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The home run Cubs designated hitter Kyle Tucker drove into the bleachers for an opposite-field home run Thursday was cool and all. But Cubs manager Craig Counsell honed in on a different sign that Tucker was heating up at the plate.
“The takes have been just really solid, Counsell said of Tucker’s at-bats in Game 3 and 4 of the NLDS against the Brewers. “I thought the first inning takes, some of the takes against [Brewers left-hander Aaron] Ashby, that gives you a pretty good idea a lot of times, how a hitter’s feeling.”
Tucker had a short ramp to the postseason.