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Known for glove, Kiermaier delivers with bat
- Updated: April 20, 2016
BOSTON — Like most of the Rays’ offense, Kevin Kiermaier wasn’t enjoying a productive night when he stepped to the plate to lead off the 10th inning facing Red Sox reliever Matt Barnes.
Rays hitters would fan 13 times in an eventual 3-0 victory, and Kiermaier had been a strikeout victim while going 0-for-3 to that point of the game.
“I was just wanting to have a good at-bat right there,” Kiermaier said. “I was just trying to get on base. Early in the count, I tried to lift the ball a little bit. … I chased a fastball about eight inches outside. I need to chill out a little …
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