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CLEVELAND – Cubs left fielder Ian Happ lined himself up so that fielding the bounce off the wall would feed into his throw to second base. The run was already going to score easily, but if he could get the ball in quickly enough, he could get his team out of an inning that was threatening to spiral.
Sure enough, the Guardians’ David Fry tried to stretch his RBI single in the fifth inning Monday into a double.