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Over the staff’s opening homestand, he recorded RBI hits on many reduced breaking pitches — the type he accustomed to foul off or swing by means of entirely.Anything was brilliant then. But then the bullpen struggled in Phoenix and far in the lineup went cold, such as Castellanos, who went hitless in his remaining 23 at-bats with the sequence.