TORONTO — Some ballplayers can see the future. It’s more of a feeling, really, like an old farmer who knows that Friday will bring rain because he has that sore feeling in his knuckles again. Each hitter hints in his own way, and for great hitters, those hints are more accurate than any meteorologist. Bo Bichette’s effortless two-run home run swing changed Tuesday night’s 5-3 win over the Mariners at Rogers Centre in an instant, but that swing had been building for days.
In Bichette’s early years, former manager Charlie Montoyo used to look for hard foul balls to the opposite field. Once Bichette slapped a few line drives over the first-base coach’s head, thunder would begin to rumble in the distance as the bright strike neared. This season, Bichette started off 3-for-25 (.120) through his first six games. Bichette didn’t look good, but neither did anyone else. That takes us up through the Rays and Astros, a no-hit loss and an early, uneasy feeling about this offense. Then, the winds started to change.
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