Nothing like a little good-natured teasing from the ones you love. Yasiel Puig loves to bestow his smooches upon his hitting coach, Turner Ward.
So, when Puig rejoined the Dodgers on Wednesday, after failing to get a hit in his one-game minor league rehabilitation assignment, Ward needled him near the batting cage.
"I thought, when you go on a rehab assignment, you're supposed to hit before you come back," Ward said.
Puig got three hits, the only player on the home team with more than one. The Dodgers scored on a sacrifice fly, and on a hit batter, and twice on a wild pitch.