Cubs ring taken off auction market

Momento from 2016 Series win pulled by team

An official 2016 Chicago Cubs World Series ring that was offered for sale on an auction website was taken off the market.

Leland’s Auctions said Monday that it removed the ring from the auction at the request of the Cubs and “due to a contractual issue.”

The team initially raised questions about the ring’s authenticity. Cubs spokesman Julian Green later said the team worked with Leland’s to verify the ring was genuine and given to a scout.

Green says the Cubs have “identified the scout who no longer works for the ballclub.” The scout’s name wasn’t on the auction listing. Green says the ring “was not authorized for sale per the contract with associates.”

The ring had 214 diamonds. The team’s championship ended a 108-year drought.

Dodgers

Shortstop Corey Seager has not resumed baseball activity, and his sprained lower back kept him from traveling with the team Tuesday to Game 3 of the NLCS. Manager Dave Roberts indicated Seager has experienced “continuing improvement” since receiving a painkilling epidural last week. Even so, Roberts does not expect Seager to meet the team at Wrigley Field at any point over the next three games. “We’ve got to get him in a place where physically he feels like he can play in a big-league game, and endure those conditions, as far as weather,” Roberts said. “To be able to come back after a game and play the next day. Right now, I wouldn’t say we’re close to that point yet.”

Brewers

Milwaukee minor leaguer Julio Mendez made what the team calls a “remarkable recovery” from a serious injury after being hit in the chest by a pitch. Mendez was on life support for more than three weeks after getting hit in a Rookie League game on Aug. 26 in Tempe, Arizona. General manager David Stearns said that Mendez has taken significant-steps over the past few weeks to the point where he is performing many daily activities with little assistance.

Astros

A.J. Hinch said managers should ignore the heat and not tweet. Chicago’s Joe Maddon was criticized on social media for not using closer Wade Davis as the Cubs fell behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0, in the National League Championship Series. “When it doesn’t work out, it’s a public slaying on Twitter,” Hinch said Monday. “I would encourage any young manager to get off Twitter. It’s not healthy.”

Elsewhere

Daniel Webb, a former relief pitcher for the White Sox, died in an ATV accident. He was 28. Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis said Webb died Saturday night. Davis also said Webb’s wife and two other people sustained “significant injuries” in the accident, about 70 miles west of Nashville, Tenn.