LOS ANGELES – For stretches this season, the Diamondbacks’ Chris Owings couldn’t keep the thought from entering his mind, especially on occasions when he’d hit balls hard and have nothing to show for it.
“You can be up here in some of those stretches and it’s just like, ‘Man, am I ever going to get a hit again?’” Owings said. “I felt like I was having good at-bats when I was here. Just the results weren’t there.”
The way he sees it, the best thing to come from the month he spent following a demotion to Triple-A Reno is the realization that, yes, he can still hit and, yes, he hasn’t lost his ability to play the game at the highest level.