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White Sox's Todd Frazier: Drives in three, including walkoff winner

Frazier went 2-for-5 with three RBI on Thursday against Seattle, including the game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth.

Analysis:

The beginning of this game didn't go so well for the slugging third baseman, who struck out in his first three at-bats. However with the White Sox down by a 6-4 tally in the seventh, Frazier went to work -- first smacking a two-run single to tie the game, then driving Adam Eaton home for the second time two innings later to end it. His 31 homers and 80 RBI provide plenty of fantasy value but Frazier's struggled mightily to hit for average this year, as he's sitting on a career-worst .211 mark. Part of that has to do with a brutally low .214 BABIP, but Frazier's earned that ostensibly bad luck -- he's striking out at a career-high rate, his line-drive rate is a career low by far and his hard-hit rate is down from the past three seasons. He's hitting the ball in the air almost half the time he comes to the plate and his pop-up rate is just as high as his HR/FB. That basically adds up to a clinic on how not to hit for average.

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