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PHILADELPHIA -- When Cristian Pache landed on the injured listing in mid-July, the Phillies turned to 22-year-old Johan Rojas to select up the slack. The plan, on the time, was easy: Rojas would merely fill Pache's function because the fourth outfielder. That meant beginning in middle discipline towards southpaws instead of the left-handed-hitting Brandon Marsh -- who was positioned on the 10-day injured listing with a left knee contusion previous to Sunday's 8-4 win over the Royals at Citizens Bank Park -- whereas additionally offering a late-game choice as both a pinch-runner or defensive alternative. And given the timing, it additionally supplied a 2 1/2-week window forward of the Aug. 1 Trade Deadline for the Phillies to showcase Rojas' skillset as a possible commerce chip. Rojas, none...

BALTIMORE — Kyle Bradish and 4 relievers mixed on a four-hitter, and the Baltimore Orioles accomplished a three-game sweep of the New York Mets with a 2-0 victory Sunday. ...

Dylan Crews, the No. 2 total decide of this 12 months's Draft who drilled 58 dwelling runs over three seasons at Louisiana State, belted his first dinger as a member of the Washington Nationals group on Sunday. The lengthy ball -- estimated at 416 ft with a 105 mph exit velocity -- got here in his ninth skilled plate look and third professional recreation, second with Single-A Fredericksburg. Crews comes into the professional recreation with a 70-grade hit instrument and 60-grade energy. The 21-year-old outfielder agreed to phrases with the Nationals (for $9 million, the second-highest bonus for a drafted participant all-time) on July 23, then debuted with a 3-for-3 displaying within the Florida Complex League on Thursday. "It’s all happening so fast for sure. It’s hard to kind of soak eve...

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Phillies positioned outfielder Brandon Marsh on the 10-day injured record on Sunday with a left knee contusion. Mars...

Bryce Harper reunites boy along with his household n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"Bryce Harper to the rescue!nnThe Phillies celebrity went into full dad mode when he noticed a crying younger fan previous to Philadelphia’s recreation in opposition to the Royals at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday night. According to Taryn Hatcher of NBC Sports Philadelphia, the boy had gotten separated from his brothers whereas collaborating within the Phillies’ photograph evening promotion, a chance for followers to line up alongside the sting of the sphere to satisfy and take footage with Phils gamers and coaches.nnHarper, who h...

BOSTON — Red Sox outfielder Alex Verdugo returned to the beginning lineup for Sunday’s recreation towards Toronto, a day after he was benched by supervisor Alex Cora. ...

CINCINNATI -- The field rating of the Nationals' 7-3 win over the Reds on Saturday afternoon will inform you a large number. It will inform you that Washington scored six runs off NL Rookie of the Year candidate Andrew Abbott. It will inform you that Lane Thomas went 2-for-4 with two RBIs to proceed his domination of the Reds. It will inform you that Joan Adon pitched a high quality begin, struck out seven and earned the win. It gained’t inform you that for five 2/3 innings on Saturday at Great American Ball Park, Adon was excellent. Against all odds, the right-hander, who entered the sport with a profession 6.72 ERA, retired the primary 17 batters he confronted earlier than permitting two singles and a house run and ending his day by inducing a groundout. “Curveball was great, changeup wa...

On Saturday evening, he earned one. Turner despatched the sold-out crowd at Citizens Bank Park right into a frenzy with a go-ahead three-run homer within the sixth inning of the Phillies' 9-6 win vs. the Royals. The hometown followers had as soon as once more welcomed him to the plate with a loud ovation, however following his journey across the bases, they solely grew louder till he emerged from the first-base dugout for a curtain name. “Curtain calls are special,” Turner stated. “I like watching other teammates do it, not necessarily being the guy up there, but it means you did something good or something big in a big moment. It was fun.” Trailing by one with two on and no one out, Turner jumped throughout a first-pitch sinker from Royals reliever Angel Zerpa for his first dwelling run s...

Jackson Jobe has added a cutter to the facility arsenal that helps make him one of many high pitching prospects within the Detroit Tigers system. Every bit as importantly, he’s returned to full well being following a again ailment that landed him on the shelf from early April to mid June. The recently-turned 21-year-old right-hander had incurred an L5 (i.e. backside left vertebra) stress fracture, an harm he attributed to “rotating fast and throwing hard at a young age when I wasn’t really strong enough to support that.” The pitch now augmenting his fastball/slider/changeup mixture was portended in a dialog I had with him final August. As his second full skilled season was concluding, Jobe advised me that he needed to develop one thing new, “probably a cutter,” and he went on to just ...

The shortstop went 4-for-5 with a house run and a pair of infield singles in a 9-4 win over Portland -- all because the youngest participant within the Eastern League at 19 years previous. It's simply the most recent instance of baseball's No. 1 prospect exhibiting off all 5 of his above-average instruments, which is one thing the Orioles, and baseball followers normally, shall be used to quickly sufficient. "It's more of the same. I'm really impressed with him," Baysox supervisor Kyle Moore stated. "The man's simply bought all of the instruments. Tonight, the pace instrument confirmed greater than others. But he made a fantastic defensive play final night time. He made a very nice adjustment on a extremely hard-hit ball at him tonight defensively. It's enjoyable to observe him, and it is ...