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CINCINNATI — Hunter Greene allowed one hit six innings in his first begin in 11 days, Joey Votto homered on his fortieth birthday and the Cincinnati Reds stopped a three-game shedding streak with a 7-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. ...

This story was excerpted from John Denton’s Cardinals Beat e-newsletter. To learn the total e-newsletter, click on right here. And subscribe to get it frequently in your inbox. Their wives and kids in South Florida and Kansas City with faculty again in session, Cardinals pitchers Miles Mikolas and Dakota Hudson typically prefer to unwind after video games by sitting round a yard bonfire and speaking about curveball grips or who had the longest poke at the latest journey to the driving vary. The solely distinction now, nevertheless, is that Hudson doesn’t have to go away Mikolas’ home in suburban St. Louis and head to his own residence. Instead, he simply treks right down to the basement the place he's presently dwelling, rent-free, for the remainder of this baseball season because of a ser...

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Just a few months in the past, I took a have a look at the Rays pitching workers. Despite having one of the best offense within the league, the group had fallen again to earth after a red-hot begin to the season. Surprisingly, their greatest weak spot was aid pitching, an space the place the group has lengthy had a fame for excellence. Even with sturdy offensive showings and a league-leading wRC+, their revolving door of bulk guys and back-of-the-bullpen choices merely wasn’t preserving runs off the board. Headed down the stretch, the Rays boast the fourth-best report in baseball and sit simply three video games again of the AL-leading Orioles within the East. The bullpen has turned it round in an enormous manner. When I final checked in on them in ...

TORONTO — Kevin Kiermaier hit a tiebreaking solo dwelling run within the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays took benefit of three consecutive wild pitches by Cole Ragans to beat the Royals 5-2 on Sunday, finishing a three-game sweep. ...

Pete Crow-Armstrong is coming to The Show. The Cubs are set to name up their prime prospect, No. 12 general per MLB Pipeline, a supply advised MLB.com's Mark Feinsand on Monday. The membership has not confirmed. Acquired from the Mets within the deal for Javier Báez on the 2021 Trade Deadline, Crow-Armstrong has produced a slash line of .283/.365/.511 with 20 homers and 82 RBIs at Double-A Tennessee and Triple-A Iowa this season. The plan is to activate the 21-year-old earlier than Tuesday's sport towards the Rockies, in response to ESPN's Jeff Passan. Content Source: www.mlb.com

We’re attending to the purpose within the season the place the vast majority of the groups in these rankings aren’t going to budge. There was a little bit of motion on the prime of the rankings the place three groups are battling for 2 spots within the AL Wild Card race. A reminder for a way these rankings are calculated: first, we take the three most necessary elements of a group — their offense (wRC+), their pitching (a 50/50 mix of FIP- and RA9-, weighted by starter and reliever IP share), and their protection (RAA) — and mix them to create an general group high quality metric. I additionally add in an element for “luck,” adjusting a group’s win proportion based mostly on anticipated win-loss report. The result's an influence rating, which is then introduced in tiers under. Tier...

ST. PETERSBURG -- The Rays will enter maybe a very powerful week of their season with full momentum. Attacking from the opening inning, the Rays rolled to a 6-3 victory in opposition to the Mariners on Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field, permitting them to take the ultimate three contests of the four-game collection collection, which properly arrange a their essential highway swing in opposition to the division-leading Twins (American League Central) and Orioles (AL East). “We knew coming in that this was a very good team, maybe the hottest team in the American League,” supervisor Kevin Cash mentioned. “We knew we needed to play properly, and I felt like we did. “Now we play a Minnesota team we haven’t seen in quite some time, and obviously they’ve done a lot of good things to be in first...

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NEW YORK -- As the longest-tenured participant within the Yankees’ group, Kyle Higashioka thought he knew what it might really feel prefer to stroke a walk-off hit at Yankee Stadium. He’d skilled the push of victory many occasions earlier than, charging from the dugout to rejoice a teammate’s second, but by no means had that chance for himself. As Higashioka bounded into second base with a game-winning double on Sunday, stamping a conclusion on the Yankees’ wild 4-3, 13-inning victory over the Brewers, he whirled to search out Aaron Judge, Gleyber Torres and others already making an attempt to tear his uniform jersey off, pummeling the catcher amidst a bathe of sunflower seeds and gum. “I was hoping they didn’t take everything off. Nobody needs to see that,” stated Higashioka, in his seven...