MLB.com | Bryan Hoch: An already beleagured Yankee outfield suffered another blow last night, as centerfielder Trent Grisham pulled up limp between first and second base in the sixth inning of the 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays. Grisham left the game with what the Yankees called right hamstring tightness. We’ve seen how hard soft-tissue injuries in the legs can be to deal with, and we may wake up to the news that Grish is headed to the IL. He’ll join Aaron Judge and Jasson Domínguez if so, and the position group thought to be the strongest of the team looks awful depleted all of a sudden.

New York Post | Greg Joyce ($): No team can withstand the loss of a player like Aaron Judge, but the Yankees have been doing their very best, led by a different corner outfielder. Cody Bellinger has been a top 10 player in the American League this season, and been critical on both sides of the ball. His sterling 175 wRC+ in the month of May bouyed the offense as Judge played hurt, and he has been the best defensive player in baseball if you believe DRS. If you prefer Statcast, well, he’s merely a top 10 most valuable defender in the sport. With no Captain on the field, Cody Bellinger might be borrowing from hockey and wearing an A so far this year.

NJ.com | Randy Miller: Meanwhile, after a couple hot games to start his season, Anthony Volpe has begun to fall on hard times both at the plate and in the field. The shortstop was not in the starting lineup on Friday night in Toronto, and seems destined to cede more playing time in the future. Meanwhile, Yankees top prospect George Lombard Jr. seems to have found his footing with Triple-A Scranton with a 120 wRC+ since Memorial Day, and a 114 overall which is quite good given how much he struggled in his initial promotion. Lombard isn’t MLB ready just yet, but you can imagine Volpe may be hearing footsteps behind him.

MLB.com | Jesse Borek: Speaking of prospects, meet Tony Rossi. The 26-year-old reliever has had as winding a career as you possibly can in the game, bouncing between three colleges, signing for $10,000 as an undrafted free agent with the Yankees, and now he has been just about the best pitcher in the entire Yankee system so far this year. Now throwing out of the Double-A Somerset bullpen since being promoted in early June, Rossi has gone 17 straight appearances (dating back to Hudson Valley) without allowing a run, and the legacy of the Yankees churning out high-end relievers out of seemingly nowhere may be stirring.

It took less than one pitch for the San Francisco Giants to ruin their Friday night game. The stands had yet to fill in. The clock had yet to strike 7:10. The umpire had yet to say “play ball.”

And yet the Giants, in a season full of embarrassment, had already delivered their most disgraceful moment of the season.

Landen Roupp took the mound for the team’s annual Pride Night, and scribbled across the rainbow SF insignia on his hat were the words “Gen 9:11-16.”

The bible verses Roupp wrote referenced God’s creation of the rainbow. It’s become a common verse for homophobes to quote, in their never ending quest to reclaim that colorful arc in the sky from the Big Gay Agenda.

And it gets worse! After Roupp got rocked by the Chicago Cubs — and I refused to be upset by it — J.T. Brubaker entered the game (after a brief interlude from the ever-lovable Erik Miller). As though upset that Roupp had been so subtle with his writing, Brubaker one-upped his teammate, scrawling “Genesis 9:13-15” in lettering so large one would assume a toddler wrote it, except toddlers are more mature and understanding than that.

When Brubaker’s night ended, the Giants took a break from the biblical proclamations, as Sam Hentges filed his protest against The Gays by refusing to wear the Pride Night hat at all, opting instead for the basic orange and black Giants hat.

Finishing off the night was the recently-returned Ryan Walker, who opted for a less in-your-face version of Roupp and Brubaker’s message, putting his Genesis reference on the side of his Pride Night cap, rather than on the front of it (he also had easily the best penmanship of the group, which of course is a skill dripping in masculinity).

In all, the Giants sent five pitchers to the mound, and four of them turned to the crowd in attendance and proverbially tossed up a pair of middle fingers. Screw who you are, they said. We’ve got a colorful semicircle to protect.

It was equal parts bigoted and embarrassing, and blame deserves to shine throughout the organization. I don’t recall this ever happening with the Giants at prior Pride Nights, so it’s a reasonable assumption to make that Tony Vitello was okay with this “expression” where other managers have shut it down. It speaks poorly to the leaders in the organization, like Logan Webb, Willy Adames, and Matt Chapman, who prioritized the desires of a few players over the comfort of their fans (and, you know … humanity).

On a night meant to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community — which, it goes without saying, is a fairly significant demographic anywhere, but especially San Francisco — the Giants instead sent a message loudly and clearly: not all are welcome (though they’re still more than welcome to spend a few hundred bucks on tickets and overpriced beer, of course).

Their “explanations,” predictably, were lacking.

Sure, no hate at all, Landen. Just so much insecurity that he couldn’t wear a hat with a few colors on it without having to deface it. Big strong man scared of a little rainbow. The mind can hardly fathom such profound masculinity.

Anyway, the Giants lost and I don’t care. Tonight I’m thinking about Kyle Harrison, who was plastered across every Pride Night ad a year ago, grinning like a kid in a candy store while showing off his Pride Night bucket hat. Tonight I’m thinking about Matt Cain, good ol’ country boy that he was, popping up on a Giants PSA to tell fans that baseball is for everyone. Tonight I’m thinking about Solomon Bates, the Giants pitching prospect who came out as gay shortly after his Minor League career came to an end. I’m thinking of the closeted professional baseball players across the Majors and Minors, each of whom has surely spent countless hours wondering if their teammates would accept them.

I hope they’re all having good nights.

More importantly, I’m thinking of the thousands of queer Giants fans in attendance on Friday, and the tens or hundreds of thousands more watching at home, who not only had to watch their favorite team prove for the umpteenth time that they’re bad at baseball, but also had had to be reminded that even their favorite athletes don’t accept them. That the organization, from top to bottom, would rather drown with freedom of bigoted speech than commit itself to genuine acceptance.

The Giants just keep finding ways to embarrass themselves and let us down. Hopefully next time they keep it confined to baseball.

There was no late-night luck in Vegas for the Rockies.

Sean Sullivan gave Colorado an encouraging first look in his major league debut, and Cole Carrigg delivered the swing that briefly looked like it might define the night. But the lead did not hold. The Athletics answered Carrigg’s three-run homer with four unanswered runs, including the go-ahead run on a preventable throwing error, and beat the Rockies 6-4 on Friday at Las Vegas Ballpark.

The loss dropped the Rockies to 26-44, while the Athletics improved to 34-35.

Sullivan shows enough in debut

Sean Sullivan (No. 8 PuRP) became the sixth Rockies player to make his major league debut this season, and his outing ended after three scoreless innings due to illness. He allowed two hits, walked no one, and struck out two while throwing 33 of his 49 pitches for strikes. He generated 29 swings and five whiffs, topped out at 90.7 mph, and allowed just one hard-hit ball.

Sullivan built the outing around his four-seam fastball, throwing it 29 times for 59% of his pitch mix. He also used eight cutters, seven changeups, and five sweepers. The fastball averaged 87.6 mph, with the cutter at 83.2 mph, the changeup at 77.9 mph, and the sweeper at 75.6 mph. Against right-handed hitters, Sullivan used the fastball 61% of the time. Against left-handed hitters, he used it 56% of the time, with the sweeper becoming a bigger part of the plan at 22%.

The fastball was not overpowering, but Sullivan pounded the zone with it and forced Oakland to keep fighting it off. The clearest example came in the first inning against Colby Thomas. Sullivan fell behind 3-1, then threw eight straight four-seamers. Thomas swung through one to run the count full, fouled off six more, and then missed the 12th pitch of the at-bat, an 86.1 mph fastball, for Sullivan’s first major league strikeout.

That was the first real moment of the debut. Sullivan did not win it with velocity. He won it by staying in the zone, trusting the fastball, and making Thomas prove he could finish the at-bat. Thomas never did.

The other defining sequence came in the second. Jonah Heim doubled off the base of the wall in left, driving an 85.7 mph four-seamer at 102.1 mph with a 20-degree launch angle and a projected distance of 355 feet. It was the first hit Sullivan allowed in the majors and the only hard-hit ball against him.

Sullivan came right back against Zack Gelof and ended the inning in three pitches. He started with an 84.2 mph cutter for a called strike, came back with an 82.3 mph cutter that Gelof tipped for strike two, then finished him with a 74.6 mph sweeper for a swinging strike.

Both strikeouts ended innings. That is the useful takeaway from Sullivan’s debut. He threw strikes, avoided walks, limited hard contact, and had a response when the A’s finally put pressure on him. It would have been good to see him go deeper, but three scoreless innings was a solid first look.

Rockies finally get to Jump

For five innings, Gage Jump looked like he was going to make the Rockies pay for their missed early chances.

Colorado had a chance to get to him right away. Kyle Karros singled through the left side in the first, and TJ Rumfield followed with a ground-ball single to right that moved Karros to third. But with runners on the corners and one out, Jump escaped. He struck out Hunter Goodman, then got Troy Johnston to line out to Henry Bolte in center field for the final out.

The Rockies put another runner on in the second when Braxton Fulford lined a 97.5 mph fastball to right field for a two-out single, then stole second on the next pitch. Jump again avoided damage, and from there he settled in. He retired 10 straight Rockies hitters and carried a 2-0 lead into the sixth after Shea Langeliers and Nick Kurtz went back-to-back in the fifth.

Then the Rockies jumped him.

Willi Castro opened the sixth by poking a single past Max Muncy at third base. Karros followed with louder contact, shooting a 95.2 mph fastball through the left side for a 104.3 mph single. Rumfield then worked a walk, loading the bases with nobody out and forcing Mark Kotsay to go to the bullpen.

That was the inning’s first turn. Jump had been cruising, but the Rockies finally got him out of the game and created the kind of pressure they had missed with their early traffic.

Justin Sterner entered to face Goodman and won the first matchup, striking out Goodman for his third strikeout of the night. That made the inning feel like it might become another missed opportunity. Johnston kept that from happening. After falling behind 0-2, Johnston lifted a deep fly ball to center field, plenty deep to score Castro from third. Karros also tagged and advanced to third, a smart read as the ball carried Bolte deeper into the outfield.

Then Cole Carrigg made sure the Rockies did not settle for just one run.

Carrigg attacked a first-pitch cutter from Sterner and drove it out to right-center for a three-run home run. Carrigg’s second career round-tripper turned a 2-1 deficit into a 4-2 Rockies lead. The swing came off a 90.2 mph cutter and left the bat at 102.5 mph with a 34-degree launch angle.

That closed the book on Jump, who was charged with three runs over five innings. He allowed five hits, walked one, struck out six, and threw 52 of his 75 pitches for strikes. His fastball carried the outing, accounting for 38 of his 75 pitches, and it averaged 97.2 mph while topping out at 99.2. He also mixed in 21 sliders, eight curveballs, seven changeups, and one sweeper.

Jump was excellent for long stretches. He generated 14 whiffs on 40 swings and controlled the middle innings after Colorado failed to convert its first two chances. But the sixth changed the line. Two singles and a walk created the jam, Johnston got the first run home, and Carrigg delivered the swing that finally broke through.

Bullpen gives the lead back

The Rockies had to piece the game together after Sullivan exited, and the first handoff worked. Jeff Criswell handled the fourth with a scoreless inning. He allowed one walk, struck out one, and topped out at 97.1 mph while mixing sliders, four-seamers, and changeups.

The fifth is where the game changed. Seth Halvorsen opened the inning by getting Muncy to line out and Bolte to strike out, but Langeliers broke the scoreless tie with two outs. Langeliers got a 98.8 mph fastball and drove it to center field, sending it 450 feet at 104.2 mph for his 18th home run of the season.

Kurtz followed with the bigger swing. After falling behind 2-0, Halvorsen got a swinging strike on a 98.3 mph fastball, then tried to finish the at-bat with a 90 mph splitter. Kurtz drove it 471 feet to right-center at 108.9 mph, giving Oakland back-to-back home runs and a 2-0 lead.

Halvorsen walked Lawrence Butler before Zach Agnos entered and got Tyler Soderstrom to pop out in foul territory, keeping the inning at two runs. Halvorsen’s line closed at 0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 2 HR.

The Rockies answered with four runs in the top of the sixth, but the lead did not last. Agnos walked Jacob Wilson to open the bottom half, then gave up a one-out single to Gelof. Muncy tied the game with a double to center, driving a 94.9 mph four-seamer 398 feet at 103.5 mph to score both runners.

Agnos still had to get through Kurtz with runners on the corners and two outs. Kurtz had already hit the longest ball of the game, and he nearly did more damage. He drove a ball deep to center, but Carrigg tracked it down near the warning track to end the inning and keep the game tied, 4-4.

The seventh turned on a preventable mistake. Butler opened with a double to right off a 93 mph sinker, and Soderstrom followed with a walk. Agnos got Wilson on an infield fly and Carlos Cortes on a forceout, putting runners on the corners with two outs.

Cortes took off for second, and Goodman popped up from behind the plate, bluffing a throw to second. Butler broke down the line from third and got caught between bases. Goodman started him back toward third, but then spiked the throw to Karros. The ball skipped into the outfield, and Butler scored easily to give Oakland a 5-4 lead.

It was the kind of self-inflicted play that changes a game. Goodman had Butler hung up and a chance to get the Rockies out of the inning tied. Instead, the throw got away, and the A’s took the lead without putting another ball in play.

Agnos came back out for the eighth and gave up back-to-back singles to Muncy and Bolte before getting Langeliers to line out to Johnston in right. That ended Agnos’ outing at 2.2 IP, 5 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K.

Brennan Bernardino replaced Agnos and got the first out he needed, striking out Kurtz on a called third strike after an ABS challenge confirmed the pitch. Butler followed with a ground-ball single to center, scoring Muncy from second and pushing Oakland’s lead to 6-4. Bernardino then struck out Soderstrom to end the inning. His line closed at 0.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 K.

The Rockies got a clean inning from Criswell, but the rest of the bullpen stretch was costly. Halvorsen gave up the back-to-back homers in the fifth, Agnos was charged with four runs across the sixth, seventh, and eighth, and Goodman’s throwing error turned a tied game into a deficit before Butler added another run in the eighth.

Rockies go quietly in the ninth

The Rockies had one final chance in the ninth, but Hogan Harris closed it quickly. Carrigg struck out swinging, Sterlin Thompson followed with another strikeout, and Brett Sullivan lined out to Butler in right field to end a 6-4 loss.

Mason Barnett earned the win for Oakland, while Agnos took the loss for Colorado. Harris picked up the save after retiring all four batters he faced.

The Rockies finished with seven hits and went 1-for-7 with runners in scoring position, leaving four runners on base. The Athletics went 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position and left 10 on base, but they cashed in enough late. Oakland scored two in the fifth, two in the sixth, one in the seventh, and one in the eighth after being held scoreless through the first four innings.

Colorado got impressive moments from the call-ups. Sean Sullivan threw three scoreless innings in his major league debut, and Carrigg delivered the biggest swing of the night with a three-run homer in the sixth. Kyle Karros also had two hits and made several defensive plays at third.

But the Rockies did not finish the game cleanly. The bullpen allowed six runs after Sullivan and Jeff Criswell covered the first four innings, and the defense gave Oakland extra help. Hunter Goodman had a rough night, going 0-for-4 with three strikeouts and committing two errors, including the throw that gave the A’s the lead in the seventh.

The young pieces gave Colorado real moments. Sullivan’s debut was encouraging. Carrigg’s homer changed the game. But missed chances, a leaky bullpen, and one preventable defensive mistake were enough to turn those moments into another loss.

Up Next

The series continues tomorrow night in Las Vegas, where the Rockies will send Kyle Freeland to the mound for an 8:05 p.m. MDT first pitch at Las Vegas Ballpark.

Freeland is still trying to right the ship after a disastrous run of starts since returning from injury. The left-hander enters at 1-6 with a 7.87 ERA and 45 strikeouts, and Colorado badly needs him to find something closer to his usual form.

The Athletics, meanwhile, have not yet named a starter for the game.

From the jump, the Rays just didn’t have it tonight.

In the bottom of the first, Trey Mancini roped a triple to right field with two outs to plate two Halos. 2-0 Anaheim before you got a chance to sit down with your popcorn.

Again with two outs, the Angels got off the hook with a seeing-eye single from Nick Madrigal plated another to tack on another run, and Logan O’Hoppe singles to plate Madrigal, and it’s 4-0 Angels.

Shane McClanahan struck out seven, but allowed eight hits and walked one.

In the top of the fifth, Jonathan Aranda struck again, providing Tampa bay with a crooked number of the single variety to cut the deficit in half.

In the eighth, Chandler Simpson defied gravity with a home run-robbing catch in his first start in center field this season.

In the ninth, the Rays threatened with another Aranda RBI single. Junior Caminero walks to load the bases,

Cedric Mullins pinch hits for Ryan Vilade, and that was all she wrote. Mullins would strike out swinging, stranding the tying run at third base.

We do it again from Angel Stadium on Saturday at 10:07 PM EST, with Griffin Jax and Rafael Soriano as the probable pitchers.

As Carlos Mendoza put it after the Mets' 7-5 win over the Braves on Friday night, the game got "risky" in the second inning.

With the Mets up 2-0 off the back-to-back blasts from Bo Bichette and Juan Soto, starter Nolan McLean struggled. He allowed two runs on three walks and two hits. And more strikingly, the young right-hander threw 42 pitches.

"That was his last hitter there," Mendoza said of how close he was to pulling McLean in the second. "Again, after 42 pitches, you’re getting in that tricky spot where you’re uncomfortable. Talking to Nolan after that second inning, he had a break, we had a long one offensively. If we had a quick three outs, I don’t think Nolan goes back."

“You don’t ever really prepare to go throw 40 pitches in an inning,” McLean said. “Once you get that tired out there, you’re trying to piece it together and get those outs, get back in the dugout and try to recover.

“I was pretty tired. Was able to kinda work out of it with minimal runs, minimal damage, which I was happy about.”

The issue for McLean in that inning, and the game as a whole, was his control. The rookie said he was not able to land his offspeed pitches in the zone and credited the Braves hitters for fouling off good pitches. 

Mendoza echoed those sentiments.

"He was missing big time arm side with all of his pitches," he said. "He got pretty tricky there in the second inning, 42 pitches. But he was able to minimize the damage, got out of it and we asked for a couple of more there. It was risky, but we needed him. He lost the strike zone and got behind hitters."

To McLean's credit, he settled in. With a 6-2 lead, he allowed just two more baserunners before he was pulled after the fourth inning. 

"He competed, he went back out there and was able to give us two more," Mendoza said. 

McLean wound up throwing 93 pitches (55 strikes), allowing the two runs on three hits, four walks, while striking out six. But the 24-year-old isn't satisfied with just grinding through four innings. He was hoping to go back out for the fifth and was visibly upset when Mendoza told him he was done while in the dugout between innings.

But McLean understands the decision and knows what he must do moving forward.

“I gotta do a better job of, later in the count when they are fouling it off, just keep challenging them,” he said. “Just some pretty close misses there and, then obviously, there were a few walks for bigger misses.”

While it wasn't pretty, McLean and the Mets will take these wins, knowing they have to climb back to .500 after the hole they dug themselves earlier this season. 

“We’ll take ugly victories over clean losses," McLean said. "So anyway we can get in the win column as many times as we can, that’s what we’re trying to do."

After Friday's win, they sit 4.5 games back of the final wild card spot and hope to keep chipping away at that deficit when they face off against the Braves again on Saturday.

Athletics 6, Rockies 4

Graphic via FanGraphs.

He’s back: Lawrence Butler, +0.38 WPA

Tough day in the bullpen: Zach Agnos, -0.39 WPA

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The Athletics started their weekend series against the Colorado Rockies on the right foot, beating their NL West counterparts 6-4 thanks to some solid pitching and timely hitting. The win secures the team’s 34th win of the season and they remain in striking distance of a playoff spot and the AL West lead. They’re now just a game under .500 and can get back to that mark tomorrow with another win.

Zeros early

Tonight’s pitching matchup featured a pair of young starters just beginning to make their mark on the league. It was lefty Gage Jump for the Athletics while fellow southpaw Sean Sullivan was making his major league debut for the Rockies.

Jump, one of the organization’s best young pitchers, came into this contest riding high after two quality starts in a row. He ran into some trouble in the first when he allowed back-to-back one-out singles but managed to wriggle out of it. He allowed another single in the second before getting into his rhythm.

From the third on Jump was dominant. He turned in 1-2-3 innings in the third, fourth, and fifth, retiring 10 straight at one point tonight. Considering how much the ball was flying earlier in the week during the Brewers series, Jump did a great job keeping the Rockies off the board for five full frames this evening.

On the other side Sullivan was keeping up with Jump. The A’s got a double in the second that was stranded and put two runners on in the third, but they couldn’t cash in on that early opportunity either. Those three innings were all we would see of Sullivan as the Rockies didn’t want to push their luck and ask him to go through the Athletics’ lineup a second time.

The scoring begins

Righty Jeff Criswell replaced Sullivan and had a scoreless fourth before Seth Halvorsen entered this contest for the fifth. He managed two outs before Shea Langeliers stepped up to the plate and hit the second pitch he saw over the center field wall for a solo shot:

That big fly was Langeliers’ 18th of the year and gave the Athletics the first lead of the game. But the A’s were done there. Next to the plate was first baseman Nick Kurtz and he decided to go back-to-back with Langeliers with his own home run, his 16th on the year:

The power stroke is officially here. That big fly was Kurtz’s fifth long ball in his past five games. It also doubled the A’s lead and gave Jump some breathing room.

Speaking of Jump, he finished the fifth rolling after punching out the side and was sent out to start the sixth given a chance to keep it going. But a leadoff single broke his streak. Then another single and a five-pitch walk brought Mark Kotsay out of the dugout, and the manager decided to pull his starter before things got any hairier.

• Gage Jump: 5 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 1 BB, 6 K, 75 pitches

No need to push the young lefty when he was clearly beginning to lose it. Right-handed Justin Sterner replaced Jump, coming into a bases-loaded, no out situation with the Rockies’ home run leader stepping to the plate. He punched out Hunter Goodman before a sac fly brought in the Rockies’ first run of the evening, charged to Jump. Then it was the big hit for the Rockies, a three-run home run to turn a 2-1 A’s lead into a 4-2 Rockies lead. Two of those runs would also be charged to Jump, putting a bad finish on an otherwise quality outing. Jump is lined up to take on the Pirates next week.

Now facing a deficit, the A’s offense needed to get to work. A leadoff walk to the just-activated Jacob Wilson started the bottom of the sixth. That was followed by a Zack Gelof one-out single (which extended his hitting streak to 16 games) to put two runners on. Up to the plate stepped third baseman Max Muncy and he delivered a huge two-run double that knotted this game back up at 4 apiece:

Much needed hit right there. Muncy would finish the night 2-for-4. This game would need to be decided in the final frames tonight.

The endgame

Following Sterner out of the Athletics’ bullpen was right-hander Mason Barnett, who had a perfect top of the seventh.

The bats meanwhile managed to push a run across in the bottom of the seventh with a little help from the Rockies’ defense. With two outs and runners on the corners Kotsay sent the runner on first, hoping to draw the throw to second base and allow the runner at third to make an attempt for home plate. Instead Butler nearly got picked off at third, but luckily a bad throw from the catcher sailed past the third baseman into left field, allowing Butler to come home and give the A’s the late lead:

Hey, take what they give you right?

Barnett came out for another inning of work in the eighth and got two outs but also allowed a double, putting the tying run in scoring position for the Rockies. Enter lefty Hogan Harris. Asked to get one major out, Harris did his job inducing a ground ball to escape the jam. Breath out.

The A’s added on a much-needed insurance run in the bottom of the eighth. Lawrence Butler, who didn’t even start this game, delivered his second hit of the night to drive in Muncy and give the A’s some breathing room for the ninth:

It was then up to Harris to finish the Rockies off. The lefty finished off the bottom part of the Colorado lineup with ease, collecting two punch outs and securing the win for the Green & Gold while earning his sixth save of the season.

A slightly stressful win but a win nonetheless. Don’t let Jump’s final line tell you he had anything but a great start tonight. The offense managed to do just enough to squeak out the win against the worst team in the league, and the bullpen was (almost) perfect to secure win #34 for the squad. They did what they needed to do tonight and now they need to do it two more times.

We do it all again tomorrow evening, same time same place. The A’s are shaking things up and will send right-hander Joey Estes to the mound for his first appearance with the big league team this season. Estes has made 12 starts with the Aviators this year and has a 5.95 ERA. Not great numbers but on the plus side he has plenty of experience pitching in Las Vegas Ballpark. The Rockies meanwhile have lefty Kyle Freeland going for them in the middle contest this weekend. The 10-year veteran has gotten hit hard this season as he’ll carry a sky-high 7.81 ERA into tomorrow. More homers incoming?

TORONTO — Max Fried still has a ways to go before he is pitching for the Yankees again, but he will take another important step in his comeback on Saturday.

The left-hander is set to throw a light bullpen session after another round of imaging on his left elbow bone bruise showed enough healing to clear him for the next step in his ramp-up, manager Aaron Boone said Friday.

“I think it’s just a touch and feel [bullpen on Saturday] and then hopefully progress on the mound and see where that leads,” Boone said before an 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays.

Fried, who last pitched on May 13, has been asymptomatic since he started playing catch late last month. He had gotten out to throwing from 120 feet before going for more tests to get the green light to take the next step.

“Doesn’t mean he’s been cleared to get into that next point of a game — I think there’s still got to be some improvement [in his MRI exam],” Boone said. “But he’s doing well.”

In a best-case scenario, Fried is still likely more than a month away from returning, needing to get through multiple bullpen sessions and live batting practices before a rehab assignment might come into play.

But if the Yankees can get him through those steps healthy, they will gladly welcome him back to strengthen what is already a potent rotation.

J.C. Escarra led off the fifth inning with a double, marking the first hit by a Yankees catcher since May 30. In between, Escarra, Austin Wells and Ali Sánchez had combined to go 0-for-26.

Wells (cervical headaches) is hitting, throwing and going through treatment, feeling “great” as he works toward a return, according to Boone.

The catcher is first eligible to return from the IL on Tuesday, though Boone said the Yankees would decide after this weekend if they want him to play in any rehab games first.

The lore of The Miz just keeps growing.

Brewers flame-thrower Jacob Misiorowski kicked off his start against the Phillies by striking out the side — and breaking one of his own records in the process of the 6-0 win.

The young right-hander hit 104.5 mph on the radar gun with a foul-tip strikeout of Philadelphia leadoff hitter Kyle Schwarber.

It was the hardest-thrown pitch by a starter in the pitch-tracking era, which dates to 2008, surpassing the 103.4 mph heater he fired in late May against the Cardinals.

Misiorowski finished the inning by punching out Trea Turner and Bryce Harper swinging on 103.5 mph and 104.1 mph fastballs, respectively, to cap a ridiculous opening frame.

He didn’t slow down there.

Misiorowski continued dominating the Phillies lineup, striking out 15 batters while allowing only one baserunner — a fourth-inning single by Schwarber — in a complete game shutout.

The outing continued what has been a ridiculous start to the 2026 season for Misiorowski, who made his MLB debut for Milwaukee exactly one year ago to the day.

Heading into Friday’s game, Misiorowski had posted a 1.50 ERA with a major league-leading 116 strikeouts across 13 starts, putting him squarely in the National League Cy Young conversation.

Last summer, with his stardom rising quickly, Misiorowski was placed on the NL All-Star team after just five outings and 25 2/3 innings.

That decision didn’t go over well around much of the baseball world — especially in Philadelphia.

Phillies lefty Christopher Sanchez, who didn’t make the team despite being 7-2 with a 2.49 ERA across 107 2/3 innings at the time, was among the players who had a case for the spot Misiorowski filled.

Ironically, Sanchez is now one of the few arms in the senior circuit pitching near Misiorowski’s level, having posted a 1.54 ERA with 113 strikeouts, setting up an intriguing NL All-Star Game starter debate and Cy Young race.

It wasn't necessarily pretty, but the Mets held on for a huge 7-5 win over the NL East-leading Braves on Friday night and Devin Williams was a big part of it.

Bo Bichette smashed two home runs and drove in six runs for the Mets, but Nolan McLean wasn't efficient enough to go deep and the bullpen faltered a bit as Atlanta's dangerous lineup chipped away at New York's lead. And with two outs in the eighth and runners on second and third, manager Carlos Mendoza called on his closer to get a four-out save.

Williams has yet to get more than three outs in a single outing as a Met. He didn't even do it with the Yankees a season ago until the playoffs, so this is uncharted territory for the Mets skipper. But after Eli White hit a sharp single off of third baseman Brett Baty that scored a run, Williams got Rowdy Tellez -- who represented the go-ahead run -- to fly out and send the game into the ninth.

"We got to a point now where they’re built up, equipped for it," Mendoza said of his rationale to use Williams for a four-out save. "Once you get in that situation, you’re trying to avoid another high-leverage guy, which was [Luke Weaver]. We get to a point where a four-out save was in play. I thought today, where we were in the game, where we were in the lineup, matchup-wise, that was the decision there."

After getting Austin Wynns to line out on the first pitch of the ninth, the at-bat of the night occurred. Mauricio Dubon and Williams battled for 14 pitches before the Braves outfielder singled, allowing the tying run to come to the plate.

But Williams didn't back down. He struck out Michael Harris II on four pitches and got Matt Olson -- who homered earlier in the game -- to strike out on a foul tip on four pitches to end the game.

"Pretty impressive at-bat by Dubon there, but that’s what makes Devin who he is," Mendoza said of the ninth. "He knows that even after that long one, he’s got two pretty good hitters coming up. He’s gotta execute, stay on the attack, not get behind in the count. That’s what he did. He went right after them. Huge save for us."

“It was a pretty gutsy performance by Devin there," McLean said. "Coming back-to-back and two-ups tonight, that’s big time.”

Friday was Williams' sixth career save of four or more outs and his first since May 28, 2023. It's also a continuation of some recent domination from the Mets closer.

He's now allowed just one run over his last six outings (6.1 IP). He's also unscored upon in 15 of his last 17 appearances dating back to April 26. His 37 strikeouts this season are the seventh-most among NL relievers. 

While Williams will more than likely not be available on Saturday, he delivered a big win to start the weekend series as the Mets continue to climb out of their early-season hole.

The Mariners are finishing out their long road trip with an interleague set against the Nationals and things got off to a tough start with a two-hour-plus rain delay, their second of the season (glares in the general direction of Minnesota). Rain delays historically haven’t been kind to the Mariners, but today they overcame the long delay thanks to a strong start from Bryce Miller, backed by an offensive explosion led by Dominic Canzone and Colt Emerson.

After a tough loss in Baltimore yesterday, the Mariners were on the right side of a big inning today, jumping on Nats starter and former Mariner Zack Littell in the second inning. It started with what I’m terming an Arozarena Double (single, stolen base) followed by a walk to Luke Raley, who’s really trying to lean into that Three True Outcomes label lately. Dominic Canzone apparently has a grudge against Nationals Park – which, fair – because he then tried to laser this ball through the center field wall for a rare Dominic Canzone Triple, which unfortunately immediately triggers a #CycleWatch for Canzone.

Miles Mastrobuoni brought home Canzone from third because Miles “Mister Bunny/Master Boney” Mastrobuoni knows how to do his job, to make it 3-0 Mariners, but the suffering would not end there for Littell, as Jhonny Pereda wore him out with a nine-pitch at-bat that ended in a line-drive single (with batflip, natch), bringing up Colt Emerson. Emerson got a fastball up in the zone and was able to pull it over the wall for his fifth home run: an impressive feat for a player whose power was never a highlight in his prospect scouting report.

Even though the Mariners had knocked out Littell by the second inning, the third inning was more of a bummer, comparatively, not only because the Mariners didn’t score but also because Randy Arozarena appeared to injure himself on a routine groundout to first, looking like he maybe tweaked a hamstring trying to beat out the throw. Victor Robles replaced Randy in the bottom of the inning, playing right as Luke Raley shifted to left, making his first return to Nationals Park, and immediately made a nice inning-ending catch.

The first Nats run off Miller came in the fourth, when Miller made the mistake of falling behind Nats slugger James Wood in a 3-1 count. Miller then compounded his mistake by hanging a slider in Wood’s lefty loop zone for a no-doubt homer that at least was a solo shot. Miller almost made things harder for himself with an ill-located splitter to Luis García Jr., but thankfully the yard held it, and Miller was able to escape the inning without further damage.

The Mariners were able to get that run back in the fifth and then some, doing some damage with two outs. Cole Young started with a one-out single, moving to second on a seven-pitch walk to Julio Rodríguez. With two outs, Victor Robles worked a walk to load the bases, with Young eventually scoring on a wild pitch by Nats bulk pitcher Riley Cornelio (pause for Beavis and Butthead jokes). Luke Raley then brought in Julio and Robles with a big two-out single that would put this game functionally out of reach; a pair of solo homers later in the game from Canzone and Josh Naylor pushed the score to double digits.

Miller, with his pitch count in good shape, earned an opportunity to pitch in the eighth to try to set a career high, but fell behind leadoff man Dylan Crews 3-0 before serving up a sinker that didn’t sink, prompting Dan Wilson to get up new bullpen addition Michael Rucker. Miller rebounded, however, to get his next three outs, completing eight innings for the first time in his career.

For Miller, who has a near-encyclopedic recollection of his outings, it was a satisfying step forward.

“The last time I had a low pitch count after seven was 2024 in Milwaukee, and I lost the battle then,” joked Miller.

Today, with the Mariners bullpen thin in the middle of a long road trip, Miller got the green light to go back out and push deeper into a game than he had, making things easy on new callup Michael Rucker, who pitched a scoreless ninth. It was a statement game against a team that’s been averaging over five runs a game, and a statement game for Miller, who’s making a case along with Emerson Hancock to be considered the ace of the Mariners rotation. Big Tex > Big thunderstorms.

Only the Houston Astros this season could deliver angst and high drama after posting a whopping 9 runs in the first inning.    What should’ve been a contest set on cruise control, quickly became a roller coaster affair, between dueling bullpens.   Houston would hang on for a 10-8 win.     

Royals starter Luinder Avila would be chased after throwing 49 pitches, the highest volume for any pitcher in an inning this year.    Avila now owns that dubious distinction.    Swimming in the same stormy waters was Tatsuya Imai, who in his 9th start would also get bounced in the opening frame while being charged with 5 runs.    The inning would take 47 minutes to complete.   

Steven Okert would come on initially in relief to quiet the noise.    Okert would go 2 1/3 IP, his longest outing since August of 2021.     In total, the Astros would utilize six different relievers; Okert, Blubaugh, Pearson, De Los Santos, King and Josh Hader.    Hader would close the door, registering his 2nd save of the year.        

The Astros first inning fireworks began with a leadoff single by Jeremy Pena, followed by back-to-back home runs from Yordan Alvarez and Christian Walker.    The entire order would bat around.    Alvarez would then reappear with the bases loaded, launching a grand slam off of reliever Mason Black.    It would be the first time an Astros player would have multiple homeruns in the same inning since Jeff Bagwell accomplished the feat in June of 1994 verses the Dodgers.    Alvarez would account for 6 of the 10 runs scored.    He now leads the A.L. with 54 rbi’s.   

The Royals would add a trio of runs in the bottom of the 8th, first on a single by Michael Massey that drove in Michael Garcia.   That hit would be followed by a Carter Jensen bases loaded walk and then a Bobby Witt RBI single.     That would trim the lead to one.

In the top of the ninth, Brice Matthews would create some breathing room, adding an insurance run with a 433-foot HR.     It was Matthews’s 5th homer of the season.       

With the win, the Astros improve to 2-2 on this current road trip.    Mike Burrows is scheduled to start Saturday.  First pitch from Kauffman Stadium at 6:10pm CDT.    Burrows has lost 4 of his last 5 outings.    

Bo Bichette may have called it while talking to The Post before Friday’s game.

“I think I am good enough that my season could look how I want it to look in a week,” Bichette said. “But I also think that I am good enough to where we look up in a couple of months and I am like, ‘Oh, dang, he made it to where he wants to be.’ ”

He’s off to a good start.

Buoyed by Bichette’s two home runs, which included a grand slam, the Mets beat the Braves 7-5 at Citi Field for their second straight victory.

The barrage gave Bichette, who began the night with an anemic .607 OPS, three homers over his last two games. His six RBIs matched a career high. It’s the kind of night the Mets had in mind when they signed Bichette last winter to a three-year contract (that contains opt outs) worth $126 million.

“Individually you have a little bit more juice already, knowing that you are playing the best team,” Bichette said of the Braves, who own MLB’s best record. “Individually you are going to have to bring it if you want to win, but coming out and seeing the crowd how it was, I don’t know if I have really seen that all year, so it was exciting just walking out there in the first innings.”

Bichette’s outburst boosted the Mets on a night Nolan McLean scuffled and lasted just four innings because of an elevated pitch count. The right-hander allowed two earned runs on three hits and four walks with six strikeouts. He was removed after 93 pitches.

Juan Soto, whose go-ahead homer Wednesday propelled a victory over the Cardinals, went deep on this night to augment Bichette’s offensive heroics.

Bichette and Soto got the night started with consecutive homers in the first inning that gave the Mets a 2-0 lead. Soto, who received his silver bat award from last season before the game, cleared the right field fence for his team-leading 15th homer after Bichette had homered to left.

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“I feel like we haven’t seen that the whole year,” manager Carlos Mendoza said, referring to the Bichette-Soto combo. “Whether it was losing Juan because of injury, then he gets going and Bo going through a rough stretch, but if we get those two going they can carry any team.”

McLean needed 42 pitches to get through the second, an inning in which the Braves sent eight batters to the plate and scored twice, with help from three walks.

Dominic Smith’s RBI single pulled the Braves within 2-1 after Ozzie Albies walked leading off and reached second when Jared Young mishandled McLean’s pickoff throw for an error. Austin Riley walked before Mike Yastrezemski’s RBI single tied it 2-2. McLean then walked Ha-Seong Kim to load the bases before getting three straight outs without a run scoring.

Bichette’s grand slam in the bottom of the inning gave the Mets a 6-2 lead. MJ Melendez doubled against Spencer Strider with two outs to begin the rally before Luis Torrens singled and Carson Benge got drilled to load the bases. Bichette hit a fly to right that just nestled into the first row.

Bichette’s sacrifice fly in the fourth extended the Mets’ lead to 7-2. Melendez walked in the inning and Luis Torrens singled.

McLean’s performance was a step backward after two straight solid starts from the right-hander following consecutive clunkers. In his previous outing, last Saturday against the Padres, he threw a season-high 101 pitches and allowed one earned run over six innings.

Matt Olson’s homer in the fifth against Cionel Perez gave the Braves their third run.

Brooks Raley surrendered two runs in the eighth to slice the Mets’ lead to 7-5 before Devin Williams retired Rowdy Tellez with the tying runs on base for the final out.

Williams worked a scoreless ninth for his second save in as many days. The right-hander threw 33 pitches overall.

“Most teams get hot at some point during the year,” Bichette said. “We have just got to grind this one out.”

The Mets welcomed the Braves to Citi Field with a 7-5 victory to open the series against the division leaders.

The dynamic duo of Bo Bichette and Juan Soto went back-to-back in the first inning to give the Mets an early 2-0 lead against their rivals. After Nolan McLean labored in the second and Atlanta tied the game, MJ Melendez doubled with two outs in the bottom half of the inning. That ended up being a key play in the game since the team went on to load the bases for Bichette who blasted his second home run of the game.

Bichette’s grand slam also saved McLean who stayed in game once staked to a four-run lead. It still wasn’t easy for the righty but he didn’t give up any more runs outside of the second inning. In that inning he threw 42 pitches and gave up RBI hits to old friend Dominic Smith and Mike Yastrzemski. After the two runs came home, the Braves loaded the bases with nobody out but he escaped without further damage by getting two strikeouts and a pop up. His night was done when he was unhappily pulled after four innings. McLean walked four and struck out six in his brief outing and then the game was in the bullpen’s hands.

First up was Cionel Pérez who gave up a home run to Matt Olson to allow the Braves to creep closer and after Huascar Brazobán was stellar for 1.2 innings, Brooks Raley was less so. He got just two outs and gave up two runs which forced the team to turn to Devin Williams with the tying runs on base. Williams did allow one of the inherited runners to score, but he got big Rowdy Tellez to fly out for the final out of the eighth inning. In the ninth the tying run again came to the plate, this time in the form of Olson, but Williams struck him out to nail down the save.

The Mets offense had tacked on a run the the fourth but they were held mostly in check after Spencer Strider departed early with right arm soreness. This game ultimately became a battle of the bullpens and while the Mets’ bullpen bent it did not break and they held on for a 7-5 win they desperately needed. Lets go Mets baby. Love da Mets.

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Big Mets winner: Bo Bichette +41% WPA
Big Mets loser: Nolan McLean and Brooks Raley -5% WPA
Mets pitchers: +5% WPA
Mets hitters: +45% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Bo Bichette grand slam in second, +30% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Mike Yastrzemski RBI single in second, -14.2% WPA.

On a drizzly night, the Twins managed (somehow) to win a battle of bumpy bullpens. (In bWAR for relievers, the Cards’ pitchers are ninth in MLB; the Twins’ are 29th.) Inning-by-inning notes:

1: Cards 1B Alec Burleson has a home run in each of his last three games; make it four. Heckuva hot streak. If you didn’t know (I didn’t), the record is eight games in a row. Shared by Ken Griffey, Jr. (1993), Don Mattingly (1987), and Dale Long (1956). Long’s not a name most of us are familiar with, but he had a solid career OPS of .80 over 10 seasons. Six guys have hit seven in a row, and 25 have hit six. None of the above were Twins.

Byron Buxton now has one straight game with a home run. That’s #21 for the year; that’s on pace for 48! But we know he’ll waive his no-trade clause, get traded to the Dodgers for a high-A prospect, and end up hitting 75 home runs because the Dodgers have bought off the baseball gods. (They can afford it.) Tied 1-1

2: Two singles by guys who have Tattooine-type names; Lars Nootbar and Masyn Winn. Then a lineout, and an RBI single for Blaze Jordan, who was just called up today! It was his first at-bat, in fact. Good for him. After a strikeout, there’s a single to right, and Winn scores. Originally, the throw beat Jordan to third, and he was tagged out… but, SS Tristan Gray bumped into Jordan on the basepaths, so he’s safe because of defensive interference.

Radio’s Kris Atteberry keeps saying this mistake cost the Twins a double play. No, Kris. No, it did not. Well, everybody makes boo-boos.

Royce Lewis hits a long out. That’s as exciting as the Twins get here. Cardinals 3-1

3: Ooh, Gameday has really spruced up the graphics this year:

That ball in the dirt KICKED UP some dirt. This is what you pay graphic design graduates hard money to think up, folks.

Finally a 1-2-3 inning for Joe Ryan, although he’s at 63 pitches now which means four innings of The Best Bullpen in Baseball.™

Tristan Gray has a leadoff single, and this mistake costs the Twins an imaginary radio double play. Whoops, I jinxed it, since after a Luke Keaschall strikeout there is an actual double play. Well, I wouldn’t have jinxed it if Atteberry hadn’t said it in the first place, so it’s still his fault.

4: Oops, I also jinxed Ryan by saying he’d pitch five innings. They just paused the game for rain, so he’s done.

I double-jinxed it. The delay was short enough (29 minutes) that Ryan’s back out. Waiting for the game to start, OTHER radio guy Dan Gladden says “I think 14 teams make the playoffs now” and this is untrue, so let’s just assume that the third radio guy is named Jim Beam tonight. Another 1-2-3 for Ryan.

Buxton hits a double, and tries stretching it into a triple. It doesn’t work. The rest of the Twins avoid baserunning errors by avoiding the bases.

5: Two-out single by Iván Herrera, who steals second with no throw, but Ryan strikes out Burleson to end it. He’s at 92 pitches now, though, so my original jinx stands true.

Here we go! A Lewis single and super-rare Victor Caratini double. Second and third, no out. Brooks Lee hit one to right, and Lewis doesn’t try to score, thinking RF Jordan Walker has a rocket arm. Walker does, but the throw ended up being way off line. Still, Gray has an infield single and Royce scores. Luke Keaschall flies out; not deep enough for the slow Caratini to tag up. No more goodness; man, you’d like to have had two runs there. Gashouse Gang 3-2

6: TRIPLE JINX! Ryan stays in to get three guys on seven pitches. Shows how much I know. I mean, I know a lot about certain things. I know that old-timey actor Edward G. Robinson was in a crime movie called The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse and you probably didn’t know that. But I do not always predict the future of baseballing games accurately.

Gee whiz, Byron… 3-3 tonight, this one a double. Kody Klobberin’ Klemens takes a walk. Josh Bell manages to golf-swing one off the outfield wall, and for some reason Clemens doesn’t get past third. Still, Buxton scores, and this chases starter Kyle Leahy.

Alfonso Soriano’s cousin George Soriano in to pitch. Royce sac fly to center, scoring Clemens. “Other” Soriano escapes further damage. Again, when (after the Bell RBI double) you had runners on second and third with nobody out, you’d like to get both of those in, but we’ll have to settle for Twins 4-3

7: Taylor Rogers (4.78 ERA) in. Leadoff walk, not so good. He gets a called Strike Three on the next guy, and he’s probably lucky this is Blaze Jordan’s first MLB game, because the 3-2 pitch was inside, but Jordan doesn’t challenge it. Roger gets the next guy swinging, and walks another; geez, Taylor.

This brings in Eric “Oozy” Orze. He gives up a hit, but Tristan Gray manages to keep the ball from escaping the infield. Nobody scores; yet the bases are loaded.

Four straight balls from Orze. YUMMY. Tie game.

Jordan Walker double. NOT tie game.

The new Cards pitcher is Gordon Graceffo, who is not related to Alfonso Soriano, but he has a very cool name just by itself. He gives up two walks of his own, and the second means he’s replaced by Ryne Stanek.

Hey! Kody Clemens found his dad’s old pharmacy phone number! Homer runner! Tied 7-7

8: Something called a Yoendrys Gómez pitching for the Twins. One easy pop-up out, then a single, WP, another single, and a ball that gets stuck in Tristan Gray’s glove for the RBI. Yuck. New pitcher time, it’s Anthony Banda. A bloop single loads them up; still only one out. A pop-out to first; then a flyout to center. Nice job, Banda, I guess maybe.

Hey, what happens when you hit a ball at the right angle 107 MPH? A Dong Does! Thanks Royce!

Then, Brooks Lee with a pathetic, only 100 MPH one. But, we’ll take the second dong anyways! Better Midwesterners 9-8

9: Andrew “Not Black Jack” Morris in for the save opportunity, and it’s… really pretty easy for him! Twims wim! (Yes, we spell it wrong on purpose here sometimes.)

Studs: Joe Ryan and the Bomba Squad, 6/12/2026 edition: Buxton, Clemens, Lewis, Lee. Duds: No duds, Twins win! (Except the whole bullpen, but it’s not their fault they stink, it’s Pohlvey’s.)

The Twins remain one of two teams (along with the Nats) not to have a walkoff win so far this season.

COTG: Nagurski for weather/cultural observations, SooFoo for “more like tarps on” (referencing how half-nekkid Cards fans like to call themselves the “Tarps Off” bunch, and there was a rainy delay), sandwiches for “We should play Twinkie Town blackout bingo with how the bullpen f***s up a game. Pretty sure we’d have a blackout already on the bingo card and by drowning our sorrows,” then Matt for “what is this Morris nonsense… get Lawrence out there, I want the Twins to obliterate the unique saves record”

Thanks to everybody who joined in; it was a long night!

Tomorrow’s game is at 1:10, featuring one Matthew Liberatore against our own Connor Prielipp. Catch ya next time!

This is going to be a much cheerier recap than my last one, for obvious reasons. Feels like the Guardians haven’t played many truly well-rounded complete games recently, and tonight was a sterling example of what that looks like for this iteration of the club. Great starting pitching which, in turn, limits the amount of damage the middle/non-Cade relievers can do, and just enough offense.

Guardians got the scoring started with a 2-out rally (kinda) in the 2nd. Hoskins hit a leadoff double, which was promptly followed by back-to-back flyouts — neither of which advanced him to 3rd. But, as you might expect, Bailey drove in Hoskins with an RBI single and Rocchio drove in Bailey with an RBI triple (why not?).

The Tigers fought right back in the 3rd with a James Outman (who, if you missed it, was picked up by the Tigers yesterday) solo homer.

It was pretty quiet until the 6th, when Kwan drove in Angel with an RBI single (Angel doubled).

Bibee was through 7 and came out for the 8th, but gave up a solo homer to Torkelson. He was pulled after that. His final line was 7+ IP 2H 2ER 8K 2BB.

Flaherty, who started for the Tigers, was pulled after the 3rd. He had an awkward tumble in the 2nd, but came back out in new cleats for the 3rd. He seems to have been pulled due to some foot/lower leg injury.

Gaddis pitched a scoreless 8th, and Cade slammed the door in the 9th.

Cantillo vs. Skubal tomorrow!

A loss in the first game of the season against the New York Mets was bad for the Atlanta Braves.

The loss of Spencer Strider to right arm soreness during his start was worse.

Strider’s departure after his fastball plummeted to 88-89 mph in the fourth inning overshadowed Atlanta’s 7-5 loss in Queens, N.Y. Friday night.

Mind you, it wasn’t a good start before the velocity dropped for Strider, who allowed a season-high seven runs on six hits — including three home runs — in three-plus innings.

But the optics of another apparent arm injury for a player who has been plagued by them of late are much worse than just a bad start, looming over a starting rotation which should get healthier in the coming weeks and months but isn’t quite there yet.

It didn’t seem the Braves were going to be in a competitive game when Strider exited in a 6-2 game which quickly became 7-2 when an inherited runner scored. Bo Bichette and Juan Soto hit back-to-back homers in the first off Strider.

After Atlanta scored two of its own in the second — before failing to take the lead with the bases loaded and no outs — the Mets reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the inning on another Bichette homer, this one a wall-scraping grand slam.

Credit to JR Ritchie, who was tasked with a bulk-relief appearance in his return to the major league level, for stabilizing things. He allowed the inherited run from Strider on a single to the first batter he faced and then a Bichette sacrifice fly for his sixth RBI.

But from there, Ritchie was dominant the rest of the way, allowing just one more hit and two walks over five total innings of work, striking out five. He did it on just 73 pitches, a promising response after his pitch count would often get a bit elevated in his first stint with the Braves earlier this season.

That shutdown from the rookie allowed the Braves to chip into the deficit. They got a run back in the fifth on a solo homer from Matt Olson, his 20th of the season. They got two more in the eighth on RBI singles from Ozzie Albies (team-high two hits and two runs) and Eli White.

They brought the go-ahead run to the plate in the eighth in the form of pinch hitter Rowdy Tellez, who popped out to strand two, and brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth after Mauricio Dubon worked a 14-pitch at-bat that ended with a single.

But Michael Harris II and Olson each struck out to strand Dubon and end the game short of what would have been a morale-boosting victory given the circumstances.

Instead, it was the Braves’ third straight loss, just their second three-game losing streak of the season and the first since April 4-6. They’ll look to avoid their first four-game losing streak of the season Saturday night when Martin Perez (4-3, 3.02 ERA) to the mound against a TBD pitcher for New York.

Bo Bichette hit two home runs and tied a career-high with six RBI and Devin Williams delivered a four-out save as the Mets hung on for a 7-5 win over the Atlanta Braves on Friday night at Citi Field.

New York (31-38) grabbed the first of 13 matchups with Atlanta (45-24), and improved to .500 at home on the year.

Here are the key takeaways...

- The Mets jumped on Braves starter Spencer Strider early as Bichette launched a hanging slider at the top of the zone deep to left for a solo shot. The 0-2 offering was smacked (102.6 mph off the bat) and went 383 feet for his seventh of the season.

Juan Soto followed up by cranking a 97 mph fastball at the top of the zone out to right field to make it back-to-back one-out homers. Soto's blast, his 15th of the year, went 382 feet (109.1 mph). It was the second-straight game that the Mets hit two home runs in the bottom of the first inning. 

- MJ Melendez ripped a double into the right-field corner and that started a little two-out push in the second as Luis Torrens got a fortunate infield hit on a ball that tipped off Strider’s glove before Carson Benge was plunked on the elbow to load the bases.

After ex-Mets pitching coach Jeremy Hefner went out for a visit, Bichette capitalized, smacking a fastball over the plate the other way for a grand slam, just sneaking it over the wall, 341 feet into the corner. 

- Melendez worked a walk to start the fourth and that ended Strider’s night as he exited with the trainer due to right arm soreness. JR Ritchie entered in relief and surrendered a single to Torrens to put two men aboard. With one down and runners on the corners, Bichette muscled a sac fly to center to make it 7-2, but that was all the Mets could muster. (Ritchie would do really well to save Atlanta's bullpen with five scoreless innings, allowing two hits and two walks with five strikeouts.)

Soto finished the day 2-for-3 with the solo HR, an intentional walk, and a ripped single into right in the seventh.

Melendez would finish the night 2-for-4 with a pair of strikeouts. Torrens would end up 2-for-3.

-  McLean shook off the 76-minute rain delay with two strikeouts in a perfect first. But the righty got into trouble in the second: A walk on a full count, an error on a pick-off throw to first, an RBI single, and another walk on a full count brought pitching coach Justin Willard out for a visit. McLean didn’t settle, allowing a full-count RBI single to Mike Yastrzemski to tie the game and issuing another full-count walk to load the bases with nobody down.

McLean then buckled down, getting Austin Wynns swinging, Mauricio Dubón on an infield-fly, and Michael Harris II looking to end a 42-pitch inning.

Again pitching with a lead, McLean got around a one-out single with a 4-6-3 double-play for a quick bounce-back inning. After issuing his fourth full-count walk of the game to start the fourth, he kept Atalanta off the board with two more strikeouts in the process.

But on the warm, muggy night, that was it for the righty: 4.0 innings, two runs on three hits and four walks with six strikeouts on 93 pitches (55 strikes). Before getting the hook, McLean had an animated conversation in the dugout with manager Carlos Mendoza. He later slammed his hat on the bench in frustration. 

- Out of the bullpen, Cionel Perez made two nice plays popping off the mound for outs to start the fifth, but left a sinker in the happy zone for MattOlson to smack a lefty-on-lefty homer 399 feet to right-center. Perez got the first out of the sixth before Huascar Brazobán got back-to-back strikeouts to close the inning, and then added two more strikeouts in a perfect seventh.

Brooks Raley allowed a leadoff single to start the eighth, and after a passed ball and groundout, Ozzie Albies poked a run-scoring single up the middle to cut the Mets' lead to three. Raley got pinch-hitter Jorge Mateo swinging, but a breaking ball over the plate to Austin Riley put two in scoring position with a double to left-center.

When Atlanta pinch-hit with Eli White, the Mets turned to Williams for a four-out save. White grounded an 0-2 changeup down the third-base line that Brett Baty knocked down with a dive, but it was an RBI infield hit. But Williams got Rowdy Tellez (the third pinch-hitter of the inning) to pop out to left to end the inning with runners on the corners.

After getting the first out of the ninth on one pitch, the closer lost a 14-pitch battle with Dubón, who singled to right to bring the tying run to the plate. But Williams, pitching for the second straight day and looking for his first four-out save in some time, got Harris swinging on a 94 mph fastball and blew two fastballs past Olson before getting him swinging on a nasty changeup to slam the door.

- Marcus Semien singled and swiped second base with two out in the third, but was left stranded. He finished 1-for-3 with two strikeouts, one looking and one swinging, and a walk.

- Benge finished hitless in three at-bats with a strikeout swinging and a HBP. 

- Baty finished 0-for-4 with a strikeout swinging.

- A.J. Ewing went 0-for-4, with a pair of swinging strikeouts.

- Jared Young went hitless in four trips, including a 6-3 double play. 

Game MVP: Bo Bichette

The Mets have been waiting for Bichette's bat to get cooking, and a 2-for-3 day with two home runs could be the start of that.

Highlights

A pair of strikeouts in the first inning for Nolan McLean

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What's next

The series continues with a late afternoon first pitch, 4:10 p.m.

New York has yet to announce a starter, but Sean Manaea (5.02 ERA, 1.442 WHIP in 43 innings) is expected to either follow an opener or be used as a traditional starter.

Atlanta will send out left-hander Martin Perez (3.02 ERA, 1.059 WHIP over 56.2 innings).

Before the Royals took an at-bat in the first inning, they were down 9-0. Before the Astros took their second at-bat, the Royals had made it 9-5. Neither starter made it through the first inning, but the bullpens held it there until the eighth, when the Royals added 3 more to make 9-8. The Astros added a home run in the ninth off of Matt Strahm (naturally) to give us the final score of 10-8.

The big damage in the first inning was done by Yordan Alvarez, who has had a great career but is having perhaps his best season yet at age 28. He belted two home runs in that first inning, a two-run shot followed by a grand slam on his second trip. Christian Walker, having a rebound year, also hit a solo shot in the inning.

The Royals kept the line moving in their half of the first. Carter Jensen led off with a single, Bobby Witt Jr. walked, and Vinnie Pasquantino singled to drive home Carter. Maikel Garcia grounded into a fielder’s choice, Vinnie out at second, but drove in a second run. Jac Caglianone struck out, one of three on the evening, and Salvador Perez swung at a 3-2 pitch below the zone to put runners at second and third. Michael Massey doubled down the right field line to drive in one, then Kameron Misner blooped a single to center to drive in two more. Isaac Collins ripped a single into left, and Kameron Misner made the inexplicable decision to go to third on the plate and was thrown out to end the inning.

And that was it for the scoring until the eighth inning.

Garcia singled to lead off, then Jac struck out again, Salvy singled to center, then Massey went opposite field for an RBI single. The Astros called on lefty reliever Bryan King, and Lane Thomas was tasked with pinch-hitting for Misner, but he struck out. Isaac Collins got hit by an 0-2 pitch to load the bases. Carter Jensen took an RBI walk, and Bobby smashed one toward the hole, but Isaac Parades managed to knock it down, keeping the Royals to only an RBI infield single. With the lefty still on the mound, Matt Quatraro went back to his bench to get Starling Marte to pinch-hit for Vinnie Pasquantino. Marte hit a weak grounder to short. Last year, he would have been fast enough to beat that out, and the Royals would have tied the game. Alas, it is 2026, and he was thrown out by a hair.

As previously noted, the Astros got one of those runs back, and Josh Hader came in to close it out, inducing three poorly hit balls from the Royals to end things.

Given how the game started, it’s amazing that KC managed to get all the way back in the game. But, as has been their modus operandi for the past two years, it was just too little, too late.

They’ll try again tomorrow evening. Mike Burrows (5.77 ERA, 9.8% K-BB%) will go against the suddenly sensational Noah Cameron (3.84 ERA, 16.7% K-BB%). The game is scheduled to start at 6:10 p.m. Central time. The USMNT isn’t playing this time, so I have no idea how you might otherwise distract yourself from whatever nonsense the Royals get up to this time.

Friday night’s game in Minnesota was a turning point of sorts for the St. Louis Cardinals after several roster moves one of which was the debut of Blaze Jordan. He contributed along with a bomb from Alec Burleson, but the St. Louis Cardinals bullpen would blow a lead late as the Minnesota Twins beat the birds Friday night in Minneapolis in a heartbreaker.

It has been a happy habit lately for the St. Louis Cardinals to score early and Friday was no exception. With two outs in the top of the 1st inning, Alec Burleson launched a 95 mph four-seam fastball from Joe Ryan 419 feet way up into the right-center field seats giving St. Louis an early 1-0 lead.

That one-run lead wouldn’t last long as Byron Buxton sent a Kyle Leahy 91 mph slider 425 feet to dead centerfield tying the game 1-1.

There would be two storylines in the top of the 2nd inning and they’re both related. The first was the Major League debut of Blaze Jordan who was called up as Nolan Gorman was sent down. After Lars Nootbaar and Masyn Winn singled, Jimmy Crooks lined out to center which brought up Blaze Jordan which would lead to several firsts. It was his first Major League at-bat, hit and RBI driving in Masyn Winn and giving the Cardinals their lead back at 2-1. Welcome to the show!

After Blaze Jordan’s hit and RBI, Nathan Church struck out, but JJ Wetherholt picked him up lofting a single over the second baseman’s head upping the Cardinals lead to 3-1. One interesting side note on that play was Blaze Jordan who would have been thrown out at third base, but he smartly ran past second base and didn’t slow down making contact with the shortstop which resulted in interference being called by the umpires, so Blaze was granted third base. He didn’t score when Ivan Herrera grounded out to end the inning, but that was smart baserunning and situational awareness by Jordan.

There was a 29 minute rain delay that interrupted play, but Kyle Leahy returned to the mound anyway. He would give up one run in the bottom of the 5th inning after he surrendered a single to Lewis and a double to Caratini. Two batters later, Lewis would score on an infield single by Gray cutting the St. Louis lead to just one at 3-2. Kyle would continue into the bottom of the 6th, but would run into trouble again. He gave up a leadoff double to Buxton then walked Clemens. Josh Bell then hammered a Kyle Leahy changeup to center for a double tying the game 3-3. Manager Oli Marmol took Kyle out of the game and brought in George Soriano in relief. He would give up a sacrifice fly to center which would score Clemens giving the Twins their first lead of the game at 4-3. Kyle Leahy’s line for the night would be 5 innings giving up 8 hits and 4 earned runs while striking out 5 and walking just 1.

The Cardinals would strike back in the top of the 7th inning. Jimmy Crooks walked to leadoff the inning, but Blaze Jordan was called out looking on a pitch that likely would have been overturned if he had made an ABS appeal. Nelson Velasquez pinch-hit for Nathan Church, but also struck out. JJ Wetherholt then drew a two-out walk on a no-doubt ABS challenge where he was already taking off his gear before the result was even revealed. Ivan Herrera then reached on an infield single which was actually a great grab by the shortstop to keep it from reaching the outfield resulting in a bases-loaded opportunity for the Cardinals with Alec Burleson coming to the plate. He promptly walked on 4 pitches when Twins reliever Eric Orze couldn’t find the strike zone walking in a run and tying the game 4-4. That brought up Jordan Walker who did what the 2026 version of Jordan Walker does. He punished an 85 mph splitter and ripped it into the left field corner which cleared the bases as even Alec Burleson scored all the way from first giving St. Louis a 7-4 lead.

Gordon Graceffo was the Cardinals answer for the start of the 7th inning, but he unfortunately wouldn’t finish it. After Gray grounded out to start the inning, Graceffo walked Keaschall. After Larnach flied out to center, Gordon then walked Buxton which brought up the tying run to the plate. The Cardinals brought in Ryne Stanek who was rudely greeted by Kody Clemens who crushed a 3-run homer into the right field stands tying the game (again) 7-7 in the 7th inning. Bummer.

Never fear. The St. Louis Cardinals relentless approach would star once again in Minnesota in the top of the 8th inning. After Masyn Winn popped out to lead off the Cardinals 8th, Jimmy Crooks singled to center and then advanced to second base on a wild pitch by Twins reliever Gomez. Blaze Jordan would then punch his second hit of the night into right field, but the Twins outfield was playing in and Bryan Torres who pinch-ran for Crooks was stopped at third base. Jose Fermin then whistled a sharp grounder to shortstop Gray for what looked like would be an inning-ending double play, but instead he was unable to get the ball out of his glove resulting in everyone being safe and Torres scoring to give the Cardinals an 8-7 lead.

It was then JJ Wetherholt’s turn as he lanced a single into short left field to load the bases again. Unfortunately, the Cardinals would not get another run on the board after Herrera popped out to second base and Burleson flied out to center. Those missed opportunities would come back to haunt St. Louis big time one half inning later.

In the bottom of the 8th inning, Ryne Stanek delivered a 95 mph four-seam fastball in exactly the place that Royce Lewis was looking for it and he destroyed it 394 feet high up into the left field seats tying the game (again) at 8-8 in the 8th inning. But wait, there’s more. After JJ Wetherholt made a Gold Glove-level play on a hot grounder from Caratini to get him out, Stanek grooved an 87 mph slider to Lee who gave someone 382 feet away in right field a souvenir making it 9-8 Twins. BUMMER.

The Cardinals sent up big bats in the top of the 9th inning as it was Jordan Walker, Lars Nootbaar and Masyn Winn representing St. Louis’ last hope. They unfortunately grounded out consecutively 1-2-3 to end a very disappointing night in Minnesota. They’ll try again Saturday afternoon when Matthew Liberatore gets the start for the Cardinals against LHP Connor Prielipp for the Twins. First pitch is scheduled for 1:10pm central time and the broadcast will be handled by Cardinals.tv.

CHICAGO –– With the upstart White Sox unexpectedly in first place, there is an energy pulsing through the South Side of Chicago again.

On Friday night, Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki found himself on the wrong side of it.

Surrounded by a raucous crowd at Rate Field, and struggling to find his recently improved command, Sasaki and the Dodgers came unglued in a seven-run fifth inning, letting the game get away from them in an 8-2 loss.

“As a staff, we’ve done a pretty good job of not allowing the huge inning,” manager Dave Roberts said. “Last couple times, in the last four or five games, we’ve given up big numbers. Unfortunately, that happens.”

Even before first pitch, the Dodgers’ night hadn’t started well.

Shohei Ohtani was out of the lineup after suffering a knee inflammation injury on Thursday. The makeshift batting order the team was left with included Alex Call in the leadoff spot and Santiago Espinal at DH.

Despite that, the Dodgers had an early 2-1 lead –– bouncing back from a solo home run by Andrew Benintendi in the bottom of the first with a two-run single from Espinal in the second.

By the time the fifth inning was over, however, everything had changed.

The meltdown started with a walk, one of three Sasaki would issue in the inning as his old command problems reared their ugly head. The young flamethrower wasn’t helped by his defense after that, with Freddie Freeman letting a potential double-play grounder get past him to score the inning’s first run.

With that, the score was tied 2-2. The crowd was whipped into an October-like frenzy. And after former Dodgers prospect Miguel Vargas laced an RBI double off the wall, there was no stopping the shift in momentum.

A pair of two-out walks –– the latter with the bases loaded –– chased Sasaki from the game. Blake Treinen replaced him but yielded a two-run single and a two-run triple.

And even if the Dodgers (44-26) had Ohtani’s bat at that point, the resulting six-run deficit likely still would’ve felt too great.

“I remember a few years back, it was empty, and there was a lot of dismay here on the South Side,” Roberts said of the White Sox. “And now there’s a lot of energy, excitement, they’re in first place. It’s a young, kind of a tough, athletic team.” 

What it means

After making significant strides over the last month, Sasaki still very much remains a work in progress.

On Friday, he struggled to command his breaking pitches, couldn’t get ahead in counts and ultimately couldn’t stop the bleeding once the White Sox (37-31) finally got to him.

His final line: 4 ⅓ innings, seven runs, three walks, four strikeouts –– raising his ERA back to 4.76.

“My offspeed pitch wasn’t really good today,” Sasaki said through an interpreter. “So the third time through the order, I wasn’t able to get ahead in the count, I fell behind. So I couldn’t get those outs easily.”

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Who’s hot

About the only reliable performer for the Dodgers on Friday was second baseman Miguel Rojas, who finally seemed to be snapping out of a recent slump.

Rojas went 2-for-4 at the plate, including a double in the second. He also recovered from a slip on the edge of the infield in the bottom of the inning to throw out a runner off balance from his knees.

Who’s not

The Dodgers’ situational offense, especially in the second inning.

Before the White Sox broke it open, the Dodgers had the chance to do the same. Twice, they had the bases loaded against left-handed starter Anthony Kay. But outside of Espinal’s single, they couldn’t take advantage, with Andy Pages (strikeout) and Freeman (flyout) coming up empty for the final two outs of the inning.

After that, a third-inning single from Rojas would be the only other time the Dodgers got a runner on base.

Up next

Yoshinobu Yamamoto (6-4, 2.68 ERA) will be on the mound Saturday against right-hander Sean Burke (3-3, 3.88 ERA). Whether or not Ohtani also returns remains to be seen.

“He just got treated [today],” Roberts said. “So talking to the training staff just right now, I’m optimistic. But I want to get him through tonight, get him here, go through some semblance of a workout, getting his body ready, and then we’ll go from there.”

Mariners 10, Nationals 2

Doing shots during a rain delay: Dominic Canzone, .17 WPA

Shotgun weddings during a rain delay: with apologies to Zack Littell for the rare non-Mariner goat WPA, Zack Littell: -.33 WPA

Game thread comment of the day:

Yankees 5 Blue Jays 8

Well, that was a baseball game. It had everything. Life doesn’t get much better. I always say that my two favourite things are a Jays’ win and a Yankees’ loss, and when I can get both in the same game, that’s even better.

Trey Yesavage was not good. 5 innings, 4 hits, 6 walks and 3 strikeouts. He was all around the strikezone but not in it near enough. He has been going through a rough little run. But his ERA is still 3.78, so things aren’t all that bad.

In the first four innings he didn’t give up any runs but:

• Walked one it the first.
• Loaded the bases on a single and two walks in the second.
• Had a clean third.
• Walked one in the forth.

The fifth didn’t go as well, double, out, walk, sac fly, home run, and then strikeout.

And he started the sixth, giving up a walk and double. Mason Fluharty came in and allowed both inherited runners to score.

Thankfully, our offense was great today. We scored:

• Three in the first: Ernie Clement singled with one out. An out later, Alejandro Kirk doubled him home. Then Kazuma Okamoto homered into the fifth deck. Apparently only the tenth Blue Jay to hit one up there. 111.4 mph, 423 feet. Number 14 on the season.
• Two in the second: With two out, Andrés Andrés Giménez was hit by pitch and George Springer homered (not into the fifth deck, but still counts apparently.
• Two in the fifth: Springer walked, went to second on a ground out, and scored on a Vlad double down the third base line. Springer scored (he scored a few times today). And Alejandro Kirk singled home Vlad.
• One in the eighth: With two out, Springer walked and scored from first on a Clement double (the old guy can still run). It thought Yankees Max Schuemann took a rather circular route to the ball. I don’t know if he could have made the catch but he could have held Clement to a single and held Springer at third.

We had ten hits and four walks. Kirk had three in his first start back from the IL (plus a walk). Clement had two.

The top of the order had a good day for a change. One thru four went 7 for 15 with 4 walks. And it was nice to see George Springer have a good day, the homer and 3 walks.

After Fluharty, our bullpen did a great job:

• Braydon Fisher gave up two hits and a walk but got out of the seventh without a run scoring.
• Tyler Rogers had a clean eighth.
• Louis Varland had a clean ninth, with two strikeouts, for his 12th save. Gotta like a guy with a 0.49 ERA.

Other than that, our defense looked very good. Giménez continues to amaze me with how smooth he is. And the second hardest hit ball of the game was caught by Vlad, on a nice play. I was wondering how you catch a ball moving at 107 mph without breaking bone.

Having Kirk back was huge, he challenged the first pitch of the game, and was right. He did have a passed ball.

Jays of the Day: Kirk (0.16 WPA), Okamoto (0.13), and Springer (0.11). And let’s give one to our bullpen pitchers, Fisher, Rogers and Varland (totaled 0.17 WPA).

Other Award: Yesavage (-0.09). Sorry Trey.

Tomorrow we have a couple of very good pitchers going. Cam Schlittler (7-3, 1.87) vs. Kevin Gausman (4-4, 3.60).

TORONTO — Ryan Weathers is the only member of the Yankees pitching staff that was not in the organization the last time they played here before Friday.

But the left-hander sure looked a lot like the rest of his teammates did over the course of last year when playing north of the border.

The Blue Jays beat up on Weathers early, taking him deep twice in the first two innings to worsen his home run problem, and then hung on to hand the Yankees an 8-5 loss that snapped their four-game winning streak on Friday night at sold-out Rogers Centre.

Combined with Trey Yesavage blanking the Yankees early, the game had shades of 2025, when Aaron Boone’s club went 1-6 here during the regular season and 0-2 in the AL Division Series.

Weathers, who has now given up nine home runs over his last five starts and 15 overall, lasted just 4 ¹/₃ innings while giving up six runs. He has given up at least five runs in four of his last five starts, with the long ball central to those struggles.

“I’m a competitor, I want to win,” Weathers said. “I’m sick of putting us in a hole right now the last couple outings. It’s not a good feeling. You want to win ballgames as much as you can, so just got to get back to executing pitches better.”

The Yankees actually got to Yesavage, who had thrown 11 ¹/₃ shutout innings and given up just three base-runners across two career starts against them (including a dominant performance here in Game 2 of the ALDS), for five runs in five-plus innings. But it proved to be too little, too late, after trailing 5-0 in the fifth inning and 7-3 in the sixth.

To make matters worse, the Yankees lost one of their hottest hitters, Trent Grisham, in the sixth inning. He left the game with right hamstring tightness after taking second on a two-run single that pulled them within 7-5, which could ultimately land him on the injured list.

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The Yankees later threatened to complete the comeback, loading the bases in the seventh inning before Ryan McMahon flew out to end the threat against reliever Braydon Fisher

“At-bat wise, I thought we had really good at-bats throughout the night against Yesavage and their good pen guys,” manager Aaron Boone said.

Both of the home runs that Weathers gave up on Friday came in 2-2 counts with two outs, once again derailing his outing. He had a simple explanation for the growing problem.

“Bad pitches,” he said. “Just throwing bad pitches. That’s all I got.”

The Blue Jays’ first rally off Weathers began in the bottom of the first, when Ernie Clement reached on a swinging bunt and then took second on a wild pitch with two outs. Yankees killer Alejandro Kirk (3-for-3, walk, two RBIs), in his first game back after missing two months with a broken thumb, drove him in with a double just beyond the reach of Grisham in center field.

Kazuma Okamoto came up next and demolished a down-and-in slider, clobbering the two-run shot to the upper deck in left field for the 3-0 lead. Okamoto became only the 10th player in Blue Jays history to hit a home run to the 500 level, according to the team, though Statcast somehow only estimated it to travel 423 feet.

In the second inning, Weathers retired the first two batters quickly before hitting No. 9 hitter Andrés Giménez with an errant 96 mph sinker. That brought up George Springer, who crushed a changeup down the middle for another two-run homer that extended the lead to 5-0.

“Stuff’s good, he’s throwing well, just unfortunately some of his mistakes have left the ballpark,” Boone said.

Yesavage had stranded five runners through four innings before the Yankees finally cashed in on a rally in the fifth, capped off by Cody Bellinger’s two-run homer. José Caballero’s double knocked Yesavage out of the game in the sixth, and Grisham’s two-run single pulled the Yankees within 7-5, but that was as close as they got.

“We end up with 10 base-runners against [Yesavage] in five innings,” Boone said, “you take your chances with that.”

We will keep track of every Brewers roster move here.

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Transactions

6/12/26 – Brewers placed RHP Coleman Crow on 15-day IL, retroactive to June 10 (right forearm flexor strain); RHP Craig Yoho recalled from Triple-A Nashville

6/9/26 – Brewers signed OF Luis Lara to a seven-year contract, selected Lara from Triple-A Nashville, and optioned him to Triple-A Nashville; LHP Brian Fitzpatrick moved from 15-day IL to 60-day IL (left elbow)

6/8/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Joel Kuhnel from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Carlos Rodriguez placed on 15-day IL, retroactive to May 31; RHP Craig Yoho optioned to Triple-A Nashville

6/6/26 – Brewers traded cash considerations to the Athletics for RHP Joel Kuhnel

6/6/26 – Brewers placed LHP Brian Fitzpatrick on 15-day IL (left elbow); RHP Quinn Priester moved from 15-day IL to 60-day IL (thoracic outlet syndrome); LHP Drew Rom selected from Triple-A Nashville

6/5/26 – Brewers placed LHP DL Hall on 15-day IL (left pectoral strain); RHP Jake Woodford designated for assignment; LHP Brian Fitzpatrick and RHP Craig Yoho recalled from Triple-A Nashville

6/3/26 – Brewers placed LHP Rob Zastryzny on 15-day IL, retroactive to May 31 (left trapezius strain); LHP Robert Gasser recalled from Triple-A Nashville

5/31/26 – Brewers activated LHP Rob Zastryzny from 60-day IL; LHP Angel Zerpa moved from 15-day IL to 60-day IL (left UCL surgery); RHP Carlos Rodriguez optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/26/26 – Brewers placed RHP Logan Henderson on 15-day IL, retroactive to May 23 (low back strain); RHP Coleman Crow recalled from Triple-A Nashville

5/24/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Carlos Rodríguez from Triple-A Nashville; LHP Robert Gasser optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/17/26 – Brewers recalled LHP Robert Gasser from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Peter Strzelecki designated for assignment

5/16/26 – Brewers selected RHP Peter Strzelecki from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Coleman Crow optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/15/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Coleman Crow from Triple-A Nashville; LHP Brian Fitzpatrick optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/12/26 – Brewers activated OF Christian Yelich from 10-day IL; 1B/DH Tyler Black optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/9/26 – Brewers placed OF Brandon Lockridge on 10-day IL (right knee laceration and contusion); OF Blake Perkins recalled from Triple-A Nashville

5/4/26 – Brewers activated OF Jackson Chourio and 1B Andrew Vaughn from 10-day IL; OF Blake Perkins optioned to Triple-A Nashville; OF Greg Jones designated for assignment

5/3/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Logan Henderson from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Easton McGee optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/1/26 – Brewers placed RHP Brandon Woodruff on 15-day IL (right shoulder inflammation); RHP Easton McGee recalled from Triple-A Nashville

4/29/26 – Brewers placed LHP Angel Zerpa on 15-day IL (left forearm tightness); LHP Brian Fitzpatrick selected from Triple-A Nashville

4/24/26 – Brewers recalled 3B Tyler Black and LHP Shane Drohan from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Carlos Rodriguez optioned to Triple-A Nashville; OF Luis Matos designated for assignment

4/23/26 – Brewers activated RHP Craig Yoho from 15-day injured list; Yoho optioned to Triple-A Nashville

4/18/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Carlos Rodriguez from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Coleman Crow optioned to Triple-A Nashville

4/17/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Coleman Crow from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Easton McGee optioned to Triple-A Nashville

4/14/26 – Brewers placed OF/DH Christian Yelich on 10-day IL (left groin strain); LHP Rob Zastryzny moved from 15-day IL to 60-day IL (left shoulder strain); OF Greg Jones selected from Triple-A Nashville

4/10/26 – Brewers recalled RHP Easton McGee from Triple-A Nashville

4/9/26 – Brewers optioned LHP Shane Drohan to Triple-A Nashville

4/6/26 – Brewers placed LHP Jared Koenig on 15-day IL (left elbow sprain); LHP Shane Drohan recalled from Triple-A Nashville

4/3/26 – Brewers signed SS Cooper Pratt to an eight-year contract, selected Pratt from Triple-A Nashville, and optioned him to Triple-A Nashville; OF Steward Berroa designated for assignment

3/31/26 – Brewers activated OF Luis Matos; C Jeferson Quero optioned to Triple-A Nashville

3/30/26 – Brewers traded cash considerations to the San Francisco Giants for OF Luis Matos; LHP Sammy Peralta designated for assignment

3/28/26 – Brewers placed 1B Andrew Vaughn on 10-day IL (left hamate fracture); C Jeferson Quero recalled from Triple-A Nashville

3/26/26 – Brewers placed OF Jackson Chourio on 10-day IL (left hand fracture); OF Blake Perkins recalled from Triple-A Nashville

3/25/26 – Brewers placed OF Steward Berroa on 10-day IL (right shoulder strain), RHP Craig Yoho on 15-day IL (right calf strain), RHP Quinn Priester on 15-day IL (right thoracic outlet syndrome), and LHP Rob Zastryzny on 15-day IL (left shoulder strain); RHP Easton McGee optioned to Triple-A Nashville

3/24/26 – Brewers traded RHP K.C. Hunt to the Tampa Bay Rays for RHP Jake Woodford; OF Akil Baddoo placed on 60-day injured list

2/16/26 – Brewers signed free agent IF Luis Rengifo

2/14/26 – Brewers signed free agent C Gary Sánchez

2/9/26 – Brewers traded 3B Caleb Durbin, UTIL Andruw Monasterio, UTIL Anthony Seigler, and a draft pick (No. 67 overall) to the Boston Red Sox for LHP Kyle Harrison, UTIL David Hamilton, and LHP Shane Drohan.

1/21/26 – Brewers traded RHP Freddy Peralta and RHP Tobias Myers to the New York Mets for RHP Brandon Sproat and SS/2B/OF Jett Williams

12/13/25 – Brewers traded RHP Nick Mears and OF Isaac Collins to the Kansas City Royals for LHP Ángel Zerpa

12/11/25 – Brewers signed free agent OF Akil Baddoo

11/18/25 – RHP Brandon Woodruff accepts qualifying offer

11/4/25 – Brewers decline mutual options on 1B Rhys Hoskins and LHP Jose Quintana; both players become free agents; Brewers decline club option for C William Contreras; Contreras remains with team as he enters his second arbitration year this offseason

11/3/25 – C Danny Jansen’s mutual option declined by Brewers, RHP Brandon Woodruff’s mutual option declined by Woodruff; both players become free agents; RHP Freddy Peralta’s club option for 2026 picked up by Brewers; RHP Coleman Crow added to 40-man roster

11/2/25 – RHP Shelby Miller, LHP Jordan Montgomery, and RHP Erick Fedde elected free agency

9/28/25 – Brewers activated LHP DL Hall and RHP Trevor Megill from 15-day injured list; RHP Erick Fedde designated for assignment; RHP Carlos Rodriguez optioned to ACL Brewers

9/24/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Carlos Rodriguez from Triple-A Nashville; LHP Bruce Zimmermann designated for assignment

9/21/25 – Brewers recalled LHP Robert Gasser from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Brandon Woodruff placed on 15-day injured list (right lat strain)

9/20/25 – Brewers selected LHP Bruce Zimmermann from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Joel Payamps designated for assignment

9/17/25 – Brewers activated RHP Nick Mears from 15-day injured list; LHP Jose Quintana placed on 15-day injured list (calf strain)

9/9/25 – Brewers activated 1B Rhys Hoskins from 10-day injured list; RHP Chad Patrick recalled from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Carlos Rodriguez and IF Anthony Seigler optioned to Triple-A Nashville

9/8/25 – Brewers activated RHP Grant Anderson from 15-day injured list; RHP Craig Yoho optioned to Triple-A Nashville

9/5/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Carlos Rodriguez from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Nick Mears placed on 15-day injured list (back tightness)

9/3/25 – Brewers selected the contract of RHP Joel Payamps from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Shelby Miller placed on 60-day injured list (right elbow UCL sprain)

9/1/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Craig Yoho from Triple-A Nashville; IF Joey Ortiz activated from 10-day injured list

8/30/25 – Brewers activated LHP Robert Gasser from the 60-day injured list; activated OF Jackson Chourio from the 10-day injured list; optioned LHP Robert Gasser and OF Brandon Lockridge to Triple-A Nashville; IF Oliver Dunn designated for assignment

8/29/25 – Brewers activated LHP Rob Zastryzny from the 15-day injured list; RHP Easton McGee optioned to Triple-A Nashville

8/27/25 – Brewers transferred RHP Logan Henderson from the 15-day injured list to the 60-day injured list; RHP Erick Fedde signed as a free agent; RHP Trevor Megill placed on the 15-day injured list (right flexor strain)

8/25/25 – Brewers placed RHP Grant Anderson on the 15-day injured list (right ankle tendonitis); RHP Chad Patrick optioned, RHPs Tobias Myers and Easton McGee recalled from Triple-A Nashville

8/24/25 – Brewers optioned RHP Carlos Rodriguez, RHP Chad Patrick recalled from Triple-A Nashville

8/22/25 – Brewers placed SS Joey Ortiz on the 10-day injured list (strained left hamstring); 1B/OF Jake Bauers activated from the 10-day injured list

8/20/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Carlos Rodriguez from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Tobias Myers optioned to Triple-A Nashville; RHP Chad Patrick returned to Triple-A Nashville after doubleheader

8/18/25 – Brewers reinstated OF Isaac Collins from the paternity list; IF Tyler Black optioned to Triple-A Nashville; RHP Chad Patrick designated as 27th man for doubleheader

8/17/25 – Brewers reinstated OF Blake Perkins from the bereavement list; OF Steward Berroa optioned to Triple-A Nashville

8/16/25 – Brewers placed LHP DL Hall on the 15-day injured list (oblique strain); RHP Grant Anderson recalled from Triple-A Nashville

8/15/25 – Brewers placed OF Isaac Collins on the paternity list, OF Blake Perkins on the bereavement list, and optioned RHP Grant Anderson to Triple-A Nashville; RHP Jacob Misiorowski activated from the 15-day injured list, OF Steward Berroa and UTIL Tyler Black recalled from Triple-A Nashville

8/8/25 – Brewers placed RHP Logan Henderson on the 15-day injured list (right elbow inflammation); RHP Shelby Miller activated from the 15-day injured list; RHP Tobias Myers recalled from Triple-A Nashville

8/7/25 – RHP Easton McGee optioned to Triple-A Nashville

8/3/25 – Brewers placed RHP Jacob Misiorowski on the 15-day injured list (left tibia contusion); RHP Logan Henderson recalled from Triple-A Nashville

8/1/25 – Brewers placed OF Jackson Chourio on the 10-day injured list (hamstring strain); OF Brandon Lockridge activated

7/31/25 – Brewers designated RHP Elvis Peguero and LHP Bryan Hudson for assignment

7/31/25 – Brewers traded a PTBNL and cash considerations to the Arizona Diamondbacks for RHP Shelby Miller and LHP Jordan Montgomery

7/31/25 – Brewers traded LHP Nestor Cortes, SS prospect Jorge Quintana, and cash to the San Diego Padres for OF Brandon Lockridge

7/29/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Easton McGee, optioned RHP Craig Yoho to Triple-A Nashville

7/28/25 – Brewers traded IF prospect Jadher Areinamo to the Tampa Bay Rays for C Danny Jansen; Jansen added to active roster and C Eric Haase designated for assignment

7/28/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Craig Yoho, optioned RHP Tobias Myers to Triple-A Nashville; LHP Rob Zastryzny returned from rehab assignment at Triple-A Nashville (remains on IL)

7/26/25 – Brewers activated OF Sal Frelick from the 10-day injured list, optioned 1B/3B Tyler Black to Triple-A Nashville.

7/20/25 – Brewers placed 1B/OF Jake Bauers on the 10-day injured list (left shoulder impingement), retroactive to July 19; UTIL Tyler Black recalled from Triple-A Nashville

7/18/25 – Brewers activated LHP Aaron Ashby from the paternity list, recalled OF Blake Perkins from Triple-A Nashville; OF Sal Frelick placed on the 10-day injured list (left hamstring strain), retroactive to July 15

7/13/25 – Brewers optioned RHP Easton McGee to Triple-A Nashville, reinstated OF Blake Perkins from 60-day IL and optioned to Triple-A Nashville; OF Drew Avans designated for assignment

7/11/25 – Brewers placed LHP Aaron Ashby on the paternity list, recalled RHP Tobias Myers from Triple-A Nashville

7/9/25 – Brewers traded cash to the Los Angeles Dodgers for OF Steward Berroa; Berroa optioned to Triple-A Nashville and RHP Elvin Rodriguez designated for assignment

7/7/25 – Brewers placed 1B Rhys Hoskins on the 10-day injured list (sprained left thumb), recalled 1B Andrew Vaughn from Triple-A Nashville

7/6/25 – Brewers activated RHP Brandon Woodruff from the 60-day injured list, optioned RHP Chad Patrick to Triple-A Nashville, and moved OF Garrett Mitchell to the 60-day injured list (left shoulder surgery)

7/1/25 – Brewers designated OF Daz Cameron for assignment, placed LHP Rob Zastryzny on the 15-day injured list (rib stress reaction); 2B Anthony Seigler selected, RHP Easton McGee recalled from Triple-A Nashville

6/16/25 – Brewers activated OF Daz Cameron from the paternity list, optioned OF Drew Avans to Triple-A Nashville

6/13/25 – Brewers placed OF Daz Cameron on the paternity list, recalled OF Drew Avans and RHP Grant Anderson from Triple-A Nashville

6/13/25 – Brewers traded RHP Aaron Civale to the Chicago White Sox for 1B/OF Andrew Vaughn; Vaughn optioned to Triple-A Nashville

6/12/25 – Brewers selected RHP Jacob Misiorowski, optioned RHP Easton McGee to Triple-A Nashville, and moved RHP Brandon Woodruff to the 60-day injured list (right shoulder surgery)

6/10/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Easton McGee, optioned RHP Grant Anderson to Triple-A Nashville

6/8/25 – Brewers claimed OF Drew Avans off waivers from Athletics, optioned Avans to Triple-A Nashville

6/1/25 – Brewers reinstated LHP Jose Quintana from 15-day IL, designated LHP Tyler Alexander for assignment

5/26/25 – Brewers reinstated LHP DL Hall from 60-day IL, optioned RHP Logan Henderson to Triple-A Nashville

5/23/25 – Brewers reinstated LHP Aaron Ashby from 15-day IL, optioned RHP Carlos Rodriguez to Triple-A Nashville

5/22/25 – Brewers reinstated RHP Aaron Civale from 15-day IL, recalled RHP Carlos Rodriguez from Triple-A Nashville; RHP Joel Payamps designated for assignment, RHP Easton McGee optioned to Triple-A Nashville

5/18/25 – Brewers selected RHP Easton McGee, optioned RHP Tobias Myers to Triple-A Nashville; LHP Connor Thomas moved to the 60-day injured list (left elbow arthritis)

5/16/25 – Brewers traded cash to the New York Yankees for LHP Rob Zastryzny, optioned RHP Elvis Peguero to Triple-A Nashville

5/14/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Tobias Myers & RHP Logan Henderson, optioned LHP Bryan Hudson to Triple-A Nashville; placed LHP Jose Quintana on 15-day injured list, retroactive to 5/11 (left shoulder impingement).

5/11/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Elvis Peguero, optioned RHP Tobias Myers to Triple-A Nashville

5/9/25 – Brewers recalled LHP Bryan Hudson and 3B Andruw Monasterio from Triple-A Nashville; 3B Vinny Capra designated for assignment

5/8/25 – Brewers optioned RHP Elvin Rodriguez to Triple-A Nashville

5/3/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Elvin Rodriguez, optioned RHP Craig Yoho to Triple-A Nashville

4/26/25 – Brewers selected the contract of OF Daz Cameron, placed OF Garrett Mitchell on the 10-day IL (left oblique strain); OF Blake Perkins moved to the 60-day injured list (right shin)

4/24/25 – Brewers reinstated RHP Tobias Myers from IL, optioned LHP Bryan Hudson to Triple-A Nashville

4/21/25 – Brewers selected RHP Craig Yoho, optioned RHP Logan Henderson to Triple-A Nashville; LHP Nestor Cortes moved to the 60-day injured list (left elbow strain)

4/17/25 – Brewers recalled 3B Caleb Durbin, optioned 3B Oliver Dunn to Triple-A Nashville

4/15/25 – Brewers recalled RHP Logan Henderson, optioned RHP Elvin Rodriguez to Triple-A Nashville

4/11/25 – Brewers recalled LHP Jose Quintana, optioned RHP Elvis Peguero to Triple-A Nashville

4/8/25 – Brewers reinstated RHP Nick Mears from IL, added RHP Quinn Priester to active roster; LHP Connor Thomas placed on 15-day injured list (left elbow arthritis)

4/7/25 – Brewers traded LHP Grant Wolfram to the Baltimore Orioles for OF Daz Cameron and cash considerations

4/7/25 – Brewers traded OF Yophery Rodriguez, draft pick, and PTBNL to Boston Red Sox for RHP Quinn Priester; LHP Grant Wolfram designated for assignment

4/6/25 – Brewers placed LHP Nestor Cortes on the 15-day injured list (left elbow flexor strain); LHP Grant Wolfram recalled from Triple-A Nashville

3/31/25 – Brewers placed RHP Aaron Civale on 15-day IL (strained left hamstring); RHP Grant Anderson recalled from Triple-A Nashville

3/28/25 – Brewers traded OF Brewer Hicklen to the Detroit Tigers for cash considerations

3/27/25 – Brewers announced Opening Day roster: Place seven players on IL, DFA OF Brewer Hicklen, and select RHP Chad Patrick

3/10/25 – Brewers optioned RHP Grant Anderson, RHP Logan Henderson, RHP Carlos Rodriguez, RHP Chad Patrick, LHP Grant Wolfram, and C Jeferson Quero to Triple-A Nashville

3/5/25 – Brewers signed free agent LHP Jose Quintana; LHP DL Hall moved to the 60-day injured list (left lat strain) to open a 40-man roster spot

2/12/25 – Brewers signed free agent LHP Tyler Alexander; LHP Robert Gasser moved to the 60-day injured list (Tommy John surgery) to open a 40-man roster spot

1/17/25 – Brewers signed free agent RHP Elvin Rodríguez; RHP J.B. Bukauskas DFA’d to open a 40-man roster spot

1/2/25 – Brewers traded LHP Mason Molina to the Texas Rangers for RHP Grant Anderson; LHP Tyler Jay DFA’d to open a 40-man roster spot

12/13/24 – Brewers traded RHP Devin Williams to New York Yankees for LHP Nestor Cortes and IF Caleb Durbin

12/12/24 – Brewers signed free agent LHP Grant Wolfram

12/11/24 – Brewers purchased contract of LHP Connor Thomas from St. Louis Cardinals in the Rule 5 Draft

11/22/24 – LHP Hoby Milner non-tendered, elected free agency

11/19/24 – RHP Logan Henderson and RHP Chad Patrick selected from Triple-A Nashville, added to 40-man roster

11/4/24 – 1B Jake Bauers and RHP Bryse Wilson cleared waivers and were outrighted to Triple-A Nashville; they both elected free agency

11/4/24 – RHP Frankie Montas declined his mutual option, electing free agency

11/4/24 – C Gary Sánchez’s mutual option declined by the Brewers, making him a free agent

11/4/24 – RHP Colin Rea cleared waivers and the team declined their club option on his contract, making him a free agent

11/4/24 – Chicago Cubs claimed LHP Rob Zastryzny off waivers

11/4/24 – New York Mets claimed RHP Kevin Herget off waivers

10/31/24 – RHP Joe Ross, LHP Wade Miley, and SS Willy Adames elected free agency

Charlotte Knights 12, Oklahoma City Comets 7
Charlotte overwhelmed the OKC with small ball and some big hits. Ryan Galanie had a big night and continues to be one of the most underrated guys on the Knights, clobbering a home run and an extra-base hit to supply five of the team’s 11 RBIs. Korey Lee and Junior Perez joined Galanie in the slugfest with home runs of their own. Dustin Harris’ persistent singles also helped offset the lineup’s 11 strikeouts and nine left on base.

Mason Adams got banged up in his first Triple-A appearance of 2026. The Comets knocked three runs off four hits on him, but at least he got five strikeouts in to keep the night from getting completely out of hand. Chase Plymell didn’t provide the immediate backup Adams may have hoped for, living up to his turbulent season with three runs allowed in a frame. Fortunately, the rocky pitching start didn’t matter in the long run, as Charlotte’s five-run seventh took care of the evening.

Birmingham Barons 3, Biloxi Shuckers 2
Bham managed to hang on in a game that came down to the wire in Mississippi. Led by Lucas Gordon’s tremendous two-hit, one-run ball in 5 1/3 IP, the Barons clung tight to their pitchers. Phil Fox took over for Gordon in the middle of the sixth inning, blanking Biloxi through the eighth. Surviving off a stingy offense that mustered two runs off three hits was too good to be true, though. After a walk and a wild pitch put a runner on third, Jackson Kelley turned it over to Jonathan Clark, who immediately allowed Biloxi’s Jacob Hurtubise to drive in the tying run with a single down the right field line.

But the Barons have a secret weapon the Shuckers don’t: Anthony DePino.

DePino has been a breakout player this year after surging his way through High-A earlier this year. Leading off the ninth, DePino took the fourth pitch he saw and sent the ball over the left field with a clean swing to walk the Barons off, earning them their 25th win of the season.

Greenville Drive 10, Winston-Salem Dash 5
A rough start from Max Banks set the tone for the rest of the game. Banks lasted four innings but gave up six runs off of six hits, a wild pitch, and an easy solo home run to give the Drive a 6-0 lead by the end of the second. Winston-Salem didn’t accept defeat, though. Center field saw a lot of action today, as Kyle Lodise cut the lead in half in the third with his own moonshot straight away and Arxy Hernandez slammed a solo dinger dead-center, too. By the sixth, the Dash had stormed back to make it a one-run game.

The Dash had their eyes set on a comeback win, but Jake Bockenstedt interrupted the momentum. He entered in the eighth after two clean frames … and put the game out of reach. Although he got unlucky with the Drive finding turning good pitches into hits and a questionable ball-two call that should’ve been a strike, Bockenstedt couldn’t shut the Drive down, and it cost the Dash their 27th loss.

Fredericksburg Nationals 12, Kannapolis Cannon Ballers 4
It was an uneventful night for the Kannapolis hitters and pitchers. Kanny’s lineup fumbled around in the batter’s box and field, knocking out just six hits and committing three errors, tired from their recent resurgence to relevance. Javier Mogollón had the best night of all position players, going 2-for-2 with two runs and a stolen base before Matthew Boughton came in to pitch-hit for him. Here’s a tip, Kanny, if there’s one guy carrying the team, you may not want to yank him, no matter how many runs you’re down by.

On the bump, the pitching was just as bad. Alexander Martinez, whose sky-high ERA and control problems have existed since graduating from ACL, had a rocky outing. His five runs, two walks, and two home runs in 3 2/3 innings pretty much drove Kanny out of the game, but Anthony Patterson added fuel to Fredericksburg’s fire by giving up two more runs in his relief appearance. The game was clearly over by the seventh, but the Nats made sure to punctuate their win with some insurance runs in the ninth to dig the knife in deeper.

Rookie Leagues

DSL Pirates Black 14, DSL White Sox 3 (7 innings)
The DSL club endured another woeful loss that left much to be desired from the arms. Franchel Crisostomo was the only pitcher to pitch a full inning without allowing a run. His 2 2/3 innings were the only highlight on the mound, as the bullpen combined for eight runs, seven walks, and only five home runs. The bats were pretty quiet and let the poor pitching drive the night. Fielding errors galore also hurt the Sox more than their quiet bats; five of the Pirates’ 14 can be attributed to fielding errors. Now third from the bottom in the standings, the DSL Sox are slowly running out of time to redeem themselves.

Iowa right-hander Connor Noland and catcher Casey Opitz were placed on the development list. Both threw too many innings and need a rest, I guess.

Iowa right-hander Tyler Beede was activated off the development list.

Iowa Cubs

The Iowa Cubs blinded the Louisville Bats (Reds), 6-4.

Will Sanders was activated off the injured list just in time after Iowa gave up 20 runs in back-to-back games. Sanders allowed a third-inning solo home run and very little else. Sanders got the win after allowing one run on three hits over five innings. He struck out eight and walked no one.

It was Sanders’ first game for Iowa since April 16.

Gavin Hollowell retired the side in order in the ninth for the save. He struck out one.

DH BJ Murray went 2 for 3 with a double, a triple and a walk. He had three RBI—one on the triple, one on the walk and one on the double.

Center fielder Brett Bateman was 3 for 4 with a walk and two steals. Bateman scored once.

Murray’s RBI triple.

A two-run double by first baseman Jonathon Long. Long went 1 for 3 with a walk and two runs scored.

Murray’s RBI double.

A great catch by left fielder Justin Dean,

Knoxville Smokies

The Knoxville Smokies ate the Montgomery Biscuits (Rays), 9-3.

Starter Jace Beck gave the Smokies four scoreless innings. He gave up just two hits and two walks. Beck struck out seven.

The win went to Marino Santy, who surrendered one unearned run on one hit over 2.1 innings. Santy struck out three and walked one.

Center fielder Andy Garriola hit a solo home run in the fourth inning, his 12th on the year. Garriola was 1 for 4 and was hit by a pitch. He scored twice.

Right fielder Alex Ramírez broke a 2-2 tie in the seventh inning with a two-run home run. Then he added some insurance runs with a three-run home run in the eighth. Ramírez went 2 for 4 with the two home runs and five RBI. He now has seven home runs on the year.

DH Jefferson Rojas stayed hot, going 3 for 5 with a stolen base. He scored once and drove in one.

First baseman Owen Ayers was 2 for 5 with an RBI double in the sixth inning.

Garriola’s home run.

RBI double for Ayers.

The first Ramírez home run.

Home run number two for Ramírez was just as nice.

South Bend Cubs

The South Bend Cubs were caught hibernating by the Peoria Chiefs (Cardinals), 3-1.

Jostin Florentino started, gave up two runs in the top of the first and took the loss. The final line on Florentino was two runs on two hits over three innings. Florentino walked three, hit one batter and struck out four.

Brayden Spears threw the next 3.1 innings and allowed one run on no hits. He struck out six and walked three.

The only South Bend run scored when first baseman Josiah Hartshorn was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Hartshorn was 1 for 3.

Wisconsin split their doubleheader tonight, so combined with one Timber Rattlers rain out from last night that won’t be made up, South Bend’s magic number dropped to one tonight despite the loss.

Myrtle Beach Pelicans

The Myrtle Beach Pelicans were swarmed by the Augusta GreenJackets (Braves), 13-3.

Dominick Reid started this game but left in the second inning with an apparent injury. Reid got the loss after giving up five runs on three hits and four walks over 1.1 innings. Reid struck out one.

The Pelicans managed just three hits, but one of those hits was a two-run home run in the bottom of the first by catcher Logan Poteet. Poteet was 1 for 3 with a walk.

Shortstop Alexis Hernandez went 1 for 2 with a double and three walks and a stolen base. He scored on Poteet’s home run.

Poteet’s home run.

ACL Cubs

Tied with the Rockies, 4-4 in the fifth.

SAN FRANCISCO — In celebration of Pride Night, every Giants player wore a rainbow logo on their cap representing the LGBTQ+ community during their 5-1 loss to the Cubs on Friday night. 

Starting pitcher Landen Roupp, however, made an alteration seen before by some big league players, inscribing a bible verse in silver adjacent to the rainbow logo.

Reliever J.T. Brubaker followed Roupp’s lead, and left-hander Sam Hentges took the protest a step further by refusing to wear the rainbow cap at all in lieu of the Giants’ traditional orange.

Afterward, Roupp, who suffered the loss, clarified that “there’s no hate at all” behind the gesture.

“It’s just what I stand for,” Roupp said. “I believe in God.”

It is not an unprecedented move for one of the many religious members of Major League Baseball to take exception to their team’s Pride night on the grounds that it conflicts with their faith.

The most recent example was Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen, who like Hentges refused to wear the Dodgers’ Pride Night cap earlier this month. Roupp didn’t go that far, but he took a similar action as Clayton Kershaw, who also inscribed the Gen. 9:12-16 verse on his cap.

“It’s something I believe in and I stand firm in that,” Roupp said. “Thankfully we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want.”

In the past, former Giants shortstop Nick Ahmed took the same move, opting for the same passage, Genesis 9:16.

The verse repurposes the rainbow as a symbol of God, stating in part, “When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.’”

Roupp, in his third major-league season, was raised in rural North Carolina and attended the private Faith Christian School in Rocky Mount before attending UNC Wilmington for college.

In Roupp’s social media, he displays the bible verse Philippians 4:13.

“The rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant to us,” Roupp said, “and us as believers stand firm in that.”

Despite the apparent show of solidarity from the Giants’ pitching staff, manager Tony Vitello said the topic was “not really” discussed as a group beforehand.

“Just kind of a general knowledge of the individuals [who] have the freedom to do what they think is best,” said Vitello, who wore the Pride cap but didn’t weigh in on the decisions by a handful of his players. “I do think it’s been apparent from Day 1, it’s pretty impressive how the Giants as an organization try to embrace the entire community.”

The Giants have the longest-running Pride celebration of any team in the majors, becoming the first team in professional sports to host an HIV/AIDS awareness game in 1994. They hosted their first official Pride night in 2000 and first incorporated the rainbow flag into their on-field apparel in 2021. 

In 2022, they and the Dodgers became the first teams to both wear Pride hats during a game.

Game Summary

Jordan Lawlar made his return from injury and left his mark all over this game as the Diamondbacks had yet another comeback win. The team had plenty of heavy lifting to do in this one after Eduardo Rodriguez couldn’t find the zone early and ended up not getting out of the third inning, but, just like E-Rod has picked up this team start after start, his teammates were up to the task and returned the favor to E-Rod tonight.

To start with, Eduardo Rodriguez line doesn’t look that bad. My dad text me halfway through the game asking if E-Rod was hurt because it didn’t seem obvious from the box score why he would’ve been pulled. Well, when you throw 40 pitches in the first inning (without somehow allowing any runs to score) and then being at 85 pitches 2 outs into the third inning, you get pulled no matter what the box score looks like. Eduardo’s command was really poor on the night, but at least he was just missing outside the zone and not serving up meatballs in the zone. When the Reds did make contact, with the lone exception of the homer he gave up to Marte, it was pretty soft and harmless.

The bullpen, called upon early and looking to need at least 6.1 innings if they were going to win, answered the bell and then some. Five relievers combined to allow only 2 hits and no runs the rest of the night. They also walked 4 batters, but the Diamondback defense delivered some awesome plays to keep the team in the game, most notably a catch from Lawlar as he ran face-first into the centerfield wall and a vintage Arenado game-saving play on grounder down the third baseline in the 8th. You can see both below:

The offense was quiet for much of the night, and, as Jim kept reminding us after every blown opportunity, they continued to fail with Runners in Scoring Position. The Diamondbacks finished 2/12 with RISP tonight and left 12 LOBsters on the table, but no one is talking about that tonight because they got a couple big hits when it mattered late and it appeared that they dusted off their sprinting shoes and put some pressure on the Reds by stealing 5 bases on the night (a season high per Apple TV). On a night when Ketel and Corbin went 2/9 with a couple Ks and 0 runs or RBI, Jordan Lawlar led the way with 2 hits, 2 SB, 2 RBI on a 2-out knock in the 9th, and he scored the tying run after stealing his way to scoring position in the 6th. Welcome back, Jordan!

Win Probability and Box Score

Outside the Box Score

• E-Rod was off to a wobbly start, walking the first 2 batters he faced. The first pitch to the third hitter was ruled a ball but E-Rod challenged the pitch in a rare pitcher challenge and got a called strike. Unfortunately, that didn’t really speed up the at bat as Sal Stewart ended up battling for a 10-pitch AB and really boosted E-Rod’s pitch count. All told, E-Rod walked the bases the loaded and had a full count on the first 4 batters he faced, but didn’t allow any runs by inducing 3 pop-ups. It took 40 pitches for him to get out of the first inning.
• Ketel Marte led off the third inning with a double off the wall in left field that I thought for sure was going to just be a little drink single just over the third baseman. Ketel really dug out a low pitch with a flick of his wrists and blasted it over the left fielder. Impressive how strong Ketel is.
• Gabi Moreno came up with runners at first and second and bounced to second base and the Reds infielder made a poor decision trying to get Corbin out at second. Corbin was ruled out initially but the D-backs challenged and got the call overturned thanks to Corbin’s speed and hustle.
• Man, a lot happening in this third inning! Arenado hit a sac fly with the bases loaded and no outs. The relay from the outfielder hit the cutoff man who pivoted and threw to second base where Gabi was trying to advance to and he looked to be dead to rights, but Gabi made an incredible swim move to avoid the tag!
• Jordan Lawlar made an oopsie in his return to the field tonight when he fielded a single in shallow center and tried to get the runner going to third. The runner would’ve been safe easily anyway, but the throw hopped short of Arenado and ended up bouncing off his glove and into the dugout which resulted in a free run for Cincy.
• Jordan Lawlar made a fantastic grab in the fourth inning to turn a double into an out. He ran full tilt to the warning track and reached up above his head to make the catch just before he faceplanted into the wall with his arms still above his head. The collision knocked his cap off and forced him to the ground, but he got up with a smile on his face and the ball still in his glove. Great play.
• Jordan Lawlar reached base on a HBP in the 6th, then stole 2nd easily (no small feat on a fastball right down the middle) and scored the tying run at the time on a Groover single up the middle. Finally, some speed and youth making an impact.
• Nolan Arenado snared a hot shot short hop with the go ahead run at second in the 7th inning, making a nice play to retire the side. Arenado’s bat has been up-and-down, but his glove has been wonderful all year long.
• The Rattle did its job in the top of the 8th. With 2 outs, Lawlar singled and Groover and Waldy walked to load the bases for Ketel and he went down looking on 3 pitches, with the last pitch being a called ball overturned to a strike upon Challenge.
• Geraldo Perdomo made a very smart play in the bottom of the 8th when he got a chopper deep in the hole between 2nd and 3rd. With a speedy runner on first and another hustling out the batter’s box, Domo didn’t even think about trying to get the lead runner and went straight to first to barely get the 2nd out of the inning. That play set up an intentional walk before Ginkel could go after the right-handed hitting McLain. Ginkel got McLain to hit a grounder but it was well-placed right down the third base line. Unfortunately for him, Nolan Arenado mans the hot corner for us and he made a vintage Arenado play, reaching a ball on the foul side of third base and throwing back across his body where Ildermaro made an equally impressive stretch to keep the game tied.
• Apple TV broadcast had a good note late in the broadcast: 4 stolen bases tonight by the Diamondbacks is a season high. Then, on cue, Gabi Moreno got our 5th steal of the night.
• Terry Francona made an odd managerial decision in the 9th inning. With 2 outs and a base open to walk Ildemaro Vargas and face Geraldo Perdomo. Domo worked a long AB, but it nearly worked out for Francona and the Reds when Gerry lifted a ball into medium depth left field. Fortunately the left fielder made a bad read and ended up clanking the ball off his glove to allow the go-ahead run to score. Then Jordan Lawlar broke the game open with a 2-run single right behind that.

Comment of the Game

The GameDay Thread was definitely light early on tonight, but with the early start, Apple TV broadcast, and US World Cup match going on, I understand completely. As the game stayed close late, the comment count kept growing and finished with a final tally of 296 comments at time of publishing. COTG tonight goes to Sigborg for his highly rec’d comment about recs.

Coming Up

The Diamondbacks face the Reds for the second game of this 3-game set tomorrow afternoon with a 1:10pm first pitch Arizona time. Righthander Rhett Lowder (3-3, 5.01 ERA) will take the mound for Cincinnati and Michael Soroka (8-3, 3.28 ERA) takes the ball for the good guys. Hopefully Soroka is his normal self and can give the team 6-7 innings so the bullpen and get a breather.

It was always going to be a tall task facing burgeoning Yankee killer Trey Yesavage, so it certainly does not help when your own starter coughs up three runs in the first inning and two more in the second. Ryan Weathers simply did not have it today, and the Blue Jays rained the extra-base hits off his two-strike pitches. Particularly alarming has been the rate at which balls are flying out of the yard, the two he served up today giving him 15 on the year — fifth-most in the majors. All in all, not an auspicious start to an important series in Toronto, the Yankees eventually falling, 8-5.

The moment Ernie Clement reached on an infield dribbler with one out in the first, you wondered if it would be one of those days in Toronto. Indeed, two batters later, Alejandro Kirk lined an RBI double into the left-center gap. He’s one of many of the Blue Jays’ Yankee killers to make his presence felt on the day, playing in his first game since April 3rd after suffering a broken thumb. Weathers got to 0-2 on the next batter Kazuma Okamoto, but a 2-2 slider that caught a little too much plate was deposited into the fifth deck in left for a two-run tank. It must have been frustrating for two pitches on the corner down and in to get slugged like that, but that’s baseball.

Weathers’ fortunes only worsened from there. He got two quick ground outs to open the second, but barely grazed Andrés Giménez’s arm guard with a first pitch sinker, and again you had this ominous feeling of inevitability. Weathers got to 2-2 against George Springer, but grooved a changeup right down the middle that Springer gleefully hit over the bullpen in left to make it 5-0. Springer entered the game batting .204 with an 80 wRC+ and -0.3 fWAR, but true to form he never misses an opportunity to kill the Yankees.

I suppose it stings even more to suffer a clunker from your starter on a day that Yesavage actually looked mortal against the Yankees. He has suffered with command after the start of his season was delayed a month by a shoulder impingement, and he issued six free passes on the night. However, the Yankees could not immediately take advantage, their only hit through the first four innings a Jazz Chisholm Jr. single to lead off the second. In fact, that second inning would prove a golden opportunity to score early. Yesavage walked José Caballero and Ryan McMahon to load the bases with one out. However, J.C. Escarra had a miserable AB striking out on three pitches and Trent Grisham popped out to leave all three ducks on the pond.

In the fifth, Escarra led off with a double to the wall in left-center, which if you can believe it was the first hit by a Yankees catcher since May 30th, snapping an 0-for-29 skid. A Grisham grounder moved Escarra to third and Ben Rice walked to put runners on the corners with one out for Paul Goldschmidt. He drove in his 29th run of the year with a sac fly to the opposite field on an 0-2 fastball. Cody Bellinger kept up the momentum, jumping on an elevated first pitch splitter and lining it just over the wall in right for a two-run homer, his tenth of the year, to cut the deficit to 5-3.

Though Weathers looked like he might settle down with a scoreless third and fourth and maybe give the Yankees some length, a walk of Springer in the fifth convinced Boone to pull his starter from the game for Jake Bird. Unfortunately, he continues to allow hits at an alarming rate, giving up an RBI double to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. followed by an RBI single to Kirk, both on sinkers in the zone, as the Blue Jays reestablished a four-run cushion.

That wrapped up Weathers’ final line at six runs on five hits and a walk with two strikeouts in 4.1 innings. He is now the only Yankees starter with an ERA north of four at 4.36. This is the fourth time in the last five starts that he has given up at least five runs, his home run per nine rate creeping up toward two. It’s notable that he was seen warming on Wednesday with Aaron Boone confirming after the game that he was in play as a reliever with the bullpen overworked, perhaps foreshadowing a future move to the ‘pen once Max Fried returns from his elbow injury.

The Yankees hitters certainly cannot be faulted for their effort, and they continued to chip away in the middle innings. Spencer Jones drew his second walk of the contest to lead off the sixth and Caballero doubled him to third on a 1-0 hanging slider. That spelled the end of Yesavage’s night, John Schneider calling on the lefty Mason Fluharty out of the ‘pen. A soft grounder by pinch-hitter Amed Rosario allowed Caballero to advance to second but put two outs on the board.

That gave Grisham the opportunity to come through in the clutch as he lined a 2-2 sweeper up the middle for a two-run single to again reduce the deficit to two runs, 7-5. The bad news is that Grisham appeared to stumble and pull up a little lame rounding first and advancing to second on the throw home, and he immediately left the game with what was later described as right hamstring tightness, Max Schuemann replacing him in the outfield.

They kept giving themselves chances to complete the comeback, again loading the bases in the seventh on a leadoff single from Goldschmidt, a one out walk from Jazz, and a two out infield single by Caballero. Ryan McMahon put a charge into a hanging 0-1 curveball from Braydon Fisher, but Myles Straw caught it just shy of the warning track in dead center as the Yankees again stranded three.

Clement tacked on an insurance run for Toronto in the eighth, slapping an RBI double down the line in right against Fernando Cruz. Schuemann did a hell of a job to corral the ball quickly and hit the cutoff man, but Springer beat out Goldschmidt’s throw home by a finger. New York would go down in order in the ninth to seal the series opening loss, 8-5, as they went 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine.

The Rogers Centre remains their personal house of horrors as they have now lost nine of their last ten games there. They will nervously await further news on Grisham’s hamstring as he’s been such a valuable contributor leading off since the start of May. They look to even the series tomorrow with Cam Schlittler on the mound to face Kevin Gausman. First pitch is scheduled for 3:07 pm EDT with the broadcast remaining on YES.

Box Score

Just like dealing with a moody teenager, you never know what you’re going to get with Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Roki Sasaki. It seems that half the time he pitches gems, and the other half are absolute duds. Worse for the Dodgers, with Shohei Ohtani out due to knee inflammation the White Sox had a perfect opportunity to steal a win against the defending champions regardless of Roki’s performance.

Out the gate, it appeared that Sasaki would have another meltdown, as he gave up a solo home run to Andrew Benintendi in the very first inning. Rate Field was jumping and the vibes were immaculate. Unfortunately, much like a moody teenager, Sasaki immediately settled down. After the Dodgers scored two runs with nobody out in the top of the second, there were certainly some fans wary of a hard reality check in the midst of one of Chicago’s most successful stretches in years.

After Santiago Espinal singled in his two tallies, a sacrifice bunt and a hit batsman loaded the bases with one out for Andy Pages. With nowhere to put him and Freddie Freeman on deck, White Sox starter Anthony Kay attacked and struck him out, before getting Freeman to fly out to end the threat. For an inning that saw the Dodgers load the bases and bring in runs before registering a single out, limiting Los Angeles to just two was a huge win that helped keep Chicago in this game. The Dodgers remained in control for the next few innings as Sasaki settled down, but the game was still very much within reach heading into the bottom of the fifth.

Much like the skies in the Chicago area over the past two days, the floodgates opened up in the fifth and the runs came pouring in. The White Sox did it in the way they knew best, playing small ball and dooming the Dodgers to death by a thousand cuts. Four men reached base before Sasaki could record an out, and two more walks chased him from of the game. The pitching change couldn’t stop the deluge of runs, as a Chase Meidroth single and Tristan Peters triple saw the South Siders run the inning up to a seven-spot.

That number seven had a special meaning, too, as Chicago came into the game winless in their last seven against the Dodgers. They also came into the game on a seven-game home winning streak. This was far from the same team that has matched up against Los Angeles in the past, as the Sox now believe that they can win any game, a belief that has been lacking for quite some time. Sitting with a massive 8-2 lead, the White Sox did not let up.

While they didn’t add any runs, they kept the pressure on a Dodgers team that clearly just wanted the game to be over once the White Sox took their six-run lead. The White Sox kept applying pressure and worked late into counts. It was refreshing to see from a team that seemed to sleepwalk through long parts of last year, and even an offense that went to sleep at times early this year.

It’s easy for teams to dig deep and keep plugging away in a close contest, especially when trailing. It’s rare to see a team with a big lead refuse to let up. Their unwillingness to simply coast to a win that’s already well in hand speaks to the team’s mentality, which at the moment looks very similar to other overachieving teams, like the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays, who have been synonymous with success over the past few years. If they can keep this up, there is no doubt that the White Sox are the new favorites to win the AL Central.

In these types of games with sizable leads, it can get hairy quick, as seen by the San Francisco Giants recently scoring 10 runs in the last two innings to complete an improbable comeback. The Dodgers have the ability to bring themselves back into games quickly, but they were shut down by Chicago’s bullpen. Bryan Hudson, Trevor Richards and Chris Murphy went a combined four innings without allowing a single baserunner. They slammed the door in style, securing the 8-2 win.

It was another dominant performance all around from a White Sox team that has injected life into this city. They know have a chance to take the series with a win in either of the last two games before another much deserved off-day on Monday.

Ryan Weathers wasn't his sharpest, and the Yankees hitters could not come through consistently in the clutch as they fell to the Blue Jays, 8-5, on Friday night in Toronto.

New York was 2-for-10 with RISP and left nine on base. Toronto (34-36) was 4-for-7 with seven left on base.

The loss snapped the Yankees' (41-27) four-game winning streak.

Here are the takeaways...

-Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk made his return to the team on Friday after missing 62 games due to injury. He announced his return by winning an ABS challenge from behind the plate on the first pitch thrown. He then marked his return again, this time at the plate, with a two-out double that scored Ernie Clement to give the Blue Jays the early lead.

Kazuma Okamoto followed with a 423-foot blast to give Toronto a 3-0 lead. That wasn't the only longball given up by Weathers. In the second, Weathers hit a batter with two outs to bring up George Springer.The veteran slugger launched a two-run shot to extend Toronto's lead. Weathers would settle down, pitching into the fifth before he was pulled with one out and Springer on second.

Jake Bird was called on, but gave up an RBI double to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and then an RBI single to Kirk.

Weathers pitched 4.1 innings (82 pitches/52 strikes), allowing six runs on five hits and one walk while striking out two. The lefty has now allowed seven home runs in his last three starts after allowing eight in his first 10 starts. He's also allowed 16 runs in those three starts. 

-The Yankees had their chances against Trey Yesavage. In the second, Yesavage walked two to load the bases with one out. J.C. Escarra struck out and Trent Grisham hit a high pop-up to second to waste the opportunity. 

Early on, it looked as if the Yankees would have another tough go against Yesavage. Entering the game, the Yankees had not driven in a run against him in their first two starts against him -- one being in the ALDS. That changed quickly in the fifth. Paul Goldschmidt drove in New York's first run of the game on a one-out sac fly to score Escarra, who had doubled, and Cody Bellinger followed with a two-run blast just over the wall in right field. 

The Yankees would chase Yesavage in the sixth after Spencer Jones led off with a walk and Jose Caballero doubled to put runners on second and third with no outs. However, Ryan McMahon struck out and Amed Rosario hit a weak grounder to the pitcher for the first two outs. Grisham came through, though, with a two-run single. Grisham made it to second on the throw home, but the veteran outfielder had to exit after seemingly coming up lame rounding first base. 

-The Yankees had the bases loaded again with two outs in the seventh, but could not capitalize after McMahon flew out to end the threat. They didn't have much going on the bases in the final two innings as they dropped the series opener.

-Escarra finished 1-for-2 with his leadoff extra-base hit in the fifth, breaking the streak of Yankees catchers not having a hit in the month of June. They were 0-for-26 up to that point. He was pulled for a pinch-hitter in the middle innings. Ali Sanchez went 0-for-1. 

-Caballero started at short instead of Anthony Volpe and went 2-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. Jones went 0-for-2 with two strikeouts but walked twice and came around to score. 

Game MVP: Alejandro Kirk

The Blue Jays backstop enjoyed a 3-for-3 night, driving in two runs.

Highlights

A 2-run hit for Trent Grisham, but he’s coming out of the game after advancing to second base on the throw home pic.twitter.com/PeizHZm3ma

— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 13, 2026

What's next

The Yankees and Jays continue their three-game set on Saturday afternoon. First pitch is set for 3:07 PM

Cam Schlittler (7-3, 1.87 ERA) takes the mound against Kevin Gausman (4-4, 3.60 ERA).

Here are the results and details of every Los Angeles Dodgers game for 2026, from the beginning of the regular season through however long they last in the postseason.

For additional details on each game, click on the game scores below. That will take you to a recap of that particular game. We also have a section on the site dedicated to Dodgers scores and standings where you can also find these stories.

Here are the scores and details of every game in 2026, in reverse chronological order.

• June 12: White Sox 8, Dodgers 2 (44-26)
• June 11: Dodgers 8, Pirates 6 (44-25)
• June 10: Pirates 9, Dodgers 8 (43-25)
• June 9: Dodgers 12, Pirates 3 (43-24)
• June 7: Angels 13, Dodgers 5 (42-24)
• June 6: Dodgers 9, Angels 2 (42-23)
• June 5: Dodgers 1, Angels 0 (41-23)
• June 4: D-backs 3, Dodgers 2 (40-23)
• June 3: Dodgers 7, D-backs 0 (40-22)
• June 2: Dodgers 6, D-backs 5 (39-22)
• June 1: D-backs 4, Dodgers 1 (38-22)
• May 31: Dodgers 9, Phillies 1 (38-21)
• May 30: Phillies 4, Dodgers 3 (37-21)
• May 29: Dodgers 4, Phillies 2 (37-20)
• May 27: Dodgers 4, Rockies 1 (36-20)
• May 26: Dodgers 15, Rockies 6 (35-20)
• May 25: Dodgers 5, Rockies 3 (34-20)
• May 24: Dodgers 5, Brewers 1 (33-20)
• May 23: Dodgers 11, Brewers 3 (32-20)
• May 22: Brewers 5, Dodgers 1 (31-20)
• May 20: Dodgers 4, Padres 0 (31-19)
• May 19: Dodgers 5, Padres 4 (30-19)
• May 18: Padres 1, Dodgers 0 (29-19)
• May 17: Dodgers 10, Angels 1 (29-18)
• May 16: Dodgers 15, Angels 2 (28-18)
• May 15: Dodgers 6, Angels 0 (27-18)
• May 14: Dodgers 5, Giants 2 (26-18)
• May 13: Dodgers 4, Giants 0 (25-18)
• May 12: Giants 6, Dodgers 2 (24-18)
• May 11: Giants 9, Dodgers 3 (24-17)
• May 10: Braves 7, Dodgers 2 (24-16)
• May 9: Braves 7, Dodgers 2 (24-15)
• May 8: Dodgers 3, Braves 1 (24-14)
• May 6: Dodgers 12, Astros 2 (23-14)
• May 5: Astros 2, Dodgers 1 (22-14)
• May 4: Dodgers 8, Astros 3 (22-13)
• May 3: Dodgers 4, Cardinals 1 (21-13)
• May 2: Cardinals 3, Dodgers 2 (20-13)
• May 1: Cardinals 7, Dodgers 2 (20-12)
• April 29: Marlins 3, Dodgers 2 (20-11)
• April 28: Marlins 2, Dodgers 1 (20-10)
• April 27: Dodgers 5, Marlins 4 (20-9)
• April 26: Dodgers 6, Cubs 0 (19-9)
• April 25: Dodgers 12, Cubs 4 (18-9)
• April 24: Cubs 6, Dodgers 4 (17-9)
• April 23: Dodgers 3, Giants 0 (17-8)
• April 22: Giants 3, Dodgers 0 (16-8)
• April 21: Giants 3, Dodgers 1 (16-7)
• April 20: Dodgers 12, Rockies 3 (16-6)
• April 19: Rockies 9, Dodgers 6 (15-6)
• April 18: Rockies 4, Dodgers 3 (15-5)
• April 17: Dodgers 7, Rockies 1 (15-4)
• April 15: Dodgers 8, Mets 2 (14-4)
• April 14: Dodgers 2, Mets 1 (13-4)
• April 13: Dodgers 4, Mets 0 (12-4)
• April 12: Rangers 5, Dodgers 2 (11-4)
• April 11: Dodgers 6, Rangers 3 (11-3)
• April 10: Dodgers 8, Rangers 7 (10-3)
• April 8: Blue Jays 4, Dodgers 3 (9-3)
• April 7: Dodgers 4, Blue Jays 1 (9-2)
• April 6: Dodgers 14, Blue Jays 2 (8-2)
• April 5: Dodgers 8, Nationals 6 (7-2)
• April 4: Dodgers 10, Nationals 5 (6-2)
• April 3: Dodgers 13, Nationals 6 (5-2)
• April 1: Guardians 4, Dodgers 1 (4-2)
• March 31: Dodgers 4, Guardians 1 (4-1)
• March 30: Guardians 4, Dodgers 2 (3-1)
• March 28: Dodgers 3, D-backs 2 (3-0)
• March 27: Dodgers 5, D-backs 4 (2-0)
• March 26: Dodgers 8, D-backs 2 (1-0)

The Chicago White Sox pounced on Roki Sasaki during a seven-run fifth inning to beat the Dodgers 8-2 in Friday night’s series opener at Rate Field.

The first four batters reached against Sasaki in the fifth inning, including a two-run double off the right field wall by old friend Miguel Vargas to give Chicago the lead. Sasaki did not walk a batter in any of his first four frames, but walked three batters in the fifth inning, including free passes on eight total pitches to his final two batters faced, the latter driving in a run. Sasaki hadn’t walked more than two batters in any of his previous eight starts.

All three bequeathed runners scored off reliever Blake Treinen, plus one of his own. Sasaki’s seven total runs allowed matched his total earned runs over his previous five starts combined.

Sasaki fell behind Andrew Benintendi and a 3-1 fastball caught a little too much of the plate for a solo shot to open the scoring. He’s done a pretty good job of cutting down on the long balls, even with the home run by Benintendi. After allowing three home runs to the Chicago Cubs on April 25, Sasaki has allowed only four home runs over his last seven starts.

He even led 2-1 before the disastrous fifth inning, and those two runs were hard to come by for the Dodgers.

Entering Friday, White Sox starter Anthony Kay ranked 95th in strikeout-minus-walk rate (7.2 percent) among the 102 major league pitchers with at least 60 innings. But on Friday the left-hander struck out a season-high seven against only one walk, including six strikeouts in the first three innings.

Kay got the Dodgers to chase more than usual, as his 18 swinging strikes on Friday were three more than any of his previous 57 appearances in his six major league seasons.

With Shohei Ohtani not starting on Friday while dealing with left knee inflammation, designated hitter duties fell to Santiago Espinal, who made his third start since returning to the roster two weeks ago. His two-run single in the second inning gave the Dodgers an early lead. It’s been a strong road trip for Espinal, who did not start any of the games in Pittsburgh but had three hits in four at-bats as a reserve against the Pirates.

White Sox pitchers retired the final 19 Dodgers batters.

Notes

• Seven runs is the most runs allowed by the Dodgers in an inning this season, surpassing the six-run seventh inning by the Angels last Sunday at Dodger Stadium. On this road trip, the Dodgers have allowed innings of seven, five, four, and three runs.
• Alex Freeland did not start Friday but played the final three innings at shortstop. That’s his natural position, though this was his first time in 76 career major league games playing at shortstop.
• Catcher Chuckie Robinson, called up Thursday with Will Smith on the injured list, took a foul ball off his left knee in the sixth inning and was tended to by a trainer, but remained behind the plate for the rest of the game.

Friday particulars

Home run: Andrew Benintendi (7)

WP — Anthony Kay (6-1): 5 IP, 4 hits, 2 runs, 1 walk, 7 strikeouts

LP — Roki Sasaki (3-4): 4 1/3 IP, seven hits, 6 runs, 3 walks, 4 strikeouts

Up next

Yoshinobu Yamamoto takes the mound for the Dodgers on Saturday afternoon (1:10 p.m. PT; SportsNet LA, MLB Network), with right-hander Sean Burke going for the White Sox.

If you’re coming here looking for a flattering report on Shane Baz, keep looking. The Orioles starter’s command was off tonight, and MASN broadcaster Hall-of-Famer Jim Palmer was not impressed. Baz allowed six hits, three runs, and walked two, and at times it could have been worse. More tellingly, he threw 103 pitches and got through only five innings. It was tough to watch sometimes.

But it was also a win, and that’s because the Padres’ Griffin Canning is just sort of hittable. This was something the O’s knew when he was an Angel, and even with a different uniform on, it remains true. O’s hitters racked up six runs on him in the first two innings, with home runs by Samuel Basallo and Gunnar Henderson—his 100th in just 567 games, coming on a three-hit day—leading the way.

Shane Baz was imperfect today, but he kept it together. He allowed a run in the first inning that felt unlucky, even if the rest didn’t. Fernando Tatis Jr. had reached on an error, a ball that just sort of rolled past Coby Mayo’s glove, and advanced to third on a pair of ground balls. Then, Baz hung a knuckle curve to Gavin Sheets, who roped a run-scoring double into right. 1-0, Padres.

The Orioles got it right back, and more. Taylor Ward walked, because, yes, and Gunnar singled to put him on third. Adley drove Ward home with a sac fly. Gunnar got thrown out trying to steal second after getting a terrible jump. But Canning helpfully lost control of his fastball, walked Alonso (after nearly beaning him), and then Samuel Basallo got hold of this. 3-1, Birds.

Baz hit Ty France on the elbow to start the second, then walked Will Wagner on four pitches well outside the zone. Freddy Fermin flew out to deep center for the first out, but the top of the order, Tatis Jr., got a juicy sinker and drove it up the middle. 3-2.

The Orioles pushed the lead back up to two with a Cowser walk, a Tyler O’Neill single off a high fastball, and a Jackson Holliday sac fly. 4-2 Orioles. Gunnar reached base on a swinging bunt, and Adley walked to load the bases. Another rally? Pete Alonso nearly hit a grand salami, but it went just wide of the foul pole. But rejoice, there would still be runs. Alonso drove a ball just wide of Manny Machado’s glove. They called it a hit, but back in his 2013 Gold Glove season with Baltimore, Manny was not making plays like that—or not not making plays like that. Two runs scored, and whatever that drive was, it was 6-2 O’s.

The sky turned orange in the fourth inning. (This has been your Cormac McCarthy game recap.) Baz pitched a good top of the inning, and then, in the bottom, with two outs and a 3-1 count, his counterpart Canning tried and failed to sneak a fastball by Gunnar Henderson. Instead, Gunnar hit a scorching line drive that carried onto the flag court, the 24-year-old’s 100th career home run. This was his 567th game, making him the fourth-fastest Oriole to 100, behind only Anthony Santander (526), Trey Mancini (539) and Boog Powell (566).

We turned to the top of the fifth, and Baz, instead of stabilizing, seemed to lose gas. He allowed a leadoff double to Manny Machado, who’s still hitting .174 on the season. Gavin Sheets’ single up the middle gave him a second RBI on the night, and made it 7-3. But Baz benefitted from an impressive double play kickstarted by Jackson Holliday and completed by Gunnar, firing a rocket to first base.

That was it for Baz, who covered five laborious innings in 103 pitches. No doubt, he looked out of sorts today. Hard to explain what was the matter with his command. Considering, I guess, the results could have been much worse.

The Birds put men on base in both the seventh and eighth innings, but failed to score in either. In the former, the Birds loaded the bases, but San Diego skipper Craig Stamet brought in righty David Morgan expressly to face Coby Mayo, and, it worked. He struck out. In the eighth, Cowser and Tyler O’Neill got aboard in consecutive fashion—O’Neill with his second hit of the game! But that rally was interrupted by a caught stealing of Cowser.

This game rolled to an unsuspenseful conclusion, because the Orioles bullpen was good today. Anthony Nunez had the sixth, and he whiffed two with a fastball that looked to have impressive zip on it. Keegan Akin pitched the seventh, and though he gave up Machado’s second double of the day, he escaped further damage. Yennier Cano was perfect in the eighth. Andrew Kittredge pitched a breezy ninth.

One of my favorite moments in the broadcast came, off the field, while MASN treasure Kevin Brown mused about how San Diego had “unjustly” lost its NFL team, the Chargers. His booth partner Jim Palmer came back with, “How do you feel about the [Baltimore] Colts moving in the middle of the night?” Brown deadpanned: “A real display of courage.” 😂

Hey, winning is nice. Brown summed it up at one point: “The Orioles are just playing a much more attractive brand of baseball over the last few weeks.” Jim Palmer agreed: “Little ball when you need it, they’re third [in MLB] in home runs [since May 8], and the starting pitching’s been much better.” True, and despite a wayward Shane Baz, the Birds are back on track! Let’s keep up the momentum tomorrow.

So who was your Most Birdland Oriole today? Shane Baz, because we include starters by custom in these things? Samuel Basallo, who hit a two-run homer to break open the game in the first inning? Gunnar Henderson, 3-for-3 with a walk and his 100th home run? Pete Alonso, who hit a two-run single and walked three times?

Ah yes, the once in a blue moon offensive firepower game that makes us want deliriously to believe again! We’re at that point in the torture cycle of this 2026 season. Still, I’ll take an entertaining game of baseball any day over the dreck we’ve seen lately by this Boston Red Sox squad.

The top of the first inning felt too ominous with Wyatt Langford singling home Joc Pederson to give the Rangers an early 1-0 lead.

Somehow, that’s all the push the Rangers would muster in this one. And it wouldn’t take long for the Sox to respond!

A Wilyer sac fly (credits to Chad Epperson for an aggressive send of Rafaela) and a Contreras bomb gave Boston the lead and they frankly didn’t look back. Four runs poured on in the fifth, and four more between the eighth and ninth and this game was done and dusted.

For once as well, the lineup made every opposing pitcher look weak in some way, shape or form. Jack Leiter was overthrowing and overextending and instead of an aggressive approach where they wouldn’t stretch him out, they let Leiter keep it up. Two walks, eight hits, and 103 pitches for the righty in just five frames is an approach the offense should take more often! Let guys who are making mistakes of their own keep making them. Cal Quantrill and Luis Curvelo were also no match, neither coming out unscathed.

Revel in this win tonight, it’s deGrom vs Suarez tomorrow!

Studs

Ceddanne Rafaela (3-for-5, 3 RBI, 3 runs scored)

Wilyer Abreu (3-for-4, 3 RBI, 3 runs scored)

Willson Contreras (3-for-4, 2 RBI, 2 runs scored)

I’m going to lump these three guys together here because this was the crux of the offense on Friday night. After making terrible history with the 1-2-3 guys in Tampa Bay, the 2-3-4 hitters came through and then some in the Fenway greens!

Sonny Gray (6.0 IP, 5 H, 1 R, 7 Ks)

If you stopped watching in the first inning of this one, you probably saw a very different Sonny Gray than the latter five frames he pitched. After he settled in on the mound, he was absolutely lights out.

Duds

The bottom half of the lineup

For as great as the top of the order was, the bottom of the order scrapped together two combined hits, one of you consider Duran in the middle of the order. Not saying everyone needs to contribute, just a quiet part of the lineup tonight.

Play of the Game

Honestly, every homer belongs here. I love seeing some power out of these guys.

Box Score

We’ve gotten used to the idea that when Jacob Misiorowski pitches, you might see something you’ve never seen before.

Tonight, I saw one of the greatest games ever pitched.

Misiorowski, who’d never pitched in the eighth inning before, threw a complete game shutout. He did it on just 95 pitches. He struck out 15 batters. He threw the fastest pitch ever tracked by a starting pitcher. He faced the minimum. He was one hit away from a perfect game. And he did it against a good team.

It would be fair to say that Misiorowski came out hot. He started Kyle Schwarber with five fastballs that were at least 103.4 mph, and the fifth one, which struck Schwarber out, was 104.5. That’s a new career high for Misiorowski, who breaks his own record for fastest pitch ever recorded by a starting pitcher every time he sets a new career high. Misiorowski then blew away Trea Turner, and got Bryce Harper on three pitches — two of which were fastballs over 104.

The Brewer offense opened against an opener, the lefty Tanner Banks. Christian Yelich drew a leadoff walk, but Banks came back with strikeouts of Jackson Chourio and Brice Turang. William Contreras came through with two outs, though, and lined a double over the head of right fielder Gabriel Rincones Jr., which scored Yelich from first base. Jake Bauers drew a two-out walk to bring Andrew Vaughn to the plate against the lefty, but he flew out to right to end the inning. The Brewers were on the board early, though, and handed a 1-0 lead over to the Human Flamethrower. (I’m trying it out.)

The Phillies were just as helpless in the second. Brandon Marsh struck out on three pitches. Alec Bohm fouled off two pitches before being the first Philly to put a ball in play, a harmless groundout to shortstop. Bryson Stott struck out looking on an 0-2 curveball that was overturned after a Contreras challenge. Nine pitches, nine strikes, two more strikeouts.

Milwaukee manufactured a second run in the bottom of the second inning against the Phillies’ bulk pitcher for the evening, Andrew Painter. Garrett Mitchell led off with a ground ball up the middle — Bryson Stott was able to reach it, but he was running in the wrong direction, and his throw wasn’t quite in time to beat Mitchell to the bag. A David Hamilton bunt didn’t go for a hit, but it did move Mitchell to second, and a Joey Ortiz groundout moved him to third. With Yelich at the plate, a Painter slider got away from catcher J.T. Realmuto, and Mitchell scored from third. Yelich grounded out to end the inning, but Milwaukee was up 2-0 thanks to their brand of small ball.

Rincones led off the third in the unenviable position of having to face Jacob Misiorowski in his first career plate appearance. He struck out on three pitches. Realmuto got a ball and fouled off a 1-2 pitch, but he struck out, too. So did Justin Crawford. Misiorowski had struck out eight of the first nine batters in utterly dominant fashion.

Chourio hit a line drive on the first pitch of the bottom of the third, but hit it right at Bohm at third base, so he was the first out. Turang grounded out to first for the second out, and Contreras flew out to shallow left to end the inning.

Schwarber made the first solid contact of the game for the Phillies when he jumped on the first pitch of the fourth and lined a single into center field. But Misiorowski struck out Turner and got Harper to ground into a double play, so he’d still faced the minimum through four. Vaughn picked up a one-out walk in the bottom of the inning, and Mitchell reached when Turner couldn’t handle a ground ball. The Brewers couldn’t capitalize on the error, though, when Hamilton and Ortiz struck out.

Miz struck out his 10th batter on just the 13th Philadelphia batter of the game when Marsh struck out swinging to start the fifth. Bohm popped up to Turang for the second out, and Stott hit a fly ball a bit deeper, but Bauers had plenty of room to make the catch in right field. Minimum through five for Misiorowski.

With two outs in the bottom of the fifth, Turang sliced a double down the left-field line. With Contreras batting, Turang stole third, and a pitch later, Contreras walked. On the first pitch after a visit from the pitching coach, Bauers lined a ball into left that looked like it would hit the wall for a double, but it just cleared the wall and landed in the Milwaukee bullpen for a three-run homer. After a Vaughn walk, Mitchell lined out to end the inning, but Bauers’ shot extended the Brewers’ lead to 5-0.

Miz struck out Rincones for a second time to start the sixth. Realmuto hit a solid line drive to right, but Bauers caught it for the second out, and Crawford struck out again. Twelve strikeouts and the minimum number of batters faced through six.

Ortiz reached with one out in the bottom of the sixth — the official scorer gave Turner his second error of the night, both of which could’ve gone either way — and after a Yelich flyout, Ortiz stole second. That mattered when Chourio lined an RBI single into center field and gave the Brewers a 6-0 lead.

Misiorowski got his career-high 13th strikeout to start the seventh inning after a Contreras challenge. Turner grounded out for the second out. Harper grounded out too, and Miz was through seven innings while facing the minimum. And he’d thrown only 75 pitches.

Right-hander Chase Shugart was the new pitcher for the Phillies in the seventh. He quickly got Contreras and Bauers, and with two outs, the Brewers went to pinch-hitter Sal Frelick in place of Vaughn. Frelick got jammed but snuck a pop fly over the glove of Stott for a two-out single, but Mitchell flew out to left to end the inning.

Marsh flew out on the first pitch of the eighth, which certainly didn’t hurt Misiorowski’s efficiency. Bohm grounded out to first for the second out — on a pitch that was at 102.5 mph, in the eighth inning! Misiorowski struck out Stott for the third out, and he was through eight innings, had faced the minimum, and had 14 strikeouts. Words are beginning to fail.

Lefty Tim Mayza was in for the Phillies in the bottom of the eighth. With one out, Ortiz lined a double into the left-field gap. After a Yelich strikeout, Chourio made good contact but flew out to center. The lead stayed at six.

Rincones helped Miz’s “Maddux” bid (a colloquial term for a shutout on less than 100 pitches) by grounding out to first on the first pitch of the inning. Realmuto grounded out to Hamilton at third. Miz started Crawford with a 103.7 mph fastball — in the ninth inning — and three pitches later blew him away with a 103.1-mph fastball.

Schwarber’s single was the only thing standing between Misiorowski and a perfect game. His 15 strikeouts were three more than his previous career high. He was still throwing over 103 mph at the end of the game. A guy who struggled with command as a minor leaguer didn’t get into a three-ball count all night. This was a truly legendary start, very possibly the greatest in the history of the franchise.

Offensively, Ortiz was the only player with more than one hit, but Milwaukee did a good job of picking up timely hits. Contreras, Turang, and Ortiz hit doubles in the game, while the big hit was Bauers’ three-run homer in the fifth.

What a night. The Brewers continue the series tomorrow, when Shane Drohan takes the mound against Philadelphia’s Aaron Nola. First pitch is at 6:10 p.m.

Jacob Misiorowski pitched the game of his life, allowing one hit and facing the minimum in his first career complete game shutout as the Milwaukee Brewers (42-25) embarrassed the Philadelphia Phillies (37-32) to the tune of a 6-0 drubbing in the opening game of the weekend series at American Family Field.

Misiorowski faced 27 hitters, allowing one single to Kyle Schwarber in the fourth inning that was erased two batters later as Bryce Harper grounded into a double play to end the inning.

Don Mattingly tried to be creative in turning things around for his struggling rookie starter, Andrew Painter, by opening the game with lefty, Tanner Banks, to allow Painter to avoid dangerous lefties, Christian Yelich and Brice Turang, on the first go-round. Banks allowed a leadoff walk to Yelich and struck out the next two batters before William Contreras doubled home Yelich for the game’s first run.

Painter took the bulk of the game from there, going five innings, and his struggles continued as he allowed five runs on five hits and three walks, culminating with a three-run home run by Jake Bauers in the bottom of the fifth.

In all honestly, it didn’t matter how well the Phillies pitched tonight. No one was matching Misiorowski’s performance.

“The Miz” set a major league record for the fastest pitch thrown by a starting pitcher, set a career high in strikeouts, and became the first pitcher since Gary Waslewski in 1969 to one-hit the Phillies and face the minimum in a complete game shutout. He was the first starter to strike out 15 Phillies since Max Scherzer in 2018.

Misiorowski improved to 8-2 with a 1.34 ERA and a 0.74 WHIP to entrench himself in the historically competitive race for the National League Cy Young Award along with Cristopher Sanchez and Shohei Ohtani, to name a few.

Aaron Nola is slated to face Shane Drohan in the middle game of the series tomorrow night.

The Miz has somehow unlocked an even higher level of dominance.

Jacob Misiorowski, the Milwaukee Brewers' nearly untouchable fireballing right-hander, tossed the first complete game and shutout of his career, needing just 95 pitches to toss a one-hitter and strike out 15 against the Philadelphia Phillies Friday, June 12 at American Family Field.

Only a Kyle Schwarber single in the fourth inning separated Misiorowski from perfection. And Schwarber was erased one batter later on a Bryce Harper double play ball.

Yep, he faced the minimum 27 batters in the Brewers' 6-0 victory and along the way, Misiorowski tossed a 104.5 mph pitch to strike out Schwarber in the first, the hardest pitch by a starting pitcher since pitch tracking began in 2008. It was his first time pitching beyond the seventh inning in 28 career starts.

All 15 punchies from a career-best outing@jmisiorowski9https://t.co/wRY0Vjy4Dhpic.twitter.com/qRkZeEIfgN

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) June 13, 2026

And pitching on the one-year anniversary of his major league debut, he made it look easy: Not only did Misiorowski not walk a batter, he did not face a three-ball count all game.

And his 15 strikeouts were the most by a pitcher in a shutout of less than 100 pitches, breaking Detroit Tigers lefty Tarik Skubal's record of 13. Seventy-four of his 95 pitches were strikes.

Misiorowski said it felt like he was "floating" in a postgame interview with the Brewers TV broadcast. He certainly maintained his stuff, given he hit 104.5 mph on the first batter of the game and 103 mph on his last pitch − a fastball he blew by Justin Crawford to finish his gem.

The final out of Miz's masterpiece 🥹 pic.twitter.com/FjPyQalcd4

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) June 13, 2026

"There was no chance," says Misiorowski, "I was going to throw something other than a heater there."

It capped a night the crowd of 40,205, with the roof open on a gorgeous night in Milwaukee, urged him along, giving him a standing ovation when he emerged from the dugout for the ninth inning. The Phillies stood little chance.

"That was as good as it gets," Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. "With all those All-Stars and great players they have over there, incredible, incredible performance. Efficient.

“Amazing young man. Really is. He just goes out and lets it eat."

It was the Brewers' first complete game since Brandon Woodruff went the distance in September 2023. And it figures to be the first of many for Misiorowski.

The 6-foot-7, 24-year-old continues to defy convention − that his body can't sustain such prolonged hard throwing, that he can't be pitch-efficient while striking out so many guys.

But all that's a little easier when you simply don't let anyone on base.

The Texas Rangers scored one run but the Boston Red Sox scored ten runs.

The Rangers collected three hits in their first four at-bats against tonight’s Boston starter Sonny Gray but because they’re now, paradoxically, a pop-less small ball team with slow baserunners, all three hits were singles and all three were required to score their first inning run that put them up 1-0.

If you didn’t watch the game or check the score or read the headline of this post or read the introductory sentence, yes, that was the only run that Texas scored on the night. In fact, the Rangers didn’t even have another hit until the top of the sixth and just three more total after the flurry to begin the game. By the time they got that fourth hit, it was 6-1 Boston.

It was 2-1 Boston after the first inning so that Texas lead didn’t even last very long. In fact, it was 2-1 Boston after their first hit of the game. Because they hit a home run.

Technically it wasn’t a two-run home run because Boston’s first run scored in part because the Rangers were poor at virtually every aspect of the sport tonight. In this instance Jack Leiter walked the leadoff hitter and, following a force out, Ceddanne Rafaela reached third base on a throwing error on a stolen base attempt and scored on a sac fly like 220 feet down the left field line.

The score remained 2-1 until the bottom of the fifth inning when the Red Sox decided to pepper the Green Monster with bullets to further inflate Leiter’s ever-expanding ERA. By the end of the frame, Boston had scored four runs following three consecutive doubles and a two-base throwing error by Josh Jung.

Leading the way with three RBIs tonight was Wilyer Abreu (tied with Rafaela) who would be make Shohei Ohtani look like Justin Foscue if he were allowed to play the Rangers every night. The Red Sox scored three more in the eighth. The Nos. 2-4 hitters for Boston had nine hits and eight RBIs between them.

Anyway the Rangers are back below .500.

Player of the Game: It’s quaint comparatively but Wyatt Langford had two whole hits and drove in a run tonight!

Up Next: The Rangers will look to rebound with RHP Jacob deGrom on the mound against LHP Ranger Suarez for Boston.

Saturday’s first pitch from Fenway Park is scheduled for 3:10 pm CDT and will be aired on the Rangers Sports Network.

Tonight has not gone well for the Atlanta Braves as they’re currently in a deep hole against the New York Mets in the opening game of this weekend series. They could be dealing with some more injury woes to their core players as Spencer Strider exited tonight’s game with trainer George Poulis following a concerning velocity drop.

Strider’s fastball was down to around 88-mph — a significant drop from his usual velocity of 95-mph so far this season. Following a disastrous three innings of work (including six runs given up on two dingers hit by Bo Bichette and one from Juan Soto), his efforts on the mound prompted a mound visit from both Walt Weiss and George Poulis and a visibly-frustrated Strider agreed to leave the game due to the issues that he was dealing with.

Hopefully it’s nothing serious but at the same time, it’s tough to not be alarmed when you consider what was going on with his velocity once he was making his exit. We’ll update this post with any new developments so stay tuned.

UPDATE [10:16 p.m. ET]: The Braves are calling it “right arm soreness” for Strider as the cause for his exit. It’s vague but that’s also not the type of catch-all that you want to see. Let’s continue to hope for the best.

UPDATE [post-game]: Per Chad Bishop of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Walt Weiss relayed the message from Spencer Strider that he was feeling both “shoulder and elbow” soreness out there. Needless to say, that ain’t good!

As farfetched as a trade to the Yankees might be, Aroldis Chapman created a stir this week when he told ESPN Deportes that he would want an apology from general manager Brian Cashman before potentially being dealt to The Bronx.

Boone on Friday said he did not agree with the idea that the organization owed the Red Sox closer an apology for how his Yankees tenure ended in 2022.

Chapman, who struggled and lost his closer job that season, missed a mandatory workout ahead of the ALDS for what Boone said at the time was an unacceptable excuse. Cashman fined him for the absence, and the Yankees ultimately left him off the roster.

“At the end of the day, he wasn’t at the workout,” Boone said. “I made the decision, based on a lot of things and thought, to leave him off because I thought that was the right thing to do at the time. Chappy apologized, and really, it’s water under the bridge for me.

“I love Chappy. I have a really good relationship with him to this day. But the ending of the ’22 season was what it was. He wasn’t there, and I made the decision that I didn’t think it was best for him to come back at that point. He maintained that he was throwing and would be ready as the playoffs unfolded that year. But ultimately, I made that decision.”

It is Friday night.

The Orioles have beaten the Padres, 7-3. Gunnar Henderson reached base four times, with three hits – including his 14th homer. It was his 100th homer of his career, making him the fourth-fastest Oriole to reach 100 homers with the franchise. Tyler O’Neill had a pair of hits (really!), and Shane Baz survived five innings despite not looking like he would for a while there, with four Orioles relievers combining to keep San Diego from scoring after that. The team won their third straight game as they took this series opener.

YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE.

The San Francisco Giants welcome the Chicago Cubs to Oracle Park tonight for a rematch of last weekend’s series.

Taking the mound for the Giants will be right-hander Landen Roupp, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.00 ERA, 3.02 FIP, with 77 strikeouts to 30 walks in 69.2 innings pitched. His last start was in the Giants’ 3-2 loss to the Cubs on Saturday, in which he allowed one run on three hits with five strikeouts and three walks in five and two thirds innings.

He’ll be facing off against Cubs right-hander Javier Assad, who enters tonight’s game with a 4.73 ERA, 4.37 FIP, with 19 strikeouts to eight walks in 32.1 innings pitched. His last start was in the Cubs’ 2-1 loss to the Giants on Sunday, in which he allowed just one hit and one walk with five strikeouts in six and a third innings.

Game #70

Who: San Francisco Giants (28-41) vs. Chicago Cubs (35-34)

Where: Oracle Park, San Francisco, California

When: 7:15 p.m. PT

Regional broadcast: NBC Sports Bay Area

National broadcast: n/a

Radio: KNBR 680 AM/104.5 FM, KSFN 1510 AM

TORONTO — Trent Grisham continued a red-hot run Friday night, but it came at a cost.

After roping a two-run single in the sixth inning, Grisham took second base on the throw home and got hurt doing so, leaving the Yankees’ 8-5 loss to the Blue Jays with right hamstring tightness.

Grisham said he felt it rounding first base but that it was “too early to tell” what his level of concern was.

“We’ll see where it wakes up [Saturday],” said Grisham, who almost immediately began walking off the field after sliding into second base. “Hopefully, it’s good news, no IL, but we’ll see.”

Manager Aaron Boone indicated that Grisham could go for tests in the coming days, but nothing was planned immediately.

If Grisham is forced to the injured list, which would not be surprising given how he needs his legs to play center field, the Yankees likely would activate Jasson Domínguez off the IL to replace him on the roster, with Spencer Jones potentially taking over regular center field duties.

Domínguez, who homered in his fifth rehab game Friday night while coming back from a left AC joint sprain — and playing right field for the third straight game — initially was scheduled to play another game at Triple-A on Saturday, but those plans were up in the air with Grisham’s status.

“There’s a chance we bring [Domínguez] up, depending on Grish,” Boone said. “It just depends. We’ll see what we have overnight and in the morning. But Jasson could be in play.”

The timing of the injury is brutal for Grisham, who entered Friday batting .377 with a 1.014 OPS over his last 18 games — having reached base multiple times in 12 of those games — and .285 with a .832 OPS over his last 34 games.

After a relatively healthy start to the season, the Yankees have taken on a pile of injuries of late. They have Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Austin Wells, Max Fried and Domínguez all on the IL.

Instead of a starting outfield of Cody Bellinger, Grisham and Judge, that unit by Saturday could feature Bellinger, Jones and Domínguez.

“It’s part of it,” Boone said. “Everyone kind of deals with it. Fortunately, as we’ve talked about all year, I feel like it’s one of the deeper rosters we’ve had in a while. So we got capable people of going in there and picking up any slack left. You never like key guys going down of course, but in a long season, that’s unfortunately part of it sometimes.

“Another opportunity for potentially a couple really good players that are stepping in. We’re not hoping on guys that can’t play. We’ll weather it and look forward to getting more and more guys back in the mix.”

After a series victory at home against the Twins, the Tigers headed around the corner of Lake Erie to take on another division rival in Cleveland for a three-game weekend series. The Detroiters could only manage a pair of solo home runs in a losing effort, dropping the opener 3-2 on Friday night.

Jack Flaherty made his fifteenth start for the Tigers, and much has been said about his inconsistency. The good news coming into tonight was that, in his previous three starts, he hadn’t been that bad — pitched into the sixth, gave up a maximum of three runs, struck out at least six each time. With some starting pitchers due to come back from the Injured List soon, you have to wonder if Flaherty stays in the rotation with some of the young kids doing well.

Like Flaherty, Cleveland’s starting pitcher had a 1-7 record coming into tonight’s game, being one Tanner Bibee. But Bibee’s peripheral numbers look a lot better than Flaherty’s: ERA (4.09 vs. 5.31), WHIP (1.234 vs. 1.580), BB/9 (4.8 vs. 2.8). He’s in his fourth year with the Guardians, and he’s been a good, reliable part of their rotation since coming up in 2023 — not to mention a sensational start against Detroit in May. But these are the June Tigers, though, right?

The Tigers had an early squander: with one out in the top of the first, Bibee walked a pair of batters… and then both Dillon Dingler and Kerry Carpenter struck out, stranding a pair. As it turns out, that would be about as close to a sustained threat they’d have all night.

Cleveland got on the board first in the bottom of the second: Rhys Hoskins led off with a double, and Flaherty got the next two batters to fly out harmlessly. Up to the plate stepped a sub-.160 hitter, Patrick Bailey — great defensive catcher, not a world-beater in the batter’s box by any means — and he dumped a liner into left field to score Hoskins. Brayan Rocchio followed with a triple to right to score Bailey and put Cleveland up 2-0. By the end of the second, Flaherty had thrown 49 pitches, suggesting he might not go too deep in this game for any reason. But hey, Newest Tiger™ James Outman made a nice sliding catch.

Naturally, leading off the third, Outman — not known for his bat the past couple of years — crushed a no-doubter to right-centre to narrow the score to 2-1.

Flaherty’s night was shortened by injury, coming out after three innings — he grimaced while fielding a grounder to end the third with “left leg discomfort.” Other Newest Tiger™, Jacob Waguespack, started the fourth. He pitched in Toronto in 2019-20, pitched a couple of years in Japan, then spent a couple of years mostly at Triple-A, before being added to the Tigers today out of Milwaukee’s Triple-A affiliate in Nashville. He gave up a single and a walk but ended up getting three outs without any damage.

Drew Sommers took over for Waguespack in the fifth to face a few fellow lefties, and he gave up a harmless single but nothing more. Meanwhile, Bibee was cruising pretty easily: through six innings he’d only thrown 79 pitches, and Outman’s home run was the only hit he’d surrendered.

Drew Number Two (i.e., Anderson) relieved Sommers in the sixth and it didn’t go as well: with one out Angel Martínez doubled, and Steven Kwan — who’s lousy this year against everyone except us — singled to score Martínez and push the lead back up to two runs. Bailey legged-out an infield single (of course) to put a pair on, but a strikeout and a flyout prevented further damage.

The reliever parade continued with Ty Madden for the seventh, and he gave up a one-out double but the runner was stranded and the game carried on with a two-run gap ‘twixt the squadrons.

Spencer Torkelson had something to say about that, though, leading off the eighth:

That was the end of Bibee’s day; giving up two solo home runs as your only hits in seven-plus innings is a weird final line.

Cade Smith was brought in to nail down the save for Cleveland in the ninth; with two out Dingler made a bid for a game-tying home run but unfortunately the fly ball fell short of the fence, and that was the game.

Final score: Guardians 3, Tigers 2

Notes and Observances

• Tarik Skubal’s starting on Saturday.
• Casey Mize is starting on Sunday.
• Who goes to the bullpen? Toledo? Trading block? Released?
• Apparently it’s okay to have two Drews in the bullpen, but not two Zachs/Zacks on the field. Got it.
• Marv Albert, Chick Corea and Roy Harper were all born on this day in 1941. Neat!

The Yankees' outfield depth is about to be tested after Trent Grisham had to exit Friday's game against the Blue Jays with what the team calls right hamstring tightness.

While the nature of Grisham's injury isn't yet known, it seemed that the veteran outfielder pulled up lame rounding first and made an awkward slide into second on a throw home after he hit a two-run single in the sixth inning. Grisham finished 1-for-4, but that single cut Toronto's lead to 7-5 at the time.

Following the Yankees' 8-5 loss, Aaron Boone confirmed that Grisham felt his hamstring tighten up rounding first base and they'll see how he feels on Saturday before figuring out next steps.

A 2-run hit for Trent Grisham, but he’s coming out of the game after advancing to second base on the throw home pic.twitter.com/PeizHZm3ma

— SNY Yankees (@snyyankees) June 13, 2026

This is not the first time Grisham has had to exit a game against the Blue Jays this season. Back on May 20, Grisham had left knee discomfort legging out a double. The injury didn't land Grisham on the IL, but it's unclear if the same will happen this time around.

Grisham was replaced in the outfield by Max Schuemann, who moved to right field to allow Spencer Jones to man center.

The Yankees already have Aaron Judge and Jasson Dominguez on the IL, with the latter close to returning. Boone said the plan was for Dominguez to get a couple of more rehab games this weekend with Triple-A before they decide on whether to activate him. If Grisham needs an IL stint, the Yankees may be forced to bring Dominguez back sooner than they originally planned. 

Grisham is having a solid season. He's batting .232 with eight home runs with an OPS of .747 while playing great defense in center every day for the Yankees. 

SAN FRANCISCO — Almost four months since pitchers and catchers reported for spring training, there are still plenty of firsts for the Giants’ rookie manager. 

An easy one he waited until Friday to knock out: Naming a closer.

“[Caleb] Kilian will close for us,” Tony Vitello declared before the Giants opened a three-game series against the Cubs, departing from their previous by-committee approach.

“We talked to several of those guys about just getting more organized. …The bullpen’s all about chaos, but the more you can have a baseline, I think it brings out the best in the group.”

The decision represents a quick about-face from Vitello, who as recently as this past Sunday commended the group for “being so great all year long” even though “we haven’t really had defined roles. It’s kind of been organized chaos.”

The news also coincides with the return of the last pitcher to formally hold the closer’s title in San Francisco, Ryan Walker, who was called up from a month-long assignment in the minor leagues.

Walker saved 30 games over the past three seasons but struggled last year and never reclaimed the role in spring training. He is 3-for-6 in save situations this season — one of eight pitchers Vitello has turned to in the Giants’ 21 save opportunities, including two on their last road trip who weren’t Kilian.

Keaton Winn, with his devastating splitter, seemed to be being primed to take over the role after receiving four recent late-inning opportunities. But he allowed the tying or go-ahead runs in two of those chances, including one on his third straight day of action that went awry.

Kilian is second to Walker with five save opportunities, converting four of them with a 3.34 ERA.

“I just think he’s done well in that spot,” Vitello said. “It also is a combination of what other guys need to do or can do for us. He wants the ball in that situation.”

Vitello hasn’t had many reliable options, adding an extra wrinkle to his duties managing a major league bullpen for the first time. Since the end of April, the Giants’ ragtag group of relievers have posted a 5.35 ERA that ranks third worst in the majors.

As the skipper attempts to instill some more order, Walker has a new role, too: fireman.

“Obviously he’s been in as big of a situation as you can imagine,” Vitello said. “A big thing for Walk is being able to come in and be the fireman in particular situations that might pop up really anytime after the starter leaves the game.”

In other words, the Giants will trust Walker to handle the biggest situations before the ninth inning. Winn and J.T. Brubaker can both handle multiple innings in the middle, and Vitello has been impressed with Dylan Smith since he was called up last week.

Once it gets to the ninth, the inning belongs to Kilian.

At least for now.

“Right now, I’m here to get my job done, whatever that job is,” Walker said. “But my ultimate goal is definitely to get back into those high-leverage positions and eventually climb my way back into that closer role.”

Walker was 3-for-4 in save opportunities with a 3.00 ERA on April 25 but allowed runs in each of his final five outings, blowing two saves, before being optioned back to the minors.

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It was the first time Walker had been sent back to the minors since he got his initial callup in May 2023, on the same day as former catcher Patrick Bailey.

“It didn’t really surprise me in a way,” he said. “I knew at some point it was probably going to happen. When it did happen, I didn’t hang my head. I was very positive. I told myself, OK, this is going to be a great time to work on your craft.”

Walker first went to the Giants’ facilities in Arizona for about a week, where he worked with Matt Yourkin, their pitching rehab coordinator, to sort through his issues before reporting to Triple-A Sacramento. He had issued 10 walks in 15 ⅓ innings at the time of his demotion.

The two made some small changes to his hyper-rotational cross-fire delivery that appear to have helped him regain his command. Besides one subpar outing, Walker issued only one walk over seven other appearances, including two that spanned multiple innings.

Rather than trying to stay parallel to the rubber in his motion, he’s now at a slight angle.

“Now I can almost have a straight shot to where my landing spot is. It became a lot more consistent,” Walker said. “Once the mechanics kind of cleared up, I noticed the bounce-back was so much easier. Things were moving the way they should.”

The Mets identify as a disappointment, and the possibility their plight will worsen over the 23-game stretch that began Friday night is very real.

With two perennial NL East threats (the Braves and Phillies) scheduled as opponents in 13 of those games, the Mets realize they have perhaps reached a critical juncture in the schedule.

“Definitely, I think this stretch can tell us a lot about who we are,” Bo Bichette said before the Mets faced the Braves at Citi Field.

Who are the Mets at the moment? A team that got buried in April with a 12-game losing streak that hasn’t played nearly well enough to overcome that early horrid play.

The Mets began the day 30-38, trailing the first-place Braves (who own MLB’s best record) by 15 games in the NL East. The resurgent Phillies, under manager Don Mattingly following Rob Thomson’s firing, began play leading by 1 ½ games for the NL’s second wild card.

“We have just got to show up and win as many games as we can — whether we’re playing those teams or somebody else,” Bichette said. “I don’t think chasing someone is the goal. Maybe in late September if we find ourselves in that situation that could be a goal, but right now we have just got to focus on what we can every day.”

Three big lineup pieces remain sidelined: Francisco Lindor, Jorge Polanco and Luis Robert Jr., Nevertheless, their respective returns might be a moot point if the hole in which the Mets are submerged gets any larger.

“Where we are in the season, where we are from a record standpoint, regardless of who we would be playing over the next month, is going to have an added level of importance,” president of baseball operations David Stearns said. “This is an important time of year for us.”

Stearns was asked why anybody should believe the Mets can still have a shot at a turnaround.

“We’ve got to prove that things are going to change,” Stearns said. “There is no question we have played better since April, but we still haven’t played consistent enough to get out of the hole we dug, and we’re very aware of that. We have to prove it. I continue to believe we have the people in the clubhouse who are capable of doing this.”

The Mets opened the homestand with two losses in three games to the Cardinals after going 3-3 on their last road trip. Since the end of April, the Mets were 20-17 entering play.

“Every series is like a measuring stick, especially where we are at,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “But we’re facing a real good team with the best record in baseball, but I think it’s about us playing our best baseball, and whether we’re playing the Braves it doesn’t matter.

“Our job is to go out there and start playing consistent baseball, winning baseball. So, whether it’s this weekend, it doesn’t matter who we are playing. It starts tonight.”

Bichette was asked what stood out to him about the Braves.

“The same thing that stands out to anybody about them over the past five years,” Bichette said. “They had a down season last year, but they are a proud group with a lot of talent. All their players play every day, too, and it’s tough to find that. They have got everything you need.”