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Well, Bautista was either being held back or held up by Beltré. Either way he wasn’t struggling too much. I think Beltré did everyone involved a favor there.

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Notice that Bautista respects Beltré enough, even as an opponent, that he let him completely control him. Beltré is widely respected, and I've always loved Beltré, since he came up with my Dodgers. He's well on his way to the Hall of Fame--he'll finish as a Gold Glove 3B with 450 HR and 3,200 hits.

Interesting note about him: his greatest year was when he hit 48 homers for the Dodgers in 2004, which is many more than he's hit in any other season (otherwise, his career high is 36). He's always been more of a line-drive hitter, except that one year. The reason he hit so many in '04 was an injury: he hurt his leg, which made it difficult to transfer his weight to his left side during his swings. As a result, he hung back more on his right side, which caused him to uppercut more than usually, and so 48 balls went out of the yard. He parlayed that year into a big free-agent signing with the Mariners, and 3B hasn't been right with the Dodgers since.