Mabry: No. McGwire put a focus on situational hitting as well. Situational hitting is used to score runs when you can’t otherwise produce runs. … So if we get a leadoff double — go back and look last year how many times did we ground the ball to the right side to get the runner to third. We’re trying to do that so we create a scoring opportunity. If we get a ball through the hole, it’s a bonus. At the least we want the guy at third with one out so we can get a sacrifice fly, a passed ball, an error, a chopper to the infield so that anything scores a run. Every team does this so they can create scoring opportunities. That’s the name of the game.

Mabry: Listen, in the history of the game — or in 70 years — nobody has done that. Stan Musial was hitting for us last year with runners in scoring position. Go back and look at his lifetime average (.331) and how many hits he had. It matches up pretty well. That’s the thing. You’ve got to be fair to these guys. That is what you call a “statistical outlier.” They were really, really good at what they did and they had a really, really good approach. Will it be that good again? I don’t know. … It’s not because they’re not trying the same. It’s not because the approach has changed. We’re trying to have the same quality at-bats. We have expectations on a daily basis. Today, we’re going to try to score as many runs as possible. Tomorrow, we’re going to try to get in as many runs as we can. They can come on home runs, walks, grand slams, errors, triples, people falling down — we’re trying to score runs.