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Patience at plate will be key for Anderson
- Updated: August 7, 2016
CHICAGO — On Friday, rookie shortstop Tim Anderson was unable to grip a bat due to soreness in his left hand after being hit by a pitch in Thursday’s game against the Tigers.
But he considered the hand at 95 percent on Saturday, with no foreseeable problems offensively or defensively, leading to his return to the lineup against the Orioles. He doubled off the wall in his first at-bat, coming within inches of his sixth homer of the season, and scored the game’s first run on Melky Cabrera’s double.
“It’s kind of scary,” said Anderson of Thursday’s early departure. “But I kind of had a feeling it wasn’t anything serious. Just sore, because in 2014 I got hit on the [right] wrist, and it broke my wrist. It wasn’t that same feeling.”
“He can hold onto the bat,” manager Robin Ventura said. “You get a little concerned, I think, when he goes …
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