The questions surrounding Vernon Wells' power stroke persisted through the 2009 season and into the Winter and Spring. Wells, considered a power hitter capable of knocking in 100 runs and putting 25 or more balls over various outfield walls, but last season he only hit 15 home runs and drove in a paltry 66, his lowest totals since becoming a full-time player in 2002.
Maybe the needling from the press or the rumor mill got to Wells, because it appears he's recovered the power. In Toronto's 7-4 win at Texas Wednesday night, Wells broke a 3-3 tie with a 2-run blast in the 5th, then added an insurance run with his second homer of the night (and third of the season), a solo shot to left field.
He also scored a run in the 4th, after being hit by a pitch, and another in the seventh, coming around the bases after a one-out walk. Wells crossed the plate 4 times on his 2-for-3 night, with 3 RBI. Two games into the season, Wells is batting .714.
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Here's a batting average you don't see very often: .727, but that's what Edgar Renteria is hitting after going 5-for-5 in San Francisco's 10-2 victory at Houston. Renteria's hits were all singles, but that's probably not bothering him, because the Giants are 3-0, in first place in the NL West and leave Houston with a sweep of their season-opening series.
Renteria did score one run and drove in two. He's had 11 at-bats this season, banging out 8 hits in those trips to the plate - seven singles and one double. The Columbian-born shortstop is not unused to carrying a high batting average. In 15 seasons, he's finished four of them with an average over .300 and is a career .288 hitter.
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