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Rockies prime prospect Zac Veen has season-ending left wrist surgical procedure n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"Rockies participant growth director Chris Forbes acknowledged the surgical procedure, and the truth that Veen’s injured wrist had been a long-term downside.nnVeen’s agent, Jason Romano, stated the surgical procedure was to the extensor capri ulnaris (ECU) tendon within the left wrist -- the highest hand in Veen’s left-handed-hitting swing.nn“He just lost all kind of ability to stay through the ball, because the top hand just gives out and gets weak,” Romano stated.nnUnable to supply energ...

Ketel Marte hit a three-run homer over Washington’s bullpen in proper area, main the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 5-3 win Thursday after Nationals supervisor Dave Martinez was ejected for complaining about umpire Doug Eddings’ strike zone. ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- What occurs when an unstoppable power meets an immovable object? One potential final result of the traditional paradox unfolded as the Padres thumped the Giants, 10-0, to salvage the sequence finale at Oracle Park. San Francisco's offense had been relentless through the workforce's 10-game profitable streak that got here to a halt Thursday, averaging eight runs per recreation in that span and refusing to go away within the late innings. Enter Blake Snell because the stopper. The left-hander stored his tear on the mound going by dousing the red-hot Giants with ice water, dazzling with six shutout frames. "They're a big league team, so I look at them in that sense," Snell mentioned. "I maintain 'em proper there. I do not make them higher than they're, worse than they're. The...

With the information that the Washington Nationals and the Baltimore Orioles have reached an settlement on one portion of their long-disputed MASN tv rights deal, the highway to the sale of the Nationals — probably to Wizards and Capitals proprietor Transparent Ted Leonsis — has had one vital roadblock eliminated. ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Ronald Acuña Jr. gained’t be concerned in Phase 2 of this yr’s All-Star balloting as a result of he has already been chosen to once more function one of many National League’s beginning outfielders at this yr’s Midsummer Classic. Acuña obtained extra votes than every other MLB participant throughout Phase 1 of the balloting course of, which ended Thursday afternoon. This marks the third consecutive yr the Braves outfielder has garnered extra votes than every other NL participant. He joins Hank Aaron (1970 and ’71) and Dale Murphy ('85) as the one Braves to ever garner probably the most votes within the balloting course of. Acuña outpolled American League poll chief Shohei Ohtani, 3,082,600-2,646,307. Each is assured a spot within the beginning lineup as the highest vote-get...

NEW YORK — Two-way star Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels and Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. have been elected Thursday to begin within the July 11 All-Star Game at Seattle’s Safeco Field. ...

CLEVELAND -- Guardians followers haven’t been used to seeing their favourite gamers hit balls on the nook of Carnegie and Ontario the final couple of years like Josh Bell did on Thursday afternoon. In Cleveland’s 6-1 victory over the A’s at Progressive Field, which marked the staff’s first collection sweep of the season, Bell bought his staff on the scoreboard with a monstrous solo homer that flew effectively over the heads of these standing within the left discipline concourse. It additionally marked his five hundredth profession RBI. The blastBell stepped into the field with nobody on and one out within the backside of the fifth. A’s starter JP Sears fired a first-pitch sweeper that clocked in at 80.8 mph on the within nook of the plate. Bell took benefit of the placement, swinging his h...

Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY Sports Jordan Romano is likely one of the greatest closers in baseball, however you wouldn’t realize it from perusing your common sports web page. He’s a quiet star, within the mildly pejorative sense usually implied by “quiet” — not well-enough recognized, not well-enough talked about, in some way missing in no matter je ne sais quoi that makes you a star. Here’s the factor, although: that’s foolish. At FanGraphs, we attempt to keep away from that very mind-set, and but we’ve written nearly nothing about Romano previously few years. An interview right here, a hockey anecdote there, the occasional fantasy piece — it’s not what you’d anticipate from a man on the high of the bullpen hierarchy for a playoff staff. I’m not kidding myself; this text is Canadian fan s...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says if he might do it over once more, he could not have granted immunity to Houston Astros gamers whereas investigating the crew’s sign-stealing scandal. ...

Byron Buxton is not any stranger to hitting monster homers, however what he did on Thursday towards the Red Sox was new even for him. With a pair of large residence runs at Target Field, Buxton grew to become the primary participant within the Statcast Era (since 2015) to hit a number of 460-plus-foot residence runs in the identical recreation.  Buxton's first megablast got here within the first inning off Justin Garza, a 466-foot solo shot down the left-field line that rocketed off the bat at 112.2 mph. Homer No. 2 was simply as spectacular, hovering 465 toes to left-center area within the third inning off Red Sox rookie Brandon Walter with a 111.9 mph exit velocity. Before Thursday, solely 4 gamers had even hit a number of 450-plus foot homers in a recreation earlier than: Austin Riley (...