Ricky Romero

You might know the answer to this, but with those home run derbies, are they swinging... They've got to be swinging different bats than they normally would in their game bats, right?

Does it look like... Are they swinging different bats or would you... Because I'm thinking...

The strategy is just like, I mean, it's so different, right?

You're not just, I mean, you're not going, I mean, you're trying to hit to where, you know, you can hit the most home runs, which I know sounds like common sense when you're looking at a normal game, but the pitch isn't necessarily diving and dancing all through the zone.

So do you use a different bat?

Yes, that would be my guess, but I don't know.

Blake's like, change the bat, go out there, hit the home runs and home run derby and come back and do it that way.

I mean, it is kind of one of those things, though, where I look at it as it would be – that would be a moment where you almost just don't even worry about mechanics.

You don't worry about anything.

Like, you're just – I mean, however you can get the ball out of the ballpark, you just do it.

So, to your point, maybe it is kind of like a freeing – Yeah, just Sam Lott it.

Sam, over here diving into the weeds, and the whole time you're just like, I'm just, you know, just go and let it rip in the home run derby.

Yeah, so I went back and looked at his start against the Phillies.

And, I mean, to put it quite simply, what I'm looking for from Scherzer in this start is just avoiding the middle part of the plate a bit more.

And that's where I felt like he got himself into trouble in that start was –

he would make some really good pitches and then maybe the slider just hangs a bit too far over the zone.

Or I believe it was Bryce Harper that ended up hitting a four-seam fastball out of the ballpark after he had gotten a couple of quick outs and was at the top of the first inning, I want to say.

Yes, yeah.

And so I think if his pitches were moving, if he can still –

work around the zone in the sense of, like, I find that he just kind of dots up and down, in and out.