Last week, Matt
Davidson of the White Sox told a Sun-Times reporter he has to fight tensing up
at the plate. Before this season,
Davidson said he “would get tense, not from a stress standpoint but from trying
to do too much, and that makes me make bad decisions,” known to us laypeople as
striking out all the time.
There’s more. Davidson went on to say he’s now trying to
“get the tension out of my shoulders and arms and just try to be in my
hands. When I get long or slower or
tense up, I will foul those pitches off or swing through them.”
Try to be in his
hands? You have to hope Davidson brings
an interpreter to his visits with hitting coach Todd Steverson. Clare used to get like this, talking
hitter-gibber. I probably drove her nuts
by saying, “See ball, hit ball.” But
it’s true, simple and true.
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