Even in a Bad Week, Baseball Has Plenty of Bright Spots To go by the ominous headlines and warnings of 100-game suspensions for 20 or more players, last week was sobering for Major League Baseball. There is no question about the seriousness of the scandal involving a defunct anti-aging clinic in Florida and the revelation that its owner, Anthony Bosch, will cooperate with baseball's investigation. But - to paraphrase a famous Chicago Cubs fan named Ferris Bueller - the game moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Just as the latest steroids firestorm started raging last week, the game on the field was filled with fascinating little moments and story lines that showed why we care so much in the first place. The Los Angeles Dodgers, sluggish all season despite having the National League's highest payroll, unveiled their $42 million Cuban right fielder, Yasiel Puig, in an otherwise sleepy series against the San Diego Padres. Puig, 22, ended his debut on Monday by catching a ball on the warning track and making a throw - on the fly - to double a runner off first. In his second game, he hit two home runs. After going hitless the next night, he belted a grand slam against Atlanta in his fourth game and a game-tying homer in his next. The Dodgers won four of the five. "It's just infectious the way he plays," Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly told reporters. Seems like there's a joy in his game. It's the way you're supposed to play. The Philadelphia Phillies have waited much longer for a young outfielder to break out. Domonic Brown, 25, made his debut in 2010 but just now seems to have arrived. After winning the N.L."s player of the month award for May, when he ripped 12 home runs, Brown homered in three of his first five games in June. Yet Brown's homers were not the most memorable of the week for the Phillies. Those came from John Mayberry Jr., who smashed a game-tying shot in the 10th inning against Miami on Tuesday, then followed up with a game-ending grand slam in the 11th. Mayberry became the first player since Baltimore's Mike Young in 1987 to hit two homers in extra innings - and just like Young in that game, Mayberry was not even in the starting lineup. For sheer extra-inning zaniness, though, it was hard to top Wednesday's thriller in Seattle, where the Mariners and the White Sox started with 13 scoreless innings before combining for 10 runs in the 14th. After Chicago scored five times in the top of the inning, Seattle answered with five in the bottom, the last four on a two-out, two-strike grand slam by Kyle Seager. Incredibly, Seager's homer was the first game-tying, extra-inning grand slam in major league history. But the White Sox won, 7-5, in a 16-inning game that took so long (5 hours 42 minutes) that Chicago Manager Robin Ventura was not even around to see the end. Ventura left early to catch a flight to California for his daughter's high school graduation. The next night, in Boston, David Ortiz hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning to finish a 6-3 victory by the Red Sox over the Texas Rangers. It was the 11th game-ending home run of Ortiz's career, two shy of Jim Thome's major league record. Breaking the record may not be easy, though; Thursday's was the first game-ending homer for Ortiz in almost four years. For Ortiz, it was a better ending to his night than the one on Tuesday. That night, he came to bat with two outs in the eighth and the Red Sox leading, 17-5. Ortiz swung hard but flied out on a 76-mile-per-hour pitch - from an outfielder, David Murphy, who was mopping up on the mound for the Rangers. Even so, Ortiz could still leave Fenway Park that night with a sense of accomplishment. He had managed to end a personal streak of 284 games without a triple. Power, Now With Patience When Indians Manager Terry Francona called Mark Reynolds last winter to recruit him to play for Cleveland, Reynolds, a corner infielder, told Francona he was worried about being platooned. I'm like, What are you, nuts? Francona said last week, recalling the conversation. He hits about 40 homers. Actually, Reynolds has hit 40 home runs just once - he hit 44 for Arizona in 2009, which was also the season he struck out 223 times, breaking a record he had set the year before, with 204. Adam Dunn struck out 222 times in 2012, and he sat out the final game of the season so he would not pass Reynolds for the record.