re: Mainieri says hitting coach is overrated

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It's not even about having a great hitting team at this point. It's about plate discipline and putting together good at bats. How many innings were we playing from behind, only to hand the opposing pitcher an 8 pitch inning. If you can't hit the pitcher, at least run his pitch count up a little bit. Holy shite.

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This. The only signs of life we showed all weekend was against their bullpen, but we did nothing at the plate in any of the games to force them to dip into there. We would have a batter walk on 4 pitches, then have the next batter whale at the first pitch, often out of the strike zone, and pop it up. Never, ever, worked the pitch count at all, and it didn't change.