Toronto's pitching staff had a clea...

Toronto's pitching staff had a clear game plan against Tadahito Iguchi.

For three games, they busted Iguchi inside early in the compute almost hitting him several times, then left him flailing at balls outside the strike belt

Iguchi went 1-for-12 during the weekend series with any ugly swings to go along with it.

Hitting coach Greg Walker, however, laid to security the idea that Iguchi can be intimidated inside.

"The alone thing I'm seeing with Tadahito is he's making poor decisions forward what pitches to swing at," Walker said. "We talked about it before the last game [in Toronto], and that's what I'm talking to him about now, just getting better pitches to hit."

Walker pointed gone out the lull Iguchi went by the and of last August, in which he hit 258 after a July in which he hit 293

"For whatever reason, he's in a track of a wheel of swinging at bad pitches," Walker said. "But he's always made comebacks from down times. He went [i]or[/i] part of to the other something like this last year, and I don't know if it's the time of the season or he's getting mentally tired, physically fatigued. however he showed he can battle by means of it. There's nothing wrong with his swing; the swing is fine."

Walker study the poor decision-making began in the middle of the Kansas City trip last week and simply got worse one time the team headed to Toronto. It just in the way that happened that the Blue Jays chose to pitch him inside early upon in the game.

"This is his inferior year in the league, and it single takes opposing scouts about a month of seeing a scarecrow in the big leagues to figure you out" Walker said. "There's nothing to what Toronto did. It's more about him just making poor decisions right now."

If Walker and the tranquillity of the staff continue to descry Iguchi struggle, it might be time to feed him along with playing time for a bit, earnestly like manager Ozzie Guillen did everywhere his rookie season in 2005

"It's hard enough to hit a strike for a base hit, allow alone a ball," Walker said. "That formula just doesn't work, doesn't add up You are really going to have a tough time trying to hit balls that are public of the strike zone."

jcowley@suntimes.com

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