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In the fifth inning, Patrick Wisdom worked a 3-2 count and 15-pitch at bat before singling on a hard-hit one-hopper that gave shortstop Miguel Rojas trouble. It tied Jon Jay’s single off Milwaukee’s Brandon Woodruff on Sept. 22, 2017, for the longest Cubs at-bat to end with a hit since at least 1988.
Schwarber’s third homer followed a pinch-hit double by Gerardo Parra, a 34-year-old fan favorite who returned to the Nationals on Sunday when his contract was selected from Triple-A Rochester. Parra’s walkup music of the children’s song “Baby Shark” became a theme of the Nationals’ run to the 2019 World Series title, and it sounded before his at-bat to the crowd’s delight.
“We certainly believe we’ll bounce out of it, but it’s a time where we need to do those smaller things, work at bats, work walks, get guys over,” Sogard said after Saturday’s game. “Do a little small ball compared to relying on the home run all the time. We’ve got to find other ways to win than just by the long ball.”
Under the new policy, vaccinated players will also no longer be required to wear masks at the team’s facility or during team travel. They will have no travel restrictions, can use the sauna/steam room and weight room without capacity limits, and can interact with vaccinated friends and family during team travel.
But slowly, his company began requiring employees to come back into the office — first for two days a week, then three, then four. With so many people commuting to work in their cars, his trip from his home in Mamaroneck, New York, to the middle of Long Island could stretch to two hours each way, leaving him little time for his pastimes.
“We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion, and by men in striped uniform. We didn’t know it at the time, but the men in uniform were the Jews who were brought there before us. They were called ‘Kanada,’ which I found out later. Their job was to empty the train. One of those men saved my life,” she said in 1990.
Temperatures on Sunday, Father’s Day, will stay in the high 80s and low 90s, but will cool down early next week with lingering rain and thunderstorms southeast of the city, Ogorek said. Monday has the greatest chance of rain, with high temperatures in the 70s and lows in the 50s, according to the weather service.
A 29-year-old man had been driving a Polaris Slingshot AutoCycle — a low-riding vehicle that combines aspects of a motorcycle and an automobile, such as two seats, a steering wheel and seat belts, but no roof or air bags, according to Polaris — around 2:40 a.m. in the 400 block of South Homan Avenue in Homan Square on the West Side, police said.
Mensah, who is Black, joined the Wauwatosa Police Department in 2015, the same year he shot and killed Antonio Gonzales, who identified as a Latino and American Indian. Prosecutors said Gonzales refused to drop a sword. The Anderson shooting came the following year.
Athletes will be tested daily in the village, after being tested at least twice before leaving home, and again upon arrival. Any test anomaly in the village could land athletes or staff in the hands of Dr. Tetsuya Miyamoto, senior director of the Medical Services Department for the organizing committee.