Maybe Eloy Jiménez is improving defensively in left field.
But it’s undoubtedly tough to figure out whether that’s the case or not when he does the kind of thing that happened in the fifth inning Thursday night.
Christian Yelich lifted a fly ball to left field, near the foul line. He might have thought it was foul because he wasn’t moving very fast out of the batter’s box or down the first-base line. Jiménez came over to try to make a play and very much didn’t. The ball dropped past his outstretched arm, and unable to slow himself down, he went tumbling into the netting and into the seats while the ball rolled around in the outfield and Yelich motored around the bases for an inside-the-park home run.