Good morning from New York, The difference appears to be in the actions that follow the words. “The effort on everyone’s part is way better,” Joe Musgrove said. The Padres held a lot of team …
The difference appears to be in the actions that follow the words.The Padres held a lot of team meetings last year, and not much came of them.The Padres have not had those kinds of urgent/desperate meetings this year, in large part because they are always talking about things. Pretty much every day, they assess as a group what has happened and what they plan to have happen. They do more on-field work as a team and are more collaborative, coach to player and player to player.
They talked in their meeting about how they had lost those five games by a total of six runs and how the difference was that they didn’t get the timely hits and weren’t having the same consistency of at-bats. And, yes, they talked about how it was not OK to lose so many games to losing teams.“We have a good team to do really good things, and we haven’t been doing it,” Profar said. “So we needed to step a foot on the gas more. … Sometimes even with foot on the gas you’re going to get unlucky.
“Singles are cool, and like that helps the team,” he said. “But there’s moments where you need a double and there are moments where homers are really important. I like being a singles hitter. But, you know, I have more than that in my game. That’s not the only thing I’m doing in my game. I’m able to hit for power too.”walk-off blast with one out in the ninth inningThat his fateful homer came on a first-pitch slider from Miller, whose fastball averages 100.
“You gotta get the head out and get your foot down early,” he said. “And as soon as I saw spin, I kind of knew we gotta go here. He’s not gonna give another spin pitch right in the middle of the zone.”It was last Friday night, three games into his hitting streak, that Merrill said he finally felt right. Something clicked against a pitcher whose fastball he didn’t have to worry about.
Two days after that was yesterday, when he stopped a homerless streak of 92 at-bats by hitting a 2-0 fastball 406 feet to center field in the fifth inning and then launched that slider from Miller 369 feet down the right field line for his first career walk-off. San Diego Padres third baseman Donovan Solano rounds the bases after a home run against the Oakland Athletics during the second inning at Petco Park on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 in San Diego, CA. Donovan Solano’s two-run homer in yesterday’s eighth inning, which tied the game 4-4, came on a first-pitch fastball.But that first homer was far more emblematic of what Solano has brought to the Padres throughout his first 5½ weeks with the team.
The only thing that was out of character about the at-bat was that he hit the ball over the fence. Solano has three home runs this season and 35 in 2,532 career at-bats. But, due to other relievers not being available, there Kolek was with the game in his hands yesterday. He could keep it close or have it get away.
“Mentally every single day,” Kolek said of how it is he manifested the demeanor of a high-leverage reliever when he really hasn’t been one. “… When I didn’t get to pitch much, I was throwing a bunch of bullpens and just still continuing to work on more of the mental side of things and just, like, be present in this pitch. Like, we’re not necessarily working on stuff, trying to make a pitch better. It’s just, have intent and execute.
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