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Cubs star Kyle Tucker fouled off the first two pitches he saw Tuesday – a pair of splitters, one on the outer third of the plate and the other on the inning third.
When he’s in a groove, Tucker usually puts one of those in play. But instead, continuing to battle an offensive slump, he found himself in an 0-2 count. He watched the next pitch, a high fastball, but then whiffed on a third splitter at the bottom of the strike zone.
“I feel like I’m still swinging at the pitches I want to and taking the ones I don’t want to swing at,” he said this week.