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Josh Rosen jogged onto the field as an Arizona Cardinal for the first time on Friday and took a moment to reflect.
”When I stepped in the huddle Da'Ron Payne Jersey ,” the young quarterback said, ”I kind of looked at the guys and I’m like, `This is pretty cool.”’
Rosen was the center of attention, as usual, on the first day of Cardinals rookie minicamp, starting out slowly but finishing with a crisp performance
capped by a long TD pass to fellow rookie and camp roommate Christian Kirk.
Although he may have to wait awhile, Rosen is the Cardinals’ quarterback of the future after the team traded up five spots to take him No. 10 overall in the
draft. He’s already signed his contract with Arizona.
After Friday’s workout, he talked about how he’s approaching his new job and even touched on how he deals with being such a lightning rod for criticism –
mainly centering on his personality and often from people who don’t really know
him.
”You ignore it,” Rosen said. ”It’s only hard if you make it hard. If you’re Googling your name every other day and trying to like reach out to people, yeah,
you can make it harder on yourself. But as far as I know if you keep your phone
limited to messages and calls and you don’t read too much. The only thing that
matters are the guys in the building and that’s what I’m trying to keep it at
right now.”
He said he’s had a couple of conversations with Larry Fitzgerald, the 14-year veteran who is among the most-admired players in the game for his behavior on
and off the field.
”He’s probably one of the greatest to ever do it,” Rosen said. ”So I’m just trying to emulate every little thing he does, how he approaches the game as such
a professional. There’s a lot to take from it.”
He’s also heard from Sam Bradford Rashaad Penny Youth Jersey , the player signed to be Arizona’s opening-day quarterback next season. Bradford offered to help in any way with Rosen’s
development.
”I think it speaks to him as a person how he’s willing to sort of embrace the competition but also embrace sort of the team aspect,” Rosen said. ”And I’m the
same way. Regardless of starter or backup, I want the Arizona Cardinals to do
the best possible, because I want to be in the Super Bowl. If that means for
this year the best way to do that is to have Sam start, then so be it. But I’m
helping, I’m going to push him every single day and likewise I would hope he
would do the same thing with me.”
The most important thing for him to show on his first day, Rosen said, was ”demeanor.”
”Even if I don’t know what’s going on, at least act like I know what’s going on,” he said. ”… Be confident, be firm, snap the ball, get back and do it
again.”
In truth, new Cardinals coach Steve Wilks is impressed with how quickly Rosen is picking up the offense of coordinator Mike McCoy.
”Phenomenal Shaquem Griffin Seahawks Jersey ,” Wilks said. ”The guy’s extremely smart. We said that from Day 1. He’s picking up the offense. He’s doing a great job
there, taking control of the huddle and getting everybody in line. No questions
about that from the standpoint of his leadership.”
Although Rosen said that nine teams – later amended to three to reflect the QBs selected ahead of him – made big mistakes on draft night, Wilks said, ”I
don’t think he’s out to try to prove anything to anyone.
”He’s being his own person. We have accepted him for the person that he is and the player that he is. I don’t think we have a problem at all. We’ve had our
talks and it’s all about football and staying focused and really concentrating
on that.”
Rosen, Wilks like to say, ”is wired different, and I like that.”
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The slumping Chicago White Sox are playing a team that didn’t give up on its season despite a terrible start, so maybe they decided that was a pretty good
strategy to adopt.
The White Sox could have easily given up on their Tuesday night game against the surging Cincinnati Reds despite falling behind 4-0 before they’d gotten an
out and 7-2 following Adam Duvall’s three-run homer in the fifth inning.
And given up on the series, too, since the Reds beat them 5-3 on Monday for their 15th victory in a span of 20 games, the National League’s best record
since June 10. The Reds also were 7-1 in interleague games.
Instead, the White Sox managed to tie it first at 7-all on a Leury Garcia pinch-hit RBI single in the eighth and at 8-all on Avisail Garcia’s second home
run of the game and third of the series, in the ninth.
The White Sox finally broke through to win it 12-8 in the 12th on Yoan Moncada’s bases-full triple that right fielder Brandon Dixon brought back over
the wall to prevent a homer but couldn’t keep in his glove, and Yolmer Sanchez’s
RBI triple — both off reliever Jackson Stephens.
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the work I’ve been putting in day in and day out, I’ve been feeling better (at
the plate).”
Well before the 12th, the White Sox began their comeback as Daniel Palka hit a two-run homer in the fourth, then teamed with Garcia to homer in the sixth.
Garcia has a 13-game hitting streak, and is 14-for-30 with four homers and six
RBIs in his last six games.
Now, after winning for only the second time in six contests and the sixth time in 19 games, the White Sox are in position to take the series if they can
win Wednesday night at Great American Ball Park. White Sox right-hander Dylan
Covey (3-3, 4.82 ERA) will oppose Reds right-hander Sal Romano (4-8, 5.30) in a
matchup of pitchers who haven’t faced the opposing team before.
Covey is in a major slump, going 0-2 with an elevated 12.71 ERA with 12 walks and three strikeouts over his last three starts — this after he was 2-0 with a
1.00 ERA in his first three starts in June. His last time out, he surrendered
four home runs and eight earned runs in 2 1/3 innings of a 11-3 loss to the
Texas Rangers on Friday.
“I made a couple of mistakes they capitalized on,” Covey told reporters afterward. “For the most part I was throwing good pitches. They were just taking
the borderline ones and were all over everything that was in the zone. I don’t
have an explanation.”
Manager Rick Renteria did.
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Or exactly the kind of pitches the White Sox jumped on Tuesday while getting 15 hits in only their second extra-inning win of the season, as compared to
three losses. By winning, the White Sox avoided falling to a season-worst 27
games below .500.
The Reds have put together a string of improbable victories while starting to turn their season around after being 3-15 and 8-27. But this was a game in which
they couldn’t hold a succession of leads — 4-0, 7-2, 8-7 — as they played more
like they did in April.
“It got away from us late, but that’s a good offensive baseball team,” Reds interim manager Jim Riggleman said. “Garcia’s a bear to deal with right now and
he got us. … But we had a big-enough lead that we should have put it away in
nine (innings).”
The Reds wasted a pair of two-run homers in the first by NL batting leader Scooter Gennett and NL RBIs leader Eugenio Suarez, plus Duvall’s three-run shot
and a timely play by Billy Hamilton in which he scored the go-ahead run in the
eighth on a ground ball to shortstop against a drawn-in infield.
“(But) we’ve been playing too good of baseball to get hung up on one game,” Reds starting pitcher Anthony DeSclafani said. “I don’t think this game is going
to affect us one bit.”
Romano has pitched well in three of his last four starts, with a June 24 outing against the Cubs in which he gave up five runs in five innings being the
only exception. He gave up only three runs over 20 innings in the other three
starts.
White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu (sore ankle) is expected back in the lineup after sitting out Tuesday for precautionary reasons.
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