Worcester (3-4) 8, Syracuse (1-6) 5 Box Score Johneshwy Fargas CF: 2-5, 2B, .385/.385/.692 Jake Hager 2B: 3-5, 2B, R, .414/.452/.655 Khalil Lee RF: 2-4, 2 RBI, .250/.478/.313 Martin Cervenka C: 1-4, HR, .313/.353/.938 Fargas led off the game with a double, but was thrown out third base while trying to stretch the hit into a triple. Hager lined a one-out single to left, then came around to score...
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Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (3-1) 7, Syracuse (1-3) 3, F/6 Box Score Brandon Drury 3B; 0-1, BB, .231/.333/.231 Khalil Lee RF: 0-2, K, .100/.400/.100 David Thompson 1B: 1-2, 2B, R, K, .231/.375/.538 Martin Cervenka C: 1-2, HR, 2 RBI, K, .500/.556/1.375 Catcher Martin Cervenka hit his second home run of the year to get Syracuse on the board in the second inning. Cervenka’s two out home run came two...
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Syracuse (1-0) 5, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (0-1) 2 Box Score Wilfredo Tovar SS: 1-2, 2 BB, SB, .500/.750/.500 Khalil Lee RF: 1-4, 2 K, CS, .250/.250/.250 David Thompson 1B: 1-4, HR, 2 K, .250/.250/1.000 Martin Cervenka C: 2-3, HR, 2 R, .667/.667/1.667 Syracuse collected seven hits, launched a pair of home runs and took advantage of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre miscues to win 5-2 on Opening Night. Catcher...
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Jared Diamond, the national baseball writer for the Wall Street Journal, released Swing Kings on March 31. In his first book, Diamond details the obscure personal hitting coaches like Craig Wallenbrock, Doug Latta and Bobby Tewksbary who led baseball’s home run revolution. Read my review of Swing Kings here. Readers can order Diamond’s book on Amazon, Indiebound, Bookshop and...
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Swing Kings By Jared Diamond. 336 pp. $28.99 In Swing Kings, Jared Diamond unearths chance encounters, unlikely coaches and stark technique changes responsible for transforming pedestrian batters into Major League Baseball’s elite sluggers. Diamond illustrates the precise moments when today’s power hitters — the likes of J.D. Martinez and Aaron Judge — discovered the need to deconstruct and...
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