PHOENIX — The skill Michael Conforto has been best at this season is probably the last one he ever hoped to master.
“To be good at dealing with a slump,” the 32-year-old veteran outfielder said, “is not something that you necessarily want.”
Then again, when you’re batting .135 on the season, have a lone single in your last 40 at-bats, and have gone a month with as many as hits as double-play grounders (seven each), there’s little else for Conforto to do right now than grit his teeth, hold up his head and believe that — some day, some how — things will finally turn around.