Rowan Wick overcame an odd injury to appear in his 1st major-league game in nearly a year. Now the Chicago Cubs reliever is out to re-establish his back-end role in the bullpen.

“When you’re up and need the guy to come in and stop games, there’s definitely comfort in him pitching the ninth with the lead,” Ross said Wednesday. “But I’m also trying to use some of these back-end guys in moments where maybe it would benefit us for a pocket in the order that we feel like sets them up well, so we try to balance that. But I don’t see him pitching down a bunch of runs.”