DBACKS MANAGER TOREY LOVULLO: “I think a 1st baseman, somebody like Freddie Freeman, would slide feet first and give way to the runner, who’s probably going to be standing up… That would have been the way to avoid that situation. And I’m thinking Max [Muncy] probably thought that [Ildemaro] Vargas was going to slide, and then it’s at the point of no return. They just couldn’t get out of the way of each other.”
About RYNE NELSON not covering 1st:
“That bothers me. We’re going to tighten that down. We talked about that as it happened, we talked about it as the game was ending, and in my office. So we’ve gotta tighten that down. We have been showing a vulnerability to getting over and covering 1st base, and that’s not who we are.”
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