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Binoculars and mobile phone cameras were pointed at the batter’s box.

Ohtani flung his bat as he trotted out of the batter’s box.

Some of Kim’s adjustments will come well before he steps into the batter’s box — they’ll come in the video room and in meetings with coaches and members of the analytics staff.

“How to make sure the game doesn’t get big on you, that it doesn’t speed up on you. How to attack the hitters, knowing who’s in the batter’s box, who’s on deck, who’s in the hole, knowing your strengths, knowing the batters’ strengths, when not to worry about the base runners … a lot of things.”

Freeman said he ran into one fan in Orange County this winter “who had a fresh tattoo of me holding up my bat,” the iconic pose Freeman struck as he left the batter’s box and his grand slam soared into the right-center field seats.