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CHICAGO — The Washington Nationals positioned right-hander Paolo Espino on the 15-day injured listing on Wednesday with a finger damage. The Nationa...

BALTIMORE -- The rebuild? That’s previously. The postseason push? It was already on. The battle for the American League East crown? Well, that’s clearly removed from over. Because on Wednesday afternoon, the Orioles -- one of the vital thrilling, younger, up-and-coming groups within the sport -- moved right into a tie for first place with the Rays within the hardest, best division in MLB. Fittingly sufficient, it’s now time for the highest two groups within the AL East to satisfy once more in one of many greatest collection of the season to date starting Thursday evening at Tropicana Field. The marquee stage was set Wednesday, when Baltimore once more averted being swept for the primary time this season by beating the Dodgers, 8-5, at Camden Yards. Shortly after that sport concluded, Tampa...

Kevin Sousa-USA TODAY Sports If you’ve watched The Brady Bunch, Family Ties, Community, or just about some other sitcom, I’m positive you’re conversant in the “two dates to the dance” trope. The premise is precisely what it seems like, and antics are assured to ensue. It virtually all the time ends in catastrophe, and the wannabe Lothario learns their lesson. If that they had solely picked a single date, they could have had a stunning night. Instead, as Confucius says, “The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.” It’s not simply TV characters who attempt to pull this off; among the most prevalent baseball statistics are responsible of double courting, too. In explicit, I’m speaking in regards to the stats that attempt to courtroom the analytics crowd and extra traditionally-mind...

BALTIMORE — Ramón Urías drove in three runs with a pair of doubles, Gunnar Henderson homered and scored three runs and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-5 on Wednesday to keep away from what would have been their first time getting swept in 14 months. ...

Some entrance workplaces across the league are working across the clock to bolster their rosters for the stretch run, whereas others are on the lookout for the perfect potential offers to assist construct for the long run. Some golf equipment may have a couple of gap to fill, however right here’s a take a look at essentially the most obvious want for every of these groups inside seven video games of a spot. (Note: Although a number of groups are more likely to pursue a number of the similar gamers, every participant listed as a possible match was used solely as soon as.) Blue Jays: Starting pitching Even with the return of Alek Manoah and Hyun-Jin Ryu on his means again from Tommy John surgical procedure, Toronto’s rotation depth is way from best. Adding a starter would assist Toronto in i...

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports The highway has been lengthy for Adbert Alzolay. Signed as a world free agent out of San Felix, Venezuela in 2012, the right-hander labored his means diligently by way of the Cubs’ minor league system as a starter, making houses in all places from Eugene, Oregon to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and finally rising as excessive as second on the Cubs’ prospect listing as a 22-year-old in 2018, Wrigley squarely in sight. Since then, accidents have plagued him: first a lat harm ended his 2018 season that May, then extra core problems that delayed the beginning of his 2019 marketing campaign, and most just lately, one other lat problem that price him almost all of final 12 months, limiting him to solely six late-season outings out of the bullpen. This spring, hav...

SEATTLE — Frustrated and shut down by All-Star Sonny Gray for the primary 4 innings, the Seattle Mariners modified their strategy to resolve one of many high pitchers within the American League. ...

Philles right-handed pitcher Andrew Painter has been present process conservative administration for a proper elbow partial ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) damage since March 2. While he was in a position to return to throwing bullpens and follow-up imaging has proven interval therapeutic in his elbow, over the previous couple of weeks, he continues to be symptomatic upon examination. Considering the timing of the season and that Painter continues to be experiencing signs, the Phillies medical workers has advisable he endure a proper elbow UCL reconstruction with ulnar nerve transposition surgical procedure. Painter has a surgical session with Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Monday in Los Angeles. Content Source: www.mlb.com

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports For the subsequent two weeks, we’re going to spend so much of time and vitality debating Shohei Ohtani’s commerce market, simply in case the Angels proceed to backslide and Arte Moreno might be extricated from his fortress of solitude and cajoled into buying and selling his franchise participant. And it must be so; Ohtani is essentially the most fascinating participant in baseball, and as soon as the commerce deadline passes, I’m positive we’ll transfer on to speaking about the place he’ll land subsequent yr and what number of lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} he’ll earn over the subsequent decade. But Ohtani will not be the one free-agent-to-be who’s enjoying out the string on a disappointing staff. As a lot because the Angels are taking over w...

ANAHEIM, Calif.— Even with fixed questions on his future, Shohei Ohtani continues to provide at an incredible clip for the Los Angeles Angels. The t...