The image of blood dripping near the proper eyebrow of Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson on Monday evening time invoked the play-through-anything reputation he has developed all through his occupation.
This isn’t the first time Swanson’s helmet decrease him. This time, as he slid headfirst into second base for a one-out double inside the third inning of the Cubs’ 5-1 win versus the Washington Nationals, the helmet popped off and have turn out to be pinned in opposition to second baseman Luis Garcia’s leg, lowering Swanson as Garcia turned to make use of the tag.
It prompted a fast delay as supervisor David Ross utilized pressure to the small gash to stop the bleeding whereas a Cubs coach positioned on medical gloves to bandage the spot.
“I assume I can add that to my resume,” Ross quipped.
Swanson joked with Ross that he had been watching an extreme quantity of Stanley Cup playoff hockey at the moment.
“I’m 0-for-3 when it comes to wins in opposition to a helmet,” Swanson talked about. “So sadly that is nothing new. As quickly as I felt it, I knew I used to be going to begin bleeding.”
The unlucky sequence may require gluing the decrease to avoid one different bloody scene, nevertheless in another case it isn’t bothersome. Swanson hit a two-run homer in his subsequent at-bat inside the fifth to extend the Cubs lead and gives starter Drew Smyly additional wiggle room. The lefty didn’t need it, holding the Nationals to not less than one run in seven innings.
The offense obtained to Nationals starter MacKenzie Gore early behind Seiya Suzuki’s RBI single and Trey Mancini’s RBI double inside the first, every coming with two outs.
The victory shortly moved the Cubs (15-13) earlier their three-game sweep in Miami. They’ve scored at least one run in each of their first 28 video video games, solely the sixth time they’ve executed that inside the enlargement interval (since 1961).
“The Miami sequence you’ve obtained to toss out as a result of we didn’t play our greatest,” Swanson talked about. “It’s actually good to have the power to say, let’s go away that behind, merely exit proper right here and play our recreation, play consistently. Simply form of getting once more to doing what we’re doing.
“Form of an ideal reset day — it’s Could 1. It’s time to maneuver on and put our greatest foot ahead.”
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