Q. How do you get the play discipline back? Altuve has been there all
year, Correa, the key guys, the veterans, basically 1 through 9 swinging
basically outside the zone?
A.J. HINCH: Yeah, swing less Corey Seager Women Jersey would help. You've got to get good pitches to hit, and swing at those
pitches. But if it was that simple I think we would have corrected it
right about the third inning of Game 3.
We're obviously going to have a game plan going against a pitcher. If we
can stay disciplined in that game plan all the better. But the pitcher
has to adapt to us, as well.
Yesterday is a good example. Cody Bellinger Women Jersey He pitched us differently in Game 5 than he did in Game 1. He did
expand the strike zone. We chased it a little bit.
But for us it's trying to find the pitch to hit and that's about it. If
he doesn't give it to you the game will tell you to take a little bit
more. Easier said than done. If this offense is as good as it's been for
this season, we are one good stretch from getting back to where we need
to be.
Q. Verlander is good on a random Tuesday in June, but something about
him and how much he's been in the playoffs, does that help you, in not
just the physical thing, but the mindset of having been to the playoffs,
do you think that helps a lot?
A.J. HINCH: Sure, I think it helps to some extent. How much is going to
be based by performance. I think all of us know we have to step up and
perform in our job to make that story line a reality.
Coming to the ballpark we feel great. Justin Turner Women Jersey In the first inning we're going to feel great. And then performance is
obviously going to increase that belief system that we have.
So certainly not all on him. Just like it's not all on Altuve or not all
on Correa or Reddick or George or some of the other guys that haven't
necessarily broken out this series.
But this is a random three-game stretch. It doesn't have to define the
rest of our year. It just defined the series while in New York. We can
set a new trend for us beginning tomorrow.
Q. What was your sense of Carlos and Brian and them talking to the guys,
what kind of impact that might have?
A.J. HINCH: Well, it doesn't surprise me, because that's who they are.
That's who they've been since the beginning of Spring Training. Any sort
of meeting that we have or get-together we've had, they either
originated it or participated in it in some capacity.
Those are the two most tested guys, along with Verlander and Reddick,
the four guys that have the most playoff experience. So I applaud them
for taking the opportunity to tell everybody to take a collective breath
and get on the plane and have a different mindset to get home and get
to this off-day before we get to Game 6.
It's a seven-game series, everybody needs to be reminded of that. It
wasn't over after two and not over after five. ?
