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“He has so much talent, it’s tempting because he can hit a ball a mile, but the higher average he hits, the more RBIs and home runs he’s going to get,” La Russa said. “He works with (hitting coach) Frankie (Menechino) and Pito (Abreu). Yoán (Moncada), (bench coach) Miguel (Cairo) are staying on him too. But it’s a tough discipline and he came through today.
None of the balls was hit particularly hard, including a two-run bloop single by Wilmer Difo on which center fielder Jake Marisnick strained his right hamstring while diving for the ball. A seeing-eye, ground single to right by Todd Frazier followed, aided by the Cubs’ shift, before Vargas, playing for Báez, threw wildly to first on a routine grounder.
Williams, whom the Sky drafted with the No. 4 pick in 2018 out of Connecticut, is one of 14 players training with the French team for the EuroBasket competition June 17-27. If she makes the French Olympic roster, she would have international commitments through mid-August.
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“I was back in my room flipping around for different baseball games,” Beth Mowins said Sunday after her regular-season debut the day before. “I love listening to different people call games, seeing how they do it and trying to learn and improve. So it was a hamburger, a Manhattan and more baseball.”
“But I think that there’s so much important stuff going on, and especially the past year,” Osaka added. “I think a lot of unexpected things have happened and if it’s putting people at risk, and if it’s making people very uncomfortable, then it definitely should be a discussion, which I think it is as of right now.”
Last month, Baffert won an appeals case before the Arkansas Racing Commission, which had suspended him for 15 days for a pair of positive drug tests involving two of his horses that won at Oaklawn Park on May 2, 2020. The horses tested positive for lidocaine, a painkiller, which Baffert said they were exposed to inadvertently.
White Sox right fielder Danny Mendick, right, low-fives third-base coach Joe McEwing after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning against the Royals on Saturday in Kansas City, Mo. The Sox scored eight runs in the inning and won 9-1. (Charlie Riedel/AP)
Even though the Cubs won a division title in 2020, this is the first time in the Ross era the Cubs have looked offensively fit, even playing small ball to get the job done when necessary. Heyward walked leading off the seventh, stole second and scored on Duffy’s two-out, pinch single to short right. Heyward’s headfirst slide barely beat the throw home, and replay confirmed the call on the go-ahead run.
“You have to understand what a pitcher’s strengths are, what he’s able to land,” he said. “It’s like a chess game. You have to play along, have an idea what he’s going to do. And that’s one thing that helps me a lot, I’m always thinking about what the catcher’s going to call, what the pitcher’s feeling, and then throughout the game it could change.