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DETROIT – Nico Hoerner turned to face home plate umpire Derek Thomas immediately after the strike call. The strikeout pitch had been low and inside.
“I don’t think it’s really that often you can verbatim say to the press afterwards what got you thrown out,” Hoerner said Sunday after the Cubs’ 4-0 loss to the Tigers.
This was the exception.
“I said, ‘You’re having a really bad day,’” Hoerner recalled.
It was an inflection point in the game. The Cubs were trailing 2-0 in the top of the fifth inning.