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- Updated: April 27, 2016
ANAHEIM — Royals center fielder Lorenzo Cain had just completed a vigorous weight-lifting session when he walked over to his locker and semi-collapsed on his chair, exhausted.
“Guess I’ll grab some bench here, too,” Cain said, laughing, knowing he wasn’t in the starting lineup for the first time in 2016 on Wednesday night against the Angels.
Manager Ned Yost decided to give Cain a break as he tries to reboot his system in the midst of a 5-for-33 slump. Cain has zero extra-base hits in that span.
“This feels like the worst slump of my career,” Cain said. “But you know, that’s baseball.”
Actually, as Cain thought about it for a minute, he remembered an even worse slump.
“I think it was 2007 in the Minors,” Cain said. “I started out like 0-for-25 and then I got a knock, and then I was 1-for-50 I think. That was bad.”
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