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That's his reward for playing harder.

Seriously, and I've posed this before, I've been of the view that--under previous leadership regime--Soriano had some kind of understanding with management that to protect his bad legs/knees he could take it a bit easy on certain kind of plays and base running situations.  At one point, he was valuable enough that it wasn't worth an injury that could be avoided.  Not true under current regime and standing.  Just a guess.

I have yet to see an instance this year where Soriano hasn't played hard.  Whatever the new regime has or has not accomplished, they certainly seem to have motivated Soriano.

Bryan LaHair leads off the Cubs second with a single up the middle extending his on-base streak to 27 games.

The game is still scoreless.

Starlin Castro out trying for an inside the park homer.  I'm sure he wouldn't have been sent if there weren't two outs.

Replay showed he did not run all-out until the ball dropped and got past the RF.

Does an inside the park homer count count towards BABIP?

That looked off the bat to be a certain RBI single.