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“Since the beginning, I felt good,” Céspedes said. “Comfortable. But now here in the game, I’m sometimes a little anxious. I’ve been trying to adjust as quickly as possible as part of the learning process. To have to make those adjustments during the game, that’s the part I’ve been working at overall. I usually feel pretty good at home plate. The learning part of making adjustments, that’s where I’m working right now.
“I was really proud of myself,” said Barty, who climbed her way up the stands to hug her coach, Craig Tyzzer, and others, “the way I was able to reset and just keep going, just keep chipping away, at the start of that third set and hold my nerve there in the end.”
The Yankees dealt Chapman and Miller in their famous summer sell-off in 2016, with Miller winding up as setup man for the Cleveland Indians. Kimbrel, like Miller, already is getting closers money. His $16 million club option for 2022, if it doesn’t vest, likely will be picked up by whoever acquires him instead of making him a typical two-month rental.
“Players (are going to) be players, man,” LaVine said. “You’re going to mingle and talk. But we’re here for one goal — we’re trying to win the gold medal. Whatever comes from that, friendships, teammates, that’s an afterthought. But you know how the NBA is — everybody talks and it’s a player’s league, so we understand what goes on. Something happens, it happens.”
“The debut was special, it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, but I think I had to keep my emotions in check more tonight,” Sheets said. “That first at-bat I was more jittery than I was in Chicago. But that home run was a really cool moment, not just for me but for my family.”
“I think David is a star, I think he’s fantastic,” Hoyer said. “I felt for him going through this, because there’s a hopeless sense from me to David to the players. At some point there’s always a sense of ‘Go say something,’ or ‘Go do something.’ That’s not really how baseball works. We’re a sport where that can be out of your control.”
“It doesn’t matter if I’m in pain or not, soreness or not, I have to be there for them. My mom, my wife, my sons, they are my everything. That is the way I can honor them, that’s what I do. Plus, that’s also another way for me to be grateful and honor (Chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf). He has done a lot for me and that’s the way for me to pay it back, play every day no matter what.”
“With his history, everything you deal with is extremely serious,” Ross said. “I think (the doctors said) it’s not a great concern, but having to deal with that as a player and being in your mental state, whether it’s a heart palpitation or a flutter, coupled with adrenaline and the nerves and anxiety of being in there for a game… I think we all want to be on the same page of making sure he’s safe.”
“We have been cornered into a situation where we cannot even stop now. We are damned if we do, and damned if we do not,” Kaori Yamaguchi, a member of the Japanese Olympic Committee and a bronze medalist in judo in 1988, wrote in a recent editorial published by the Kyodo news agency. “The IOC also seems to think that public opinion in Japan is not important.”
Parker (12.9 ppg) and Vandersloot (11.4) command the headlines and attention, which frees up room for their scorers on the wings — Copper (13.9), Quigley (11.8) and Diamond DeShields (12.3) — to give the Sky five players with double-digit-scoring averages. A sixth, Astou Ndour, is close to that mark, averaging 9.2 points.