“I’m working on breaking in another one right now,” he said, “and it’ll probably be ready in two years. And he has secretly been forming a new relationship behind his glove’s back. When he makes an error, he admitted - with a chuckle - he has found occasion to throw his glove to the ground. “It’s my baby,” he added.ĭespite all that affection, McNeil isn’t perfect. He also once had it “fixed up completely” by a professional, but holes remain. McNeil said a ball once found its way through the loose webbing on his tattered glove so he had it restrung. Once an infielder gets that glove, they use it for a long time.” But it works for me,” said McNeil, 30, who reached the major leagues in 2018. He originally had two, but he retired one after his first season and framed it. He has used the same glove since 2013, the year he was drafted in the 12th round by the Mets. Jeff McNeil, the All-Star second baseman of the Mets, disagrees that gloves have expiration dates. Jordy Mercer, an infielder who was also on the 2021 Nationals, used a glove that was over 10 years old, was held together by stitches and looked like it belonged in a museum rather than on a field. Turner plans to retire it, though, before it reaches the levels of a former teammate’s. I’m trying to keep it alive as long as I can.” So I’ve had to take care of the glove more this year, and it’s starting to get little holes in there. “Because on the East Coast,” he continued, “that humidity keeps the moisture in the glove. “I think it’s the West Coast since it’s a little drier,” said Turner, 29, who spent parts of seven seasons with the Washington Nationals before he was traded to the Dodgers during the 2021 season.
Trea Turner, the All-Star shortstop of the Los Angeles Dodgers, begrudgingly admitted that this is the first season that his leather pal, which he has been using for at least four seasons, has started to look “old.” He then corrected himself, “It’s actually not that bad.” Even though our record isn’t going to be what we want and it’s not something that we’ve ever grown used to nor will we ever grow used to that, we got to play our best baseball day by day and see where it takes us at the end of the year.Some players are so attached to their gloves that they will do anything to keep them in action. “But we’re going to keep fighting until the end. “I don’t like to lose at anything, I know that entire room doesn’t like to lose at anything, and it means we got to be better.” The loss also means the organization will experience their first losing season under Mike Hazen as GM and Lovullo as manager. The bullpen had posted a 1.50 ERA in its last four games, but they gave up four earned runs in four innings of work in this one. White scored on a wild pitch by Guerra a few batters later. Rojas also scored in the inning on a Kole Calhoun sac fly.īut in the eighth, relief pitcher Junior Guerra let the lead get back to three after giving up a pair of singles to Marmolejos and Evan White, followed by an RBI double to Ervin. He later scored on a fielder’s choice that brought them within two. The D-backs got back two runs in the bottom of the seventh that started with a Pavin Smith single, the second hit of his young career. Two more walks in the sixth inning by Travis Bergen in relief of Weaver to Marmolejos and Ervin led yet again to more runs from a Donovan Walton 2-RBI double. “But I think when the third hit, I just knew I had to get back into attack mode and was able to do so and make a really big pitch there in the fifth and get to five and keep my team in the ballgame.” “I thought it was a little sloppy at first, just kinda grinding through the flow of the game, the rhythm, some mechanical stuff,” said Weaver when asked how he felt about his outing. The 22-year old righty went five innings, giving up two earned runs on four hits with three strikeouts and three walks allowed. While Dipoto did not mention him by name, Marcus Semien fits into this category. The team will pursue free-agent shortstops, but with the expectation that they play another position. “We couldn’t cash-in at the right time with the right guys up in the right spots.”Įven without the run support, Weaver had a strong outing for Lovullo and the D-backs. Crawford will be the Mariners’ starting shortstop in 2022. “The big part of the day for us was that we did a good job of building some innings, and put ourselves into a position to strike and put up some crooked numbers several times and we just couldn’t get that big hit,” stated Lovullo. The D-backs had another opportunity in the third inning after David Peralta doubled with one out, but Nick Ahmed was absolutely robbed on a liner back up the middle by Mariners second baseman Strange-Gordon. In the bottom half of the inning, D-backs catcher Daulton Varsho put himself in scoring position in a similar way with a walk and two stolen bases that eventually led to the bases being loaded, but the D-backs were unable to convert the opportunity.
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