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Xander Bogaerts
is looking to put and up-and-down 2014 season behind him, one that saw
him switch between shortstop and third base several times. So far this
spring, he has done just that.
The 22-year old infielder got the Red Sox on the board with a run-scoring base hit in the third inning of Thursday’s contest, and followed that up in the fifth when he took an offering from New York Mets’ Hansel Robles, and deposited it over the left field fence for a three-run homer, his second long ball of the spring.
“The only breaking ball he saw in the whole sequence was a hanging breaking ball he put a great swing on,” Sox’ manager John Farrell
said of Bogaerts’ home run per MLB.com. “He recognized it. I think
equal to that, there’s so many at-bats where he’s staying back and
hitting some balls the other way. He had a long fly ball (Saturday) to
move a runner, and today an RBI single the other way when he was down in
the count. He looks balanced and he’s waiting for pitches to get to
him.”
Bogaerts slammed his first home run of the spring on Thursday, when he launched a two-run home run to straight away center field against the Minnesota Twins.
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