How Hanley Saved Cody's Butt

            ATLANTA -- Here's a bit of inside information, and do we mean inside. Cody Ross is wearing a round badge on his left rump, courtesy of a Peter Moylan pitch that struck him there last night.

            But here's the catch: the circular welt isn't the imprint left by the baseball, but an empty can of Skoal put in his back pocket just before the at bat. According to Ross, Hanley Ramirez handed him the empty can just before his seventh-inning at bat and told him to put it in his back pocket for good luck.

            The reason: Ramirez thought it would help cure Ross of his hitting slump.

            "You know how baseball is," Ross said. "You'll do anything to get going."

            Ross doesn't dip. But he's happy the can was in the right place at the right time.

            "It kind of pinched when the ball hit," Ross said. "When I got to first, I thought to myself, 'This doesn't hurt as much as it should.'"

            And Ross broke out of his slump in the ninth by driving in his first run of the season with a single.

            I guess you could say that Ramirez had Ross' back covered.

           

Comments

[Category5cane]

Hell it works,Cody went 3-3 today with a jack and 4 RBIs

[arg]

And ROss just went 3-3 with a homer today. I never thought tobacco was lucky,but the world never ceases to amaze me.

[arg]

BTW, just so everyone knows what to do.....buy some skoal, through out the crap on the inside and whenever Ross gets a hit, chuck an empty SKoal can onto the field during games. They don't have delay of game penalties like they do in hockey for chucking rats.