Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Quotes about grounders (12 Quotes)
It's still the same game. They still hit the same grounders, it's just better competition.
In this kind of wind (blowing in from right field), you figure it's a game where you play for a run here and a run there. But our kids hit line drives and hard grounders.
With our offense not really here early in the season, we're really emphasizing pitching and defense. I told Timmy to keep the ball low and make them hit grounders, especially on this infield. There are no bad hops.
We hit hard grounders, but we didn't drive the ball. There might be some changes in the lineup. Its hard to tell after two games.
We used to do it back in the olden days. I'm just trying to get him to understand we want the hitter to make contact. The biggest thing with Kip is he tries to make too fine a pitch early in the count, then gets behind. If he gets ahead, his strike zone will expand. And, when that happens, he gets lots of soft grounders, soft fly balls.
You come off a long trip where you don't get to take grounders or get any time in the batting cages and you're going to come out a little flat. I think playing all of these next three days are going to help us.
I think I'll know more after today. It's the first time I'm on the field with batting practice and taking grounders and fly balls. We'll see how it responds.
It's was their night. They kept giving themselves chances to score, but a lot of hits were not exactly tattooed. There were seeing-eye grounders and a jam shot and that sort of thing, but give those guys a lot of credit.
Not surprisingly, Chacon gave plenty of credit to his teammates. Derek Jeter showed off his over-the-shoulder acumen to snag a blooper in the sixth Cano went up the middle to snag grounders twice Hideki Matsui made a critical lunging grab even slow-footed Ruben Sierra came up with a running catch in deep right. It was just incredible, ... That whole game was so intense.
I missed the trick. Some of them were jumping back on grounders, and I don't blame them.
The ball, just when he throws it down, guys just swing and miss or they hit grounders. He's in a little bit of a tough spot with us. We have a very full, veteran staff but we certainly like what we see.