like, this guy don't know how to hit left-handed and he's hitting left-handed. All right, fast forward. I went back to the same league I was in. The first week, I ended the week, hitting a walk-off home run left-handed. To center field. Whoa, that's amazing.

Trayvon played pro

baseball for 19 years. He played AAA, AA, independent leagues, winter leagues, and for a brief

time in the majors. And that early work to learn how to switch hit is something he's proud of.

You know, that's just hard work.

That's hard work.

I broke a lot of bats.

I cursed a lot of people out.

You know, I did a lot of stuff, you know, when it came to trying to actually understand how is this going to work.

Yeah. I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

In every episode, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession,

a welder, an NBA referee, a city manager. We want to know what they do all day at work.

Today we'll ask Trayvon Robinson what it's like to be a baseball player. We'll talk about what happens on game day before the game starts,

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