Fightin Phils' Walding goes deep twice again

Mitch Walding was elated after the first two-homer game of his career on Thursday, so he went ahead and did it again on Friday.
"Anytime you hit a homer, it feels good. But multi-homer games are definitely sweeter," Walding said.
The Phillies prospect drilled a pair of solo shots in Double-A Reading's 4-3 loss to Akron at Canal Park. One day earlier, the 24-year-old went deep twice and drove in four in a 13-inning win over Portland. 

"Right now, I feel good at the plate," Walding said. "I feel more zoned-in on the pitches I want to attack and I feel the ability to go after the pitches in certain zones I want to right now. I'm also having more consistent at-bats, and when you have consistent at-bats, hopefully good things happen."
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Walding got Reading on the board in the second when he took an 0-1 offering from left-hander Luis Lugo over the center-field fence to tie the score, 1-1. 
"We have charts on certain pitches and I was just looking for a fastball early in the count over the plate," Walding said. "He gave me a fastball kind of down the middle and I just took it right back to the same way he threw it and hit it out to dead center."
After grounding out to second base in the third, the Lodi, California, native belted an 0-2 breaking ball from Lugo over the right-field wall in the fifth.
"It kind of just happened fast," Walding said of his 10th homer of the season. "I guess you don't really realize what you're doing when you're doing it. I'm not going up there trying to hit the ball out of the ballpark, it's just one of those things where you put a good swing on a ball, it just goes."
Walding has three home runs against southpaws this year, matching his total off left-handers across two levels last season.
"I got a lot of at-bats in the Arizona Fall League this offseason against lefties, so I think that helped me out a little bit," Walding said, "but right now I'm just feeling good at the plate -- doesn't matter if it's against a righty or lefty. And when you're feeling good, you can hit anything, it seems like."
The 2011 fifth-round pick grounded into a double play in the eighth. Still, Walding is batting .282 over his last 10 games to raise his average on the season 26 points to .204.

"I think it just all had to do with standing up a little bit taller at the plate, that was the only physical change," the third baseman said. "Just basically trying to feel free in my swing. I think sometimes hitters can try to do too much, they get tense and muscles tighten up or something. I just try to go up there and just be easy and stay in rhythm with the pitcher right now, just trying to simplify things."
Akron's Joe Sever hit a solo homer off Shane Watson (2-4) in the second that snapped a 1-1 tie. Eric Haase's solo blast off Watson in the fifth capped the scoring. 
Lugo (4-2) allowed three runs on seven hits with four walks and two strikeouts over five innings, while Perci Garner and Cameron Hill each tossed two scoreless frames for the RubberDucks.