Does this look like the face of the most intimidating hitter in baseball? When you think of dangerous hitters in the game today, the names that first come to mind are Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez and Josh Hamilton. But, as of today the batter putting the most fear into opposing pitchers is Jed Lowrie. All 6′ 180 lbs of him has been terrifying teams since the end of last year. The man who stands at the plate wearing a helmet that resembles that of a little leaguer is driving teams crazy and powering the Sox right up the standings.
Lowrie has more hits than both the one hundred million dollar men, Adrian Gonzalez and Carl Crawford with almost half the plate appearances. How much do you want to bet that the management teams of the Oakland Athletics and Los Angeles Angeles are sitting in their war rooms this week trying to figure out how to stop the hot hitting shortstop, more than they are for Gonzalez or Ortiz?
He will be riding a 7 game hitting streak as the Sox prepare to play the A’s tonight. In those 7 games, Lowrie has 15 hits in 24 at bats for a avg of .625, not to bad for a player that was sitting on the bench as the Sox limped to a 0-6 start. We the fans thought that Lowrie should have been the starting shortstop right out of spring training. I guess once in awhile we get things right.
Lowrie is playing out of his mind, clutch hit after clutch hit. Getting hits with runners in scoring position, the one thing that no one in this lineup has been able to do consistently all year. Lowrie will go into tonight’s game tied for second on the team in home runs and tied for first with RBI’s.
When MLB starts to hand out the All-Star ballots for 2011, bypass the names of Derek Jeter and Elvis Andrusand write in Jed Lowrie. May not be the most popular vote but thus far the most deserving.
We have all seen the signs “Don’t feed the Bears” , maybe opposing teams should have signs in their dugouts “Don’t pitch to Lowrie”
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