WASHINGTON -- Without any evening plans upon the team's arrival in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Kolten Wong instead nestled into his Ritz-Carlton hotel room and pulled out his iPad.
On it, he can cue up video of any Major League at-bat he has ever taken. He didn't want to look at just any, however. Wong had his eyes on those he took last October, when he excelled with seven extra-base hits in eight postseason games.
"I figured I'd try to figure out something to get going," said Wong, hitting .219/.308/.281 at the time. "I have never felt as good as I did during that playoff and was trying to figure out why.