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“The No. 1 priority obviously is the health and safety of our players and everybody understanding the importance of getting vaccinated,” manager Scott Servais said before the opener of a three-game series with the San Diego Padres. “But it is an individual choice and unfortunately not all of our guys are vaccinated, so it’s something we have to deal with like other teams have had to deal with throughout Major League Baseball.
“We’re not going to always agree, and that’s OK,” Anderson said. “But we just keep moving and keep playing. And he knows that. We’re not going to always be on the same page, but at the end of the day we’ve all got to go out and get a win, and we’ve got to keep pushing. It’s OK to disagree from each other, but we’re all definitely pulling from the same string.
“Thank you Illinois for a tremendous two years,” a post on his Twitter page read, listing accomplishments such as earning a No. 1 seed for the 2021 NCAA Tournament. “It was the relationships forged through the chasing of these achievements that I will never forget and will always hold dear.”
Marshall replaced Kopech and allowed LeMahieu to hit a bouncer back up the middle. Anderson, the shortstop, fielded and threw home to get Wade for the first out. Voit hit a liner to Yoán Moncada and he threw to second for an inning-ending double play.
Ross is a players’ manager, and of course was teammates with several Cubs, including Báez, Anthony Rizzo, Kris Bryant, Willson Contreras, Jason Heyward and Kyle Hendricks. He’s more interested in his players policing themselves than showing authority by publicly criticizing a player.
“Year two, after you’ve had a couple of appearances in year one, everybody’s got their book on you,” Foster said. “So you’ve got to not really change things a little bit, but approach them better, execute better and really mix speeds, change pitches and locations. And also stick to what you’re doing best.
The 6,000-member Tokyo Medical Practitioners’ Association called for the Olympics to be canceled in a letter sent last week to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Olympic Minister Tamayo Marukawa, and Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the organizing committee.
ANAHEIM, CALIF. — Minnesota Twins reliever Tyler Duffey was suspended for three games and manager Rocco Baldelli received a one-game ban Thursday for intentionally throwing behind Yermín Mercedes of the Chicago White Sox in a sequence of events that sparked a debate on the importance of the unwritten rules of baseball.
“I think you’re probably going to have to direct those questions to US Soccer,” he said. “She’s an allocated player, they have the Olympics coming up. What they do or do not want to disclose about her injury and who they want or not want to know, that will be up to them, not up to us.”
Hoyer voiced optimism about the current state of the Cubs, who’ve been at or near .500 for weeks, while offering no thoughts on the likelihood of retaining impending free agents Kris Bryant, Javier Baez or Anthony Rizzo. There are no ongoing contract conversations with the three, Hoyer said, and he still is unsure of how the trade deadline will play out for the Cubs.