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Run help missing for Ryu as Blue Jays ‘want wins greater than ever’
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Run help missing for Ryu as Blue Jays ‘want wins greater than ever’

OAKLAND -- The Blue Jays surged again into American League Wild Card rivalry throughout their six-game West Coast highway journey, however they're going to be completely satisfied to be again within the pleasant environs of Rogers Centre on Friday. Toronto dropped the sequence finale towards the A's on the Coliseum, 5-2, on Wednesday afternoon, falling wanting a three-game sweep. The Blue Jays have received seven of their previous 11 video games, together with 4 of six on their highway journey to Denver and Oakland. "You keep winning series, and that's what you want to do at this point," supervisor John Schneider mentioned. "Would have liked another one or two [wins] on the road trip, but you get out of it 4-2, enjoy tomorrow and you get back after it at home." The Blue Jays despatched Hyu...
Discovering the Greatest Bunters in Baseball
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Discovering the Greatest Bunters in Baseball

The Cincinnati Enquirer In Tuesday’s missive on league-wide bunt tendencies, I ran out of time and house earlier than I may single out a few of this season’s standout particular person bunters for particular consideration. As in each assortment of ballplayers, there are just a few outliers who skew the pattern. To proceed the metaphor {that a} bunt is baseball’s mid-range bounce shot, these are your LaMarcus Aldridges. The buntiest hitter in baseball, which you most likely may have guessed, is Reds outfielder TJ Friedl. He has put 28 bunts in play this season (no one else has greater than 18) and has struck out trying to bunt three extra occasions (additionally tops within the league; there have solely been 19 bunt try strikeouts whole this 12 months, in line with Baseball Savant). ...
Urías positioned on administrative depart
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Urías positioned on administrative depart

Julio Urías positioned on administrative depart n","providerName":"Twitter","supplierUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"This marks the second time that Urías has been arrested on home violence expenses. In 2019, Urías was arrested after entering into an argument along with his spouse in a parking zone. His spouse later mentioned that she fell on her personal.nnDespite not being charged, Urías, 27, was nonetheless suspended 20 video games with out pay by Major League Baseball that season for violating the league’s Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. No participant has been suspended twice underneath that coverage because it ...
Royce Lewis Has Arrived in Grand Trend
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Royce Lewis Has Arrived in Grand Trend

Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports We haven’t seen a lot of Royce Lewis on the main league degree but, thanks largely to a twice-torn anterior cruciate ligament. But what we have now seen of the primary choose of the 2017 draft has been spectacular and, these days, otherworldly. On Monday towards the Guardians, the Twins’ third baseman clubbed his third grand slam in an eight-game span, a part of an extended scorching streak that features seven homers in his previous 14 video games. Lewis’ newest slam got here on the expense of Lucas Giolito, who was making his debut for the Guardians after being claimed off waivers from the Angels on September 1. Already down 2–0 within the second inning, Giolito was one strike away from a 1-2-3 inning when he misplaced the plot, issuing three walks, t...
‘It’s disappointing, unhappy’: McCutchen’s season ends with partial Achilles tear
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‘It’s disappointing, unhappy’: McCutchen’s season ends with partial Achilles tear

Andrew McCutchen season ends with harm n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"oembed","width":550,"contentType":"rich"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"McCutchen briefly entertained the concept of enjoying by means of the left Achilles harm, however he and the Pirates assessed that persevering with to play wouldn't be definitely worth the danger of a full tear.nn“More than likely I ain’t coming back from [a full tear],” McCutchen mentioned. “I had to ask myself those questions of, ‘What’s important? What do I want to do?’ For me, I’m not going to go out like this. I want to continue to keep playing and push through this, let this heal and be ready to go for 2024.”nnGoing ahead, McCutchen, pr...
Shock: Trea Turner Is Nonetheless Actually Good at Baseball
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Shock: Trea Turner Is Nonetheless Actually Good at Baseball

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports When the Phillies signed Trea Turner to an 11-year, $300 contract over the winter, the second-largest contract in franchise historical past, they have been most likely ready for Year 11 to be a bit underwhelming, not a lot Year One. Turner received off to a superb begin in Philadelphia, starting the season with 12 hits within the first seven video games with two triples. Once his seven-game hitting streak was snapped, the subsequent 4 months was an unbelievable slog: .225/.282/.354 with 10 homers. On the morning of August 5, his OPS hit a season-low .656. But over the past month, Turner has been one of many hottest hitters in baseball. During the most popular months of the summer time, one of the vital widespread questions I received was some variant o...