Trent Grisham has doubles in each of his last two games, signs that the Padres’ Gold Glove center fielder is beginning to round back into form despite hitting .143 in 13 games since his return from the injured list.
The 24-year-old has likened the slow restart to “getting back into the flow of things.”
Make sense.
He missed nearly three weeks of action to his left heel bruise.
Whatever impact the time off had on his rhythm and timing at the plate, and not much if you ask Grisham, his strike-zone discipline has remained an asset.
Heading into Saturday’s game, Grisham has walked five times in his last 49 plate appearances, 10.2-percent walk rate that isn’t all that far off his season numbers (11.3 percent).
Grisham’s bases-loaded walk in the eighth inning Wednesday provided the go-ahead run, helping secure a sweep of the Dodgers.
“You can’t always be ‘on’ 100 percent of the time,” Grisham said. “To have that discipline in your back pocket, to know I can put together a good AB at any time, yeah, it’s prideful for me to know that I am giving a good at-bat no matter what happens.”
The ability to do those types of things is one reason the Padres had no hesitation activating him after just two rehab games with Triple-A El Paso, although he has slid down the order since first rejoining the team in New York.
Grisham spent six of his first seven games back in the lineup in the first three spots in the order. While the Padres continue to envision him as an upper-third-type bat, dropping him down to the sixth and seventh spots — where he’s spent the last five games — is a function of both continuing with the hot hands up top (Tommy Pham and Jake Cronenworth), as well as the team viewing many of their parts as interchangeable.
Cronenworth, for instance, was dropped to seventh briefly upon Grisham’s return before his current hot streak forced him back into the three-hole.
Before long, Grisham figures to find himself setting the table again.
Either way, what he does in the box is boon for the lineup, even when the hits aren’t falling.
“What’s helped our offense,” Padres manager Jayce Tingler said, “has been strengthening or the depth of it at the bottom. Being able to have some quality at-bats or some hard outs really lengthens the whole thing. … Just because right now Grisham has been in the six-, seven-spot doesn’t mean this is what we’re doing the rest of the way. It just means this is how we’re flowing right now.”
Notable
- LHP Drew Pomeranz threw an inning of live batting practice before Saturday’s game, his second session in his push to return from the shoulder/lat injury that has sidelined him since his last inning of work on May 9. He is nearing a rehab assignment, likely with Triple-A El Paso. “We’ll see how he finishes up in the training room, but he looks really good, form his pitches — fastball, curveball, all those things,” Tingler said. “We’ll see how tomorrow looks and go from there.”
- After a light bullpen session on Friday, RHP Pierce Johnson (triceps) is expected to ramp up the intensity in a bullpen before Sunday’s game.
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