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- Updated: May 24, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS — Twins manager Paul Molitor is willing to be patient with Miguel Sano in his first season in right field and understands mistakes will happen as Sano makes the transition from the infield.
But it was a different situation in Monday night’s 10-4 loss to the Royals, as Sano didn’t hustle to a ball that hit off the right-field wall and ended up as a triple for catcher Salvador Perez in the sixth inning.
Sano ran back to the wall, only to see the ball go over his head and carom hard off the wall. But instead of chasing after the ball, Sano watched it roll away from him as he jogged in slowly from the warning track, and Danny Santana had to run in from center field to get to the ball in shallow right. After an off-line throw to third, Perez was in easily for his third extra-base hit of the game.
“I think maybe he assumed that [second baseman Eduardo] Nunez or Danny were going to be in better position after he …
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