11.   A hitting coach or a pitching coach or a manager is trying to get these guys focused and positive.

12.   About three weeks later they wanted me to be the hitting coach.

13.   After one changeup, confounding even though Martinez announced in advance he was throwing it, hitting coach Jim Rice laughed.

14.   But a conversation with the center fielder convinced hitting coach Gerald Perry that no problem existed.

15.   But hitting coach Jesse Barfield senses the end of an August drought.

16.   But his hitting coach, for one, noticed a difference in his effort.

17.   But Raines, the hitting coach Chris Chambliss and manager Joe Torre do not want him to sacrifice his aggressiveness at the plate merely to decrease his strikeout total.

18.   But the Cubs got their first sign of hope Monday afternoon against the Braves, the team Baylor spent his yearlong managing hiatus with as the hitting coach.

19.   Chris Chambliss, the hitting coach, may be fired after the season, regardless of whether the Yankees win the World Series.

20.   Dave Parker, once a long-ball hitter of note who is now the hitting coach of the Cardinals, polled Willie Stargell, his former Pirates teammate.