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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Shohei Ohtani struck out the aspect on 12 pitches within the first inning Friday night time, throwing sweepers that broke horizontally like Frisbees and punctuating them with a 98.7-mph fastball. Angels supervisor Phil Nevin mentioned he had by no means seen an inning extra dominant throughout his almost three a long time within the massive leagues. ...

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ARLINGTON -- Jordan Diaz couldn’t have requested for a greater state of affairs to belt his first dwelling run within the large leagues. Diaz delivered a pinch-hit solo dwelling run with one out within the ninth inning, which proved to be the game-winner within the A’s 5-4 victory over the Rangers on Friday evening at Globe Life Field. “I’m just happy to hit my first home run in the big leagues, especially a game-winner,” Diaz mentioned. “I’m happy because I helped my team win. That’s always what I want to do.” Diaz, the group’s No. 4 prospect who was referred to as up on Wednesday, is anticipated to offer a much-needed spark to the A’s offense. They wanted it late in Friday’s sport after erasing an early four-run deficit. With the sport tied 4-4 and one out within the ninth, Texas introdu...

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The right-hander continued his current run of dominance as he tossed seven shutout innings in opposition to the Padres in the D-backs’ 9-0 victory Friday night time at Chase Field. Gallen allowed simply two hits and didn't stroll a batter whereas putting out 11 and working his scoreless streak to 21 2/3 innings. The right-hander isn't any stranger to such streaks, having compiled a stretch of 44 1/3 scoreless innings final yr from Aug. 8 to Sept. 11. That streak was the longest within the Majors since Zack Greinke had one in all 45 2/3 innings in 2015. Coincidentally, the D-backs are commemorating that streak Saturday with Zac Gallen Bobblehead Night. “I mean, my job is to go out there and try and throw up as many zeros as possible, keep us in the game, give us a chance to win,” Gallen sta...

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports Welcome again to a different installment of 5 issues that caught my consideration in baseball this week. Stop me when you’ve heard this earlier than, however I obtained the concept from the estimable Zach Lowe, who writes a related column about basketball each week that I completely love. Now that the sugar rush of house openers and new gamers is beginning to put on off, we’re into the grind of the common season. But the grind of the common season is superior. There’s a lot happening, on a regular basis, that there’s at all times one thing value being attentive to. It’s only a matter of holding your eyes open – and watching an ungodly quantity of baseball, in fact, which is the very best a part of my job. 1. Government Catcher OverreachNobody likes to b...

BALTIMORE — Adam Frazier hit a run-scoring grounder within the backside of the ninth inning to provide the Baltimore Orioles their fourth straight victory, 2-1 over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night time. With the Tigers all the way down to their final strike within the ninth, Javier Báez hit a tying sing...

Wendell Cruz-USA TODAY Sports Pablo López is off to a great begin in his first season with the Twins. Acquired by Minnesota from Miami because the centerpiece of an offseason deal that despatched defending American League batting champion Luis Arraez to the Marlins, the 27-year-old right-hander has a 1.73 ERA and a 2.70 FIP over 26 innings. Moreover, he’s fanned 33 whereas surrendering simply 15 hits and issuing six walks. Trading in his cutter for a sweeper has performed an element in that success. López has thrown his new providing 82 occasions — all in opposition to same-sided hitters — over 4 begins, and solely twice has the end result been a base hit. His Whiff% on the pitch is an eye-opening 50%. The repertoire tweak was made on the behest of López’s new group, however the thoug...

MINNEAPOLIS — Joey Meneses hit his first homer of the season, Keibert Ruiz singled within the go-ahead run within the eighth inning, and the Washington Nationals rallied previous the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on a cold Friday evening. Joey Gallo’s solo homer was certainly one of simply 5 hits for the Twins, who'...

ATLANTA -- Yordan Alvarez clubbed a two-out, two-run homer off reliever A.J. Minter within the ninth inning to interrupt a tie and ship the Astros to a 6-4 win over the Braves on Friday evening at Truist Park in a conflict between the earlier two World Series champions. The Astros, who received for the third time in 4 video games, got here again from 4-1 down within the first inning to get again to the .500 mark (10-10). The Braves suffered their second consecutive loss on the heels of an eight-game successful streak and misplaced for the second time when scoring not less than 4 runs (13-2). The Braves jumped on Astros rookie starter Hunter Brown for 4 runs within the first, however couldn’t handle anything towards Brown or the Houston bullpen. Trailing 4-1, the Astros rallied towards Brav...