WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Joe Maddon threw out the first pitch Sunday before another afternoon of games at the Little League World Series.
He put the ball in the dirt. Then he took two more shots at it without coming any closer to the strike zone.
“With an inappropriate warm-up, I was trying not to suck,” he cracked.
Fortunately, that was all the bad the Cubs had in them on the final day of another painful road trip. They bashed the Pirates 7-1 in the MLB Little League Classic before a crowd of 2,503, hundreds of them young ballplayers, at Bowman Field.