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DETROIT — Riley Greene broke up a pitcher’s duel with a sixth-inning homer and the Detroit Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 3-0 on Thursday. Detroit‘...

LOS ANGELES -- Over the final decade, the Dodgers have often proven the power to search out an additional gear and stack up wins in some unspecified time in the future within the common season.  The 2023 Dodgers are exhibiting they’re no completely different they usually’re making fairly the assertion for the reason that calendar turned to August.  With a 6-1 win over the Rockies on Friday evening at Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles is enjoying a few of its greatest baseball of the season, successful six in a row and 10 of the final 11. Thanks to the latest surge, the Dodgers sit 23 video games over .500 and have a decent grip on the National League West standings, ending the evening 7 1/2 video games forward of the second-place Giants.  “We’re taking care of business,” stated Dodgers superviso...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Matthew Liberatore didn’t enable a run in a career-best eight innings, Andrew Knizner and Tommy Edman homered and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-2 on Thursday night time. ...

PHOENIX -- Ha-Seong Kim spent his first two Major League seasons attempting to ascertain himself. That has been emphatically achieved in 2023. Kim has was one among San Diego’s most respected gamers. In the Padres’ 10-5 victory over the D-backs on Friday night time at Chase Field, his enhancements paid off with a global distinction. Kim completed 2-for-5 with an RBI and a run, extending his hitting streak to 16 video games. Not solely is that the longest energetic hitting streak within the Majors, nevertheless it’s tied with Shin-Soo Choo for the longest MLB hitting streak by a participant born in South Korea. (Choo’s streak got here in 2013 for the Reds.) Kim mentioned he was honored to have the ability to have such an enormous accomplishment, particularly with all of the Korean gamers he...

BOSTON — James Paxton labored 5 1/3 scoreless innings and 5 Boston pitchers mixed for the seven-hit shutout because the Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 2-0 on Thursday night time. ...

CHICAGO -- Before Friday’s 10-inning, 7-6 win over the White Sox, Craig Counsell joked that it didn’t matter who the Brewers performed, it will most likely be “a low-scoring game that’s a close game.” That’s how issues have gone for his group recently. This was their third consecutive extra-inning recreation, and the second in a row received by only a run. All wins rely the identical, however within the National League Central, the place the highest three groups are separated by simply 2.5 video games within the standings, one other win might be invaluable. “It’s good that we can win all these close ballgames,” Mark Canha stated. “Because coming down the stretch, you’re going to have to win games like this. You’re going to play some stiff competition, the games are going to be close.” Sinc...

Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports The Toronto Blue Jays have devoted large sources to their rotation, spending a first-round decide on Alek Manoah, doling out large free agent contracts to Chris Bassitt and Kevin Gausman, and buying and selling the farm for José Berríos. (And then giving Berríos an enormous contract extension as properly.) But Toronto’s greatest beginning pitcher over the previous month — and in a three-way tie for the most effective pitcher in all of baseball, by WAR — has been Yusei Kikuchi, the man who couldn’t keep within the rotation a yr in the past. Kikuchi was hardly a cut price bin pickup himself; Toronto spent $36 million over three years to signal the Japanese lefty away from Seattle. But his first season north of the border couldn’t have gone worse. Kikuch...

WASHINGTON — Ildemaro Vargas homered and drove in 4 runs, Keibert Ruiz went deep at house for the primary time since May and the Washington Nationals defeated the Oakland Athletics 8-2 on Friday night time. ...

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David Richard-USA TODAY Sports Another week, one other likelihood to go searching baseball and see one thing that amazes you. That’s a part of what I like in regards to the sport: bizarre issues are all the time taking place. As all the time, I famous a couple of that notably tickled my fancy, and now I’m going to jot down a bunch of phrases about them within the hope that you just like them too. Shout out, per normal, to Zach Lowe, who got here up with this concept for a column years in the past and have become my favourite basketball author in consequence. Let’s get going. 1. Cavan Biggio’s Instinctual BrillianceWhen the Jays’ trio of legacy-admission prospects had been breaking into the majors, I used to be highest on Cavan Biggio relative to trade consensus. I’ve undoubtedly been ...