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Ricky Romero

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Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

So the last thing you want to do is, well, one, if it's a strikeout, it's an unproductive out, so nobody's moving.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

If you hit a ground ball to the left side, Andres isn't,

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

going to be able to advance over.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

So you're trying to do whatever you can to really hit the ball the opposite direction.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

And I thought Joe brought up a great point during the broadcast yesterday.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

It looked like Miles was trying to keep his hands inside of those fastballs to hit the ball the opposite direction.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

So with that, when you keep your hands inside of the baseball, your barrel is obviously going to be just a little bit further back.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

And what that can do at times is give you just a split second longer to be able to react to some of those pitches.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

Now, again, easier said than done.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

But, like, for him to be able to continue with that same pitch and not kind of go away from that in a two-strike count and just be like, all right, I'm just going to pull the ball and see what's going to happen to the left side.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

But to stick with that gameplay, like, very –

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

intentionally trying to advance the runner over and not wavering from that is what stood out to me and why that at bat is something that a lot of people watching are going to circle.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

But to your point, not necessarily going to jump off of the box score, but a huge at bat.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

And in a bat, in my opinion, that kind of swayed the momentum in the Blue Jays way, and it never wavered from that after that.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

Yes, congrats on home run number 300, George, by the way.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

You know, when I watch his swings and when I've been watching his swings over the course of the past couple of weeks, and it was – I want to say it was the swing in the Orioles series that kind of like made me really look at it.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

Now, granted, if you're not having the season that you want and the numbers aren't going the way that you want, you've got to try something.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

You can't just continue to do the same thing over and over again.

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

But I felt like his swing was –

Blue Jays Talk
JTP: Cease Battles, Vladdy's Swing & Ricky Romero

so steep and so short to the baseball that his hands are fast through the zone.