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“Our group doesn’t get very emotionally high or emotionally low, they stay pretty even keeled,” Dames said. “If we go there and get a result, that’d be great. But all that means is we get on a plane and come home and get ready for Gotham the next weekend. And if we go there and lose it’ll not be so great, but we’ll get on the plane and we’ll get ready for Gotham the next weekend.
After a six-inning, two-run performance against the Tigers, Arrieta didn’t show signs of being hampered by a cut on his thumb that cost him a start. Instead, through seven starts, Arrieta has been the Cubs most consistent starter. Take away Arrieta’s outing in Cincinnati when he unsuccessfully tried to pitch with the cut (seven runs in 3 ⅓ innings) and he has a 2.65 ERA.
“First off, I’m extremely proud, it’s been hard, first one in my family so I owed it to them to follow through with this,” Marshall said during a conference call Wednesday. “I didn’t do anything for five or six years so it made going back even harder, one or two, three classes at a time, first semester quietly getting them done.
If we can vote on reality TV show contestants with ease, why can’t we make the office of MLB Commissioner an elected position with a four-year term? Rob Manfred would be free to run again, of course, but so would any former player, manager, general manager, executive, sportswriter or broadcaster.
“In the first couple of innings I was not really commanding the plate,” Kopech said. “Not having the comfort to go straight to a slider or a breaking ball, to make up for spraying a fastball, really puts you two steps behind. If you’re not throwing a fastball for a strike or your secondary for a strike, you’re just fighting yourself.
“A lot of credit to the fans for just being willing to say, OK, digital tickets, digital venues, we’re going to come in with a different process, I’m going to be assigned to a gate and will be given a time, we have to wear these masks — and God bless them, they did,” Kenney said. “They’ve really been patient and they’ve done incredibly well.”
“He’s always got that competitive drive ingrained in him — that’s where he’s at all the time,” Nagy said. “He also has that other side to him as well. The more that we have these meetings, the more that we work with him, the more that we realize and get to see his commitment to being focused on the details of this offense and see how fast he can grow, it gives us a chance to be able to work off of that. But he’s got a really great, professional personality, which I love. He’s all about business right now.”
It’s too early to religate the move for Vučević at the trade deadline. He is under contract for two more seasons and, as Donovan continued to point out, it was a trade made with this season and beyond in mind. This roster was ill-fitting from the moment the team failed to trade Markkanen in exchange for a point guard, but it’s surprising how little the pieces meshed.
“He was told that it was his fault, he was told that if he ever brought it up again life was over as he knew it, so he suppressed it,” she said. “The triggering event for him was when he learned that this guy had done it to somebody else, he felt, ‘Oh, my God, if somebody would’ve done something about this at the time, it never would’ve happened.
“After a minute he did get up, and he said he was fine, he could keep playing. But that’s the type of player he is. He’ll do anything for this team, and we’re just glad that the prognosis is totally cool. So it was a huge relief, going in, seeing he’s good, in high spirits — for me and the rest of the team. He’ll probably be back playing (Saturday), honestly. We’ll see.”