Ha-Seong Kim, Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts are excelling on defense, even as Padres are scuffling at the plate
At San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium in the mid-1980s, my gig as a film runner put me some 60 feet behind home plate. The field-level view though a backstop porthole beat the vantage from either dugout.Defense revealed itself as trickier than it looked on TV. Routine grounders weren’t always routine. Popups in foul ground could be bewildering. Exposed to baserunners bearing down on them, middle infielders and catchers had to think and move fast.
Baseball fans don’t holler “DEE-fense” but Padres fans do so, in effect, when they chant “Ha-Seong Kim.”At shortstop, he might be the best to play for the Padres other than Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith. Manny Machado still resembles the best third baseman in Padres history, although a bad decision he made Sunday showed he’s pressing during what has been one of his career’s worst offensive stretches.
Fernando Tatis Jr. has taken to right field. That he can cover 30 feet in one second and throw 90 to 100 mph offsets growing pains. He wants the baseball hit to him.
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