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“I’ve had a three-hour rain delay before,” he said. “You’ve got to deal with the circumstances and everybody was dealing with the same thing. (Royals starter Carlos) Hernández had been pitching really well for them and I knew I had to be pretty good, so warming up felt great and then the first inning was pretty good, just couldn’t replicate it from then on out.”
The Green Bay Packers, who have won the division seven of the last 10 seasons, are the favorites once again, but the future of quarterback Aaron Rodgers hangs over the franchise. A back injury has sidelined outside linebacker Za’Darius Smith, arguably the most disruptive player in the front seven, and left tackle David Bahtiari is on the physically unable to perform list, so he will miss at least the first six weeks.
Hunter Johnson threw for 283 yards and three touchdowns in his first start for Northwestern since 2019. With Peyton Ramsey starting, Johnson played in two games last season and did not attempt a pass. Johnson beat out former South Carolina starter Ryan Hilinski and senior Andrew Marty for the job this season.
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Osaka, who left the court after seven games to change outfits and put on a highlighter-yellow dress, was quite good down the stretch in the opening set. She grabbed 12 of the last 13 points, including the last nine, with a break at love to go up 6-5, and a hold at love with the help of a pair of aces at 112 mph and 114 mph to end it.
“(Thursday) felt pretty good with super-light catch,” Giolito said. “(Thursday) I was protecting it a little bit. And then (Friday) I felt like I took a big step forward. I was able to put a lot on the ball. At the same time, not going crazy with leg drive, being a little relaxed in the legs, but I was able to let some go pretty good.
It could be the first Olympics for McDavid, U.S. star Auston Matthews, 2020 playoff MVP, two-time Stanley Cup champion Victor Hedman and many others. They didn’t get the opportunity three years ago, when national teams were made up mostly of college and European professional players, except for the Olympic Athletes from Russia, who won the gold medal in Pyeongchang.
The Cubs are one of the teams that has not reached the 85% vaccinated threshold but had largely avoided any coronavirus-related issues this season. In early April, first base coach Craig Driver and bullpen coach Chris Young, who are vaccinated, tested positive.
“A lot of these guys are used to playing on immaculate fields and pitches in Europe and it wasn’t going to be that,” he said. “Really, it’s just trying to make sure guys stay calm because we have a lot of different personalities, a lot of types, guys that can get frustrated and guys that can get anxious if things aren’t going the way they want them to. And my role and where I see myself is just trying to keep guys focused, keep guys calm and keep guys in the moment.”
“It just depends on how your team is shaped up, but right now, those two-inning relievers, when we had those, the plan when early in the season we had Keegan and Steele was like, OK, I can use one one day and use one the next and at least they have for sure a day off the next day, maybe two depending on how the game is going,” Ross said. “I think some guys pitch freer.”