![]() “Harp’s instincts, he plays so hard, his instincts will be to slide head first if he has to. It was flopping as he pulled into third, Harper not having had time to secure it in place before taking off. You might have noticed how Bryce Harper went from first to third base during Monday night’s game against the Tigers, and Harper’s knee brace wasn’t completely with him. However, he played football at the University of Mississippi … and the rest is recent history. He was drafted out of high school in the 19th round of the 2016 MLB Draft and signed with the Padres, which prevented him from playing the sport in college. Indeed, Brown was a standout, two-sport start at Starkville High in Starkville, Mississippi. has a good swing he’s played baseball … So he’d be my fourth hitter. “It’s amazing to me those guys are such great athletes,” Thomson said. In the end, it wasn’t an overwhelming audition at the plate by the quarterback, but that other guy… ![]() Brown stopped by the park previous to the game to show off their swings. The Eagles’ dynamic duo of Jalen Hurts and A.J. “When the mechanics are good, you see the ball well, you make good decisions, you don’t miss pitches.” ![]() “My swing wasn’t where it needed to be,” he said. Turner said some of the team’s analytical swing scientists, along with hitting coach Kevin Long, tweaked Turner’s approach with the intent of getting him to stay back longer on pitches. “It’s just, like, ‘finally.’ Just because I expect quality at-bats out of myself.” Just days after ripping himself for a slow start at the plate, he belted two homers amid an 8-3 Phillies victory.Īsked for a comment or a couple of sighs of relief afterward, Turner said, ““I don’t think relief is the right word,” he said to NBC SportsPhilly. It tells me we’re seeing the ball and being patient, eliminating as much chase as we can.Ĭome Monday, with Detroit visiting, it was Trea Turner’s turn. We had back to back nights of seven walks, which tells me a lot. We went through a little bit of a skid there for a while. “We’ve been having the at-bats that we thought this group could have. “I just think we’ve been having better at-bats,” manager Rob Thomson said prior to the game. The belting was expected to continue Tuesday in a second-series game against the Tigers, and indeed the Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber belted his 16th home run to lead off the home half of the first. Including those seven runs in the loss to the Nats, the Phillies would turn around and win their next three, and score a total of 30 runs over that four-game stretch. While a fifth straight loss was hard to take, there might have been noticed served of what was to come. But they scored six unanswered runs to tie the game at 7-all before losing it at the end. Then came one quickly depressing last Friday night in Washington, the Nationals rolling up a big lead on a Phillies team had was coming off four straight losses to Atlanta (one) and the Mets (three straight), a four-game stretch which saw the Phils score but seven runs.Įven against a completely challenged Nationals team, the Phillies fell behind quickly and by a lot on that Friday. PHILADELPHIA - There had been signs of the Phillies finally breaking out of their offensive doldrums, but signs and results are two very different things.
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