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Matt Chapman got here sliding throughout the plate, touching off a wild celebration in Toronto after the Blue Jays accomplished a three-game sweep of Atlanta. It was one more second of excellence for the AL East, which may very well be headed to a historic season. ...

While the Rays proceed to carry down the highest spot on this week's Power Rankings, a well-recognized National League powerhouse is charging up the standings -- and a brand new contender has seemingly emerged within the American League West. Though the highest two spots remained the identical, there was loads of motion elsewhere within the newest version of the Power Rankings. Four groups moved a minimum of 5 locations, and the Top 5 welcomed a newcomer. Here are this week's rankings: Biggest drop: The Red Sox proceed to be one of many largest movers from week to week. After making one of many largest jumps we have ever seen final week -- shifting up 14 spots to No. 6 -- Boston dropped 5 spots to No. 11 this week. The Red Sox have misplaced 5 of their final six video games, together with ...

CHICAGO — It all comes all the way down to plate self-discipline for Luis Robert Jr. When he swings at strikes, good issues occur for the Chicago White Sox. Robert homered and drove in two runs, and the White Sox beat the Houston Astros 3-1 on Saturday night time. ...

OAKLAND -- When the A's pitching employees, which has allowed probably the most runs within the Majors, clashed with the hot-hitting Rangers' lineup, whose 6.4 runs per sport lead all MLB offenses, there have been sure to be some fireworks. As Texas took two of the primary three video games in opposition to Oakland, a lot of the scoring occurred in one- or two-run frames. Manager Bruce Bochy saved in thoughts that shut video games can flip immediately -- so whereas his crew was well-positioned to take the sequence, the stress was excessive as a giant inning continued to elude the Rangers. That is, till late within the sport on Sunday afternoon. The membership lastly put collectively a Texas-sized body, scoring eight runs within the eighth inning of the Mother's Day matinee on the Coliseum ...

DENVER — Colorado pitcher Ryan Feltner has a cranium fracture and concussion after getting hit by a line drive off the bat of Philadelphia’s Nick Castellanos. Feltner was injured Saturday evening and was prone to be discharged from a hospital later Sunday. He is not going to want surgical procedure. ...

The 2023 schedule options extra totally different matchups than ever earlier than as every workforce performs one another workforce over the course of the season. Some of those distinctive collection pop up this week, together with a pair of Interleague matchups between first-place squads. Here are 5 collection to look at through the week of May 15: Angels (21-20) at Orioles (26-14)4 video games (Monday-Thursday) Head-to-head: The Orioles dominated the collection in 2022, taking eight of 9 video games towards the Angels. Both groups are improved thus far this season, although. Baltimore at the moment has the second-best report within the American League whereas Los Angeles is one sport above .500 after ending 16 video games beneath final season. Storyline: The Orioles' scorching begin. If ...

LOS ANGELES — The mom of Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw has died. Marianne Tombaugh died Saturday, in keeping with Ellen Kershaw. The pitcher’s spouse talked about it through the dedication of a refurbished youth baseball area in Inglewood that his charity basis supported. ...

BOSTON -- If the Cardinals go on and by some means wrangle their means out of their worst begin in 50 years, rack up a sixteenth straight successful season and dominate their division a second straight time, undoubtedly, they'll level again to their play over the previous week as a key turning level. Beating the arch-rival Cubs two of 3 times at Wrigley Field after which demolishing the Red Sox within the closing recreation of a three-game collection sweep at Fenway Park might go a good distance in turning round a Cardinals season that was seemingly headed nowhere quick only a week in the past. On the heels of rallying previous Boston within the ninth inning in consecutive video games, the Cardinals rode house runs from Nolan Arenado, Paul DeJong and Andrew Knizner for a 9-1 victory on Sun...

BALTIMORE — Mitch Keller struck out a career-high 13 in his second straight excellent begin, and the slumping Pittsburgh Pirates gained for under the second time in 13 video games, 4-0 over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday. The Pirates prevented a sweep after dropping the primary two video games of the coll...

The Rangers' sturdy begin this season is not simply shocking, it is historic. Through their first 39 video games, the Rangers outscored their opponents, 243-154, whereas going 24-15. Prior to 2023, solely 24 groups courting again to 1901 posted a run differential of +89 or higher via 39 video games, per Stathead. Among these groups, 20 made the postseason, together with 9 of 10 within the enlargement period (since 1961), and 13 went on to win the World Series. It’s been greater than 60 years for the reason that final time a staff (the 1961 Tigers) missed the playoffs after recording a run differential at the least that prime via 39 video games. The undeniable fact that the Rangers have performed this after going 68-94 (.420 profitable proportion) a yr in the past makes it all of the extra ...