OAKLAND — Sure, there were a few mechanical changes. He tweaked his bat path and his timing. He’s started to get into his swing a little earlier. And, at the...
“I’d gotten caught up in thinking in the box these last couple of weeks,” Smith said. “[Now I’m] thinking a lot in my work, and then just in the game kind of not thinking and having fun.”
Smith had a double, a run scored and a hit by pitch in the Rangers’ 5-0 win over the Athletics on Saturday. He left the game in the sixth with right foot soreness, though the x-rays came back negative. In the same at bat he was hit in the foot with a pitch, he also fouled a pitch off of his other foot.
“I don’t know which one hurt the worst, to be honest,” Bochy said. “He is pretty sore, and tomorrow we’ll reevaluate him.”“You have to have a self awareness about yourself,” Bochy said. ‘[Smith and I] talked about that, be the hitter that you should be and what we need, and not somebody who you aren’t. Smitty, I do think we was getting a little too geared toward power.
. It wasn’t with the direction to bunt or intentionally sacrifice himself; rather it was to pull a pitch to right field and “maybe do some damage” with ghost runner Ezequiel Duran at second base. Smith instead worked a five-pitch walk and came around to score on a Marcus Semien single. “He worked hard, he had some time, and I talked to him,” Bochy said. “Getting back to the swing that I saw this spring — using the whole field, not getting too big, not too geared toward power ... he’s in a better place now, he’s tightened it up a little bit. It’s good to see, he put a lot of work in to get back to where he was.”Catcher Jonah Heim got an off day on Saturday against Oakland.
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