NEW YORK — Mookie Betts has a simple philosophy about hitting.
“Can’t find it if you’re not looking,” he says.
For Betts, that search means taking hundreds of swings a day when he feels he’s not contributing the way he should. At various times this postseason – which began with him mired in an 0-for-22 postseason slump that weighed heavily on his mind – he has referred to taking anywhere from “a couple hundred swings a day” to 500 swings in one day.
Do the math.
A conservative...