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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cole Ragans pitched out of hassle for six spotless innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets 4-0 on Wednesday evening for his or her fifth consecutive victory, extending their longest profitable streak in additional than two years. ...

Cade Marlowe hits grand slam to stun Angels n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"The Mariners had been all the way down to a division-rival who, had they pulled off the win, would have moved a half-game forward of Seattle within the AL Wild Card standings. Entering the ninth inning, Statcast gave the Angels a 93% Win Probability. The Mariners (57-52) are 2 1/2 games back of the final AL Wild Card spot. nnMarlowe, who is just two weeks into his MLB career, was clearly not fazed by the moment.nn“That’s what it’s all about: helping the team win,” Marlowe said about his late-inning heroics. “It was awesome for the guys i...

NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton homered and drove in 4 runs to guide Gerrit Cole and the New York Yankees previous the Tampa Bay Rays 7-2 on Wednesday evening, stopping a three-game sweep. ...

ST. LOUIS -- At final, some run assist got here for Sonny Gray -- and he greater than took care of the remainder. Hard as it could be to imagine primarily based on Gray’s 3.18 ERA and clear invoice of well being all season, the All-Star right-hander had one way or the other gone winless since April 30, a puzzling streak that lastly ended on Thursday together with his seven glowing innings in a 5-3 Twins victory that clinched a wanted collection win towards the National League Central’s last-place Cardinals. “My last start, somebody asked if you’re aware of it, and I was like, ‘Yes I am aware of it,’” Gray stated. “It does, it feels nice to get your name next to a ‘W.’ More importantly, it feels nice to win a series after coming out and playing well the first game, [then] dropping the middl...

MIAMI — Jesús Sánchez hit a bases-loaded single with no outs within the twelfth inning because the Miami Marlins rallied from a five-run deficit and got here again twice in additional innings for a 9-8 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night time in a matchup of NL wild-card contenders. ...

ANAHEIM -- Two-way famous person Shohei Ohtani cruised by means of 4 scoreless innings and displayed larger than common velocity towards the Mariners on Thursday evening at Angel Stadium, however he was faraway from his begin with cramping in his proper hand and fingers. He was changed by reliever José Soriano within the fifth inning. Ohtani, who handled a blister/fingernail problem for 3 straight outings from July 4-21, threw a one-hit shutout towards the Tigers in his earlier begin on July 27. Ohtani confirmed no signal of any points earlier than being taken out of the sport, and batted within the fourth inning, drawing a stroll and advancing to 3rd on a two-out single. He additionally singled within the first inning and was deliberately walked within the sixth. Ohtani additionally handl...

Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports Well, that’s the top of that. The commerce deadline has come and gone, and no matter groups have is, effectively, no matter they’re going to have for the stretch run. My colleague Ben Clemens has already carried out the normal look on the winners and losers of the deadline, so now it’s the flip of ZiPS, as I do yearly afterwards. This is a really focused look, in that ZiPS isn’t actually whether or not groups did an excellent job on a common degree, solely how the deadline impacts their 2023 possibilities. So a crew just like the Mets rating on the backside isn’t a mirrored image on their competence, however how the deadline modified their postseason chance. The methodology is straightforward. I challenge the remainder of the season (after the video game...

TORONTO — Jack Flaherty pitched six innings to win his Baltimore debut, Ryan Mountcastle and Austin Hays every had 4 hits and the American League-leading Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-1 on Thursday. ...

Justin Verlander on returning to Astros in Trade Deadline deal n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"Verlander, 40, will make his first begin in 2023 for the Astros on Saturday at Yankee Stadium -- his first begin in a Houston uniform since Game 5 of final yr’s World Series.nn“I never got a player back this soon,” supervisor Dusty Baker mentioned. “I was glad to see him. He looked real strong and in good shape. He was a good friend of mine.”nnVerlander final pitched in New York for the Mets on Sunday and beat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium in his earlier begin 5 days earlier. He nonetheless has an condo in New York, ho...

Kyle Ross-USA TODAY Sports Watching the ebbs and flows of Christian Yelich’s profession has been very attention-grabbing. From 2018 to 2019, he was top-of-the-line gamers in baseball, profitable the NL MVP in 2018 and inserting second within the voting the next 12 months. He was sending balls to the moon like he by no means had earlier than (a few of which may have owed to the livelier ball, however Yelich additionally hit the ball very onerous these years, and continues to). Then from 2020 to 2022, he was simply a median dude. He had a 108 wRC+ over that span, swatting simply 35 dwelling runs and accruing 4.4 whole WAR. Typically, I’d say {that a} participant like Yelich already has a blueprint for achievement. Faced with a number of down seasons, his focus must be on regaining the t...