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Broxton’s change in stance leads to success
- Updated: August 7, 2016
PHOENIX — Keon Broxton was lying in bed in Colorado Springs when he dreamed up the mechanical adjustment that might be saving his season. He had a habit of dropping his hands as a pitch was being delivered and was too late in returning them to a proper hitting position. So, Broxton thought, why not start those hands low and eliminate the hitch?
“I tried it in the cage the next day and off the tee, and I liked how it felt,” he said. “I took it over into BP and it felt amazing. I took it into the game, and that’s where I am today.”
He is in the Major Leagues today, and if he’d allowed himself to do so, would have spent Sunday morning basking in the first five-hit game for a rookie in Brewers history.
He also became the sixth player — rookie or otherwise — in franchise history to reach safely six times in a nine-inning game. Before Broxton’s big night, the last to do that was Geoff Jenkins in 2005.
“It’s always, to, me, what comes first, the confidence or the adjustment?” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said of Broxton’s new …
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