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LOS ANGELES -- What a distinction a few weeks make. At the top of July, it was nearly time to press the panic button for the Dodgers’ rotation. The beginning employees, which has usually been a energy for the Dodgers over this final decade of dominance, completed July with a 6.18 ERA, the worst mark in a month with a minimum of 15 video games because the membership moved to Los Angeles over six many years in the past. Through 16 video games in August, nevertheless, it’s been a totally totally different story. Behind Lance Lynn’s seven scoreless innings, the Dodgers’ dominance this month continued on Thursday with a 1-0 win over the Brewers at Dodger Stadium, extending their successful streak to a season-high 11 video games. Los Angeles additionally improved to 15-1 in August. “I think this...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Teoscar Hernandez hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly within the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Wednesday night time. ...

SAN DIEGO -- Fresh off a grueling back-and-forth three-game sequence with the Rockies, the D-backs have been a drained bunch Thursday once they opened a four-game set in opposition to the Padres. Two of their higher hitters have been out of the lineup, with Lourdes Gurriel Jr. battling a sore hip and Ketel Marte getting a time without work after three video games at altitude the place he has had points prior to now. Their bullpen was on fumes with nearer Paul Sewald, Kevin Ginkel, Miguel Castro, Tyler Gilbert and Bryce Jarvis unavailable after their current workloads. Despite all that -- and the truth that the Padres hit the ball laborious all through the sport -- the D-backs managed to come back away with a 3-1 win, their third victory in a row and fifth of their previous seven video game...

With Ben Lindbergh nonetheless in Sweden, FanGraphs’ Michael Baumann takes the co-host chair for a spin. He and Meg Rowley start (2:10) by delighting in an image of Lance Lynn and Enrique Hernández from Dodgers picture day, then reap the benefits of Ben’s absence to debate (7:30) faculty baseball and the way convention realignment would possibly have an effect on the game (and the athletes who play it). They then flip their consideration (32:13) to Cole Hamels, who just lately retired, and Félix Hernández, who was just lately inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. Meg and Michael focus on what Hernández and Hamels meant to every of them, the similarities (and necessary variations) that marked their respective Hall of the Very Good careers, and what it’s wish to have a pitcher wreck...

SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. stole residence within the seventh inning to impress a sellout crowd at Petco Park and massive league ERA chief Blake Snell pitched six sturdy innings because the San Diego Padres beat the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 Wednesday evening to take two of three from the most effective crew within the AL. ...

Here’s our weekly have a look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the final week in baseball (August 11-17). What a second: Jon Singleton homered on Friday for the first time in additional than eight years. His hole between dwelling runs (8 years, 13 days) was the longest since Jake Peavy (9 years, 52 days from 2006 to '15) and the longest by a place participant since Rafael Belliard (10 years, 144 days from 1987 to '97), in response to the Elias Sports Bureau. And then he hit one other in that very same sport. Singleton went the longest in MLB historical past between homers amongst gamers to then hit two within the sport through which they snapped the drought. Quite the day: Newly-acquired Nicky Lopez tallied 4 hits, together with a double and a homer, and had 5 RBIs within the Braves’ 21-3 win...

TORONTO — Bryce Harper hit two solo dwelling runs, Aaron Nola pitched 5 innings and snapped a four-start winless streak and the Philadelphia Phillies gained for the primary time in 4 video games, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 9-4 on Wednesday night time. ...

ST. LOUIS -- José Quintana, who was signed away from the Cardinals by the Mets within the offseason, gained for the primary time throughout this injury-plagued season by limiting St. Louis to 2 runs on three hits and 4 walks over six-plus innings in New York's 4-2 victory on Thursday night time. Pete Alonso hit his thirty seventh dwelling run, a two-run shot within the fourth inning, and Francisco Lindor doubled in a run with two outs within the fifth. Tim Locastro added the ultimate run with a pinch-hit homer within the ninth. Quintana's outing was harking back to final October when he pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series -- a recreation the Cardinals finally misplaced when the bullpen melted down. The Mets denied Adam Wainwright his 199th prof...

The franchise of Ruth and Gehrig, DiMaggio and Mantle, Jeter and Rivera is a pinstriped mess. The solely recognizable factor about this storied memb...

WASHINGTON -- Two years in the past, Joey Meneses was taking part in for the Red Sox’s Double-A and Triple-A associates, making an attempt to climb his method to his Major League debut. His subsequent membership can be the Nationals, with whom he achieved that huge league objective in August 2022. Meneses confronted his former group for the primary time since then this week, and he wrapped up the collection by propelling the Nats to a 10-7 win with a career-high 5 RBIs in Thursday afternoon’s rubber sport at Nationals Park. The 31-year-old designated hitter went 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles and two runs scored en path to Washington's fifty fifth victory of the season, tying the membership's 2022 complete. “It feels good,” Meneses mentioned. “It didn’t really feel actual good when [Boston...