bats

Borneo island has one of the world's largest tracts of rainforest and hosts orangutans, long-nosed monkeys, clouded leopards, pig-tailed macaques, flying fox bats and the smallest rhinos on the planet.

Dr Wills gave another example of birds and bats, which both developed wings because they face similar environments, despite being different species in "different major branches of the vertebrate tree".

"You see tourists dressed in western clothing here all the time and no-one bats an eyelid," she adds.

The Phillies did indeed make life tough on the Dodgers’ best lefty bats.

But there’s also something personal at stake for Pages, who grew up in Cuba so poor his carpenter father made the bats he played with.