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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the three Taylor Wards, the reality and a number of untruths about Elly De La Cruz’s twin brother, the dominance of 20-year-old Eury Pérez and the Marlins’ utilization dilemma, Luis Arraez’s plate predictions, MVP odds, and underestimation as a prospect, the Mets’ struggles and Buck Showalter’s morbid thoughts, the Orioles’ prospect cornucopia, the debut of part-time knuckleballer Matt Waldron, the Angels’ odd collection loss and infield trades, how Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani are like Woody and Buzz from Toy Story, why the anti-shift guidelines are rising strikeouts, whether or not it’s dangerous for baseball that Rob Manfred acknowledged remorse about his dealing with of the sign-stealing scandal, and the most recent signal of the s...

J.D. Martinez hits three hundredth profession dwelling run n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"The Dodgers have gotten used to celebrating particular person accomplishments in 2023. Earlier this season, Clayton Kershaw, who exited Tuesday’s sport with an undisclosed ailment after six dominant innings, was honored with a champagne toast by his teammates when reaching the 200-win mark. Freddie Freeman received the identical remedy final month when he, too, hit his 300th homer. On Sunday, Freeman was toasted again after his 2,000th hit.nnOn Tuesday, it was Martinez’s flip to be celebrated. Mookie Betts, w...

ARLINGTON -- Ezequiel Duran stopped and stared because the ball flew off his bat, admiring his handiwork Tuesday evening at Globe Life Field. The 24-year-old deserved to admire it a bit contemplating the battle he confronted towards Detroit reliever Brendan White.   After going up 2-1 within the depend in his eighth-inning plate look, Duran fouled off six pitches, earlier than taking the tenth pitch he noticed for a ball. Then fouled off another earlier than lastly getting a sweeper close to the center of the zone that he may drive into the second deck of left-field stands.   The solo shot broke open a tied sport towards the Tigers and propelled the Rangers to an 8-3 win over Detroit to even the four-game set in Arlington.  “It was a little hard,” Duran stated of the 12-pitch at-bat. “[I w...

KANSAS CITY -- With Guardians supervisor Terry Francona’s medical historical past, he is aware of it’s higher to be protected than sorry. So, when he began to really feel unwell previous to Tuesday’s sport in Kansas City, he determined to step apart from managing for the night time. Francona was checked out by personnel at Kauffman Stadium previous to first pitch on Tuesday. The plan can be for the 64-year-old skipper to endure further testing all through the night at The University of Kansas Health System to guarantee that he’s OK to get again within the dugout. Bench coach DeMarlo Hale took over the managing duties in Francona’s place. After Cleveland’s 2-1 victory over the Royals, the Guardians mentioned Francona could be saved in a single day on the native hospital for statement. The s...

PHOENIX -- For Evan Longoria, it doesn’t really feel like that way back that he was sporting his No. 3 Rays uniform. But just a few issues make it appear that method. It has been 5 1/2 years for the reason that deal that despatched Longoria from Tampa Bay to San Francisco. He’s now with the D-backs, the second workforce he’s performed for since that commerce. And when the Rays arrived at Chase Field on Tuesday, there have been no gamers of their clubhouse who performed alongside Longoria; other than supervisor Kevin Cash and hitting coach Chad Mottola, solely rehabbing reliever Andrew Kittredge overlapped with him. This is simply the second time that the franchise’s biggest participant has confronted the membership he represented from 2008-17, because the Rays beforehand performed Longoria...

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports If you’re like me, this 12 months’s bumper crop of pitching prospect debuts has overwhelmed you. I write about baseball for a residing, and it nonetheless will get to be an excessive amount of for me generally. Mason Miller, Bryce Miller, Taj Bradley, Bobby Miller, Grayson Rodriguez, Andrew Abbott, Michael Grove… you possibly can virtually make a whole beginning rotation simply out of Millers. Some of those debuts have been spectacular. Some have been lackluster. Some are works in progress. It’s exhausting to inform what’s actual and what’s hype. That leads me to Eury Pérez, our prime pitching prospect and maybe probably the most anticipated debut of the 12 months. It’s simple to equate all debuts, or at the very least to think about them as fairly comparab...

Kris Craig / USA TODAY NETWORK Roch Cholowsky is likely one of the high highschool shortstop prospects within the 2023 draft class, and one of many few potential first-rounders to do the total battery of drills finally week’s MLB Draft Combine. Attending the mix was unusually handy for Cholowsky, who went to highschool in Chandler, Arizona, lower than half an hour from Chase Field. It’s a really, superb place for a younger ballplayer to develop up. In the suburbs east of Phoenix you’ll discover six groups’ spring coaching complexes, plus Arizona State. This a part of the world has no scarcity of high-quality baseball infrastructure, and is crawling with scouts looking out for the subsequent Gold Glove shortstop. “Moving here was the best decision my parents ever made,” Cholowsky says...

The governing physique for the National Letter of Intent Program on Tuesday introduced new insurance policies permitting athletes to again out of NLI agreements with out penalty beneath sure circumstances. ...

Alek Manoah’s gorgeous 2023 season took one other sudden flip Tuesday in his first recreation within the Florida Complex League. Pitching in a Minor League recreation for the primary time for the reason that Blue Jays optioned him to their advanced in Dunedin, Fla., following a tough begin to the season, Manoah allowed 11 runs on 10 hits (together with two residence runs) over simply 2 2/3 innings in Tampa in opposition to the Yankees' FCL affiliate. “The things that we were talking about, in terms of strike throwing, delivery, tempo, velocity, was all positive,” stated supervisor John Schneider. “The rest of the stuff, you can take it with a grain of salt. You factor today into it, but we’re very pleased with the work that he’s put in. Results aside today, the stuff that we’ve been talkin...

Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports Say this for Jordan Walker: He is aware of the way to put collectively a hitting streak. The 21-year-old rookie has solely performed in 39 main league video games, and in that temporary period of time has recorded two streaks — a career-opening 12-gamer and now a 15-gamer — that collectively account for greater than two-thirds of that run. His bat has immediately change into a vivid spot in an in any other case irritating season for the Cardinals. Indeed, the reigning NL Central champions stay a scorching mess regardless of profitable 5 of their final seven video games and salvaging a break up within the London Series in opposition to the Cubs after being spanked 9–1 within the opener. The Cardinals have nonetheless been worse in June (7–13) than May (...