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After lacking all the 2024 season, Matt McLain was capable of get wholesome simply in time for the season to have ended. However the Cincinnati Reds infielder didn’t go house and start his offseason. As a substitute he joined the Glendale Desert Canines within the Arizona Fall League to get a while on the sphere for the primary time since March when he tore the labrum in his shoulder.
A late addition to the roster, McLain was placed on the taxi squad for the crew. That’s a designation that enables a company to ship an eighth participant to the Arizona Fall League, however that participant is just eligible to play in two video games every week. Within the first week of the season, McLain picked up two hits in every of his video games, and he had three extra-base hits total.
He was initially within the lineup on October 14th, however he didn’t play within the recreation and was a late scratch to the lineup. He didn’t get again into the lineup once more till Saturday afternoon – a stretch of 10 days since he had final performed. There was nothing reported about why he wasn’t within the lineup, and the report after the sport by the MLB.com’s Sam Dykstra, who wrote about how Matt and his brother Sean McLain performed in the identical recreation didn’t have a transparent reply as to why he hadn’t performed in additional than every week apart from noting he was nonetheless “ramping up” to taking part in form.
As for the sport itself, Matt McLain went 0-3 with a strikeout in every of his plate appearances within the scheduled 7-inning recreation (the AFL was taking part in a triple header at Goodyear Ballpark, so all three video games had been scheduled as 7-inning contests for today). Not one of the different seven gamers from the Reds group performed within the recreation for the Desert Canines.
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