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Austin Romine (left wrist sprain) is on the 60-day injured list and out indefinitely. They designated Tony Wolters for assignment May 19 to open a roster spot for P.J. Higgins. However, Higgins’ first big-league call up only lasted three weeks. He will have right forearm flexor tendon repair surgery within the next couple weeks and is out for the season. Jose Lobaton, 36, is in the majors for the first time since 2018. The only other catcher on the Cubs’ 40-man roster is prospect Miguel Amaya, who is currently on the minor-league injured list at Double A as he rehabs a right forearm strain.
While the music played, Berry placed her left hand on her hip and shuffled her feet. She took a quarter turn, so she was facing the stands, not the flag. Toward the end, she plucked up her black T-shirt with the words “Activist Athlete” emblazoned on the front, and draped it over her head.
“There’s an awful lot of distraction, or motivation, from different circles to hit more home runs,” La Russa said. “‘You can contribute more if you hit for power.’ And most guys when they do that, they come off the baseball, and their contact suffers.
EUGENE, ORE. — The U.S. Olympic track and field trials came to a halt Sunday afternoon with temperatures reaching 108 degrees. One athlete, heptathlete Taliyah Brooks, was carted off the field in a wheelchair and eventually had to withdraw from the competition.
Biles will arrive in Tokyo as the face of her sport, the U.S. delegation and perhaps the Olympic movement. She has become more than just a gymnastics star since her coronation in Rio in 2016. Her consistent excellence — her last second-place finish in a meet came more than nine years ago — combined with her charisma and possibility-pushing routines have thrust her into the company of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, athletes whose dominance on the world stage made them Olympic icons.
“He wasn’t sharp,” manager David Ross said. “I just felt like his rhythm in general, syncing up his mechanics, just leading to sporadic command. His slider really didn’t look like it had a lot of shape to it either. He was battling himself out there, trying to let him figure it out a little bit.”
“It was kind of a reset or a restart and found some rhythm and found, I guess, the tempo that I needed to have for me to be better,” Mills told the Tribune. “I was just a little bit slow, especially in the leg lift, so I got little rotation. I kind of went back and started from the beginning (during rehab starts).”
“What we do is we go around the whole glove, feeling for anything that would be sticky or something,” he said. “Yes, it was very noticeable, and then the rest of the crew inspected to make sure we were all in agreement. All four agreed that it was a sticky substance, and that’s why he was ejected.”
UNCASVILLE, CONN. — DeWanna Bonner hit four 3-pointers and finished with 23 points, Brionna Jones added 21 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun cruised to a 74-58 win over Chicago on Sunday in a Commissioner’s Cup game, snapping the Sky’s seven-game win streak.
Outfielders Eloy Jiménez, Luis Robert, Adam Eaton, Adam Engel and Billy Hamilton and pitcher Michael Kopech are on the injured list. Second baseman Nick Madrigal is out for the season with a torn right hamstring, and reliever Jimmy Cordero had Tommy John surgery in March.