Daily News | A ‘very confident’ Alec Bohm hits second homer of the spring, continues to impress Phillies
Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm hit his second home run of the spring on Saturday, an opposite field shot that came off his bat at 104.9 mph and traveled 382 feet in. Bohm said a few days ago that he didn’t make any offensive adjustments this offseason, and isn’t intentionally trying to lift the ball.
Phillies manager Rob Thomson believes it could be the product of the muscle that Bohm added in the offseason and more reps.Andrew Painter’s status on hold as Phillies review results of tests on phenom’s ‘tender’ elbow“He’s great,” Thomson said of Bohm. “He’s added strength, he’s started to pull the ball on balls he should pull, and then you see today when he hits the opposite field home run, we don’t want him to lose that. Because that’s who he is. He’s playing very good defense. Very confident.
“[It’s just] strength and just reps, just reps over his lifetime. He’s just starting to get a feel and see the ball a little bit earlier and get the head out. He’s probably gained some bat speed because of the strength that he’s added. But he’s really playing well.”after playing just one-third of an inning at the position in his career, in 2021 with the Cardinals. Thomson said Sosa’s defensive performance on Saturday went about how he expected it to go.
“[It was] typical, for me, typical infielder moving to center field,” Thomson said of Sosa. “First game — and you’re probably going to see it for a bit — as soon as the ball is hit in the air, he goes back. It’s just natural. And he’s just got to get to the point where he instinctually just hangs out because he’s always going back on balls when he’s playing in the infield, and he goes back tremendously. So, he’s got to trust himself, and he will. He’s athletic and he can run.
“The best route he had was the ball in the first inning, and he almost ran that ball down. That would have been a hell of a catch. The one ball where he slid, he broke back and if he doesn’t he probably catches it head high. And the one that fell, he broke back and he probably would have had a chance to catch that one, too. But that’s normal for an infielder moving to the outfield.”“As soon as he sees the ball up, [he just needs to] trust that he can go back and get it,” Thomson said.
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