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MIAMI — Eury Perez’s Miami Marlins teammates the place ready for him as quickly as he made it to the locker room following his first main league win. ...

For Louisville teammate Andrew Abbott, it was a 512-foot homer final July with Double-A Chattanooga that may have been thought of the longest homer of the Statcast period (since 2015) had it come within the Majors. “I remember he hit the ball, and our dugout and their dugout all went to the TrackMan unit in the corner to see how far the ball went,” stated the left-hander, “because when he hit it, everyone was like, ‘Oh my.’” For Chuckie Robinson, it was when De La Cruz tripled to left-center on April 27 in Iowa and made it to the bag in 11.19 seconds, the second-fastest home-to-first time in Triple-A this season. “I’m pretty sure he was jogging the whole time,” the catcher stated. For Pat Kelly, it was De La Cruz’s first Triple-A success on April 20 -- a bouncer previous a diving second ba...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter in regards to the sesame-seer Cardinals utilizing a cheeseburger cellphone to foretell house buns (er, runs) by hitters who're dialed in, the various fortunes of three offseason huge spenders (the Mets, Padres, and Rangers) and the stakes of their success, Kumar Rocker’s Tommy John surgical procedure, Dustin May’s flexor pressure, the proliferation of ranked prospects, Jackson Holliday, the Orioles’ infield future, and what it takes for tanking to be justified, the necessity for a Lab League to check the pre-tacked ball, José Abreu’s energy outage, Zac Gallen’s chook omen, and extra, plus a Past Blast (1:38:22) from 2008 and some follow-ups. Audio intro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link ...

NEW YORK — Pete Alonso homered once more and the New York Mets beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Thursday to submit consecutive wins for the primary time in a month. ...

ST. LOUIS -- In order to dig their method out of their worst begin to a season in 50 years, the Cardinals knew they might probably need to trip the manufacturing of a lineup considered considered one of their deepest in years. On Thursday evening, the Cardinals flexed that huge offensive muscle and knocked Dodgers ace Julio Urías out after simply three innings with a long-ball barrage, finally hitting their most residence runs in a recreation in 27 years. Riding two-homer video games from Willson Contreras and Nolan Gorman, the Cardinals smashed seven residence runs -- their most in a recreation in St. Louis in 83 years -- alongside the best way to a 16-8 victory over the Dodgers at Busch Stadium. “What I can tell you is -- and I've said it several times -- we've dug ourselves a hole and t...

Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports Shohei Ohtani had a bizarre night time in Baltimore on Monday, at occasions spectacular and at occasions unsettling. As a hitter, he went 4-for-5 with an enormous three-run homer and three runs scored within the Angels’ 9-5 win. As a pitcher, he matched a profession excessive by serving up three homers and permitting 5 runs in seven innings, persevering with a string of shaky outings. One can’t blame the man for having some combined feelings. Ohtani the pitcher was not at his greatest, yielding a two-run homer to Adam Frazier within the second inning, erasing a 1-0 lead. He walked Jorge Mateo to steer off the second inning, then allowed a two-run homer to Anthony Santander, costing him a 3-2 lead. By the time he bought round to giving up his third hom...

BALTIMORE — Shohei Ohtani homered within the first inning and hit a tiebreaking infield single within the eighth, and Hunter Renfroe’s terrific defensive play within the ninth helped the Los Angeles Angels maintain on for a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. ...

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D. Ross Cameron-USA TODAY Sports Anyone really feel up for a rousing recreation of “Guess the Player from the Anonymized Stat Line?” I often don’t like this recreation; it was a enjoyable approach to kill time on Twitter 10 years in the past, nevertheless it feels form of hacky anymore. But this one’s an actual doozy, a enjoyable sufficient set of anonymized stat traces that I’m keen to put aside my distaste and dive proper in. Here are three gamers from the NL West. They are all within the prime 5 within the majors in stroll price amongst certified hitters. They play for various groups, and for essentially the most half they play completely different positions. Nevertheless, all three are inside a pair tenths of a run of one another when it comes to baserunning and defensive worth —...

CHICAGO — Cam Gallagher hit an RBI single throughout Cleveland’s two-run seventh inning, and the Guardians beat Dylan Cease and the Chicago White Sox 3-1 on Thursday. ...