{"id":48179,"date":"2022-08-17T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-hitting-coach-on-why-teams-struggling-offensively\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T16:13:41","slug":"yankees-hitting-coach-on-why-teams-struggling-offensively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-hitting-coach-on-why-teams-struggling-offensively\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; hitting coach on why team&#8217;s struggling offensively"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Even missing what hitting coach Dillon Lawson describes as \u201cthree of our top five hitters,\u201d it still was jarring to see the Yankees&#8217; lineup shut out in back-to-back games this week, and for the third and fourth time over a 10 -day span.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson acknowledges there is \u201cno doubt\u201d that the American League leaders in runs scored have missed injured run producers Giancarlo Stanton and Matt Carpenter \u2014 and for the past few days, DJ LeMahieu \u2014 or that other slumping regulars need to pick up their absent teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think one of our biggest strengths the entire season has been the depth of the lineup.  So right now one of our biggest strengths is no longer there,\u201d Lawson said before the team-wide hitting woes continued with a 3-1 loss Tuesday to the Rays at the Stadium.  \u201cThe thing right now even when we&#8217;ve got some guys missing from the lineup, we also have some guys that are in the lineup that have performed all year that are going through their first real slumps since maybe April.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><figcaption>Yankees hitting coach Dillon Lawson<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NY Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo when you get all of that put together, we just have to continue to put our head down and push forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Aaron Hicks has been an obvious culprit for much of the season.  He was held out of Tuesday&#8217;s lineup \u2014 with MVP front-runner Aaron Judge back in center field \u2014 after a hitless game Monday night, including grounding into a 1-2-3 double play with the bases loaded in the fourth inning of a 4- 0 loss to Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson added that he believes slumping Josh Donaldson and Gleyber Torres \u201cswung the bat well\u201d on the Yankees&#8217; recent 2-7 road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Donaldson (1-for-4 Tuesday) is mired in a 3-for-25 slide with no extra-base hits or RBIs and 11 strikeouts since his four-hit game Aug.  8 in Seattle.  Torres has three hits in the past two games since halting an 0-for-22 skid Monday night.  Andrew Benintendi singled and tripled in three trips Tuesday, but he is batting .211 with a .657 OPS in 18 games following a July 27 trade from the Royals.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Judge, the MLB leader in home runs, can&#8217;t be expected to do it all for a lineup that has averaged 2.75 runs over its past 12 games \u2014 after putting up 5.4 per game over its first 105 contests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven when things were going right, we were always questioning the process.  We were still making changes to what we would do,\u201d Lawson said.  \u201cWe were still coaching, even when things were going well.  Even with Judge, with Stanton, with [Anthony] Rizzo, with DJ, still coaching them through great seasons, knowing that if it&#8217;s not right when we&#8217;re going good, it&#8217;s probably not right when we&#8217;re going bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That mindset, Lawson added, \u201cturns into panic or second-guessing,\u201d so he and manager Aaron Boone have constantly preached that the Yankees can&#8217;t \u201crest on the fact that we were winning games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it good baseball?  Is it a good process?  For us now, that gives us comfort going through this, knowing that the process is good,\u201d Lawson said.  \u201cIt allowed us to play at a high level before.  It&#8217;s constantly adjusting, not to say that we&#8217;re blind to any new changes.  There&#8217;s always a healthy sense of insecurity or paranoia, of &#8216;are we good enough?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to continue to get better.  Continue pecking away and take steps forward, even though we we have the best offense in baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even missing what hitting coach Dillon Lawson describes as \u201cthree of our top five hitters,\u201d it still was jarring to see the Yankees&#8217; lineup shut out in back-to-back games this week, and for the third and fourth time over a 10 -day span. Lawson acknowledges there is \u201cno doubt\u201d that the American League leaders in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/yankees-hitting-coach-on-why-teams-struggling-offensively\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yankees&#8217; hitting coach on why team&#8217;s struggling offensively<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[2542,4082,18577,661,1002,307],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48839,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/josh-donaldsons-grand-slam-in-10th-leads-yankees-to-comeback-win\/","url_meta":{"origin":48179,"position":0},"title":"Josh Donaldson&#8217;s grand slam in 10th leads Yankees to comeback win","date":"August 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The way the Yankees have been hitting lately, their games have largely lacked drama because their lineup has not posed much threat of a comeback. 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