Luke Voit's fourth homer demonstrates swing is nearing optimum; Robinson Cano experiment almost got jolt, instead appears done
Luke Voit said Wednesday morning that a couple swings he put on balls the night before, a line drive single at 107.5 mph and a 357-foot fly ball he hit at 101.4 mph, were probably his best of the season.Wednesday afternoon to the Cardinals that was no longer the case.was a 420-foot home run to right-center field in the ninth inning.clubhouse was disappointed as the team prepared to depart for Milwaukee on its first three-game losing streak of the season.
He has four home runs and an .841 OPS in 18 games since returning from the injured list May 10. He was homerless and had a .481 OPS in 13 games at the start of the season before being sidelined by a biceps tendon injury.“My power is to right field,” Voit said. “I’m a better hitter when I’m hitting the ball all over the field. … It’s starting to roll.”-best mark in the major leagues among those with at least 900 at-bats in that span.
It was a fitting end, then, that he came within a few feet of putting the Padres ahead in the ninth inning Wednesday as a pinch-hitter. What might have been a good story just wasn’t, as Cano sent a bases-loaded changeup from Nick Wittgren a projected 376 feet to left-center field, where it was caught near the wall by Corey Dickerson for the game’s final out.
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