re: What is wrong with the team hitting?

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I was surprised to hear Mainieri say in a post-game interview that he thought the team was "too tentative" at the plate. I thought we were too aggressive and failed to constantly let the pitcher off the hook by swinging at the first pitch that came along and popping it up.

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I think it more of tentative by not having plate discipline, ie swinging at bad pitches and breakdown of fundamentals.