Jesse Winker Hits His First Homer

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MILWAUKEE – It was 3 1/2 hours before first pitch Tuesday at American Family Field, and Brewers hitting coach Ozzie Timmons was feeding baseball after baseball into the pitching machine.

On the other end of those fastballs was Jesse Winker, the former All-Star who is more than a year into the deepest hitting slump of his baseball life. His comeback, Winker said, has to start somewhere. He started by focusing on fastballs.

When he connected with one during the Brewers’ come-from-behind 7-5 victory over the D-backs, it wasn’t only a weight off Winker. As he celebrated his first home run in his 140th Brewers plate appearance by spreading his arms wide to receive the home run cheesehead, teammates appeared just as elated.

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Maybe it was the beginning of the end of his funk.

“This is new for me,” Winker said hours earlier, wearing a tank top and wiping sweat from his forehead after his pregame hitting session. “It’s really the last year or year and a half that this is going on. But it’s baseball. I know nobody wants to hear that, but it is. And it’s my job to keep working, to keep grinding away at it. I’m not the last hitter who is going to go through something like this.”

He added, “I believe in myself.”

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