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MONSTERS’ BALL Bell, Jaquish, Kloss bring fire to LSU softball team

BY MARC STEVENS | @MarcStevens_TDR Though the existence of Mexico’s El Chupacabra and Scotland’s Loch Ness are still up for debate, the presence of a three-headed beast on the No. 7 LSU softball team cannot be denied. It’s alive, thriving and constantly on the prowl. Senior infielder Bianka Bell, junior infielder Sahvanna Jaquish and senior catcher Kellsi Kloss combine to form a formidable, three-pronged ,power-hitting monster. “It’s cool to see the dynamic of how we work and how we are back-to-back-to-back in the lineup,” Kloss said. “If you have us in an inning, you have to throw to one of us. We provide the RBIs and the rest of the team gets on for us.”

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Office of Diversity launches book club to spark conversation BY KATIE GAGLIANO @katie_gagliano The Office of Diversity launched its diversity book club initiative Monday with a discussion on reporter and author Dan Baum’s “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” in the Women’s Center. Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Chair Dereck Rovaris said the initiative’s goal is to provide the campus with a common read that serves as a departure point for discussions about diversity. The initiative will focus on a single book every year, and a new read will be chosen each

fall to mark the arrival of a new President’s Millennial Scholars Program class. The program supports a cohort of underrepresented students, including first generation students, low income students and ethnic minorities, Rovaris said. The frequency of meetings will be left to the discretion of the group each semester. Dan Baum’s “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” follows nine New Orleanians after Hurricanes Betsy and Katrina. The book highlights the city’s distinctiveness through the subjects’ diverse voices. Extensive character range and the focus on New Orleans were

key in the novel’s selection, Rovaris said. “We’re sitting in class with people, we look at them, we make a judgment but we don’t really know anything about them,” Rovaris said. “But if we spend a little time getting to know them as we get to know those characters, these characters in this book, you might have a different opinion of them and it might be a little bit better than it initially was.” Understanding diversity is also important beyond the classroom. Joann Guidos, one of the

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Joann Guidos and Wilbert J. Rawlins, Jr., subjects of the book “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” participate in a panel discussion in the Women’s Center on Monday.

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page 2 MONSTER, from page 1 This season, the three upperclassmen are the driving force behind the Tigers’ offense, which averages 7.2 runs per game. They have the highest slugging percentages on the team this season among starters. Jaquish boasts a team high .758. Bell sits just behind at a .705 and Kloss is averaging .647. Jaquish is on pace to devour her personal slugging mark for a season. Her current average is far ahead of her personal-high of .699, set in 2014. If Jaquish continues her performance, she’ll have the second-best slugging percentage in a single season and would improve on her career percentage, which is second in program history behind Bell. In addition to slugging percentage numbers, the trio has clawed its way to the top-three

PANEL, from page 1 book’s subjects, is a transgender woman who owns Joann’s Kajun’s Pub on Saint Claude Ave in New Orleans. Guidos, who spoke at Monday’s discussion, said her bar operates under the simple rule that patrons must respect everybody or be put out. Discussing diversity is

to 213, as she claimed the top spot, passing former Tigersstandout Leslie Klein. Jaquish has moved up to fourth with 168 RBIs, six shy of former-players Rachel Mitchell and Tara Asbill, who are tied

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spots in program history in terms of career home runs. Bell leads the pack with 51 longshots, Jaquish holds the second spot with 43 and Kloss rounds out the top-three with 35. But Jaquish doesn’t feel the stats are a good representation of just how lethal the three of them are behind the plate. “I don’t feel like home runs reflect how good of hitters we are,” Jaquish said. “We capitalize on pitcher’s mistakes. Our averages prove how well we are seeing the ball as the three, four and five hole, and I think we all have something to bring there, which is good, so we can protect each other.” The trio not only protects one another, but can score the rest of the lineup when they get on base ahead of them. Bell and Jaquish statistically are two of the best at driving runs home in LSU history. Bell’s 39 RBIs thus far this season has upped her career total

for third. Kloss’ offensive game has improved each year, allowing the formidable creature to develop, and it’s because of the work she puts in, said assistant coach Howard Dobson. “Her big thing was developing consistency,” said

LSU coach Beth Torina. “Being able to handle pitches all over the zone and not just in one area. She’s going to do anything we ask her to do and then some. She’s going to bend over backwards to do every single thing we ask her to do.” The senior catcher’s newfound consistency in 2016 has elevated her offensive game to Bell’s and Jaquish’s levels. Hurlers now tend to intentionally walk one or two members of the trio, but because of their placement in the lineup, the Tigers’ competition eventually must pitch to one of them. “A lot of pitcher’s are avoiding Bianka and coming after me and Kellsi,” Jaquish said. “It levels out each week. We start hitting well, and then they [avoid us and] pitch to Bianka, and then Bianka hits well. So, it’s definitely a cycle in the three, four and five hole. We definitely feel comfortable there.”

important for making strides away from the violence occurring worldwide, she said. “Ignorance sometimes creates problems and misunderstandings on diversity, and if you discuss and learn more about it you can find out that it’s okay,” Guidos said. Wilbert J. Rawlins, Jr., another of Baum’s subjects, is an instrumental music teacher

and creative arts department chair at L.B. Landry-O.P. Walker High School in New Orleans. He also gave remarks during the discussion and agreed with Guidos, noting he works to expose his students to diversity to help them become accustomed to people’s differences. “Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans” looks beyond the Crescent City’s surface and

reveals the depth and diversity hidden throughout the city, he said. “This book has nine lives in it but it could easily be a book of nine million,” Rawlins said. “Everyone is different and everybody has their own story. Everybody has their own place in society and that’s what makes New Orleans special.”

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Tigers look to rebound against Tulane in 310th meeting BY JARRETT MAJOR @Jarrett_tdr

fter a rough weekend series in College Station, Texas, the No. 19 LSU baseball team hopes to get back on track against its oldest rival, Tulane, at 6:30 p.m. tonight in Alex Box Stadium. “Tulane against LSU is always a lot of fun,” said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. “I am excited about the game. It is a big game, obviously, for us, and I am sure they feel it is a big game for them, as well. It is our only home game we will have in an

eight-game stretch, so hopefully we’ll come out and play well.” The Tigers (16-7, 2-4 Southeastern Conference) defeated the Green Wave (17-7) twice last season and won nine of the last 10 games against the neighboring rival. LSU has played Tulane 309 times, which is more than any other non-conference opponent. Although LSU has dominated Tulane in recent years, the Green Wave have improved this season. Tulane is receiving votes in the D1Baseball.

com poll, the USA Today Coaches poll and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll. The Green Wave enter the game on a hot streak after winning their last five games. “They are playing great,” Mainieri said. “I think they have won six in a row. They are playing with a lot of confidence. It is going to be a tremendous challenge for us.” While the Tigers are focused on

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Mainieri conflicted with both sides of head-first sliding debate BY JAMES BEWERS @JamesBewers_TDR With an audible sigh, LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri acknowledged he didn’t have the answer to mitigating the risk of a common move in baseball — a head-first slide. “I don’t know what the answer is,” Mainieri said. “I’ve seen a lot of guys through the years get hurt on those head-first slides, but I’ve also seen a lot guys steal a lot of bases with those head-first slides because of the slide. So, I guess there’s a certain amount of risk that they just are willing to accept.” Though none left the game, three LSU players required attention from a trainer after sliding head first into second base at different points

during the Texas A&M series. Junior center fielder Jake Fraley and junior second baseman Cole Freeman took shots to the shoulder area and head, respectively, but junior shortstop Kramer Robertson received the worst of it. Robertson dislocated his right pinkie in Game 3, which needed to be popped back into place at least four times during the game, and said he may wear a protective glove while running bases, similar to the one Fraley wears. Even sophomore catcher Michael Papierski’s thumb injury against Alabama was the result of a head-first slide. Mainieri said he specifically told Papierski not to slide head first again, but he did so anyway in first game of the Texas A&M series, which

Mainieri believed was done on instinct. Robertson, like Mainieri, said sliding head first is a reaction play, not considering injury. “I guess you can fix that if you go in feet first, but you’re not going to want to get spiked,” Robertson said. “I was trying to get there as quick as I could because it was a hit-and-run. And they just happened to pitch out on it, so I was out by a lot... Either way, I feel comfortable sliding head first or feet first. That was kind of a freak thing. It’s never happen to me before.” Bugg struggling with ‘putaway pitch’ On the 2015 LSU baseball team’s

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Local game developer to release fourth project, expanding industry BY LAUREN HEFFKER @laurheffker Baton Rouge-based Godric Johnson, the founder of Jetstreame and the creative mind behind digital novel “Cyberpunk Casanova,” is making his childhood dream a reality. Johnson is leading the gaming and technology movement in Louisiana as the lead designer for Jetstreame. He is also developing his fourth gaming title. “Cyberpunk,” a video game inspired by the anime and thriller genres, has been in development for seven to eight months and is half finished. Johnson said he’s hoping for production to be finished by July. Jetstreame currently operates from the Louisiana Technology Park, which houses several different game development companies. Godric started the company in 2012, and he has been in the LTP for two years. This location serves as an incubator for independent game developers. The idea for “Cyberpunk” originated from Johnson’s business partner, Derek Scott. Scott was inspired by a web comic and asked Johnson to help him

digitize it to make it into a visual novel. Scott designed the novel, scored the soundtrack and wrote the story lines. Johnson’s responsibility in producing “Cyberpunk” was helping Scott design the game. Johnson did not create his digital world alone. The other creatives behind “Cyberpunk” include two principal artists, a user interface artist and a programmer. The game was made frame by frame, through a process of drawing, digitizing and animating. “Cyberpunk” is a visual novel, a digital 2D comic that has animation. “Cyberpunk” is a dating simulator, where there’s one protagonist with varying romance options, Johnson said. The main character tries to court all of the dateable options and get the best ending. “With ‘Cyberpunk,’ our visual novel, it’s written in a western tone where the main character is put in perilous situations with the women he’s involved with,” Johnson said. The story is set in a futuristic dystopian world. The target demographic is people 18 to early 30s who like anime, comic books and visual novels. Johnson said

“Cyberpunk” caters to a niche market. “From typical dating sims and visual novels, what makes it different is that it’s written in that western tone and thriller approach where there is real danger,” Johnson said. Johnson said “Cyberpunk” consists of three mini games, with the possibility of a fourth depending on funding. The game is explored through the building and maintaining of three basic stats: composure, precision and athletics. Steam, an online game distribution platform, green-lit the game’s production. “Cyberpunk” will be available on mobile platforms, including iOS, Android and tablets for about $10. Johnson said he and his partners have been promoting the game locally through live art events and social media. Johnson is planning to increase exposure at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Johnson funded the project primarily with his own money and partially through a Kickstarter account. The project currently has 111 backers. Johnson said he ideally, wants $15,000 to bring the game to Japanese localization.

Being an independent game developer comes with its own set of challenges. Johnson said making the investment into a project and getting the game approved can be frustrating. “The big thing is capital. Number two is finding a good team,” he said. “Retaining talent is really hard.” Johnson hires many of his

developers from the local colleges and universities. He recently judged a gaming competition at the University and is actively involved with Baton Rouge Community College. “I want to put Baton Rouge on the map for game development,” he said. “I really want to help foster that game community and pioneer that group.”

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Godric Johnson created a new dystopian visual novel game called “Cyberpunk Cassanova,” which will be showcased at the Spring 2016 edition of Pop! Smart Show.

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Local jazz-rock ensembles to perform at Spanish Moon BY DILLON LOWE @d_lowe96

Burris and Captain Green, two super-groups at the forefront of Baton Rouge’s steadily growing funk-rock scene, will perform at The Spanish Moon on Friday. The two established bands seek to deliver a rock-infused jazz sound in their performances. In fact, the two collectives are intertwined, sharing a number of similar influences and band members. Bob Kling plays bass in both bands and Kevin McMann, Captain Green’s saxophone player, was originally a member of Burris. Friday’s audience can expect to see a large amount of sit-ins and collaborations between the two ensembles, Captain Green guitarist Grant Hudson said. Burris, a seven-piece jazz ensemble, formed in 2012 while guitarist and vocalist Chris Hochkeppel and drummer Scott Graves were pursuing music degrees at LSU. Hochkeppel said he always sought to improve the band by adding a variety of musicians who would give Burris the full sound that comes with being a collective. “I’ve always liked the sound of bands like Chicago, Blood,

Sweat & Tears and Dave Matthews Band,” Hochkeppel said. “These big seven or eight-piece groups that have a full sound.” Burris’ latest project, “Meant To Be,” released in October 2015. The album’s recording was made possible by $2,000 worth of studio time the band won in a battle of the bands competition in Lafayette in January 2014. “It all just came together right when we knew as a band that we needed a debut album,” Hochkeppel said. “It really worked in our favor and it seemed like something that was meant to be. That’s where the album’s title comes from.”

On Friday, Burris will perform a handful of older tracks, as well as a number of new tunes, Hochkeppel said. Just like Burris, Captain Green has roots in LSU’s music school, but added other local talents by playing in Baton Rouge’s music scene and getting to know fellow artists. Captain Green has released two full-length albums, “Everywhere Is Where It’s At” and “Protect Each Other Together.” “The scope of [‘Protect Each Other Together’] was huge. We wanted it to be really epic,” Hudson said. “All of the songs are pretty long in length and have a very intense psychedelic

element to them.” The band is currently working on a new album, “Jazz Noise,” featuring compositions from Ross Hoppe, the band’s keyboard player, and David Melancon, the band’s trumpet player. Hudson plans to release “Jazz Noise” sometime in the fall. Captain Green has performed at music festivals throughout the country, most notably Wakarusa, a 40,000-person festival in Ozark, Arkansas, where they

played a late night Friday set – unheard of for unsigned bands. Hudson said he sees big things on the horizon this year for both Captain Green and Baton Rouge’s jazz culture in general. “There’s a lot of new talent coming up. A lot of the younger generation are starting to study the older generation,” he said. “As soon as that starts happening more, we get better musicians.”

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Captain Green will perform at The Spanish Moon on April 1 with Burris

A young festival goer dances onstage to Burris on April 25 during Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette.

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North Carolina law hurts trans community, legalizes bigotry BEYER’S REMORSE

MICHAEL BEYER @michbeyer North Carolina is now a gender police state. Last week, its Republican governor, Pat McCrory, signed a bill to legislate policing of transgender and gender nonconforming people under the guise of religious freedom. HB 2 nullified Charlotte’s ordinance, protecting LGBT people from discrimination in public accomodations and city contracts, according to The Charlotte Observer. But the law doesn’t just void discrimination protections for LGBT people — it encourages discrimination. HB 2 only allows for a person to use the bathroom of their biological sex, which is defined as the sex on your birth certificate. How is the government supposed to figure out your biological sex when you enter a restroom? Will there be new bouncers posted outside each public restroom in North Carolina where you have to show your birth certificate to pee? Transgender people don’t come with identification. It is impossible to prove someone is trans just from looking at them

before they enter a bathroom. One frustrating thing about the need for bathroom privacy to appease religious conservatives is that it’s based on a complete lie about transgender people. The myth is men will pretend to be transgender women to assault others in a women’s restroom. I’m calling it a myth because this hasn’t happened. This myth has been debunked by law enforcement experts, government officials and women’s safety advocates in cities and states across the country, according to Media Matters. More Republican lawmakers have been caught in bathrooms for sexual misconduct than transgender people. Yet religious conservatives cite this widely debunked fallacy again and again. While advocates of HB 2 argue this issue is about privacy, they will violate more people’s privacy by inquiring about an individual’s biological sex before they enter a restroom. NYU Law professor Scott Skinner-Thompson, who writes at Slate, states this violates a person’s right to privacy. When an individual is asked about their biological sex upon trying to enter a restroom, “they will be forced to disclose sensitive

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information about their sex and medical history.” This bill is an invasion of privacy that will affect far more than just the trans people it targets. According to Media Matters, a Louisiana woman who underwent chemotherapy and a bi-lateral mastectomy after a stage two cancer diagnosis was accused of being a man while standing in line for a Walmart restroom. These bills are popping up all across the country — both the South Dakota legislature and the Georgia General

Assembly passed gender policing bills, but they were vetoed by Republican governors. Another gender policing bill is awaiting a hearing in the Louisiana Legislature. These bills capitalize on the fears of a relatively unknown population. Transgender people haven’t received much media attention until recently. Caitlyn Jenner is the first transgender person many of my friends, and probably most Americans, have ever heard of. Transgender people need protection, not religious

conservatives. According to a report from The National LGBTQ Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, 78 percent of transgender students in grades K-12 reported harassment and 35 percent of these students reported experiencing physical assault. In addition, 58 percent of transgender people reported harassment in places of public accommodation, such as hotels, restaurants, buses, airports or government agencies. Public accomodations are the types of protection trans people need and the types of protection HB 2 repealed. We should pass laws to deal with the daily injustices that come with being transgender, not legislate discrimination against transgender people. Being trans in a world that doesn’t understand you is a daily risk. We should dedicate more resources to help transgender people survive. Bullying transgender people to quell the fears of religious conservatives won’t make us any better, either. It will only hurt an already misunderstood population and be a stain on our history. Michael Beyer is a 22-year-old political science senior from New Orleans, Louisiana.

University administrators should take pay cuts for students SMASH THE HATE JACK RICHARDS @jayellrichy When I look at how much money top-level University administrators make in a year, it reminds me of the indubitable words of Louisiana’s greatest poet, Torrence Hatch: “I’m an ordinary person, but I’m paid.” The University, in particular, and higher education, in general, narrowly avoided further mid-year budget cuts stemming from the legislature’s inability to find funds for the future academic year. According to LSU President F. King Alexander’s latest email update, the University will have to find *only* $10 million to cover the

shortfall in the popular college scholarship program, TOPS. The shortfall is super scary compared to previous years of cuts because it comes from a funding source so integral to the University’s well-being. TOPS represents the single greatest indirect source of revenue to the University. When the state promises a Louisiana high school student a certain amount of money through TOPS, state colleges scramble to scoop those tuition dollars up. The more TOPS students, the more money for professors, administrators and staff. Ever wonder why the University keeps taking in more students than it has room for? Ever wonder why tuition keeps increasing? Now you know.

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This is a pretty horrendous way of allocating funds. Instead of having a reliable budget schools can count on, universities are at the whims of how well students score on standardized tests. However, this is what schools are forced to do when the state gives them a shoestring budget and continues to tell them they need to do more with less. What this means, and what Alexander hasn’t interrupted spring break festivities to tell us, is that the University lives or dies on the back of TOPS money. While I appreciate King’s updates, I sincerely hope he isn’t writing those himself. Alexander makes approximately $822 a day, totalling an annual salary of $300,000, according

to data from NOLA.com | The Times Picayune. His time is better spent negotiating phat stack donations from oil companies or lobbying legislators with legislative iason Jason Droddy. But, he’s far from being the only big ballin’ University administrator. Vice Provost of Diversity Dereck Rovaris makes $175,000 a year, while Student Life & Enrollment Vice President Kurt Keppler rakes in $217,000 annually. Talk about racks on racks on racks! With TOPS in flux and no realistic chance of a stable state budget in the future, University administrators will probably have to raise student fees even more. Student fees increased about $140 from 2011 to this year.

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If and when the University raises student fees for upcoming semesters, I’d like to issue a challenge to all University administrators making more than enough to pay their bills: take a pay cut for students. Students and their families receive the brunt of budget cuts when fees are raised, so University administrators should stand in solidarity. If the fee increases are anything like past years, it won’t be more than $100. That’s a drop in the bucket for somebody making six figures a year. The one percent of University faculty and staff should step up to the plate. Jack Richards is a 21-year-old mass communication junior from New Orleans.

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path to the College World Series, then-sophomore reliever Parker Bugg became the Tigers’ go-to hurler out of the bullpen late in games. But Bugg, who gave up one run and struck out 16 batters over his final 15 relief appearances this season, doesn’t look like the same guy through 23 games into 2016. Of the healthy pitchers

on the staff, his 8.59 ERA is the highest on the team. He also leads all relievers in walks and opponents’ batting average through 10 appearances. “Parker has been such a valuable pitcher for us for two years,” Mainieri said. “Obviously, if you look at his numbers, he’s not performed at the same level.” Pitching coach Alan Dunn said the difference between Bugg’s performances last year

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and this year has nothing to do with a regression in velocity or movement, but merely command of his fastball and slider, which is his “put-away pitch.” “He’s made the good pitch early, and then when it’s put-away time, we haven’t quite to that spot we need to get it in,” Dunn said. “So, usually when you have issues where you’re not being as successful as you want, you can always trace it back to not quite making that put-away pitch when it’s crunch time.” That was evident at times when Bugg replaced fellow righthanded reliever Doug Norman in Game 1 against Texas A&M. He entered with runners on first and second, and Bugg gave up a single and consecutive walks to plate two runs. He returned for the eighth and conceded three more singles and another walk before Mainieri pulled him for sophomore righty Austin Bain with a five-run deficit. Even if Bugg is striving to get ahead in more counts and then locate his put-away pitch, Dunn said fastball command is the first step. “You’re fastball command is so vitally important to every pitch that you throw,” Dunn said. “When you have good fastball command, you can make a couple mistakes.”

page 7 TULANE, from page 3 Tulane, LSU hopes to hit better in clutch situations regardless of its opponent. In the Tigers’ 2-1 series loss against No. 1 Texas A&M, the Aggies (21-3, 4-2 SEC) had just one more hit than LSU. The Tigers, however, only hit 3-for29 with runners in scoring position. “I don’t think we got two consecutive hits all weekend,” LSU sophomore third baseman Greg Deichmann said. “It is kind of frustrating when you cannot put those big innings together that we are trying to put together. It gets frustrating at times, but we are going to keep plugging on and getting better every game as we play.” Tulane will provide an especially potent pitching staff to face the Tigers. The Green Wave lead the nation with six shutout games thus far this season. The Green Wave, though unranked, have compiled similar statistics to the Tigers thus far. LSU has a .297 batting average, and Tulane is hitting .290. LSU allows an earned run average of 3.70, while the Green Wave gives up a slightly higher ERA of 3.80. Both teams average 6.9 runs

per game and have seven losses on the season. LSU freshman pitcher Cole McKay, who is getting the second start in his career versus Tulane, said that he is excited to get his first home start against such a similar team. “There is always that factor of — I would not say nervousness — but of excitement,” McKay said. “I’m excited to get on the mound. ... Playing with a home crowd should help a lot.” While the Tigers struggled with their clutch hitting against the Aggies, LSU excelled at it in its 8-5 win against Louisiana-Lafayette a week ago. LSU hit 6-12 with runners in scoring position against the Ragin’ Cajuns (15-9, 6-3 Sun Belt). LSU has won 16-straight games against Louisiana opponents since losing to Nicholls State last season. The Tigers need to hit more like they did against UL-Lafayette than they did against A&M if they want to beat Tulane, Mainieri said. “You don’t win by getting hits, you win by getting runs,” Mainieri said. “That is what we need to do, we need to get more runs. ... It doesn’t do you any good getting a bunch of hits if you cannot score runs.”

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