CHICAGO -- "That is clobbered. Right-center field. That one's back, Garcia near the wall and ... he reaches out and makes the catch. And Tucker absolutely annihilated that.

"There's a welcome-to-Wrigley Field moment."

That was the call by Chicago Cubs play-by-play man Jon Sciambi on April 7 when Kyle Tucker flew out against the Texas Rangers after hitting a ball 104.6 mph with a launch angle of 29 degrees and an expected batting average of .880. Instead of clearing the fence, the ball dropped into the glove of right fielder Adolis Garcia -- courtesy of the wind, which was blowing in at 17 mph. It was Tucker's fourth game in his new home ballpark.

"That was an early one I can recall," the low-key Tucker said this week. "I hit it pretty good off of [ Nathan ] Eovaldi. It didn'

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