Chicago – It was about the third inning Wednesday when Ron Gardenhire turned to bench coach Steve Liddle and said:
"I'm not feeling too good."
Then came "the shakes," as Gardenhire explained following Wednesday's game, which had seen the Cubs beat the Tigers, 5-2, at Wrigley Field on a day when the heat index was 102 degrees.
Gardenhire headed for the clubhouse and for an immediate quaffing of Pedialyte – five bottles of it. His neck was adorned in cold towels.
"Just a little dehydration and overheated a little," Gardenhire said, sitting in the visiting manager's office afterward with Liddle and Joe Vavra, who is the team's quality-control coach.