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LOS ANGELES — Julio Urías was positioned on administrative depart indefinitely by Major League Baseball on Wednesday, three days after the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher was arrested on suspicion of corporal harm on a partner or cohabitant. ...

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...

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). ...

PITTSBURGH — Andrew McCutchen’s feel-good homecoming season is over. The Pittsburgh Pirates positioned the designated hitter on the 10-day injured r...

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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...

CHICAGO — Christopher Morel flipped apart his bat because the ball flew over the wall in middle, punctuating one other massive homer for the energetic slugger. ...

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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...

SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a 431-foot house run into the second deck in left area on his bobblehead evening and Pedro Avila mixed with two relievers on a three-hitter to earn his first massive league victory because the San Diego Padres beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-0 on Tuesday evening. ...