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Smoak, Ackley and Montero have all hit HRs...1 degree foul. I believe Saunders is in this group too. Being willing to settle for the base hits you can get and trusting the power to come around is great to see from Montero and Smoak, especially after they started the season slowly in the hits department. They didn't press, and they're still not pressing.
The slugging % will come around.
Ackley right now looks a little shrill, to take Doc's term. He WANTS it up there at the plate, in a bad way.
When Ackley stops wanting it so badly and gets a little more zen, and our power shots go 2 degrees the other way, we'll be just fine.
And we are playing the 2-time defending AL Champs on their home turf. For a team expected by the at-large media to crater again, I don't think we're doing that poorly.
But that 9th inning grave excavation was a wonderful thing. We'd gone through 23 scoreless innings - Noesi's implosion really took the wind out of our sails as an offense, especially after Felix and co almost gave up a similarly large lead previously. Looked to me like the hitters started to feel like they had to do too much.
Just hit the little white thing, fellas - the rest will take care of itself.
What's also impressing me (besides the #4 and #5 pitchers knife-fighting the champs to a standstill in a hitter's park) is that we're not giving up walks either. No free trips. Sometimes that hurts (see: Delabar and Noesi getting HAMMERED in the zone) but for the most part I like the aggressiveness.
~G