Tim Anderson got here up in an enormous spot Sunday towards the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.
Facing flamethrower Jhoan Duran with two outs, Zach Remillard on third and the sport tied within the tenth, Anderson lined a run-scoring double to the hole in right-center.
While the Chicago White Sox couldn’t maintain on, shedding in 12 innings, the hit was signature Anderson.
The shortstop has had a productive second half, hitting .366 with 4 RBIs in his final 10 video games.
“Just feeling more like myself and trying to get back to what I normally do,” Anderson stated Tuesday.
He went 1-for-4 with a run in Tuesday’s 7-3 loss to the Cubs within the City Series at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Anderson has six multihit video games because the All-Star break and 9 in his final 20 video games.
“His all-around game has been better,” supervisor Pedro Grifol stated Friday in Minneapolis. “The ball is leaping off his bat. He’s been enjoying actually good protection, constant. Slowing the sport down. Runs the bases very well.
“He’s Tim Anderson. He’s human. He had a little rut there where we can talk about why he had that. I happen to think (it was) injury-related. But he’s playing good baseball right now.”
Anderson is slashing .241/.281/.283 this season with 11 doubles, one triple, 17 RBIs and 10 stolen bases in 77 video games.
He doesn’t have a house run however is displaying indicators of being the hitter who batted at the least .300 for 4 straight seasons — together with a batting title in 2019.
“It’s just a process of learning,” Anderson stated. “I’ve been learning a lot throughout this struggle. Just give it time. I can’t change it all in one game, but over the course of the rest of the season you could.”
During the funk, many questioned if the Sox would transfer Anderson out of the No. 2 spot within the batting order. Grifol caught with him.
“That’s his job, not mine,” Anderson stated. “At the end of the day, all I can do is show up and play.”
Anderson had two two-hit video games July 14-16 in Atlanta. He had three hits, one RBI and scored twice within the collection opener towards the New York Mets on July 18 at Citi Field. He had two extra hits within the collection finale July 20.
And he had an RBI single Friday, two hits and a run Saturday — when he raced dwelling as a part of a double steal — and two hits with one RBI Sunday towards the Twins.
Even with the offense, the Sox misplaced six of 9 on the journey to fall 19 video games below .500.
“It’s life,” Anderson stated of the workforce’s struggles. “Life is life and things happen. You try not to think about it too much. But we are here.”
Anderson is right here, however his title has been talked about in commerce hypothesis. His method relating to the commerce deadline has been “just play.”
“I don’t really worry about anything,” he stated. “Control what I can management and no matter occurs goes to occur anyway.
“It’s a business. That’s the part you look at. Just roll with it. Just play and see what happens.”
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