SAN FRANCISCO — Launch angle? Sure, Joe Panik was proud of the trajectory on his third home run of the season, against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday.
Not so much with the ball, but with his bat toss.
“Yeah, good distance,” Panik said, tongue in cheek. “I joked to Buster (Posey) because that was one of those things that he always does.”
Other than the bat toss, the Giants’ surprising slugger has little interest in discussing launch angle, the latest rage around batting cages these days.
Across the game, players are recalibrating their strokes with more of an upward plane.