SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — There was a point Monday, perhaps midflight of Trevor Story’s towering home run off him, where John Danks’ mind quickly traveled to the parking lot.
“I was worried it might hit my rental car,” Danks joked.
Story’s 449-foot homer was the second of three consecutive Danks allowed in the third inning of an 11-7 White Sox victory over the Colorado Rockies. But the back-to-back-to-back homers — and the not-so-narrow miss with his car’s windshield — wasn’t what Danks took away from his final Cactus League start.
After he surrendered nearly 1,300 feet worth of homers, Danks settled down.