Florida's Brendan Lawson finds hitting stroke after visit from dad
Brendan Lawson was in the midst of an epic slump, but a visit from his dad helped Florida baseball's standout shortstop find his groove again.
Florida sophomore slugger Brendan Lawson started the college baseball season on fire, leading the Gators at the plate into the thick of the SEC schedule with a . 373 batting average and 11 home runs after 29 games. Since then, however, the shortstop has seen some struggles, with the rest of his teammates following suit a few weeks later, when Florida went through a stretch of six losses in seven games starting at the end of March.
But the dark cloud continued to hover over his head even when the team returned to its winning ways. Over 10 game appearances coming into this past weekend's series, Lawson had gone 4-for-37 (. 108) with zero RBI; reduce that to the last eight appearances, and he was 2-for-30 (.
067). During that stretch, he saw his batting average collapse from a robust . 346 all the way down to a perfectly mediocre .
283 while failing to put one over the fence. Then on Friday night, he went 1-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs; on Saturday, he went 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs; on Sunday, he went 1-for-3 with a solo homer plus a hit-by-pitch. Lawson's hitting rebounded back to where it was before and his power stroke awoke from its five-week slumber, signaling a resurgence.