Now fair is foul and foul is fair

OF PITCHES and pitching: Saturday during YankeesRed Sox, John Sterling and Suzyn Waldman noted the number of strikes vs. balls thrown by Boston starter Allen Webster. That’s not an uncommon chat these days.

Next, they noted the scoreboard at Fenway Park tracks such things, giving the striketoballs percentage, too. All right, that’s enough!

What about balls out of the strike zone that are swung at, bunted at, fouled off, missed, hit fair? Balls become strikes! But any stat, any time.

Yogi Berra, who regularly hit home runs and doubles on pitches thrown near his eyes, is in the Hall of Fame!

Meantime, Mets’ batters continue to take firstpitch strikes, as if hitting at 01 is advantageous.

Sunday, with the Mets down 30 in the fourth, Ruben Tejada looked at strike one, right down the middle, before grounding out. Next, David Wright looked at strike one, right down the middle, before striking out.

Next inning, all three batters — Chris Young, Juan Lagares and Wilmer Flores — looked at firstpitch strikes. Tejada and Flores popped out, Lagares struck out. Next inning, Anthony Recker led off, looked at a firstpitch strike, flew out.

Maybe it’s time to explain to the younger fans in your life that what happened Saturday — Joe Girardi removing Shane Greene, who was pitching well, after 4 ²/₃ innings and 96 pitches — once would have been regarded as bizarre or due to an injury, as opposed to standard, modernformula baseball.

➤ The kindred spirits of Ralph Kiner and Jerry Coleman stopped by Friday on YES. David Cone, over a replay of a Brock Holt’s carom shot down Fenway’s rightfield line: “And he slides into third with a standup triple.”

➤ Reader Chuck Newcomb suggests when a game ends on a wild pitch or a walk, it should be classified “a slinkoff.”

➤ With the trade deadline having passed, the Yankees again just couldn’t pull the trigger on that John Sterling for Marcel Marceau deal.