Padres manager tries to spark offense with a new look; Seth Lugo blames his pitch not the call that preceded it
“I’m just trying to shake it up a little bit today, plain and simple,” Melvin said.In an attempt to get his two struggling sluggers going, the Padres manager made a relatively blatant shift in his lineup Thursday by batting Manny Machado fifth in what turned out to be a 5-2 loss to the Cubs.
“We’re just trying to win,” said Machado, who homered in his first at-bat Thursday, singled his second time up and finished 2-for-4. “It doesn’t really matter. Whatever it is to get us going offensively. As hitters, as a team, as baseball players, we just kind of get into a routine of just seeing the same thing and doing the same thing every day, every single day, every single day. So changing up the lineup like that kind of just mixes things up, kind of loosens up the mojo.
“I think Manny is close,” Xander Bogaerts said Thursday morning. “He shifted his approach the last two at-bats last night. He’s going to go off. Something in his mindset was a little different.”
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