Corey Dickerson was 1 for 3 with a single in three at-bats in his first spring training game

TAMPA http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , Fla. (AP) — for the Pittsburgh Pirates, an 8-6 loss to the New York Yankees on Thursday.Dickerson and Adam Frazier are among players being eased into game action.“We’re trying some different things as far as when we plug guys in and the amount of work they do and the volume of work that they do to see how they respond to it,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said.Dickerson, who hit .300 with 13 homers and 55 RBIs in 135 games last season, was a designated hitter and could play in the outfield next week.Frazier is set to play for the first time this weekend.Pittsburgh is ensuring playing time for prospects and offseason acquisitions.“That’s one of the things we took into consideration when we looked at the makeup of the roster in spring training,” Hurdle said. “The number of young players that we have here that we actually wanted to put eyes on. The number of guys we targeted in the offseason and brought in from the outside that we told there would be opportunities.”Jung Ho Kang homered for the third time and is hitting .429 (3 for 7) in three games. … OF Gregory Polanco, coming back from September shoulder surgery, could get at-bats before the team break camp. The first four innings flew by, with solid pitching from Kyle Hendricks, and then..."WhiteFanposts Fanshots Sections Chicago Cubs recapsChicago Cubs minor leaguesChicago Cubs essaysChicago Cubs game threadsWrigley Field renovationsFull archiveLibrary Bleed Cubbie Blue Community GuidelinesCurrent time in ChicagoBCB Specials & Site InfoWinter 2019 music threadsCubs StoriesScheduleRosterStatsYahoo Cubs newsYahoo Cubs team pageYahoo Cubs reportYahoo Cubs depth chartYahoo Cubs transactionsYahoo Cubs photosOdds Shop About Masthead Community Guidelines StubHub 鉁旵hicago Cubs recapsChicago Cubs spring trainingAthletics 10, Cubs 3: A tale of two gamesNew,82commentsThe first four innings flew by, with solid pitching from Kyle Hendricks, and then...CSTShareTweetShareShareAthletics 10, Cubs 3: A tale of two gamesMatt Kartozian-USA TODAY SportsMESA, Arizona — The good news from the Cubs’ 10-3 loss to the Athletics Thursday afternoon was that Kyle Hendricks looks in mid-season form.Check out this strikeout Travis Shaw Jersey , on a lovely changeup, of the very first batter of the game, Dustin Fowler:In the second inning, Hendricks gave up an infield hit and then induced this nice DP grounder:Hendricks faced seven batters, allowed two hits and got a lot of weak contact, which means his stuff is working the way it should.Brian Duensing relieved Hendricks and got Cliff Pennington to hit a sharp grounder right at Kris Bryant, who made this slick play:The Cubs weren’t doing much off our old pal Brett Anderson, who allowed a pair of hits and a walk in the second, but struck out the side. He threw three scoreless innings. If he’d have done that with the Cubs in 2017, maybe he’d still be here.Anyway, the first four innings flew by in just 51 minutes. In the last Sloan Park game on Tuesday, I think they were still in the first inning at the 51-minute mark. The A’s pushed across a run on George Kontos in the top of the fifth, but the Cubs came back and took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the inning. Kyle Schwarber led off with a double that nearly made the berm, and after a bloop single by Jason Heyward, a pair of outs and a walk, Ryan Court singled in a pair. Here’s Schwarber’s double and Court’s hit:And as far as Cubs fans were concerned http://www.brewersfanproshop.com/authentic-orlando-arcia-jersey , the game could have ended right there. But no, baseball rules say nine innings get played, so the game moved on, unfortunately for our side, because Jen-Ho Tseng was just horrendous in this one. The A’s sent 10 men to the plate and scored six times; Tseng was removed after the eighth hitter, by which time his outing was, in order: single, walk, walk, fly ball, single, single, triple, ground out. Yikes.And in the next inning, Randy Rosario wasn’t any better. He served up long home runs to the first two hitters he faced, then retired three of the next four. Hope he was “working on something.” Tseng wasn’t likely to be a part of the 2019 Cubs Robin Yount Jersey , but Rosario was a useful bullpen piece for much of last year.The Cubs plated one further run on a double by Court and a single by Cristhian Adames in the seventh, and the game dragged on for a couple more innings before ending.It was a gorgeous afternoon in Mesa, the nicest day so far this spring. Game time temp was 73, light winds, unlimited sunshine, the perfect Arizona spring day. Attendance watch: 10,573 paid to see this game. That makes the season total for four dates 45,944, or 11,486 per date. I’d expect close to a sellout Saturday against the Brewers.Before that, though, the Cubs face the Diamondbacks in Scottsdale Friday afternoon. Jose Quintana is on the mound for the Cubs, Robbie Ray for the D-backs. Game time is 2:10 p.m. CT and if you have MLB.tv, you can watch via the D-backs channel Fox Sports Arizona. There will also be an audio webcast via cubs.com.