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Rangers calling up prime pitching prospect Owen White (report)
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Rangers calling up prime pitching prospect Owen White (report)

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Nick Castellanos Is Mashing Once more
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Nick Castellanos Is Mashing Once more

Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports When I final checked in on Nick Castellanos, he was not in an excellent place. Though he was taking part in in a World Series with the Phillies, the group with which he signed a five-year, $100 million contract after the lockout led to March, his season had been a disappointment, and other than the occasional huge hit right here and highlight-reel catch there — the latter class of which had appeared notably unlikely given his defensive metrics — his postseason had been bleak as properly, proper all the way down to his making the ultimate out in Games 5 and 6 of the World Series because the Phillies fell to the Astros. Fortunately, after turning the web page on 2022, Castellanos has reemerged as one of many Phillies’ best hitters. When the Phillies sign...
Karcher earns save in debut to recollect
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Karcher earns save in debut to recollect

KANSAS CITY -- For their National League-leading twenty first come-from-behind win of the season, the Reds needed to attain down actually deep on Monday evening vs. the Royals. Like, actually, actually deep. A brief-handed Cincinnati bullpen meant reliever Ricky Karcher was wanted to make his Major League debut in a pressure-packed save scenario within the backside of the tenth inning to guard a one-run lead. Veteran catcher Curt Casali had easy recommendation. “The first thing I told him when he got on the mound before he started," Casali said, "[was] ‘Congratulations, you did it. You’re here. Go have some fun. Things are dicey as they are right now. Got a guy on second base, tight game. But try to enjoy it as much as you possibly can, because you only get one [debut].'” Karcher, who was ...
Participant’s View: 13 Pitchers Mirror on the Pitch Clock
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Participant’s View: 13 Pitchers Mirror on the Pitch Clock

Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports Games are shorter this season because of the pitch clock, which implies that beginning pitchers are often throwing an outing’s price of choices in much less time than they usually did in earlier years. Whereas a high quality begin of seven innings and 100 pitches may need taken two hours and quarter-hour prior to now — this earlier than a name to the bullpen — it will possibly take as little as an hour and 45 minutes in 2023. Those instances will clearly fluctuate, with the effectiveness of the opposing pitcher taking part in a serious function, however the reality stays that such an outing now recurrently takes place inside a extra condensed timeframe. How totally different is that this for beginning pitchers? Moreover, is throwing that variety of innings ...
Two for the Sho: twentieth HR is game-winner in twelfth
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Two for the Sho: twentieth HR is game-winner in twelfth

ARLINGTON -- In a battle of American League West rivals, Shohei Ohtani stole the present together with his clutch two-homer efficiency and the Angels emerged victorious towards the Rangers, successful 9-6 in 12 innings on Monday night at Globe Life Field. “This was a fun win,” mentioned Angels starter Tyler Anderson. “It was a crazy one. Just a wild game with people playing [positions that they] usually don’t play. Just a fun, scrappy win in general.” “Coming into Texas, they’re in first place and all the boys are fired up,” Ohtani mentioned via his interpreter. “It’s huge to get that first win in the four-game series.” In the highest of the seventh inning, whereas trailing 5-4, 2021 AL MVP Award winner Ohtani made his presence felt with a game-tying 459-foot house run. Ohtani turned on a ...
Realmuto turns into 1st Phillies participant to cycle since 2004
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Realmuto turns into 1st Phillies participant to cycle since 2004

PHOENIX -- J.T. Realmuto smashed a ball off the left-center-field wall within the ninth inning Monday evening at Chase Field. He cruised into second base for a double, turned to the guests’ dugout and flashed a double thumbs-up to his teammates. That was how Realmuto turned the ninth participant in Phillies historical past to hit for the cycle and the primary since David Bell towards the Expos at Citizens Bank Park in 2004 in a 9-8 loss to Arizona at Chase Field. Realmuto is the sixteenth catcher in baseball historical past to hit for the cycle and the primary backstop since Milwaukee’s George Kottaras in 2011. But no one popped champagne bottles afterward as a result of the Phillies blew a four-run lead of their newest bullpen sport. “Yeah, I don’t know, it kind of sucks honestly,” Realmu...