Cubs” Maddon makes good on “day at the beach” promise

 

CHICAGO (AP) Cubs manager Joe Maddon made good on his promise to give Pedro Strop a ”day at the beach” on Sunday after the reliever bailed Chicago out of a ninth-inning jam Saturday to preserve a 5-4 win.
Before Sunday’s game against the Cardinals, Strop’s locker was set up with a beach chair, an ice bucket full of beer bottles, a margarita and other beach paraphernalia.
Maddon promised Strop an off day, too.
”I wanted to really make it really emphatic that he was not playing,” Maddon said.