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<\/center>Bottom 1<\/strong>: Austin Jackson<\/a><\/strong> called out on strikes against C.J. Wilson<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nBottom 3<\/strong>: struck out swinging against Wilson<\/p>\n Bottom 5<\/strong>: struck out swinging against Wilson<\/p>\n Bottom 7<\/strong>: struck out swinging against Koji Uehara<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Final Line<\/strong>: 0-for-4, 4 K<\/p>\n Notes<\/strong>: Jackson\u2019s golden sombrero during Game 5 of the ALCS was his second of the 2011 season, and the first by any player this postseason.<\/p>\n He has been an interesting case this postseason, as Jim Leyland continues to use him as the leadoff hitter despite his propensity to strikeout. Thus far, he has recorded a multi-strikeout game in six of the Tigers\u2019 10 postseason games, and has fanned in 18 of his 46 plate appearances \u2013 a 39.1% rate. But despite his lack of overall contact, Jackson has still posted a .311 OBP this October thanks to a walk rate of 15.2%, which is well above his career rate of 7.7%.<\/p>\n After playing in 304 regular season games for Tigers over his first two seasons, Jackson has fanned at least twice in 102 games, or 33.6% of the games he\u2019s played in. Normally such a whiff rate would discourage a manager from hitting such a player at the top of the order, but because he is the owner of a career .331 OBP and .369 BABIP, and also possesses 20+ stolen base potential, he has remained a fixture in the leadoff spot. However, due to his declining wRC+ (104 in 2010; 90 in 2011) and wOBA (.333 in 2010; .309 in 2011), perhaps Jackson would benefit from a drop in the batting order next season \u2013 or as I like to call it, the B.J. Upton<\/a><\/strong> treatment.<\/p>\n Total 2011 Golden Sombreros<\/strong>: 124<\/p>\n Total 2011 Postseason Golden Sombreros<\/strong>: 1 Bottom 1: Austin Jackson called out on strikes against C.J. Wilson Bottom 3: struck out swinging against Wilson Bottom 5: struck out swinging against Wilson Bottom 7: struck out swinging against Koji Uehara Final Line: 0-for-4, 4 K Notes: Jackson\u2019s golden sombrero during Game 5 of the ALCS was his second of the 2011 season, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1300,2034,6,16,11,13,14],"tags":[1026,174,2806,2390,620,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5143\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegoldensombrero.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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