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LAS VEGAS — Runners had been in scoring position for both games when it had mattered most, at the very end, but nobody could produce a clutch hit.
Two defeats for Fergie Jenkins.
“We lost 17-16, then 10-8,” he said. “We needed one more hit.”
His first two games as a professional player, for the Phillies’ Class-D Miami Marlins in 1962? His first two games as a Cub, in 1966?
No. This was Jan. 25, at the faux Wrigley Field here at the Field of Dreams complex.