The shortstop went 3-for-3 with two home runs Sunday, giving him three homers in four intrasquad games. He did one of his signature bat tosses after homering off Evan Marshall in the fourth inning. There wasn’t a bat flip when he homered off Carson Fulmer in the sixth.
“TA is absolutely picking up where he left off last year,” interim manager Joe McEwing said. “In this environment right now, the way he’s grinding out at-bats and, if he’s down in the count, getting back in the count. He’s hitting balls hard and driving them to all parts of the field on both sides.