A.J. Hinch

But you have to endure it if that's your reality.

And that's what I think our team has been pretty good at, you know, these last few series.

I think something that Tork doesn't get enough credit for is he swings at the right pitches.

He's disciplined enough to work counts, draw a few walks, but he swings at the right pitches.

Now he gets in these ruts where maybe he's a little bit too much airborne or he gets a little bit uphill or maybe he doesn't barrel everything.

But he has 30 plus homers and he's got a lot of doubles.

He's driven runs in because he swings at the right pitches a lot.

And that's what I've seen this series.

These are really, really hard matchups for a right-handed hitter.

And it's hard for lefties too, but when you look at the wipeout type stuff coming out of their pen that's in their rotation, it never stops and it never eases off.

And so the discipline to be in the strike zone or staying with your plan is very, very important.

And Tork has done a nice job this series at taking what

He hasn't hit the ball out of the ballpark, but he has hit a couple balls down the opposite field line.

He has pulled the ball.

He's worked a walk or two that get a little bit unnoticed whenever the guy behind him does something positive.

So he's pretty consistent in his approach and in his methods.

And I think that as a consistent personality, that helps him deal with the stress of hitting in the middle of the order.

All right.

AL Central travel is the best.

I'm sure the NL Central would argue with me too, but it is a big difference.