Trey Mancini was two weeks into a dream comeback from colon cancer when hitting coach Don Long finally coaxed it out of him.
“What is making you so tight and pressing so much right now?” Long asked on the field during some early batting practice in Arlington, Texas, on the Orioles’ second road trip.
“He makes you think deeply about what the real cause of it is,” said Mancini, who had just eight hits in his first 55 plate appearances heading into that series against the Rangers in mid-April. “I said, ‘Looking up at the scoreboard and seeing a .