Toronto Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo could tell Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was locked in at the plate as he powered balls out of the park during batting practice Tuesday afternoon. But the Toronto Blue Jays slugger wasn’t satisfied, not with the way he reached for the baseball and pulled the ball.
“He said, ‘No, I’ve got to get back to hitting the ball up the middle,’” Montoyo recalled Guerrero Jr. saying after that hitting session. So when Guerrero Jr. stepped into the box for his second at-bat against Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer and saw the slider left hanging, Guerrero Jr.