Kansas City, Mo. – Niko Goodrum is in quicksand.
Not literally, of course. But he has dug himself such a rut at the plate that the harder he tries to spin out of it, the deeper he seems to sink – as if he was in quicksand.
“When you go through one of these things, you want to hit so bad, you really want to have success,” Goodrum said before the game Thursday. “And at times that leads you away from swinging at strikes. You are just trying to make something happen. You are so eager to make something happen and get yourself going, you get outside the strike zone and you don’t swing at good pitches.