“I mean, a long day in general,” Hicks told reporters. “But obviously I got fully hot [before the delay] and ran on the field and felt really good to go. Then they pulled the tarp, I came back in, sat for an hour, got hot again, and didn’t really have my legs and didn’t know where the zone was.”

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