"He looks like a guy that hasn't played in a while," Mattingly said. "He's a bit rusty, but that doesn't mean anything. It doesn't mean the thing doesn't turn and the bright lights come on and something good happens, you never know."
Puig never got to running full speed in either game. He had a bloop single on Saturday against the Padres and was never forced to sprint either out of the batter's box or in the field.
"Ultimately, it was just a game and a half of Major League action," GM Farhan Zaidi said. "We also have a lot of information from the live BPs and he got to full speed, even though he didn't get the chance to go jailbreak speed here.