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Originally Posted by JayP
The apprehension is because small ball limits a team's ability to score runs and doesn't improve it. The only logical time to play small ball is in the 8th with a below average hitter at the plate or in the 9th.
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The problem is that a lot of times it's guys like Zaun, McDonald, Clayton or Reed Johnson hitting in those situations. You can't keep having Gregg Zaun ground into DP's in this situation. None of those guys is there to hit the ball out of the park, those guys need to execute situational hitting or you replace them. But I've seen so many rallies die of late and usually it's been one of those three who killed it with a worst case scenario at bat. I also think the likes of Thomas and Wells had been guilty lately of trying to hit everything out of the park and hitting too many routine pop ups. These guys need to get into a groove of hitting the ball and than looking to drive it out of the park.
But they've hit the ball out of the park the last couple games. Maybe they'll get on that roll that they've been waiting for all year.