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“That’s one of those keys, to continue to pitch into the ballgame, get us some more outs, especially in today’s (doubleheader),” manager David Ross said. “It was nice for him to settle in and still give us some outs after that, but things happen quick, especially here (in the majors) sometimes, and he settled in nicely and definitely locked it back in. It was nice to see.”

“Even brought the curveball out a few times,” Giolito said. “But it was more the sequencing. I was able to get swing and miss on the changeup when I would show that elevated heater, or leave it at the top of the zone and get the swing and miss on the slider when I’m working that slider away, away, away, or pop one in or when the fastball’s down, I can use the slider off that.

“It gets to be a point in camp where you’re tired of going against each other, battling with one another, and you get a chance to take a break and go against somebody new,” Dalton said. “For us, we’ve been going against our defense the whole time. All right, now you get a few days to see a different defense, see how they’re playing certain things.”

This March 21, 2021 photo shows a leasing sing is displayed outside of residential building in Des Plaines, Ill. Things are looking up for owners of big apartment communities more than a year after the pandemic knocked the economy into a recession and left millions of Americans unemployed. Rents are rising amid strong demand as U.S. home prices push ever higher. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) (Nam Y. Huh/AP)

In this photo provided by Jason Adam Photography, Shari DiBrito, the New Jersey regional director for the nonprofit Lasagna Love, holds a lasagna on May 1, 2021, at her niece’s house in Wayne, N.J. The grassroots nonprofit organization offering Americans free lasagnas recently surpassed its 100,000 lasagna delivery mark. Lasagna Love has been sharing the meals with Americans struggling with financial and other challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Jason Adam Photography via AP) (AP)