CHICAGO • It’s lesser-known than the skyscrapers downtown, but tourists visiting Chicago are becoming captivated by the Leaning Tower of Wrigleyville, the prevalent pillar known to locals as “Anthony Rizzo.” Like his Pisa counterpart, Rizzo towers over the batter’s box chalk, and then leans just so over home plate, awaiting a bruise. The Cub has been hit by a pitch 29 times this season, leading all players. I swear, sometimes he gets hit by strikes.
He leaned into one in the fourth inning Friday, but funny enough, the one time Rizzo actually tried to get out of the way of a pitch, he was hit by that one, too.