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Kyle Tucker said he wasn’t looking for anything specific Saturday afternoon.
Just better feel for a swing that hasplagued him all season.
In what manager Dave Roberts described as a “very telling” move from the team’s $240 million offseason signing, Tucker went out on the field twice ahead of Saturday’s game for some rare open-air batting practice.
There was one session off a velocity machine hours before the game. Then, another during traditional pregame batting practice — his first time participating in that all season.
Typically, Tucker does all his swing work out of sight in the team’s clubhouse batting cages.
Then again, typically, the four-time All-Star isn’t struggling the way he has lately.
“He’s working hard,” Roberts said, “to try to work through it.”
The good news for Tucker: A day after his batting practice sessions, he seemed to finally find something in the Dodgers’ rubber-match win Sunday over the Phillies, going 2-for-4 with an RBI and a couple well-struck balls.
He laced a 100 mph line drive in the first inning that was unlucky to find the glove of Justin Crawford in center.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
