Washington – Andy pages He shook his head with a smile, raised his hands covered with the sky, then gave thanks with the sigh of relief.
It does not matter that Evading They were getting In the end of Tuesday night. Or that operating his home in the fifth half did not do much to stop the unexpected team slipping on the road trip for this week.
For one moment, for the bats, Slugger in the second year recently witnessed a moment of reassurance, hitting a strip of two strikes outside the scope of two Washington players players in the first long ball of this season.
“It was definitely a feeling of comfort,” said the pages in the Spanish language through a team translator after the match. “Just like a large breathing of fresh air, definitely.”
Even this point, the 2025 season began in a fateful midfielder. It was four for 35 in the painting. Many mental errors have committed defense and basic paths. And it was increasingly burden due to the danger of his situation, approaching ever James Outman-The path of the path to retreat from the junior season to the campaign of a frustrated student.
The pages did not show those feelings that boil while leaving the mixture box on Tuesday. He kept his head down and his face was rotating around the rules.
But again in the hideout, the possibility that was once eventually achieved ultimately allows itself to be satisfied with the self. For weeks, the pressure around him was. This was a sudden launch.
“You gave me a lot of confidence,” repeat the pages. “To get some results … it was a significant lift from my back.”
Despite the beating. Run from a house, quadruple RBI In the fifth game of the National League championship championship-the pages knew that he would have a little certainty with the title of the title of the title for this year.
Since the start of the training in the spring, he said: “The team told me that I had no guaranteed place, and I had to work on my way to get a great place in the league.”
Although the pages were shattered by the club’s primary position, his conflicts in the early season were weighing it.
“This has added a little tension to my daily,” he confessed. “I feel good. It’s just some of the things that I was working in it didn’t work.”
The errors on the external field (where many airlines played, including a missile from the Philadelphia Velez star Price Harper at the end of last week) And on the rules (where he was running through the signs of stopping and was arrested twice in the decisions of excessive operation of the base), the most flagrant moments of failure during the first two weeks of the season were.
Pages said: “Some of the plays I only need,” I have not done them. “
However, the root of his frustrations is his early ability to produce continuously in the plate – where, even after collecting four strikes and two houses in his last three games, it strikes only 171 with. 648 OPS.
After all, the main reason is that pages in the big league list are on other triple options like Utilityman Hayesj Kim (Signing the season of musical factors from South Korea The year opened in the palace To work on his oscillation) and the Esteury Ruiz player (the American Al -Qaeda leader in the American League 2023, Dodgers obtained from last week in Auckland A because of his strike.
Thus, even throughout a very small sample, this week’s chain enters in Washington, its late total numbers have become a cause of concern.
“I am trying to do the things I can do every day, hard work, improve in the painting, and make adjustments,” said the pages on Monday, when the manager is Dave Roberts Keep it out of the squad to allow him to re -appoint mentally.
“I was doing a lot of good things,” I insisted. “But the balls are not falling.”
For Roberts, page riding was less related to swinging mechanics, and more with “negativity” in his offensive approach.
Usually aggressive, the pages looked very cautious in the box early this year. Beating near the bottom of the Dodgers lineup – often, in the 9th opening with Autani Behind him in the lead place – he started taking more stadiums than usual, and shortening his swing to go in the other direction.
The pages helped walk more, drawing free permits at a double rate he made last year. But pop in his racket has lost. The routine to the right field was a very common event.
“Just to be a little more aggressive, which changes the field a little more towards the center, the large part of this field, I think it will be more useful,” said Roberts.
The operation of the house on Tuesday, which achieved a calendar line to the left of the left fields, was a long -awaited preliminary example.
Another came on Wednesday afternoon, in two starkly contradictory bats.
Andy Pages, the Dodgers Center, is making a running running during the fifth half of the Wednesday match against citizens.
(John McDonnell / Associated Press)
In the fourth half of Final Dodgers series Against the citizens, the pages took three consecutive dived thighs from the center of the right from the right, Jake Irvin, and kicked himself after descending with Al -Othmani waving on the horizon on the deck.
“I am not used to reaching this part of the matter, and I am trying to see the largest possible number of stadiums,” said Pages, agreed with Roberts’ evaluation of his very early approach. “Sometimes I get very negative for this reason, and this is not good for me.”
Thus, the next time in the upper part of the seventh, the pages swing in three straight slides of the Savior Eduardo Salazar. The first two, he set out. But the third, which was left in the area and outside the painting, was fired to the left field seats for an explosion to photograph the game-running on its second land 24 hours a day.
A veteran team teammate said Teskar HernandezWho became a teacher close to the pages since early last season. “It is an aggressive hurt. So just get beaten.”
Roberts agreed to this, noting that the pages are still “calibrating” the correct balance between patience and aggression.
Roberts added: “He needs to know where the points of his strength are in the multiplication area.” If he sees that there, you only have to be aggressive as you need to be. “
All of this is part of the continuous education of pages; This type of growing pain that the crowd wants to bear, at the present time, hoping that he will be able to flourish more consistent offensive force as a large player in the league.
There are still defensive basics for drilling to the home, and the errors coming to eliminate it.
There are still alternatives below the depth chart, too, if the pages cannot convert this two -week to a period of success for a longer period.
Another veteran colleague said, “For him to start getting the results is good,” said another veteran colleague. Kiki Hernandez. “I know what I should be young and fighting in the major championships. There are people behind you trying to do your work. I know how it feels.
“He will strike. He is a good hunger. He will become fine. It will help us a lot this year as well,” added Teoscar Hernández, with a broad smile after running Home Pages on Wednesday, who helped lead the evaders to win their victory.
