Giants rally late and mining for nuggets of gold

4/22/13: Giants rally late and walk off in the ninth

These highlights are from earlier in the week but watching three of Posey's AB's and Belt's walk-off demonstrates the quality that should make both great hitters for a long, long time -- the ability to hit the ball hard the other way. You watch these games and baseball TV shows and sometimes you have to watch the entire 2-3 hours of mundane, sometimes uneventful activity in order to mine the 2-3 minutes of golden nuggets you are looking for.  

Posey crushes two to the opposite field and another HR to dead center. Belt's game-ender goes the other way. 

I was watching the Showtime series "The Franchise" the other day, which chronicled the Giants 2011 season. During the show, Carlos Beltran is in the cage with some of the other Giants -- Sandoval and Torres I think -- and he gave probably the best two minute hitting clinic I think I've ever seen. 

One of the things he mentioned was "in the cage, hit everything the other way". Great advice. He said during the game, your reaction will kick in and you will pull the ball. 

Here it is. From the 10 minute to 12 minute mark. It sounds really great in Spanish too, BTW. Thank God there are sub-titles. Great stuff. 

The Franchise: Episode 5 FULL LENGTH