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When it looked like he’d get one last at-bat in the eighth, Schwarber yelled out a question while hitting in the underground batting cage adjacent to the dugout.

"One of the players said 'I'd rather be in a cage full of lions than have a shower next to a gay man.'"

Eze grew up playing cage football around Greenwich with his two brothers - who are both footballers now.

He muscled it into the cage elevator, leashes in hand, the machine balanced against his hip like a prize wrested from fate.

Both try to find time to hit the batting cages to stay sharp during football season.