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Zach Eflin pitches 7 scoreless innings as Rays sweep Pirates n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550},"type":"oembed"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"The Rays have received every of Eflin’s 5 begins this season, however Thursday’s outing was his most interesting but in a Tampa Bay uniform. Eflin breezed via his efficiency on solely 80 pitches and have become simply the third Rays starter this season to finish seven innings, the primary since Jeffrey Springs and Drew Rasmussen did so in back-to-back video games on April 8-9.nnEflin’s 10 strikeouts have been tied for the second most in his profession, and 7 of them got here on referred to as third strikes. After being disillu...

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports Things aren’t going nicely in Oakland in the intervening time. Ownership, after years of quiet quitting, is up and transferring the staff. (Or perhaps not, if proprietor John Fisher and his confederates change into worse at lobbying than they're at pest management.) That leaves a last-place membership to play out the string in entrance of “SELL THE TEAM” banners, most likely for a number of years to return. The most blatant simile for this case could be one thing alongside the strains of “like the waning days of a loveless marriage,” however that might be an insult to loveless marriages. Still, a couple of dozen unfortunates are obliged to placed on the storied inexperienced and gold colours of the Athletics and carry out baseball six days per week. ...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama is firing baseball coach Brad Bohannon after a report of suspicious bets involving his crew, with the college saying he violated “the standards, duties and responsibilities expected of university employees.” The firing introduced Thursday got here three days after a report warnin...

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The Cubs signed Cody Bellinger to a one-year deal in December, hoping that the mix of improved well being and a change of surroundings might assist the slugger rebound from a pair of dismal seasons within the wake of accidents to each his left leg and proper shoulder. Though the 27-year-old middle fielder began the season slowly, he’s since heated up and simply accomplished his best calendar month since his MVP-winning 2019 season. He could not all the way in which again to his award-winning type, however he’s in a significantly better place that he was in his last years with the Dodgers. Though he went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in Wednesday’s 2–1 loss to the Nationals, Bellinger is hitting .291/.364/.573 with seven homers and a 149 wRC+. He comp...

NEW YORK — Willie Calhoun and Jake Bauers, afterthoughts when the season started, have change into pinstriped stopgaps for a struggling New York Yankees crew lacking a string of starters. “With the big guys down right now, we’ve got to find ways to manufacture runs,” Isiah Kiner-Falefa stated after an unhe...

MIAMI -- The solely Major League pitcher who has been in a position to decelerate Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. in 2023 is a … place participant? With the Marlins trailing huge within the ninth inning of Wednesday evening’s 14-6 loss at loanDepot park, supervisor Skip Schumaker despatched catcher Jacob Stallings to the mound. Leadoff batter Kevin Pillar reached on a swinging bunt, however Stallings induced a 5-6-3 double play off the bat of Sam Hilliard. Then got here famous Marlins killer Acuña, who was named the National League Player of the Month earlier within the day. Since his Major League debut in 2018, Acuña has put up first-ballot Hall of Fame numbers towards the Marlins: a .313/.418/.634 slash line with 67 runs, 20 doubles, one triple, 23 homers, 60 RBIs and 18 stolen bases ...

Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports In the start, there was nothing. Wait, no, that’s not proper — to start with, there was Tommy Pham. Yeah, now we’re speaking. In the start there was Tommy Pham. Then John Mozeliak stated, “Let there be a trade,” and Pham decamped for Tampa Bay, San Diego, Cincinnati, Boston, and finally New York. In change, the Cardinals acquired a sampler platter of minor prospects: Justin Williams, Roel Ramírez, and Génesis Cabrera. Williams and Ramírez are lengthy gone from the St. Louis group, however Cabrera remains to be going sturdy. That may need oversold it coming into the 12 months — in 157.1 innings throughout 142 video games, Cabrera had compiled a 3.95 ERA, 4.32 FIP, and 0.4 fWAR. That’s hardly an imposing line, however the Cardinals hardly had an imposing bull...

OAKLAND, Calif. — Eugenio Suárez hit a three-run homer within the tenth inning after AJ Pollock tied the sport with a solo dwelling run within the ninth, and the Seattle Mariners defeated the Oakland Athletics 7-2 on Wednesday night time. “Not the prettiest win,” Seattle supervisor Scott Servais stated. “T...

Triston Casas breaks stoop with two RBIs in win n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550},"type":"oembed"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"Casas' early-season struggles have introduced again recollections of one other prized prospect’s woes in 2007.nnThat season, Boston obtained the last word reward when supervisor Terry Francona stayed affected person with a rookie named Dustin Pedroia, who was hitting .180 on May 3. Alex Cora was the red-hot hitter sharing time with the slumping second baseman and mentoring him on the similar time. The Red Sox went to Minneapolis for a weekend collection and Pedroia had a breakout beginning on May 5 that didn’t actually cease till accidents...

NEW YORK -- The Guardians’ offense as soon as once more failed to select up steam in New York. The bullpen hasn’t been as sharp because it was final season and Cleveland has now dropped 5 consecutive sequence. But, if nothing else, the membership could have some readability as to how its rotation will search for the foreseeable future. After Cleveland’s 4-3, 10-inning loss at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday evening, the Guardians introduced that Friday’s starter towards the Twins at Progressive Field will probably be Peyton Battenfield, who final made an look in reduction on Sunday in Boston. If the Guardians had saved the rotation so as, Zach Plesac would’ve been the following pitcher to take the ball. However, supervisor Terry Francona stated on Tuesday that each Plesac and Battenfield had t...