He has a left foot yapping at him right now like a mean dog. But Corey Dickerson might not need a left foot the way he’s hitting.
Thursday afternoon at Coors Field, Dickerson blasted a 447-foot home run off San Diego’s Tyson Ross that rainbowed into the Padres’ bullpen in right-center field. It proved to be the go-ahead run in the Rockies’ 2-1 victory.
In two days, Dickerson has three home runs and four hits in two Rockies victories. This after he left Monday’s game early with a sore left foot that turned out to be plantar fasciitis, inflammation of the tissue in the arch of the foot.
“I’m not thinking about it when I’m hitting. I don’t think about it when I have to make a play,” Dickerson said. “I just put it in the back of my mind.”
The sore foot, Dickerson said, hurts the most when he’s standing around in the outfield. At the plate, everything is fine, he said.
Dickerson walked in the first inning Thursday, then walked home for a run on Daniel Descalso’s RBI walk. In the fifth inning, Dickerson jogged around the bases after blasting his home run on a first-pitch, two-seam fastball.
“I got ready early. And he threw a fastball that I think was meant to be farther inside,” Dickerson said. “And it came back over and I got a good swing on it. I was just trying to be on time.”
In the eighth inning, Rockies manager Walt Weiss pulled Dickerson as a precaution to rest his foot. Weiss double-switched Charlie Blackmon to left field and put Carlos Gonzalez in right field.
“With his foot,” Weiss said of Dickerson, “I felt that was the best thing to do.”
Dickerson, who led the Rockies with 24 home runs last year, has an early lead this season with five. His 13 RBIs are a team high too. And he is hitting .321.
“I wish we could have scratched out a couple more, but bottom line is we won a real tight game,” Weiss said.
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