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CHICAGO — Cody Bellinger drove within the tiebreaking run with a ricochet infield single within the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs beat Milwaukee 3-2 on Wednesday to tug inside three video games of the first-place Brewers within the NL Central. ...

LOS ANGELES -- It could be laborious to discover a regular-season matchup that showcased as a lot expertise on the sector as Dodger Stadium did on Thursday evening. From right here on out, the Braves and Dodgers, undoubtedly the 2 greatest groups within the National League, will battle it out for the highest seed -- with the winner incomes the prospect to host a hypothetical Game 1 and seven of a possible NLCS matchup. A showdown between the 2 juggernauts additionally allowed followers to observe the highest 4 candidates for NL MVP on the identical subject. And whereas Freddie Freeman and Matt Olson are actually within the dialog, it was Mookie Betts (who went deep twice) and Ronald Acuña Jr. (the primary 30-60 participant) who stole the present within the Dodgers’ 8-7 loss to the Braves w...

Talent Acquisition Specialist, Baseball Ops Location: Boston, MAStatus: Full-Time Position Overview:This Talent Acquisition Specialist might be liable for offering full life cycle recruiting and staffing help for Baseball Operations. They will work carefully and collaboratively with division heads to customise sourcing and recruiting methods to generate a strong and various pipeline of gifted candidates. This position will report dually into People & Culture and Baseball Operations. They might be anticipated to really combine inside each departments, immersing into the People & Culture crew for useful oversight from a expertise acquisition perspective and baseball ops for delivering worth to the baseball facet of our enterprise. Responsibilities: Develop a strategic method ...

NEW YORK — The robotic strike zone will likely be getting barely greater at Triple-A beginning Tuesday in an try and make it higher mirror particular person batters reasonably than averages, and the pitch clock will likely be altered, too. ...

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Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports I don’t assume you perceive. You most likely assume you perceive, however you don’t perceive. Oh, you understand that Spencer Strider is a bolt of lightning, a strikeout pitcher so overpowering that he would possibly as nicely have been created in a lab. You know that he’s having a very good season, absolutely; he’s locked in a good race for NL Cy Young with Zac Gallen and Blake Snell. You know that he’s the logical continuation of the high-strikeout ace lineage, Bob Feller or Sandy Koufax or Roger Clemens for a brand new age. But I doubt you grasp how a lot of an outlier Strider’s 2023 season is, as a result of I didn’t both till I took a better look. We have pitch-by-pitch information for each main league sport on our leaderboards beginning in 2002....

WASHINGTON — Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a three-run homer, and the Miami Marlins defeated the Washington Nationals 6-1 on Thursday night time within the opener of a four-game collection. ...

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David Reginek-USA TODAY Sports Hunter Brown had but to pitch above High-A when he was first featured right here at FanGraphs in April 2021. Two years faraway from being drafted within the fifth spherical out of Wayne State University, expectations surrounding the Detroit-area native had been excessive coming into that season, as he was ranked because the no. 2 prospect (50 FV) within the Houston Astros system. He’s since lived as much as these expectations. Brown not solely made his large league debut final September, he went on to log three scoreless appearances within the postseason, together with one by which he blanked the Seattle Mariners within the twelfth and thirteenth innings of an epic 1-0 Astros win that took 18 frames to finish. This season he’s been a mainstay within the ...

LOS ANGELES — Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a protracted grand slam within the second inning in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday night time, changing into the primary participant in main league historical past with 30 dwelling runs and 60 stolen bases in the identical season. ...