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BOSTON – When Cubs manager Craig Counsell told right-hander Hayden Wesneski Saturday that he was going to start the next day in place of an injured Jordan Wicks, Wesneski said:
“My job is to get the first guy out.”
Counsell thought that was a good way to approach the task.
“It’s not to think about, ‘I’ve got to get five innings or six innings,” Counsell said. “It’s just ,get the first guy out and then move on to the next thing.”
In the Cubs’ 5-4 loss to the Red Sox on Sunday, Wesneski got the first guy out, fielding Jarren Duran’s soft ground ball and running it to first base.