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Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports You’re going to listen to lots in regards to the Braves over the subsequent couple months. They’re one of the best group in baseball, and that’s the way it goes. Some of you might be Braves followers, so attending to see extra of your favourite group in October will simply be another drop of fine information in a season crammed as much as the brim with joyful headlines. But for these of you who're detached or ambivalent towards the Braves, for these of you who detest them in your very core, I've somewhat deal with. That’s all this text is: a deal with to deliver a bit extra enjoyable to the wall-to-wall protection awaiting us all. On Tuesday night time, Daniel Vogelbach homered to straightaway heart subject and Michael Harris II tried to rob it. Harris tri...

Washington Nationals pitcher Stephen Strasburg has determined to retire, ending a profession that started as a No. 1 draft choose, included 2019 World Series MVP honors and was derailed by accidents, in line with an individual with information of the state of affairs. ...

BALTIMORE -- José Berríos had tormented the Orioles lengthy earlier than he arrived within the American League East in July 2021, by way of a midseason commerce from Minnesota to Toronto. Entering Thursday, the right-hander was 10-0 in 13 profession begins vs. Baltimore -- all wins for his workforce, apart from his first assembly with the O’s as a rookie on May 10, 2016. “I didn’t even know that stat,” mentioned middle fielder Cedric Mullins, who has been with the Orioles since 2018. Of course, he didn’t. Other members of Baltimore’s clubhouse doubtless didn’t both. They’re extra centered on the current season, one by which the Orioles dominated the Blue Jays and eventually broke via to finish their struggles in opposition to Berríos. On Thursday evening, Baltimore tagged Berríos for 5 run...

Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports Another week, one other jam-packed baseball schedule. The largest story of the week, little question, is Shohei Ohtani’s torn UCL, essentially the most profound baseball-related bummer of the 12 months for my part. Ohtani is such a globe-spanning celebrity that information of this magnitude will naturally overshadow the remainder of what’s happening within the sport. But I’m not right here to mope. Like Zach Lowe and his seminal Ten Things basketball column, we’re right here to have fun some little oddities. So let’s get right down to enterprise. This week’s column is crammed with pleasant weirdness, and delightfully odd groups, to offset the Ohtani unhappiness. Do you want bunts? Do you just like the Marlins doing bizarre stuff? Do you want baserunnin...

CLEVELAND — Mookie Betts matched his profession excessive with 5 hits and drove in two runs, sending the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 6-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday within the completion of a suspended recreation. ...

Here’s our weekly have a look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the final week in baseball (Aug. 18-24). Leadoff energy: Mookie Betts’ eleventh leadoff homer this season on Aug. 18 prolonged his file for essentially the most in a season in Dodgers franchise historical past. It’s additionally essentially the most leadoff homers earlier than September in a single season. Betts is simply two leadoff residence runs shy of tying 2003 Alfonso Soriano’s all-time single season file of 13. Trea bien: In 18 video games since he first received a standing ovation from Phillies followers, Trea Turner is hitting .343 and slugging .630. He’s hit 5 residence runs in that span. Two of these got here within the eighth inning on Saturday. Turner grew to become simply the third Phillies participant with two homer...

NEW YORK — Alex Call hit a go-ahead, two-run homer off Tommy Kahnle within the seventh inning, CJ Abrams adopted with a solo shot and the Washington Nationals beat the Yankees 6-5 on Thursday to ship New York to its tenth loss in 11 video games. ...

PHOENIX -- Merrill Kelly was delivering probably the greatest performances of his profession Thursday, throwing seven shutout innings, permitting only one hit and tying a career-high 12 strikeouts en path to a 3-2 win over the Reds at Chase Field. The 32-year-old right-hander returned for the eighth inning and was going via his warmup tosses earlier than immediately stopping, holding the again of his proper leg and exiting the sport with a coach. Luckily for the D-backs, supervisor Torey Lovullo introduced that Kelly exited with cramping in his proper leg, and it shouldn't have an effect on his subsequent begin. “Obviously frustrating with how that game was going, definitely wanted to go at least back out there for the eighth or get through the eighth and see what happened for the ninth,” ...

Albert Cesare/The Enquirer / USA TODAY NETWORK Look, I do know that isn’t the road. It’s a hen in each pot. But I got here up with a superb lobster pun final week, and I’m writing extra in regards to the ins and outs of groups driving house runners from third base, so I made a decision to return to the properly. You’ll simply must stay with it; I’m the one driving the boat right here, and because it seems, it’s a lobster boat. With the puns are actually settled, let’s get all the way down to enterprise. Last week, I chopped up the 2023 season into halves to see how properly varied statistical indicators correlated with a workforce’s future skill to money of their runners. As a recap, strikeout fee had a reasonably robust correlation, and never a lot else did. Quite frankly, although, ...

HOUSTON — When the Boston Red Sox have been in Houston final August, many on the staff have been disillusioned after they dealt veteran catcher Christian Vázquez to the Astros for prospects Wilyer Abreu and Enmanuel Valdez. ...