PHILADELPHIA -- It is often said that baseball is a game of adjustments. Players must constantly react to the game -- they way they are being pitched or defended, for example -- and find their own way out of slumps and bunched failures.
Not John Jaso.
Jaso, the Pirates utilityman, began the season 0-for-18. His first hit didn't come until April 19 when he went 2-for-3 with a walk and two singles.
"It was slow. It was hard," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said of Jaso's start. "It seemed like a start I probably had a couple of times.