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Cubs closer Ryan Pressly was at Wrigley Field at 8 a.m. Wednesday, ready to go out to the bullpen for “dry work,” according to pitching coach Tommy Hottovy. After throwing 26 pitches the night before, charged eight earned runs without recording an out, throwing off the mound Wednesday was off the table. But that wasn’t stopping him.
“For him to take that rough night last night,” Hottovy said before the Cubs’ 3-0 loss to the Giants on Wednesday, “he’s like, ‘I didn’t sleep anyway, let’s get to work,’ as a coach, that’s a cool place to be.