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CLEVELAND — Rookie Gavin Williams and 4 relievers cooled off Minnesota’s offense and the Cleveland Guardians prevented a three-game sweep with a 2-1 win on Wednesday. ...

ANAHEIM -- Despite being referred to as as much as the Majors simply 40 days after being taken with the No. 11 general choice within the Draft, Angels first baseman Nolan Schanuel has put collectively a powerful begin to his profession. After setting a franchise report with a 10-game hitting streak to open his profession, the leadoff man set one other mark on Thursday by reaching base safely in his sixteenth straight recreation -- besting Darin Erstad's earlier membership report of 15 video games, which Erstad achieved in 1996. Schanuel -- the Angels' high prospect per MLB Pipeline and the No. 100 prospect in all of baseball -- went 1-for-4 on Thursday towards the Guardians, slapping a single to left subject towards former teammate Matt Moore within the seventh inning to set the mark. Scha...

PITTSBURGH — Every time Ji Hwan Bae makes contact with a baseball, he’s pondering triple. Yet for the primary 102 video games of the utility partici...

CHICAGO -- The ivy clinging to Wrigley Field’s wall in right-center discipline softened the carom of the baseball launched by Seiya Suzuki on Thursday night time. It dropped to the warning monitor and rolled previous the ft of D-backs middle fielder Alek Thomas. The bounce gave Suzuki simply sufficient time to tug off a triple within the fifth inning -- protecting his extended sizzling streak going -- however it was one in a handful of photographs by the Cubs blown again by an unfriendly wind. The D-backs didn't have the identical difficulty, belting a trio of homers to provide Chicago a 6-2 loss to open a sequence ripe with potential playoff implications. “Tonight was a weird one right?” Cubs supervisor David Ross mentioned. “We hit some balls really hard. They just all went to the track....

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley talk about listener responses to their banter about stunning Statcast throwing speeds, then (12:42) talk about Nick Ahmed’s unsung nice glovework, the A’s turning out to be (barely) much less traditionally horrible than they initially appeared, the AL West race, and the way the Rangers lacking the playoffs would reinforce conflicting narratives about baseball. After that (57:24), they reply listener emails about Mookie Betts overtaking Mike Trout in profession WAR, how you can inform when a crew will get good at participant growth, and the place it will be best to cover a smaller base amongst greater bases, plus a Future Blast (1:32:26) from 2056. Audio intro: Josh Busman, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Ian H., “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to just-...

CHICAGO — Seiya Suzuki hit a three-run double, Cody Bellinger homered and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 8-2 on Wednesday for his or her fourth consecutive win. ...

ATLANTA -- Somewhere within the midst of the Braves’ newest homer fest, Ronald Acuña Jr. created purpose to consider he may certainly be a part of the unique 40-40 membership and change into its most unusual member.   Acuña accounted for 2 of the 5 homers the Braves drilled whereas snapping a three-game skid in an 8-5 win over the Cardinals on Thursday night time at Truist Park. His third multihomer recreation of the season left him six house runs shy of recording the fifth 40-homer, 40-steal season in AL/NL historical past. Matt Olson elevated his MLB-leading house run complete to 47 to again Max Fried’s six innings. Michael Harris II and Travis d’Arnaud additionally went deep for the Braves. Atlanta's five-homer night time is the tenth time Atlanta has finished so this yr -- an MLB-best....

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports A few weeks in the past, I noticed Jonah Heim take a referred to as strike that he felt ought to have been a ball. As a catcher, Heim knew higher than to argue. Instead, he carried out the fragile dance of the catcher who desires to make some extent with out displaying up the umpire. I’m undecided if the clip beneath is the precise pitch I noticed, nevertheless it’s definitely consultant of the conundrum a catcher faces when he doesn’t just like the strike zone. You can see Heim duck his head and furtively say one thing to house plate umpire Doug Eddings. I wish to think about that no matter he says begins with, “I beg your pardon, good sir.” He doesn’t make a present of his displeasure. He asks one thing, Eddings nods his head sure, and everybody strik...

PHOENIX — Arizona fell right into a four-run gap earlier than its first at-bat, not a perfect state of affairs after shedding to a last-place group the evening earlier than. ...

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