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Ryan Waldschmidt delivered one of the moments of the baseball season Tuesday night in Phoenix, crushing a pinch-hit, walk-off, two-run shot in the ninth to lift the Diamondbacks over the Cubs five to four. Chase Field absolutely erupted, and Mark Grace had plenty to say about it in the postgame.
Staying in baseball, Brewers manager Pat Murphy sent a message to his roster Tuesday night that no one in that clubhouse will forget quickly. Rookie Cooper Pratt got pulled mid-at-bat for a pinch-runner after failing to run hard out of the box on a pop-up. Murphy was direct afterward, saying you have to be locked in to play at this level. Lesson delivered.
And on the fantasy football front, the ESPN Marathon mock draft wrapped up its ten-team simulation, and the running back run was real. Thirteen of the first twenty picks were backs, while quarterbacks largely sat on the board as managers played the position-scarcity game hard. If you're drafting soon, the signal is clear, get your back early or get left behind.
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