“It’s never a day free”

Stand in the Pirate Club house this morning in front of his locker, Andrew McCutchen addressed a now deleted social media answer On a contribution that describes his absence from yesterday’s list as a “free day” by saying: “It is never a day free.”

“A free day for me is when I have the whole game about sneakers,” said McCutchen. “It’s a working day for me. I could start, but I don’t have the day free. No matter what happens, I have to be prepared and ready to play. No matter what, no matter when.”

McCutchen, which was often either held out of the list or was commissioned to play on the field when playing Bryan Reynolds Was recently to do with a shoulder problem that forced him to serve as a designated striker, and admitted in a playful way that he is always upset when he doesn’t play. He wants to be in the line -up every day. But just because he is not in the first nine years does not mean that the work stops.

At the beginning of his career, when he played every day, McCutchen benefited from planned days off. He remembers the former bank coach Dave Jauss He gave him the news before a game and he would take the chance to take a mental break and prepare for the next day.

It doesn’t work that way now. The 38-year-old McCutchen said he was for part of the game, but he has to make sure that he is ready to come in if necessary. That was the case yesterday. While McCutchen said he was ready to come in late in the game as a pinch of grille, he was coming in Derek Shelton makes the decision to use Alexander Canario In a place where Jack Suwinski was hit in the seventh inning.

McCutchen was not aware of the reason for the decision, but after yesterday’s game, Shelton said that Canario, who had had no fat in Cincinnati since the final of the series last weekend, was used due to his “ability to drive the ball out of the ball park”.

Canario beat and the pirates in a shutout loss ran 0 for 8 with runners in the goal position 0.

“I know I would not go in and play defense. If I would beat, think of the Canario example, that may have something to do with it. You don’t want to burn two boys,” said McCutchen. “So, in this situation it would probably have been a good situation for me, but I would not go into the outer field immediately afterwards. It just doesn’t make sense for myself to do it and create it for an injury or something. Hits, yes, I was ready to beat but not to play a defense.