JaCoby Jones needed that belt-high fastball from Lance Lynn late in Thursday afternoon’s 3-1 win over the Minnesota Twins and he needed to hit it as hard as he could, as far as he could.
“I know I can do it,” he said. “Because earlier in the season, I was getting my walks, not chasing pitches in the dirt, swinging at high pitches. I wasn’t really doing that so here, lately, I’ve been doing that.”
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But this pitch, he would not miss.
“Luckily,” Jones said, “He threw a pitch over the plate and I crushed it.