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“He threw me a first-pitch breaking ball up for a ball, and I was just sitting dead red heater because I didn’t think he was locating that off-speed all that well,” Eaton said. “I got a pitch in the middle of the barrel, and like I said, it just thrills me to be able to help the team win.”
“You really have to step forward and make an effort, just as in anything, and say, ‘I need help with A, B, C and D,’ and talk to someone. I think that’s so important to have a sounding board, whether it’s someone at the WTA, or someone in your life, or maybe it’s someone you talk to on a weekly basis.
Stripped of politicians and candy tossing, the event took on a solemn feel that moved both spectators and participants. Naperville native Patti Brown, whose brother, John Luebke, was killed in Vietnam, said she was touched by the turnout as she rode the parade route with other Gold Star families whose relatives died in service to their country.
“That (1983) staff really came together, especially in the second half of the season,” La Russa recalled last week. “It’s a different-looking staff. That staff was really young: Hoyt, Dotson, Burns. Here you have three established veterans that are really, really helpful. They’re great mentors and leaders. Then you’ve got the two young starters that are there now (Giolito and Cease) and Kopech, who can feed off that. And then you’ve got the young relievers and a veteran like Liam (Hendriks).
Illinois is in line to receive $8.1 billion in relief from President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, but the latest budget proposal calls for spending only a portion of that, with $1 billion to be used for infrastructure projects. The other $1.5 billion would be used for programs such as business relief, violence prevention and affordable housing, Rep. Greg Harris of Chicago, the House Democratic majority leader, said during a committee hearing Monday before the spending plan was sent to the House floor on a party-line vote.
The group will have roughly two dozen members, including domestic abuse survivors, law-enforcement officials and legal experts, according to the bill. The move will allow the state to take a comprehensive look at its domestic violence laws, which have been written in a piecemeal fashion for decades, said Republican Rep. David Welter of Morris, the measure’s chief sponsor.
Republicans asked why Democrats were moving the primary date for only 2022. In his answer, sponsoring state Rep. Maurice West, a Rockford Democrat, didn’t say anything about the congressional map, instead noting that “the state has always had a really long window between the primary and the general, which makes the political season long and risky and negatively affecting public policymaking.”
“The way it’s turned out, the experience they’ve had (in the bullpen), I don’t hesitate. It’s just who’s available that day,” La Russa said before Monday’s doubleheader. “José Ruiz has done really well. I don’t know anybody that (I) would hesitate to put in a one-run game with the lead in the last third. It really comes down to availability.”
Tennis players are required to attend news conferences if requested to do so. The maximum fine of $20,000, of course, is not a big deal to Osaka, the world’s highest-earning female athlete thanks to endorsement contracts totaling tens of millions of dollars.
Stewart signed a free-agent deal with the Cubs in the offseason. He’s appeared in 17 big-league games, including six starts, all with the Minnesota Twins from 2018-19. Stewart became the choice to start Monday because he is adequately stretched out and should help avoid taxing the bullpen. He’s pitched at least five innings in each of his four starts with Iowa this season.