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Focused Bruce cracks 2 homers vs. Giants
- Updated: July 26, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO — If this is Jay Bruce’s last week playing right field for the Reds, he’s making it count. Bruce is also giving his team, and its fans, plenty to miss.
With two home runs in Monday’s 7-5 Reds victory over the Giants, Bruce demonstrated again he is capable of blocking out what’s become the white noise of trade rumors and uncertainty. The non-waiver Trade Deadline arrives next Monday and his departure seems likely.
“I think that you have to compartmentalize in this game,” Bruce said. “This is such a fleeting game. It’s so unforgiving. You’re never settled. You’ve never got it. You’ve never figured it out. It’s like a puzzle that never has all the pieces to it. You might get close and feel pretty good about your progress, but you never are going to have the puzzle put together.
“It’s my job to come here and focus on baseball and be professional about it. A lot of people have gone through this before and I’m not going to be the last one either.”
Bruce has been through it before. He sweated out the deadline one year ago but wasn’t moved. He was almost traded at the start of Spring Training this year. A lot …
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