Ken Griffey Jr. put on a show during a situational hitting drill, a few minutes ago leaving his teammates talking and, of course, Junior too.
“I don’t even know the signs,” Griffey said to a few writers behind the batting cage. “By the way, y’all missed me didn’t you?”
Then he pulled on a helmet — ear flap on the wrong side — and lined a double down the right-field line.
“Auto pilot,” he boasted.
When he came to bat again, he lined a double ON the right-field line.
“Dude, I told you this was on auto pilot,” he said again.
His third at-bat, Griffey bounced a grounder foul to the right side and popped a foul to the left side, then went back to auto pilot. He smoked a ball that short-hopped the fence in right-center field.
“Triple!” Sweeney shouted.
Griffey corrected him.
“Double,” he said. “Like my daddy said, ‘You can’t lead the league in doubles if you hit triples.”
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