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“From a chemistry standpoint, getting them back playing again is important,” Donovan said. “These guys for so many months, outside of the guys that have been injured, have been in some kind of rhythm pretty much every other day or back to back.”
“Anderson was a little behind due to a visa issue so he didn’t quite get the full spring,” Hahn said. “He came in not too dissimilar from Bennett Sousa as one of our young lefties we were excited to see in camp. Anderson’s experience in spring was a little uneven because of his late arrival perhaps. But the stuff is there, plus fastball, slider, real nice mix to keep guys off balance and dominate an AB.
“Not only are we committed to remaining at the home of Chelsea, Stamford Bridge,” Pagliuca said, “but we are inspired to renovate or redevelop the stadium. Chelsea is a world-class team, in a world-class city, with world-class fans: it deserves a world-class stadium.”
“For me, it’s just finishing the ball, finishing with the wrist at the very end and throwing it like a fastball instead of thinking changeup, which was a hard thing to get out of my head,” Kilian said. “Having a changeup is huge. A lot of hitters think that’s the best pitch in the game, so now that I actually have a decent one, I think it will make all my pitches better.”
“It’s a unique season based off of last year’s season, which was unique off of the 60-game season,” pitching coach Ethan Katz said Sunday. “Injuries are to be expected. Obviously you don’t want to deal with them or have them definitely impact the first game of the season, but our player development staff has done a great job getting guys ready to help us up here.”
Lack of size has been an obstacle for the Bulls all season, but they got by with smaller, quicker lineups when Ball was healthy. The Bulls finished 28th in rebounding (42.3 per game), while the Bucks were second (46.7). Having Brook Lopez back creates an even greater size disparity, so Donovan might have to pair Vučević and Thompson together, which doesn’t bode well for a team that’s better when the offense is in a flow instead of bogged down by two bigs.
Between his second and third errors — the Mets simply could not stop hitting the ball at him, giving him a whopping seven chances by the third inning — Bohm made a clean play. The notoriously patient Philly fans gave him a sarcastic Bronx cheer, and Bohm was caught on camera saying “I f—ing hate this place.”
“This is an unimaginable situation for BG to be in,” Engelbert said. “She continues to have our full support. Certainly we’re trying everything we can, every angle, working with her legal representation, her agent, elected leaders, the administration. Just everybody in our ecosystem to try and find ways to get her home safely and as quickly as we can.”
“I can’t say it’s over,” Contreras said after Saturday’s game. “On my part I hope it dies right there because there is a lot of talent on both teams. … Their coaching staff needs to realize that we’re human beings playing out there, and if you don’t care about other players, we don’t care about yours.”
Los Angeles wildly underachieved this season, finishing 33-49 and missing the 10-team Western Conference playoffs in a humiliating conclusion to a year that began with LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony and a veteran-laden supporting cast widely expected to contend for another championship.