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Frazier sets RISP issues aside with clutch hits
- Updated: August 26, 2016
CHICAGO — Todd Frazier entered Thursday’s series opener with the Mariners hitting .159 (17-for-107) with runners in scoring position this season.
It was a dismal statistic that the third baseman recently pointed to as the greatest blight on his first season in Chicago. So of course it was Frazier who emerged as the driving force in the South Siders’ 7-6 walk-off comeback win at U.S. Cellular Field.
And Frazier did the job by hitting with runners in scoring position during the seventh inning to tie the game and in the ninth to win it. These moments were especially big for Frazier after striking out in his first three at-bats.
“Like I said, you learn something,” Frazier said. “You take the last at-bat and throw it away and just keep on going. Unfortunately it took me three times to do that. To come up clutch today felt pretty good.”
“You can’t rely just on the homer. There’s more to his game than that,” said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of Frazier. “You have to be able to knock in runs when you’re not hitting them over the fence. He can use the other side of the …
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