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“For the past few days I’ve been rehabbing around the clock trying to get my body right so I could join my team on the court today in our home opener,” her post read. “Since the day I joined this team I’ve been counting down the seconds until I could take the court in the city that raised me – in front of family, friends, and fans. Unfortunately, I will have to wait a few more days to take the court and can’t play today. Trust that if I were even remotely able to play I would. I promise you all that. Today’s news pains me, but I have to get my body right for myself, for this team, and for this city. We have a lot of basketball left.”
“No. 1, he’s a really good player, going to help us win offensively and defensively,” La Russa said. “He’s also one of the strong chemistry guys, family guys on this team. There’s a lot of games that we’ve played where he’s been out rehabbing, and when he’s around, like he has been, it’s better. It’s going to be a big day the day he comes back. It’s real clear the priority: The day he gets back, we need to keep him back.”
Now, let’s say Toews and Dach don’t contribute as much as I project. Where do the goals come from? That’s where it becomes dicier. If you asked the Hawks, they likely would point to Pius Suter, Dylan Strome, Philipp Kurashev and maybe Henrik Borgström. Suter probably is the best of that bunch at the moment, and he puts himself in the right place at the right time fairly often, hence his 14 goals and 13 assists this season. That said, he’s a restricted free agent, so who knows if he returns.
Sunisa Lee, who won three medals at the 2019 world championships, came off both bars — her signature event — and beam. Riley McCusker, a world championship team member in 2018, appeared to injure her left leg on her vault and is being evaluated. McKayla Skinner, an Olympic alternate in 2016 and three-time world championship team member, came off the beam but drilled two vaults in her first meet since a number of health issues, including battles with COVID-19 and pneumonia.
The Cubs took a quick lead in the first on a run-scoring single by Javier Báez off Miles Mikolas, was making his first start since the 2019 postseason after rehabbing from arm surgery last year. The Cardinals tied it on Lane Thomas’ two-out, RBI single in the fifth before Molina’s solo homer gave them the lead for good.
Mickelson broke away quickly with four birdies in seven holes, and he even managed to avoid losing his focus. One distraction came from the fourth fairway, when Mickelson saw a drone in the air left of the green and said to a CBS spotter, “Can you radio to the TV guys to get the drone out of the flight of my shot?” He saved par from a back bunker.
Pederson, the former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder who signed a one-year, $7 million deal to replace Kyle Schwarber in left field, pummeled Cactus League pitching but hit the off switch when the season opened April 1. He batted .137 in his first 16 games with a .498 OPS, coinciding with an overall slump by most of the the Cubs regulars.
“When a guy (like Cole) makes a pitch and it has movement on your pull (side), you’re going to hit it in the ground,” La Russa said. “If he gets it up, you’re going to hit it in the air. But we made the contact. Two different kind of pitchers. The guy (Friday, Jordan Montgomery) was in command of all his pitches, with all his off-speed stuff, kept us off balance.
The memo, sent Saturday morning just a few hours before the postseason opener between Miami and Milwaukee and obtained by The Associated Press, also said that head coaches will have to wear masks during halftime, during warmups and shootaround before the start of the third quarter and postgame. If opposing coaches choose to meet briefly on the court after a game, masks are encouraged.
“I started feeling the pain on the airplane, that Sunday,” Abreu said. “We got to the hotel and I couldn’t walk. I told the trainers and we went to the ER in Minnesota. They did all the tests and fortunately it wasn’t anything serious. Just inflammation. From Monday on, working with the great treatment from the trainers, from that day, my goal was to start playing (Friday).”