Then you take your chances with Hill up, the bases loaded and one out. Fuld hit that on the button. That's almost always a single short of what happened happening: the infielder making a perfect leaping stab at it. You can't gamble like that's likely to happen when a single is the far more likely outcome whenever a ball is hit like that in that direction.
Possibly. He looks so edgy this at bat, and these pitches are terrible. And when he's getting stuff that he should easily destroy, and has feasted on often over his career, he's just fouling them off or hitting weak grounders.