SF Giants’ top prospect Eldridge gets encouragement from idols in blowout loss to Team USA

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Bryce Eldridge’s prevailing memories from the Giants’ exhibition Tuesday against Team USA will not be the result, a 15-1 thrashing by the United States. It likely won’t be his impressive diving play, nor will it be turning a Paul Skenes fastball into a 111.9-mph, 396-foot line drive, albeit one that found Byron Buxton’s glove.

For Eldridge, the moments that will resonate most years from now will be the conversations he had with a pair of future Hall of Famers, both...