Lazy Sunday

It was pretty much more of the same today. A very crisp infield practice, baserunning, "live" batting practice and regular BP. The same players were on the main field again today, except that Andres Torres replaced Jesus Guzman in the final group for regular BP.

During "live" BP, the 2nd & 3rd groups made a bunch more contact than the last couple of days, even though line drives were still few and far between. The first group; Randy Winn, Edgar Renteria, Eli Whiteside, Fred Lewis and Rich Aurilia; continued to do a lot of tracking and got in very few swings. I believe Fred Lewis got the only ball out of the batting cage against Matt Cain and Jeremy Affeldt....and that was a groundball up the middle. No long balls were hit today during "live" BP.

I don't know if they tired themselves out with all the HRs yesterday or what, but during regular BP, very little power was on display today. The total number of hard hit balls was about the same, but only Aurilia, Josh Phelps, Kevin Frandsen, Buster Posey and Lewis (who hit 2) managed to get the ball over the fence. After a poor showing yesterday Posey was back on the ball, again driving line drive after line drive all over the field. Interestingly, after every turn in the cage, Posey walked over to Carney Lansford and checked with him. There were a lot of smiles and head shaking going on as Posey described what he was doing in the cage. We just might have ourselves a batting coach folks. Pablo Sandoval again drove the ball well, he just didn't get any out of the park. Frandsen also continued to hit the ball with authority.

For some reason, almost everyone of my action shots today were out of focus. I don't have any idea why....but that's the reason most of the photos posted today are either non-action photos or photos of relatively slow action. It's also the reason there aren't as many photos posted as usual.