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SAN DIEGO -- Slam Diego lives. The Padres playoff hopes? They would possibly simply be alive, too. Elsewhere on Tuesday evening, the Padres acquired loads of assist in their bid to crash the National League playoff race. They took the sphere at Petco Park in opposition to the Orioles needing to capitalize, needing to ship an announcement of intent -- and inside no time, Gary Sánchez had finished precisely that. Sánchez launched a first-inning grand slam, the primary by a Padres hitter this season, sending San Diego to a much-needed 10-3 victory over Baltimore. With the win -- and outcomes elsewhere -- the Padres moved inside 5 1/2 video games of the remaining Wild Card spot within the National League. Not the place they’d prefer to be. But, , child steps. “Most important for us is just try...

With Ben Lindbergh in Sweden on Ringer enterprise, FanGraphs’ Ben Clemens joins Meg Rowley for a flip within the co-host chair. Ben and Meg start (1:40) by discussing the disturbing allegations made in opposition to Rays shortstop Wander Franco over the weekend. They then banter (5:00) concerning the expertise of watching baseball whereas on trip, earlier than turning their consideration to Ben’s Five Things sequence, the sneaky delights of mid-sized Midwestern cities, the Braves scoring massive in opposition to Danny Mendick, chalk preseason predictions (and Ben’s beef with Other Ben’s prognostication selections), which groups’ World Series odds is likely to be too gentle (or too heavy), a milestone Juan Soto stroll, gamers being over and underrated, announcers’ refusal to debate no-...

ARLINGTON, Texas — The AL West-leading Texas Rangers signed former two-time All-Star infielder Josh Harrison to a minor league contract on Tuesday, two weeks after he was launched by the Philadelphia Phillies. ...

Morton escaped that uniquely efficient outing, and it marked the primary of 4 scoreless efforts the Braves have acquired from their starters inside their previous six video games. The newest was constructed by Bryce Elder, who mixed with A.J. Minter and Kirby Yates for a one-hit shutout in a 5-0 win over the Yankees on Tuesday evening at Truist Park. “I told [Elder], ‘You look like your old self again,’” Braves supervisor Brian Snitker mentioned. “Good for him to fight through things and have a game like that.” This was the primary time the Braves allowed one or fewer hits over 9 scoreless innings or extra since Julio Teheran threw a one-hit shutout towards the Mets on June 19, 2016. Atlanta’s most up-to-date mixed one-hit shutout was produced by Matt Wisler and Arodys Vizcaino on May 3, 2...

WASHINGTON — Alex Verdugo led off the sport with a homer and the Boston Red Sox beat the Washington Nationals 5-4 on Tuesday evening within the opener of a three-game collection. ...

TORONTO -- It wasn’t fairly, however they don’t have a column for that on the scoreboard. Cavan Biggio took a pitch off his foot with the bases loaded to interrupt a late tie and provides the Blue Jays a 2-1 win Tuesday towards the Phillies at Rogers Centre. It’s turning into an unusually frequent supply of offense for the Blue Jays currently after they scored two runs in the very same, painful method a few weeks in the past in a win over the Orioles. This win rewards one other sensible efficiency from the Blue Jays’ pitching employees, which has deserved extra assist from its offense so many instances this season. Yusei Kikuchi was sensible as soon as once more, throwing six innings of one-run ball with seven strikeouts and no walks. Kikuchi now leads the Major Leagues with 13 begins of 1...

MIAMI — Houston Astros outfielder Michael Brantley began a minor league rehab project Tuesday with Triple-A Sugar Land as he works his method again from proper shoulder surgical procedure final August. ...

MIAMI -- Jorge Soler turned the primary Marlin in six years to achieve the 30-homer plateau with a two-run shot on Tuesday evening at loanDepot park. Soler despatched Astros righty Cristian Javier’s 2-2 fastball on the skin nook deep to proper within the third inning, matching Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber for the fourth-most homers within the National League. Soler, who has gone deep 5 instances this month, notched his thirtieth homer in his 114th sport. It is simply the second time in his profession that he has reached that mark; he led the American League with 48 whereas with the Royals in 2019. The final Miami gamers to achieve 30 dwelling runs have been Giancarlo Stanton (who completed with 59) and Marcell Ozuna (who hit 37) in 2017. Soler is the thirteenth Marlin to achieve 30 homers...

Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports Triston Casas is a studious hitter. He’s additionally an impactful one, as evidenced by his 19 residence runs and 124 wRC+ — this after an abysmal April and a lower than stellar May — in his first full big-league season. At age 23, the 6-foot-4, 250-pound first baseman profiles as a cornerstone within the Red Sox lineup. As our lead prospect analyst Eric Longenhagen wrote again in June, the left-handed-hitting slugger “should become a middle-of-the-order force capable of hitting 35-plus annual homers.” Casas, whom Boston drafted with the No. 28 decide in 2018 out of Plantation, Florida’s American Heritage High School, mentioned his scientific method to hitting previous to a latest sport at Fenway Park. ——— David Laurila: Let’s begin with one among my f...

HOUSTON — Los Angeles Angels supervisor Phil Nevin was adamant earlier than Sunday’s sport that the arm fatigue that brought about two-way star Shohei Ohtani to skip his subsequent scheduled mound begin wouldn't have an effect on him on the plate. ...