I told him just mainly to understand the situation he's in. People aren't stupid. All they have to do is look at the stats sheet. As a pitching coach, I'd circle that guy's name and I'm saying, ?Look, that guy's not going to beat us. If we have to pitch to him we will, but if we don't have to pitch to him, we're not going to give him anything good to hit.' So I told him, ?Stay patient.

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I think everybody felt like at least the next five or six games after that, we had a chance to win. Once we started to win, it began to snowball. They feel like they can?t lose.

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I don't want to compare the guy to Barry Bonds, but the streak he's been on is very similar in that people aren't going to pitch to him if they don't have to.

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When we recruited him, I thought he?d be a little scrappy second baseman who would get hits, steal some bases and play some small ball.

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