DENVER — Rockies outfielder Randal Grichuk detailed his routine — at least this weekend — for overcoming a slump prior to Sunday afternoon’s crazy 8-7 loss to the Royals at Coors Field.
It involved hitting in the batting cage, off a machine, with a coach’s arm behind it to give him the timing that would come with a pitcher’s arm releasing the ball. Grichuk did all this on Saturday, wearing his new prescription athletic glasses. Grichuk, who was fitted a little more than a week ago with new eyeglasses, had endured an 0-for-16 run.
“I don’t want to make an excuse, but vision-wise with the glasses, I’m trying to get the depth perception down,” Grichuk said. “And it’s gotten better.”
But as he spoke, Grichuk tilted his head back and squeezed in eye drops — but the glasses weren’t in the way. He was wearing contact lenses — notable because the inconsistent fit of his contacts led him to try glasses. But this was a practical change.
“Day game with the sun — it’ll be tough to see in the outfield with no glasses,” Grichuk said. “It’s tough to see with sunglasses, so I couldn’t imagine without them. And I don’t know if they make flip-downs with these regular glasses.”
The un-spectacled, contact lens-wearing Grichuk ended his slump, which had reached 18 at-bats, in the seventh with a game-tying two-run single as part of the Rockies’ season-high seven-run inning.
“A lot of guys had two strikes with their base hits, and it just showed us…
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