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Player of the day
The last few years have been injury plagued for
Steven Souza Jr., including this season when he was sidelined for the first nine games of the season. He suffered a gruesome knee injury in spring training that cost him the entire 2019 season, and only played in 11 major league games last year with the Cubs, which included time on the injured list with a hamstring injury.
But the 32-year-old outfielder is heating up for Triple-A Oklahoma City, peaking on Sunday night in El Paso with a three-homer game. Souza hit a three-run home run in the first inning off starter Brett Kennedy, then did the same in the third inning. After a groundout and fly out, Souza led off the eighth with another homer, giving him seven RBI.
Dan paliza a Chihuahuas
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Pierden Chihuahuas ventaja tempranera y son derrotados por Oklahoma
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Chico, the mascot of the El Paso Chihuahuas, a Triple-A affiliate of the Padres, holds up a sign directed at Dodgers pitcher Tony Gonsolin, making his second minor league rehab start with Oklahoma City on Friday, May 28, 2021 in El Paso, Texas.
Tony Gonsolin was cruising in his second rehab start with Triple-A Oklahoma City, retiring his first 11 batters faced on Friday night in El Paso, with four strikeouts, six groundouts, and one lazy pop fly to shallow right field.
But then he walked a batter, and allowed home runs on consecutive pitches to Patrick Kivlehan and Nick Tanielu the second one a short fly ball down the right field line that Oklahoma City play-by-play broadcaster Alex Freedman described as “an El Paso special.”
Chihuahuas de El Paso pierden segundo juego contra Oklahoma City
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