Billy Hamilton Evades Tag You Can't Coach This

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Billy Hamilton has shown uncanny instincts for baseball this season.

In just his second full year as a switch hitter and his second full year as a centerfielder, converted from shortstop, Hamilton is closing in hitting a season high .285 and played Gold Glove centerfield.

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He leads his older, more experienced teammates with a .357 average with runners in scoring position.

All of that aside this play in which Hamilton turned a bad bunt into a single illustrates those instincts.



The irony is announcer Thom Brenamann pronouced it an easy out an instant before Hamilton turned it into a single.  It teaches us all lessons about not making assumptions.  Hamilton was just not ready to head for the bench.  That could wait a couple pitches later when he scored from first on Zack Cozart's double.

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