Practice added for Sunday (June 28)

Everyone,
The Braves will practice Sunday at the usual 4 to 5:30 p.m. time.
The practice will be at Atwater School in Shorewood (unless you hear differently from us).
We worked mostly on team defense at Thursday's practice. Whenever a player on the other team hits a ball EVERYONE on the Braves needs to be moving either into fielding position or to a spot where he is backing up someone else. We worked on that a lot, with pretty good results.
The other thing we worked on last night was short flies to the outfield. Results weren't so good there, largely because our outfielders were hesitant to call off infielders who were aggressively going for over-the-shoulder catches (none of which they made). We've had way too many catchable balls drop in for hits in the past few games. Outfielders need to take charge on these kinds of plays; the play is in front of them, after all.
Overall, it was a good practice. When he was playing third base, Jack K. did a wonderful job of keeping his body in front of ground balls. A couple of hot smashes slammed into his legs, so I suspect he has a bruise or two today. But he stayed in the game, and hit very well in our traditional end-of-practice scrimmage.
Dave