SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Jeff Kent typically doesn’t take calls from unknown numbers. On this occasion, he made an exception. Some time after being elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Kent found himself on his phone when he got a call from a number he didn’t recognize. Kent hadn’t talked to a robo-caller in a while, so he decided he’d take the call just for fun. “Hello?” Jeff asked. “Jeff,” the voice responded. “Jeff, this is Johnny Bench.” Suffice it to say, Kent didn’t expect the voice of one of baseball’s all-time great players to be on the other line. “I literally fell back in my chair,” Kent recollected before the Giants’ chaotic 4-2 win over the Chicago Cubs on Sunday at...
