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Good morning everyone! Happy Monday! Let’s get your day started with some links.
In Mariners news...
- In case you missed it, Edwin Encarnación hit his 400th career homer yesterday.
Around the league...
- A minor league team celebrated yesterday’s special occasion.
HAPPY JUNE 9th! It’s a #nice night for baseball! First 500 fans will receive this #nice shirt! Gates open at 4 pm. Game starts at 5:35 pic.twitter.com/OJmUvLfYVo
— Daytona Tortugas (@daytonatortugas) June 9, 2019
- Madison Bumgarner and Max Muncy really got into it yesterday.
Bumgarner vs. The Dodgers tends to get a little heated: pic.twitter.com/WSMPwWEEkX
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) June 9, 2019
Muncy: “Bumgarner said ‘don’t watch the ball, run’, and I just told him if he doesn’t want me to watch the ball, go get it out of the ocean.”
— Joe Davis (@Joe_Davis) June 9, 2019
Madison Bumgarner: “They want to let everyone be themselves, then let me by myself. That’s me. You do your thing, I’ll do mine. Everybody is different. That’s how I want to play, that’s how I’m going to.”
— Alex Pavlovic (@PavlovicNBCS) June 9, 2019
- Papi was shot in the leg last night.
BREAKING NEWS: According @CDN37 David Ortiz has suffered a shot wound on an apparent attempted robbery at Dial Bar on Santo Domingo Este, he has being transferred to a hospital and his condition is unknown.#ZDigital #ZDeportes @z101digital @ZDeportes
— Héctor Gómez (@hgomez27) June 10, 2019
- But this will provide a huge sigh of relief.
Best news we’ve heard so far come from David Ortiz’s father, Leo Ortiz, who told reporters gathered at the clinic that David is currently resting after surgery and that no organs were affected by the bullet. He said the doctors anticipate full recovery. #BigPapi
— Marly Rivera (@MarlyRiveraESPN) June 10, 2019
- The Astros called up top prospect Yordan Alvarez yesterday, and he promptly hit a homer in his first game.
- The Royals have agreed to a deal with No. 2 overall pick Bobby Witt, Jr.
- The A’s had some plane trouble getting out of Arlington thanks to a storm.