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Article: Barmes repays Rockies' faith
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- July 26, 2006
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DENVER - The Colorado Rockies' patience with Clint Barmes has paid
off because Barmes' patience at the plate has paid off.
The times are few that a major league team will allow a young
player to trudge through the depression of an extended slump without
intervention. But that's what the Rockies did. Barmes batted .116
through 25 games in May. He increased that to a meager .234 in June.
Impatience was Barmes' master when the reverse should've been
true. If it was a pitch, Barmes liked it.
"I was trying to get a hit on every pitch," Barmes said. "I'd jump
on it, and it didn't take long for everybody to know that."
Pitchers didn't have to throw Barmes strikes. Just throw the ball -
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