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SAN DIEGO -- Maybe -- simply possibly -- this time it’s for actual. The Padres have tantalized earlier than this season. They’ve unleashed their starpower earlier than, and so they’ve appeared like a workforce constructed for a deep October run. Seriously; they've -- they merely haven’t performed it fairly often, and once they have, they’ve typically adopted it with even longer stretches of inconsistent play and underperformance. So maybe it’s price taking all this with a requisite grain of salt. But the Padres swept the Angels at Petco Park this week, punctuating the sequence with a tense 5-3 victory. They gained large, and so they gained small. In the method, they earned their first sweep of a sequence lasting at the least three video games this season and their first sweep at Petco Park...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - All-Star middle fielder Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels had surgical procedure on his fractured left wrist Wednesday, two days after he was injured fouling off a pitch. ...

LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts stopped wanting saying his pitching workers, due to accidents and up to date utilization, is limping into the All-Star break. But that’s precisely what’s occurring.  Over the following few weeks and months, the Dodgers are hoping to get reinforcements on that facet of the ball. One space Los Angeles hasn’t needed to fear about this season is an offense that ranks among the many league’s greatest in nearly each class. “It’s been really impressive,” Roberts stated of the offense. “I think if you look at our lineup, it’s been very top-heavy. But as of late, the guys from six through nine, namely David and Jason [Heyward], have really picked us up.” What has been spectacular concerning the Dodgers’ offense is that they have proven the power to har...

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports Top Prospects Series Below is an evaluation of the prospects within the farm system of the San Diego Padres. Scouting studies had been compiled with info supplied by trade sources in addition to my very own observations. This is the third 12 months we’re delineating between two anticipated aid roles, the abbreviations for which you’ll see within the “position” column beneath: MIRP for multi-inning aid pitchers, and SIRP for single-inning aid pitchers. The ETAs listed typically correspond to the 12 months a participant needs to be added to the 40-man roster to keep away from being made eligible for the Rule 5 draft. Manual changes are made the place they appear applicable, however I take advantage of that as a rule of thumb. A fast overview of what ...

Cincinnati Reds rookie Elly De La Cruz pointed on the knob of his bat after hitting a 455-foot homer at Washington on Wednesday night time in a reference to the removing of a masking earlier within the recreation. ...

Many Phillies followers have in all probability expressed such a sentiment in the course of the 2023 season. On Wednesday evening in opposition to the Rays, there was one other glimpse of the harm Philadelphia’s lineup can do when every thing goes as deliberate. The Phillies pounded out 17 hits -- most of which got here screaming off the bat -- in an 8-4 victory at Tropicana Field. In the method, they handed the Rays simply their second collection loss at residence this 12 months and improved their highway profitable streak to 11 video games, the third longest in franchise historical past. “Every inning, you’ve got guys on base, putting pressure on,” Turner stated. “There’s never an easy out, and I think today, that’s what allowed us to win this game. We just kept grinding them out, one th...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about whether or not Mike Trout‘s injury makes the Angels more likely to trade birthday boy Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’ rotation depth with out Dustin May and Clayton Kershaw, unhealthy information for Thairo Estrada and folks Nelson Cruz and Adam Wainwright (and the Cruz/Joe Ryan commerce revisited), James Paxton‘s comeback, Mariners All-Star additions, Jordan Walker’s unusual season, the arrival of the most recent Orioles prospect, Colton Cowser, and extra. Then (47:53) they reply listener emails about Triston Casas and assessing participant growth, a Jack within the Box baseball supply, a foolish ending to a minor league sport, baseball references (or the shortage thereof) in Fall Out Boy’s model of “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” a ball that will be...

NEW YORK — A cameraman was injured Wednesday night time at Yankee Stadium when he was hit within the head by a wild throw from Baltimore Orioles rookie shortstop Gunnar Henderson. ...

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Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports Mookie Betts ended June the best way he started it, by main off the Dodgers’ half of the primary inning with a homer, then including one other afterward as one in every of his three further hits. He bookended his month by doing so in opposition to the Yankees in Los Angeles on June 2, then in opposition to the Royals in Kansas City on June 30. Along the best way, he added an extra 5 homers, boosting his season whole to 22 (he hit his twenty third on Tuesday evening in opposition to the Pirates), and he’s remained sizzling as July has begun. Not surprisingly, he’ll be the National League’s beginning lineup in subsequent week’s All-Star Game. Betts has been on a leadoff homer binge this season. Just previous the halfway level, he’s hit 9 already, togeth...