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The Cubs beat the Reds 15-7 on Sunday to spit four games in Cincinnati.
He became the 19th player in history to collect 1,000 hits in a White Sox uniform. He has improved since the All-Star break, batting .278/.333/.368.
Cabrera bashed six hits over Friday and Saturday, the latter serving as his first four-hit game in almost two years.
Everything about this game was strange, starting with a matchup of bottom-of-the-barrel teams taking place in a national CBS telecast on a Sunday.
Cubs right-hander Shane Greene made his Cubs debut on Sunday, but Canario has yet to make his MLB debut.
After two rebuilds over a decade, fans deserve the excitement of a division race.
“That’s not the type of player I am,” Lee said. “I lost the ball.‘‘
Notes: Reds dealing with COVID-19 outbreak during series against Cubs.
“He’s exceeded everything he’s ever done in the game in one season,” manager Pedro Grifol said Saturday. “We have to now protect him.”
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Cubs general manger Carter Hawkins played baseball with Swanson’s older brother when they were teenagers.
In the clubhouse before the game, Getz projected optimism and outlined organizational expectations.
The Cubs won the first game 6-2 but lost the second 3-2 in a walk-off.
Grifol revealed a level of communication with Chris Getz and Jerry Reinsdorf that would have made him privy to his future for a bit, and for the chairman’s expectation to compete next season not to have caught him flat-footed.
In many cases, the circumstances surrounding the earlier shootings are strikingly similar to those reported in the Aug. 25 shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field.
The Cubs recalled Canario and selected right-hander Shane Greene from Triple-A Iowa before their doubleheader Friday against the Reds.
Waddle, who co-hosts the afternoon show on ESPN 1000, will join host Taylor McGregor on “Bears Den,” a 30-minute show that will air on Thursdays during the season.
2023 season has been “a nightmare,” Reinsdorf said. “It’s still a nightmare. It’s embarrassing. It’s disgusting.”
Speaking to reporters before introducing Chris Getz as the team’s new general manager, Reinsdorf stuck to the Sox’ original story that the shooting must have originated outside the stadium.
Giolito and Lopez, who were among a flurry of trades pulled off by former Sox GM Rick Hahn shortly before he was fired, were among the players the Angels are desperately trying to shed.
“He knows our players, both at the major league level and in our system, knows our staff and is familiar with all aspects of our baseball operations department,” chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said.
MLB teams get two extra roster spots beginning Friday.
A police spokesperson said “no theories have been ruled out” — days after interim Police Supt. Fred Waller told reporters that investigators “almost completely dispelled” the possibility of gunfire coming from outside the stadium.