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WASHINGTON — Luis Arraez broke out of an 0-for-15 slide with a 5-for-5 evening that included three RBIs, elevating his main league-leading batting common from .378 to .390 and serving to the Miami Marlins beat the Washington Nationals 6-5 on Friday. ...

BOSTON -- Justin Turner has primarily blended in throughout his first season with the Red Sox, grinding out each at-bat and getting his share of key hits whereas offering the management everybody anticipated within the dugout and clubhouse. But on Friday evening, the red-bearded veteran jumped to the forefront of baseball’s most storied rivalry with an emphatic show of offense through which he compiled a double, a two-run homer and a grand slam within the first three innings of an eventual 15-5 rout over the Yankees at Fenway Park. It was fairly a show, notably for a Boston group that had been scuffling for runs and wins of late. To supervisor Alex Cora, it felt like the primary day of summer season. “Finally,” stated Cora. “I think this is probably the hottest [home] game we’ve played the...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Shohei Ohtani’s newest exploits and career-best WAR tempo, the Angels’ playoff hopes, Corbin Carroll’s physique, and Mickey Moniak’s fluky-but-fun scorching streak, then (20:55) reply listener emails about how large a scandal it will be if Ohtani turned out to be two twins, when managers would select to take in-game mulligans, and which stat ought to substitute errors within the conventional line rating, adopted by a Meet a Major Leaguer section (54:00) that includes Keaton Winn and Ricky Karcher (in addition to Joe Jacques and Stan Musial), Stat Blasts (1:18:45) about Zack Greinke and the widest pitch-speed spreads and Jo Adell and the gamers with the largest profession gaps between their Triple-A and MLB manufacturing, plus a Past Blast (1:3...

NEW YORK — Robot umpires seemingly received’t be prepared for an enormous league call-up subsequent season. Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says t...

CHICAGO -- Cubs runs got here in bunches in Friday afternoon’s 10-3 win over the Orioles at Wrigley Field. Miguel Amaya, Dansby Swanson and Christopher Morel hit a trio of solo residence runs within the third inning. Swanson and Morel went back-to-back -- marking the sixth time the Cubs have hit back-to-back dingers this season -- to provide Chicago an early 3-0 lead, and so they piled on insurance coverage runs within the sixth. In that inning, Ian Happ continued the tear he has been on because the Cubs returned residence from a 10-game highway journey. After pinch-hitter Mike Tauchman and Trey Mancini walked, Happ pinch-hit for Patrick Wisdom and plated them each with a single to proper area. Happ has logged successful in every of his final 4 video games, together with a house run Tuesda...

Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports Around this time a yr in the past, Julio Teheran left the Atlantic League’s Staten Island FerryHawks for the Mexican League’s Toros de Tijuana, a transfer that on the FerryHawks Instagram account described because the right-hander getting “one step closer back to Major League Baseball.” Those steps have been many: over the subsequent 12 months, Teheran would swimsuit up for Staten Island, Tijuana, Sultanes de Monterrey within the Mexican League, Toros del Este within the Dominican Winter League, the San Diego Padres as a non-roster spring coaching invitee, Team Colombia within the World Baseball Classic, and the Padres’ Triple-A El Paso Chihuahuas. Seven groups (from 4 completely different international locations) later, he received his MLB shot, signing in...

CHICAGO — Christopher Morel homered and drove in three runs, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Baltimore Orioles 10-3 on Friday for his or her fourth straight win. ...

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Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports The context behind the phrase “pitch tipping” has grown richer yearly. Sure, the fundamental precept nonetheless holds: a pitcher is “tipping” after they’re offering some indication of their upcoming choices. It’s simply that opponents can glean such “tips” via a constantly increasing community of avenues. Previously, the one [clears throat] authorized manner to take action was when a second-base runner or base coach picked up on a catcher’s indicators, or a beginning pitcher’s tendency to wind up in a different way for a fastball or a breaking ball. Then, with the arrival of PITCHf/x and later Trackman and Hawkeye, analysts and machine studying algorithms may seek for tricks to cue their hitters — when Pitcher A throws from a better launch level, t...

St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs hitters should work slightly more durable to match the Yankees-Red Sox slugfests from 2019 after they play in London as a result of the fences are being pushed again. ...