Todd Frazier reported to the batting cages at 7 a.m. Thursday for a noon game. When the contest finally got going hours later, Frazier showed some signs of life in what has been an otherwise rough month for the third baseman.
“I had to go back to the drawing board, I lost it there a little bit,” Frazier said on why he took to the cages so early before the Mets’ 4-0 win over the Padres. “I was basically swinging at everything. We talked about this earlier in the year, when I’m swinging at good pitches, usually I’m going to hit the ball hard and good things are going to happen.