Manny Machado returns to hard-hitting ways at home

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Just when it looked like Baltimore Orioles third baseman Manny Machado had cooled off, he revved it back up again.

Machado snapped his 0-for-17 slump with an RBI double and also hit his second career grand slam in the Orioles’ win over the White Sox.

Machado was someone who needed a return home in a big way. He’s now hitting .459 (17-for-37) with five home runs and 13 RBIs in nine games at Camden Yards this season.

Both hits came on the two pitches he saw that fall into our “middle-middle” definition (a pitch over the middle-third of the plate, both width-wise and height-wise)—the kinds of pitches that most often get hit hard.

It was inevitable that Machado’s brief skid was going to end. Machado was missing on pitches …

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