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Former Tiger Tarik Skubal is in LA until season's end. What history says about MLB rental stars

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• New era in Steel City: Training camp features no tackling, no Seven Shots, no Tomlin
• Preseason Week 1 in rearview: Winners, losers; Browns QB1 battle; Mendoza gets game snaps

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INSIDE

4 LF rewrites No. 1 bust story

2016 No. 1 pick's road to rock-solid career leads off Nightengale's Notebook, plus other MLB news, tidbits to know.

6 First-of-kind surgical legacy

Tommy John allowing Frank Jobe to do revolutionary UCL procedure saved careers for generations of pitchers.

• MLB power rankings, Page 7

8 Will Skubal go home to Tigers?

Sabathia, Teixeira, Price, Machado, Bryant. Every star traded in July said the right things on the way out like Skubal. Almost nobody returns.

9 MLB's major offseason wrinkle

The best MLB free agents this offseason, and how a looming lockout could change it all. November is key.

10 Seeing the obvious in Cleveland

One game into the Browns' QB1 battle, columnist Nate Davis writes it's clear which direction to go – and now.

11 Sticking to the QB plan in Vegas

Fernando Mendoza's Raiders debut proves Kirk Cousins' value.

• Preseason Week 1 hot takes, Page 12

14 College football's next stars?

Who are the best true freshmen in 2026? Some who can potentially make the earliest impact in college football.

You can't script this

Phillies DH Kyle Schwarber rounded the bases twice in the Field of Dreams game Aug. 13 against the Twins in Dyersville, Iowa, including this lead-off 369-foot home run trot. His effort led to game MVP honors: a hot dog and cob of corn.

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15 Senator shares football story

Cory Booker seeks to end "vulture practices" in youth sports. He tells his life-changing sports story that led him to Stanford and directed his career path.

18 OKC's unlikely love affair

Russell Westbrook retires from the

NBA as a Thunder. Why OKC will love the guy from LA's south side forever.

32 Unprecedented MLB debut

Joshua Báez made history by homering three times in his first three at-bats. A look at other auspicious MLB beginnings and what it portends on paths it might lead for the Cardinals prospect.

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Leading OFF

New Steelers era: No tackling, no Seven Shots, no Tomlin

Jarrett Bell

Columnist

USA TODAY

LATROBE, PA – For nearly 20 years, you couldn't go to a Pittsburgh Steelers training camp practice without the scene buzzing when they fired up one of Mike Tomlin's favorite drills.

Seven Shots.

It was some serious mano a mano football. Seven plays from the 2-yard line. Offense vs. Defense. Whether it was a gut-check power run or some creative pass, it was hardcore competition with live tackling. The unit that won at least four of those situational conquests won the day. And typically, they'd do it all over the next day.

The sequence undoubtedly set the tone for Tomlin's physical camps.

And if seven cracks from the 2 weren't enough, there was the Backs-On-Backers drill that pitted running backs against linebackers in the open field.

My, how times have changed.

Tomlin's punishing drills – and before him, Bill Cowher had his share of gut-check tone-setters – have gone the way of two-a-days. They are now part of the nostalgic memories at Saint Vincent College, the quaint little school about an hour outside of Pittsburgh where the Steelers have been coming for summer camp (except for two years due to the pandemic) since 1967.

This is what happens when there's a new sheriff in town as Mike McCarthy replaced Tomlin, on the job for 19 seasons, to become just the franchise's fourth coach since 1969.

Sure, McCarthy knows all about Steelers tradition. He grew up in Pittsburgh. Yet McCarthy has his own philosophy for running training camp. The most stark difference in a Steelers camp under McCarthy is the minimal contact.

Put another way: No tackling!

"It's just 'no tackling' is the only difference," star linebacker T.J. Watt said, maybe underselling it a bit. "But other than that, we're still playing physical, we're still playing very hard. Just not taking guys down to the ground."

Steelers coach Mike McCarthy talks with Aaron Rodgers during a practice session at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe. BARRY REEGER/IMAGN IMAGES

'An adjustment period'

Still, training camp has in some ways represented a culture shock.

Ask Cam Heyward. The well-respected defensive lineman is preparing for his 16th NFL season as the longest-tenured Steeler.

"I'd be lying if I didn't say there is an adjustment period," Heyward, 37, told USA TODAY, sitting at a picnic table outside the locker room after a recent practice. "It's about finding flow in a new system. Listening to Mike McCarthy as our leader now. It should be different. If it was the same, I'd be a little confused."

Heyward knows all about the debate concerning how much contact during training camp practices prepare a team for the real contact of the regular season. While the Steelers never had a losing season in Tomlin's 19 years, all of those physical camps didn't stop the Steelers from the disturbing habit in recent years of fading down the stretch.

That bottom line is why some argue that the Steelers needed a big change. If McCarthy's methods help reverse that season-ending trend, his no-contact practices – heavy on precise details – might be viewed as the perfect foundational blueprint.

"I gotta trust," said Heyward, working in a new scheme employed by new defensive coordinator Patrick Graham. "You've got to really stress technique in these opportunities. You don't want to go into your first game and, 'Hey, who can tackle and who can't?' But it's about getting your eyes right, really trusting your technique."

Rodgers a fan of both camps

Of course, no Steelers player has a deeper perspective on a McCarthy camp than Aaron Rodgers, who worked under the coach in 13 Green Bay Packers camps after McCarthy replaced Mike Sherman following the quarterback's rookie year.

Rodgers enjoyed his lone Tomlin camp last year (when no, he wasn't hit as a protected quarterback) but is not complaining that McCarthy holds practices around 11 a.m., whereas his predecessor started sessions around 2 p.m., which typically turned up the temperature. The Steelers were scheduled to break camp on Aug. 18.

"I loved last year's camp," he told USA TODAY Sports. "With Mike T, we'd tackle. I can't tell you exactly how this camp is going to end. But you know, Mike McCarthy's all about the schedule."

Then again, Rodgers has been around long enough to remember the grind in camps before the NFL Players Association negotiated for less-taxing camp routines as a health and safety measure with the collective bargaining agreement that ended the lockout in 2011. With that, full-speed two-a-day contact practices and some of the most barbaric drills were outlawed. There's also a cap on the length of practices (2½ hours) and at the start of camp, a five-day acclimation period without pads and a mandatory day off before they participate in padded practices with full contact.

"Training camp, it's not like it used to be," Rodgers said. "So, to me, it's all mental. Practice is all CBA-length."

"The rookies are like, 'That's it?'"

"Yeah, that's it."

Mike McCarthy prefers to minimize risk in training camp

Still, there's a distinctive spectrum that NFL coaches fall under when managing the contact in their camps. And McCarthy is undoubtedly at the end of the spectrum looking to minimize risk.

"I think it's having the long game in mind, just trying to be smart with how we approach each and every day," said Watt, entering his 10th NFL season. "A lot of teaching moments. We're all learning a new scheme, offensively and defensively. He's done a great job turning up the dial when it's appropriate and pulling it back when it's appropriate."

Will it work? The Steelers haven't advanced past the first round of the playoffs since reaching the 2016 AFC title game. Maybe McCarthy's approach will keep the team fresher.

We'll see. It's also worth noting that despite their different styles, McCarthy and Tomlin have something in common. Both won a Super Bowl but over many years experienced one frustration after another in trying to get back to the NFL mountaintop.

"You know, everybody has a different approach and that's the way it should be," Steelers owner Art Rooney II told USA TODAY Sports. "It's going to be fun to see how this unfolds, but I certainly like what I've seen."

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NIGHTENGALE'S NOTEBOOK

Rockies outfielder rewrites No. 1 bust narrative

Bob Nightengale

USA TODAY

PHOENIX - Colorado Rockies rookie third baseman Kyle Karros, struggling early in the season, sat slumped in front of his locker, his mind and soul filled with self-doubt, wondering if he even belonged in the big leagues.

"I remember sitting alone," Karros said, "and I was like, 'It's just so frustrating. I know I can play here. I know I'm capable. I just haven't seen any results at this level.'"

Rockies teammate Mickey Moniak walked over, put his arm on Karros' shoulder, and Karros innocently asked him if he ever felt that way.

"He's like, 'Dude, you know who you're talking to?'" Karros said.

You want to hear about self-doubt? Pain and embarrassment? Failure.

Well, Moniak says, pull up a chair.

Moniak was once was regarded as the finest amateur ballplayer in the land, selected with the No. 1 overall pick in the MLB draft 10 years ago by the Philadelphia Phillies. It took only a couple of years to then be considered one of baseball's draft busts, the rare 1-1 pick who was a total flop.

"This road is a tough winding road, and everybody's journey is different," Moniak tells USA TODAY Sports. "You never know what's going to happen. I've gone through a lot of ups. I've gone through a lot of downs. And ultimately, it's gotten me to where I am today."

Moniak, 28, is now a fixture of the Colorado lineup, electing to stay put and be part of the Rockies' rebuild instead of being traded to a contender, agreeing to a two-year, $16.25 million contract extension the same day of the Aug. 3 trade deadline.

Moniak, who experienced the highest of highs on draft day, and then the lowest of lows when he was dumped less than six years later by the Phillies, has finally found a home.

"You know, ever since I got here, I made it pretty clear that I love it here," Moniak says. "I love this organization. I love the people in this organization. I love where the organization is headed. It's something I want to be a part of."

"I've always been a loyal guy, so I think that if you show loyalty in me and

Mickey Moniak was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 MLB Draft.

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confidence in me, I just want to give it right back."

Certainly, it would have been easy for the Rockies to ship Moniak out at the deadline, bringing in more prospects.

It would have been easy for Moniak to want out, too, playing for a franchise that has lost 100 or more games three consecutive years, finishing last the past four years, a combined 171 games out of first place, with the worst record in the National League once again.

Moniak, a hot commodity at the deadline, could have ignored the offer and tabled the discussions until this winter, but he also knows that if he had not signed the extension, he'd likely be wearing a different uniform today.

"I think that there was a good possibility that I would have been traded if I didn't sign it," he says. "From the business side of the game, there was obviously always a possibility that I would have been on the move. Obviously, my name was one that was getting thrown

around a lot. So, to be able to ink that deal right before the deadline, and kind of solidify myself here for at least the next two years, was something that I was very excited about."

'Build something here in Colorado'

The Rockies made it clear they want Moniak as an integral part of their future, and Moniak let them know he wants to stick around for the day that they are a winning team once again, even a playoff contender.

"If you look at the numbers, we're one of the top five offenses in all of baseball, and have taken great strides, especially from last year [43-119] to this year [50-74]," he said. "I think we can give this thing a run in the next two years."

"Obviously, my ultimate goal is to win a World Series, and to ultimately hoist that trophy, and pop that champagne. I've been thinking about it over the last year, for sure. My biggest thing is to be

able to build something here in Colorado, and bringing winning baseball back to the city of Denver.

"I mean, we saw it last year. We're fighting history as one of the worst teams in the history of baseball, and the fans still showed up, they still support us, and that stuck with me."

Indeed, as bad as the Rockies have been, they've drawn more than 2 million fans in all but two full seasons in their 34-year history. They are averaging 28,000 fans per game this year and are on pace to draw nearly 2.3 million fans.

"It's an amazing sports city with the [NHL] Avs, the [NBA] Nuggets, the [NFL] Broncos making the playoffs all of the time," Moniak says. "Me and a few guys went to a couple of Avs playoff games, and just seeing the city of Denver rally around them, that's something that I want for the Rockies."

It brings back memories of growing up in San Diego for Moniak, who was a Padres fan, and like every other kid in San Diego, idolized Tony Gwynn.

Gwynn went to the World Series his rookie season, then didn't sniff the post-season again for 14 years. Gwynn was constantly asked why he didn't want to be traded or depart as a free agent.

Gwynn always said that he never wanted to leave, and after enduring the agony of losing, he now wanted to be there when the good times returned. And it finally did in 1998 when they reached the World Series again.

"It's the same for me, I want to be part of that group bringing playoff baseball back to Colorado," Moniak says. "The fans' support they give us is incredible. It would mean the world to me to be able to be here through the worst and, ultimately, reach the best."

'Mickey went through it'

There was a time when Moniak wondered if he'd still be playing baseball. He played in parts of three seasons with the Phillies, hit .129 with a .386 OPS, and was sent packing to the Los Angeles Angels. He played in 228 games with the Angels, hit .242 with 31 homers and a .709 OPS, but they gave up on him too, on the eve of the 2025 regular season.

The Rockies, who wanted him in the 2016 draft if he had fallen to the fourth

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pick, pounced. He arrived in Colorado, hit .270 with a career-high 24 homers and a .824 OPS last year. This year, he has a .532 slugging percentage, and even after missing a month with right ankle tendinitis, he has 11 games of multiple extra-base hits. And, oh, does he rake at Coors Field with a career .994 OPS entering the week.

Moniak's value permeates throughout the clubhouse. There's not a position player in the clubhouse who doesn't rave about Moniak's leadership skills. You got a problem, you're in a slump, you go see Moniak.

"It's easy for a lot of people to tell you how to think, how to feel, what to do," Karros said, "but they haven't been in your shoes. Mickey, he went through it.

"He told me about his path and his journey. He gave me a different perspective to have on the game and in life in general. To play free. To play loose. That's what he's really gotten to do here in Colorado, and that's why I think he's had a ton of success. He works his tail off, but at the end of the day, he's not pressing for results.

"He reminded me that once the game starts, it's playing the same game I've always played. So that's been huge to me, and a lot of guys in this clubhouse to have him as a resource. He's gone through everything. He's a great baseball player, but honestly, more of an unreal person than anything."

'Didn't have the luxury' in Philly

Moniak was barely 23 when he was already labeled a bust in this game. When he signed with the Phillies, they were just coming off their worst season since 1961, going 63-99. The Phillies counted on him to be a part of their core and signed Bryce Harper to a 13-year, $330 million contract in 2019 when Moniak was at Class AA. The plan was for the duo to play alongside one another in the outfield.

Moniak's stay in Philadelphia lasted all of 47 games.

"I didn't really have the luxury, or I should say they didn't have the luxury," Moniak says, "of giving me a leash to go out there and maybe get 100 at-bats to figure it out. The most at-bats I got in a stretch was maybe 20. It was just tough to find a rhythm. But I totally understand the nature of this game and the business side of it. They put a lot of money into that organization and was in a win-now mode.

"I was trying to go 5-for-4 every game

The Rockies' Mickey Moniak celebrates after hitting a solo home run in the first inning against the Marlins at Coors Field on July 2. IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

trying to do way too much. I was getting caught up in my day-to-day performance instead of being patient knowing the 162-game marathon is real. That's why I learned to trust the ability that God has given me, and be focused more on the team winning, and as opposed to getting so caught up in your day-to-day performance.

"That's what I've told these young guys. You're going to go through a bad stretch. This game's going to knock you down. If it knocks you down three times, you get up four."

Moniak is living, breathing proof. He's been knocked down, again and again, but now a decade after it all started, he's right where he's supposed to be.

"To be able to find my footing, and just kind of re-charge my career here," says Moniak, who's hitting .264 with 19 homers and a .839 OPS, "it's something that I definitely cherish. It couldn't have been a better fit."

Colorado is no longer just a place where he's employed during the summer. It's about to become a second home with a soon-to-be expanded family.

Moniak got married a year ago in San Diego and purchased a place in Encinitas, California, which just so happened to be the former home of Dodgers manager Dave Roberts' in-laws.

"I saw three of his jerseys hanging in

their house," Moniak said, "and I was wondering, 'Man they must really be huge Dave Roberts fans.'"

And now that his wife, Sophia, is pregnant with their first baby, a girl due in January, they're in the market to buy a home in Denver, where his mother-in-law was born and raised.

"Pretty cool, right?" Moniak said.

It was a journey that Moniak never could have imagined, but now that he looks back, it was meant to be this way.

"I believe everything happens for a reason," Moniak says, "and you know what, I wouldn't change a thing."

Around the basepaths

It not only is shaping up as a frantic NL race these final six weeks, with three teams (the Philadelphia Phillies, San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks) fighting for the final two wildcard berths, but it could also determine the fate of three managers.

The contender among the trio that misses the postseason likely will also be looking for a new skipper.

• Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo, barring a dramatic change, likely must make the playoffs to keep his job. He's in the final year of his contract, and there have been no talks about an extension.

He was saved once before by general manager Mike Hazen, who is close friends with Lovullo, but Hazen may be unable to stop a firing this time if the D-backs miss the playoffs for the eighth time in the past nine years with a franchise-high payroll.

• Philadelphia Phillies interim Don Mattingly, who took over for Rob Thomson on April 28, not only must lead them to the postseason, but likely to the World Series or even win it to be asked back. Alex Cora, who turned down the job when Thomson was fired, is expected to be the Phillies' next manager barring a World Series berth or title.

• Craig Stammen, who's in his first season as manager, may have the best job security of the trio. He signed a three-year contract in November. Yet if the Padres miss the playoffs, someone needs to be the fall guy, and Stammen is A.J. Preller's seventh manager in 12 years since becoming GM and president of baseball operations.

• In the American League, Seattle Mariners manager Dan Wilson is expected to be fired if the Mariners miss the playoffs, and the same goes for Houston Astros manager Joe Espada.

• Dave Dombrowski, the Phillies president of baseball operations, may be under fire by fans and segments of the Philadelphia media, but his job is not only safe, high-ranking officials say, but that he also will receive a contract extension this winter.

Dombrowski is in such good standing with the Phillies and owner John Middleton that when he received his last contact extension in 2022, he wanted a two-year deal. He was offered a four-year deal. They split the difference and Dombrowski received a three-year extension through 2027.

This time, it's likely Dombrowski's call again how long of a deal he desires.

• The sale of the Padres became official Aug. 17 when MLB owners voted on the transfer of ownership to a group led by José E. Feliciano and his wife, Kwanza Jones. The vote was unanimous on the $3.9 billion deal, an MLB valuation record.

• Kudos to Doug Drabek, the 1990 NL Cy Young winner and Diamondbacks Triple-A Reno pitching coach, who has helped turn starter Brandon Pfaadt into one the best pitchers in the game.

Pfaadt lost his rotation spot with the D-backs after three starts, was demoted to the bullpen, and was optioned to

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Reno on June 3 with a 5.92 ERA.

Pfaadt spent 3½ weeks in the minors with Drabek, returned to the Diamondbacks on June 30, and has become the hottest pitcher on the planet, tossing 32 ½ consecutive innings without allowing an earned run, outdueling Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Chris Sale in his last two outings.

Pfaadt has made nine starts since his return and is 7-1 with a 1.15 ERA, yielding a .203 batting average. He became the third pitcher in franchise history to pitch seven scoreless innings in consecutive starts while yielding two or fewer hits after his latest gem on Aug. 14 in the 2-0 victory over Atlanta.

• Dodgers broadcaster Charley Steiner, who has been in the business for 59 years, called the broadcast of the Milwaukee Brewers-Dodgers game on Aug. 15 "the most meaningful game of my career."

It was the first time Steiner called all nine innings of a game since Oct. 11, 2023, when the Diamondbacks were the last team to beat the Dodgers in a postseason.

Steiner, who has been battling cancer, began the season broadcasting three innings in the first game of a home series this season, gradually building up to six innings, and now his first complete game.

"It means the world to me," Steiner told USA TODAY Sports.

• You think the folks on the South side of Chicago appreciate a winner?

The White Sox have already drawn more fans (1,501,495) this season than all of last year (1,445,738). They've drawn nearly 7,000 more fans a game, outdrawing the 2025 team by 412,994 at this point.

• Could be quite an Oct. 11 in Wisconsin with the NFL rival Bears and Packers playing at Lambeau Field in Green Bay and a scheduled NL championship series opener that could feature the Cubs and Brewers in Milwaukee. Get your tailgate parties ready.

• Considering how barren the free agent market is this winter, little surprise that MLB teams have been heavily scouting Japan this summer for talent. Hiromi Itoh of the Nippon Ham Fighters, along with pitcher Hiroto Takahashi of the Chunichi Dragons, and third baseman Teruaki Sato and pitcher Hiroto Saiki of the Hanshin Tigers, are attracting the most interest.

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Surgery changed many careers

Doc named procedure for patient Tommy John

Gabe Lacques

USA TODAY

It's not often a player can be credited with saving the careers of thousands of players who followed him or ensured that a select few of those would go on to earn hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to his courage.

Yet Tommy John, in conjunction with orthopedist Frank Jobe, did just that for generations of pitchers.

John died Aug. 15 at the age of 83, his 288-win career almost a footnote in the grand scope of his life. He served as patient No. 1 for the surgery that would eventually bear his name is among the most significant off-field impacts a player can make.

When he agreed to let Jobe replace the ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow in 1974, it was a journey into the unknown at the intersection of sports and medicine. Nowadays, the surgical scar and the established protocols for recovery, regaining strength and eventually returning to the mound are well-established and even more evolved.

Yet all that was foreign to Jobe and John. And you could fill up a wing of the Hall of Fame with those who have benefited. Here are some of them:

John Smoltz

Career record: 213-55, 154 saves WAR: 69.0

Notable: In his first iteration, Smoltz was the warning shot fired that the dynastic Braves of the 1990s were coming. He became a World Series champion by 1995 and in '96 authored one of the most dominant seasons of that decade, winning 24 games and striking out a major league-high 276. Yet he blew out his elbow before the 2000 season, leaving his career at a crossroads. "There weren't many 34-year-olds, in my mind, having Tommy John surgery," Smoltz told The Athletic in 2018. "I was going to be in the final year of my contract and I just figured that no one would want a 34-year-old who had Tommy John surgery. I just didn't think it was going to be worth it. I was pretty down and out and ready to

John Smoltz pitched nine of his 21 seasons in the majors after having Tommy John surgery in 2000. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2015. BRETT DAVIS/IMAGN IMAGES

call it quits." That is, until Tommy John himself called. John noted that he was the same age – 34 – when he went under Jobe's knife. So Smoltz went for it – and what a second act. He toggled to the bullpen and saved a major league-high 55 games in 2002, followed by 45- and 43-save seasons for Atlanta. Returning to the rotation in 2005, he logged 229 innings and while he only struck out 169, his 3.06 ERA was still 39% better than average. He would pitch through 2009 and earn election to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility – the first Tommy John recipient to be inducted.

Justin Verlander

Career record: 266-159 WAR: 82.3

Notable: It's true: The majority of Verlander's achievements – 226 wins, 3,013 strikeouts, two Cy Young Awards and 72.3 WAR – were achieved before Verlander's elbow went out after one start in 2020. But his return to dominance after Tommy John showed that yes, a generational pitcher could return to such heights even after the procedure – and even at the age of 39. That's how old Verlander was in 2022, when he won a third Cy Young, led the majors with a 1.75 ERA and bagged his second World Series title, earning his first Fall Classic win that autumn.

Shohei Ohtani

Career record: 47-22

WAR (pitching only): 19.2

Notable: It's possible the game's most talented player ever might have been a four-time MVP had his pitching career ended in 2018, when he first blew out his elbow. Fortunately, we'll never have to know. Ohtani did not pitch in 2019 and made just two appearances in the shortened 2020 season, but then unleashed the full fury of his two-way powers. From 2021 to 2023, he posted a 2.84 ERA and struck out 11.4 batters per nine innings over 74 starts, his '23 season likely the zenith of his multi-positional brilliance. Alas, that pitching season ended after a second UCL injury and another repair commenced after the season. That only makes his third pitching act even more remarkable: Ohtani's comeback from Surgery II even more precise, with a 2.17 ERA and 0.98 WHIP over 28 starts the last two seasons.

Chris Sale

Career record: 157-96

WAR: 61.4

Notable: Sale was already a World Series champion and two-time American League strikeout champ by the time his ligament failed him just before the 2020 COVID-19 shutdown. Yet think of what he's done since: A 2024 NL Cy Young Award in which he was the league's pitching triple crown winner and three consecutive All-Star berths for the perennially contending Braves.

Zack Wheeler

Career record: 123-79

WAR: 44.2

Notable: Probably the best modern example of a storied career almost totally attributable to Tommy John surgery. Wheeler had just one full big-league year under his belt when he had the procedure in May 2015, and the Mets reaped the benefits of Peak Wheeler just one season. But what a decade it's been since his return: three All-Star appearances, 1,686 strikeouts, a 105-63 record and, since 2022, annual trips to the playoffs with the Philadelphia Phillies.

Nathan Eovaldi

Career record: 112-93

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MLB POWER RANKINGS

Historic debut helps Cards climb in NL

Gabe Lacques

USA TODAY

Don't like your team very much this season? Just wait a week.

So it goes in the slog known as the 2026 Major League Baseball season, where nobody's really out of it and anyone can get back in it just by winning a few games.

This week's example? The St. Louis Cardinals.

They dealt away starter Dustin May and reliever JoJo Romero and respected outfielder Lars Nootbaar at the trade deadline and promptly won four consecutive series and eight of their last 12 games. That's lifted them above .500 and within three games of a playoff spot.

Talk about addition by, well, addition: Nootbaar's trade helped open some space for rookie Joshua Báez, who merely had the greatest debut in major league history. Phenom? He is now, it seems.

As such, the Cardinals have leaped three spots in USA TODAY Sports' power rankings, with more upward mobility in the offing. They have eight games this week, including a five-gamer against the Cincinnati Reds, against whom they've won five of eight. They head to Philadelphia next weekend, by which time they could possibly climb into playoff position with a good series against the Phillies.

Or not. Twenty-four of 30 teams are living week-to-week, and there's no telling how the road ahead may treat the

Joshua Báez is correct: The Cardinals climbed three spots in USA TODAY Sports' MLB power rankings.

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Cardinals. For now, it's good living.

A look at our updated MLB power rankings:

1. Milwaukee Brewers (-): Before we freak out too much, keep in mind the Brewers went 6-0 against the Dodgers last year.

2. Los Angeles Dodgers (-): It's gone from "annual summer malaise" to "wow perhaps this just isn't a very good team" very quickly.

3. Atlanta Braves (+1): With 36 homers, Matt Olson has outside shot at second 50-homer season.

4. Tampa Bay Rays (-1): Shane McClanahan off the injured list to start wraparound finale against Baltimore.

5. Chicago Cubs (-): Edward Cabrera hit hard in first start off IL as handy Javier Assad sent to minors.

6. New York Yankees (-): Cody Bellinger set to start rehab assignment on Aug. 20.

7. Chicago White Sox (+2): Just an absolute statement in sweeping the Tigers as Munetaka Murakami, Miguel Vargas reach 28 homers.

8. Philadelphia Phillies (+2): Have not lost since creeping out of the corn.

9. San Diego Padres (+2): Look out: 19-10 since the break.

10. Boston Red Sox (-3): With Toronto, Baltimore coming on, will they slide all the way out of playoff position?

11. Arizona Diamondbacks (-3): Well-traveled Dennis Santana added to bullpen mix.

12. Miami Marlins (-): Jakob Marsee is Mr. August, with a 1.018 career OPS.

13. St. Louis Cardinals (+3): If they can survive an 11-game road trip, anything's possible.

14. Houston Astros (-1): Josh Hader is 17-for-17 in save chances since return from injury.

15. Texas Rangers (-): Have lost 17 of 23 AL West road games. Tough way to win a division.

16. Baltimore Orioles (+4): Gunnar Henderson slides to fifth in the batting order, and club takes three in a row at Tampa Bay.

17. Cleveland Guardians (-3): That's five straight series losses, and now

Chase DeLauter is hurt again.

18. Pittsburgh Pirates (-): After a planned respite, Paul Skenes' start on Aug. 19 will be highly scrutinized.

19. Detroit Tigers (+2): Have lost six of nine to White Sox this season. So, wild card it is?

20. Toronto Blue Jays (+4): Heart of a champion? Now, just one game out of playoff position.

21. Cincinnati Reds (+1): Eight-game week vs. St. Louis, Arizona could ignite or thoroughly douse any thoughts of contending.

22. Minnesota Twins (-6): Outscored 23-7 in sweep by Phillies.

23. Washington Nationals (-4): Now just 3 ½ games up on sad-sack Mets.

24. Seattle Mariners (-1): A particularly brutal 15-game stretch arrives: Brewers, Cubs, Phillies, Blue Jays, Red Sox.

25. New York Mets (-): Now .500 (22-22) in the Andy Green era.

26. San Francisco Giants (-): Buster Posey says manager Tony Vitello will be back in 2027.

27. Kansas City Royals (-): Noah Cameron's one-hit shutout of Angels is club's first since Zack Greinke in 2009.

28. Colorado Rockies (+1): Adael Amador's first hit this season is a home run.

29. Athletics (-1): It took him 26 games, but Tommy Tanks gets his first big-league homer in Yolo County.

30. Los Angeles Angels (-): Ben Joyce, back from May 2025 labrum surgery, picks up first save in nearly two years.

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WAR: 25.9

Notable: One of the most significant pitchers on this list, as he represents so many modern pitfalls of the game: Tommy John surgery at 17, an ethos from the very beginning to throw the ball as hard as possible at all times, and then another Tommy John procedure as a pro, in 2017. Yet you'll find few pitchers who have grinded through to accomplish so much. Eovaldi is now a two-time World Series champion and what he contributed to runs by the Red Sox and Texas

Rangers in 2018 and 2023, respectively, cannot be overestimated. Signed for $24 million next season.

Jacob deGrom

Career record: 104-73

WAR: 49.8

Notable: You wonder how often Eovaldi and deGrom, who now share a clubhouse with the Rangers, look at each other and think, "Been there, done that." DeGrom is also a two-time TJ survivor, though his first one came as a professional, with the Mets in 2010. That

worked out OK: By 2014, deGrom was NL Rookie of the Year and by 2018 won the first of two consecutive Cy Young Awards. Just a staggering run from 2017 to 2019, when he struck out 239, 265 and 255 batters in consecutive seasons, posted a 2.53 ERA and had a 5.12 strike-out-walk ratio. The Rangers guaranteed him $180 million in 2023, but his elbow failed him, and a second UCL procedure was needed after just six starts. In 2026, he is back to striking out 11 batters per inning (even if he only goes five a start these days) and perhaps might sync up with Eovaldi for a daunting playoff duo.

Tarik Skubal

Career record: 61-43

WAR: 21.2

Notable: Oh yeah, this guy! Good health and labor conditions willing, he is expected to sign a contract in excess of at least $300 million this winter. You wonder what the Seattle U lefty sitting on the operating table would think of that. But Skubal recovered and grabbed enough of the Detroit Tigers' attention to get picked in the ninth round. The rest is all of his doing. But the bankroll can certainly give a hat tip to John and Jobe.

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What history says about MLB rental stars

Kristie Ackert

USA TODAY

There's a version of this story that ends with Tarik Skubal back in Detroit, embraced by Tigers fans. It's just not the one that anybody in the Motor City is hoping for.

Skubal has been a Los Angeles Dodger for about two weeks and he hasn't stopped talking about the team that traded him. "I would love to play my whole career in Detroit," he said on the Pardon My Take podcast, adding that he hopes talks pick back up in November once the playoffs are over.

Tigers fans heard hope in that sentence. The rest of the league heard a well-prepared, soon-to-be free agent represented by Scott Boras looking to keep his market open as wide as possible. All bidders are welcome.

So there is hope that Skubal could return to Detroit, it's just a lot narrower and different than that fan base hoped.

Detroit shipped him to Los Angeles on Aug. 2 for three prospects. He is 29 and finishing out a $32 million contract – that he won through arbitration after the Tigers offered him a mere $19 million.

In about three months he'll be the most wanted free agent in baseball and the only extension offer either side has talked about publicly was four years and $75 million after the 2024 season.

He is going to get multiples of that. Nice words don't change that reality.

Two versions of the same conversation

"We explored an extension once," Scott Harris said.

Skubal's side made clear he was going to free agency and the Tigers president of baseball operations didn't blame him for it. "Which is totally his right," Harris said. But that also made the trade inevitable.

Skubal's agent refuted that. Scott Boras told The Athletic the offer was four years, $75 million, after the 2024 season. He wanted eight and Detroit would not go there.

Both sides agree on one thing though: It died over the money.

And that's not new with Skubal and the Tigers. He beat them in arbitration last winter, $32 million for the reigning

American League Cy Young Award winner to their $19 million offer.

Still, he was sincerely emotional when he left. He cried, he hugged and promised to keep in touch with teammates.

He can love the place and still go after the money. Most players do.

The big ones don't stay

That's not a knock on Skubal. It is just what happens to every star who gets moved in July.

CC Sabathia went from Cleveland to Milwaukee in 2008, carried the Brewers into October on short rest, then took seven years and $161 million from the Yankees. Mark Teixeira, rented by the Angels that same summer, took eight years and $180 million to head to the Bronx as well. David Price left Detroit for Toronto in 2015 and signed with Boston for seven years and $217 million.

Javier Báez went from the Cubs to the Mets in 2021, wound up with the Tigers for six years and $140 million. Cubs icon Kris Bryant got moved to San Francisco that same week and signed with Colorado for seven years and $182 million. Max Scherzer went 7-0 for the Dodgers down the stretch in 2021 after being traded by the Nationals and then signed with the Mets. Manny Machado was rented by

CC Sabathia went 11-2 with a 1.65 ERA down the stretch in 2008 to drive the Brewers into the playoffs. MICHAEL SEARS/ USA TODAY NETWORK VIA REUTERS CONNECT

the Dodgers in 2018 from Baltimore, then he took 10 years and $300 million from the Padres.

Randy Johnson went from Seattle to Houston in 1998, went 10-1 with a 1.28 ERA for the Astros, then signed with Arizona. Cliff Lee, dealt from Seattle, dragged Texas to its first pennant in 2010 and left for the Phillies. Johnny Cueto left Cincinnati for Kansas City in 2015, won a World Series, then signed with San Francisco. Jon Lester spent two months in Oakland after nearly a decade in Boston and signed with the Cubs.

There are some exceptions

Some guys do go home.

Aroldis Chapman was dealt from the Bronx to the Cubs in 2016 to close out a World Series. He got his ring and than went back to the Bronx.

Jack Flaherty was dealt by the Tigers to the Dodgers at the 2024 deadline, won a ring out there, and then signed right back with Detroit that winter. Merrill Kelly, rented by the Rangers last summer, went back to the Diamondbacks this year. In 1993, Rickey Henderson went to Toronto, won a World Series, and was back in Oakland by December on a two-year, $8.6 million deal.

The only megadeal in that lot though

was Chapman signing for five years, $86 million in December 2016. It was a record for a reliever at the time. The rest were short-term deals for useful players, not Skubal-like impact players.

Then, there is Mark McGwire. He never even got to the market after Oakland traded him to the Cardinals in 1997. He signed a three-year extension with St. Louis and hit 70 homers the next year.

When the Dodgers traded for Skubal, they not only got him for the playoff run, but they get an exclusive negotiating window with him.

Will Skubal remain in Dodger Blue?

Fair question, and the honest answer is who knows.

The Dodgers are already carrying Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani in that rotation. Boras will run this like an auction looking for the biggest contract. The Dodgers get to bid and they have the financial power behind them to make a top bid. They do not, however, get a discount for two months.

Skubal, for his part, didn't sound like a man planning a short stay when he defended the Dodgers for going out and trading for him.

"I don't sympathize with people that blame the Dodgers for anything they've done," he said of fans upset that the Dodgers are ruining baseball. "It's a winning organization."

Don't hold your breath, Detroit

There is one path that gets Skubal back this November.

Something goes wrong in October, the market tightens with a lockout looming and he for some reason takes a short deal at a big annual number.

That's unlikely.

The most likely version is the one the Tigers fans are seeing now. Justin Verlander came home eventually at 43, signing a one-year, $13 million deal to end his career.

Skubal is just 29, a two-time Cy Young Award winner who is chasing record numbers in free agency.

He may be sentimental about the Tigers, but the team had years to capitalize on that emotion and could not close the deal.

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November window crucial for free agents

Kristie Ackert

USA TODAY

Usually, there is no reason to focus on MLB free agency in August. It's three months away and there's playoffs to worry about.

Except this year, baseball's traditionally drawn-out free agency period is expected to be a frenzy, condensed into the three weeks between the end of the World Series and the end of the collective bargaining agreement.

The market opens five days after the World Series ends. The labor deal expires at 11:59 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, and a lockout is widely expected the moment it does.

The last one ran 99 days and froze every signing and trade in the sport. This one could be worse, because the owners want a salary cap and the union has spent decades saying that's not even in the conversation.

So, the players about to hit the market are looking at a narrow chance in November where deals can actually get done under the current CBA before the expected lockout.

These last two months will matter more than they normally would. Almost every name in this free agent class just changed teams at the deadline. Tarik Skubal is a Dodger. Freddy Peralta is a Ray. Luis Arraez is a Phillie. Kevin Gausman and Clay Holmes are Cubs.

They're all auditioning somewhere new, right now, for a market that might slam shut before anyone gets his money.

Here's the top free agents heading into 2027 ... or 2028:

Why Tarik Skubal is the only sure thing on the market

He is the class of the class and it isn't close. Two American League Cy Young awards, 29 years old, chasing the biggest contract ever handed to a starting pitcher.

He had a bone chip taken out of his elbow earlier this year, which is the only question about an otherwise simple market.

His agent, Scott Boras, doesn't mind a slow winter – he's managed them before. He has the ace of the class and the wallets will open up for him whenever the business of baseball returns to wins and losses.

Top MLB pitchers for 2027

The class has pitching depth, but most of it comes with questions attached. These aren't guys sailing into November on career years, they are trying to prove something in these last six weeks.

Freddy Peralta, 30, went 17-6 last year with a 2.70 ERA and finished fifth in the National League Cy Young voting. He is 5-10 with a 5.27 ERA this year and struggles to miss bats. He has the last few weeks with the Tampa Bay Rays and their magic pitching factory to resurrect his free agent value.

Kevin Gausman is 35 – he'll 36 by opening day – and he's been a middle-of-the-rotation arm this season. But he's made 31 starts every year since 2022, and somebody always pays for innings. He's continuing his case with the Cubs after Toronto dealt him.

Behind them are Shane Bieber, 30; Brandon Woodruff, 33; Robbie Ray, 34; and Luis Severino, 32.

The best position players in the 2027 class

There aren't many bats available in this class.

Luis Arraez, 29, is a three-time batting champ who just landed in the Phillies lineup, which is about the best setup he can get two months before he hits the market.

Jazz Chisholm Jr., 28, and Randy Arozarena, 31, come after him. Ian Happ, 31, Brandon Lowe, 32, Seiya Suzuki, 31, J.P. Crawford, 31, Trent Grisham, 29, and Taylor Ward, 32, are also in this thin group.

Gleyber Torres, 29, is worth watching too. He is only one of three second baseman in this class who hasn't turned 30 yet.

Which players will opt out after the 2026 season?

Injuries took care of a lot of these decisions.

Corbin Burnes, 31, can walk away from four years and $140 million in Arizona. He had Tommy John surgery in June 2025 and has yet to return, so he's probably not going anywhere. Jose Berrios, 32, had Tommy John in May and won't pitch again until the middle of

Tarik Skubal is the ace of the class, and wallets will open for him whenever. But what about the rest of the free agents? KIRBY LEE/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

2027. It will certainly be with Toronto.

Michael King has been here before. The 31-year-old hit the market last winter and came right back to San Diego for three years and $75 million. The deal lets him leave after this season with a $5 million buyout instead of collecting $53 million over the next two years. If he's healthy, he's probably taking the buyout.

Clay Holmes, 33 is an interesting case. He closed for the Yankees, made two All-Star teams doing it, then turned into a legitimate starter with the Mets. He suffered a broken fibula in May and just made his first start back and after being dealt to the Cubs. He has a $12 million option, and if he has a strong August, September and October, he will decline.

Bo Bichette, 28, is the genuinely interesting one. He signed for three years and $126 million with the Mets, including opt-outs every season. Walking af-

ter his first miserable season in Queens is over means giving up $84 million after hitting .236. Still, many in the business believe he will leave.

Why the pending lockout makes November a deadline in play

Every player here knows what's coming. Take the November deal and there is the security of knowing exactly what you have, or wait it out and find out what the new rules look like – with nobody able to tell you when the waiting ends.

The unofficial deadline for losing regular-season games is early to mid-March. That's a long time to sit unemployed. The guys with the least leverage will try to sign in November. Teams know that and will take advantage of it.

Skubal, on the other hand, can wait as long as he likes. The money will be there.

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Sanders is best option at Browns' QB1

Nate Davis

USA TODAY

Now that Deshaun Watson has played in an NFL football game for the first time in nearly two years, the Cleveland Browns shouldn't need nearly as much time to shed clarity on their muddled (for now) quarterback situation.

Watson – dogged by controversy, injuries and an albatross of a contract since the Browns' disastrous trade for him four years ago – had an unremarkable day at Chicago's Soldier Field against the Bears on Aug. 15 ... if you're judging by the box score (11 of his 15 throws completed for 126 yards). Tight end Harold Fannin Jr. didn't help him, either, his third-down drop of a perfectly placed Watson throw forcing the Browns to settle for a field goal on their second drive of a game they'd eventually lose 34-10.

But otherwise?

Watson's largely uninspiring performance could be sufficient on its own to confer the QB1 job to NFL sophomore Shedeur Sanders ... and maybe it even serves as the one-way trip out of Cleveland many Browns fans would love for Watson to take. Starting the game with the support of several established first-stringers, Watson wound up overseeing six drives – which produced the aforementioned field goal, a touchdown run by rookie KC Concepcion, three punts and a turnover ... by Watson.

A Pro Bowler in three of his four seasons with the Houston Texans to start his career, Watson appeared as removed as ever from the player he once was. Failing to feel the pass rush, he suffered a strip sack in the second quarter. The mobility he used to feature to such great effect seemed diminished by the multiple Achilles surgeries he's had since the tendon first ruptured to end his 2024 campaign. And though his passing stat line looked, well, passable, Watson didn't push the ball downfield – none of his completions covering 10 air yards, receivers doing the bulk of the work with yards gained after the catch after gathering in his dump-offs.

"It was the Deshaun Watson experience – we've seen some good, we've

Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson looks to pass against the Bears on Aug. 15 at Soldier Field in Chicago. PATRICK GORSKI/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

seen some bad. ... (A)s the game went on, we started to see him get a little shaky in the pocket, got a little nervous in the pocket," said NFL Network analyst and former All-Pro defensive lineman Gerald McCoy, who also suggested Watson looked apprehensive physically.

"I don't know if it was what (Browns coach) Todd Monken was looking for."

Shedeur Sanders' preseason performance

Sanders, while playing with backups in the second half, didn't exactly distinguish himself, either.

Still, Watson's lackluster showing should give Sanders, who'll start Cleveland's next preseason game against the Buffalo Bills, all the leeway he needs to win the starting position for a young team clearly in the midst of a rebuild following the hiring of Monken and subsequent stunning trade of 2025 Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the

Los Angeles Rams two months ago.

"Deshaun Watson – he's had every opportunity to be the starter, the long-term solution. Shedeur Sanders, this is his second year," McCoy said. "If you look at what they did, they gave up a generational talent in Myles Garrett because they want to go younger. Shedeur Sanders is young. (If Sanders play well), then this is who I believe they should go with, because Deshaun Watson has had ample opportunity. He can't help that he's been injured, but the Deshaun Watson that they expected to get – which is how he played in Houston – they have not (gotten) that.

"If it's close, if Shedeur Sanders is (close), I say you go with Shedeur."

I'd take it a step further and suggest it might be time to part ways with Watson. The battered soon-to-be 31-year-old is not going to get any more meaningful snaps this preseason, barring an injury to Sanders. He's not going to be on this roster next year, even though Watson

and Browns owner Jimmy Haslam briefly entertained the possibility earlier this summer that a guy who's still radioactive to a significant degree following the accusations he faced from dozens of massage therapists might actually re-sign in 2027. (What else is either going to say to such inane questions?)

The situation feels similar to the one faced by the post-Tom Brady 2021 New England Patriots, who cut former league MVP Cam Newton just prior to that season after rookie first-rounder Mac Jones was selected as the starter coming out of training camp.

The 2026 Browns aren't going to win the Super Bowl, either, but it's hard to fathom a reason they shouldn't take an extended look at Sanders – to determine whether he is the long-term answer in Cleveland or if a team armed with two first-round picks next year (thanks to the Garrett trade) needs to focus that draft capital on its latest attempt to obtain a franchise passer.

Keeping Watson doesn't further the cause from that perspective, and why even retain his services as a potential midseason alternative when second-year man Dillon Gabriel is also on the roster? Sure, everything I've read, heard and been told is that Watson has been a steady presence in the quarterback room, even while he rehabbed, over the past year. But the only logical reason – and probably the overriding one – to keep him around in 2026 is the accounting flexibility to write off the approximately $86 million in dead money the team will likely split between its 2027 and '28 salary caps ... likely the final insult to bear of the fully guaranteed, five-year, $230 million extension Haslam was crucified for giving Watson.

"I just think as a front office, you have a responsibility to look toward the future – win now, but you also have to look toward the future," NFL Network analyst and Super Bowl-winning fullback Michael Robinson said.

"We haven't seen that MVP mold from Deshaun Watson in, what, three or four years? So if they're looking toward the future, I think Shedeur should get the roadway to get an opportunity to be the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns."

And given the way Watson drove in Chicago? All the more reason to give Sanders the wheel for good in 2026.

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Mendoza's Raiders debut proves Cousins' value

Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz

USA TODAY

The Silver and Black have a golden rule.

In developing a plan to bring along their future franchise quarterback in Fernando Mendoza, the Las Vegas Raiders have emphasized patience. The No. 1 overall pick isn't being hurried into the starting lineup, with veteran Kirk Cousins claiming the first-string reps in training camp. That setup has promoted an atmosphere of tolerance from first-year coach Klint Kubiak, who has permitted his young players to sort out issues in real time during practices.

But one message from the coaching staff has been clear throughout the summer: All mistakes should be learned from, and none should become habitual problems.

By that measure, Mendoza's preseason debut was a success.

His first work in a game setting in Aug. 13's tilt against the Arizona Cardinals wasn't without its share of slipups or setbacks. The Heisman Trophy winner's first throw was a backfoot heave out of bounds with coverage clamped down on his receivers, and his first drive stalled out after just six plays and 11 net yards.

Yet Mendoza carried over the theme of resiliency that has colored his early acclimation to the NFL.

On a night in which Kubiak followed through on his pledge to give the top pick extensive work, the quarterback finished 10 of 16 passing for 97 yards and one touchdown.

More important, he showed awareness of the pass rush, even if his response wasn't always perfect. After coming from an Indiana offense that afforded him easy solutions on his first read, he worked through his progressions, albeit to mixed results. And he fired tight-window throws - including on his first TD pass, a 6-yard strike to Jack Bech on third-and-goal - without veering into recklessness.

Above all, though, he avoided repeating errors. And he largely found a way to push through when circumstances were far from ideal.

That doesn't mean that his performance was without issue. There will certainly be errors in judgment or execution to review to ensure they don't re-

cur. In all, only one of his four series in the 27-14 loss produced a score.

Mendoza even took a rather drastic tone in his postgame self-evaluation. "Unfortunately, I let my teammates down today," he said. "But it's a growing experience ... and it showed me I need to grow a lot."

Hopefully some of those same teammates will tell Mendoza that the preseason is never that deep, and there was more to celebrate than regret.

Just as long as those same mistakes don't resurface soon.

Here are more key takeaways from Mendoza's first game action:

Calibrating his internal clock still a work in progress

In his postgame remarks, Mendoza cited timing and anticipation as two areas needing improvement after his outing. He wasn't off the mark there.

On the first series, Mendoza acknowledged that things felt "sped up" due to the emotional charge of the moment. He seemed to settle in on the second drive, but jitters in the pocket still seemed to show up at times. "Listen to your feet" is an adage peddled by the offensive coaching staff. Based on his work from the pocket, Mendoza might have been getting white noise from his.

At times, Mendoza easily reverted to checkdowns in response to pressure or tight coverage. But a tendency to hold onto the ball also bubbled to the surface. After a fourth-down conversion put Las Vegas inside the Cardinals' 5 yard-line on the second drive, Mendoza couldn't

find an open target and was swallowed up for an 8-yard sack by defensive tackle Walter Nolen. He responded, however, by finding Bech in the end zone two plays later.

"There'll be some good lessons that we look forward to attacking on the tape with him," Kubiak said in a postgame news conference.

Climbing out of deep holes could be challenging

Between its league-high 64 sacks surrendered and an inert running game, last year's Raiders offense frequently submerged itself into depths from which it could not escape.

Kubiak's attack is largely built around avoiding such scenarios. The ask of Mendoza will not entail having him bail out the rest of the unit on third down. Thursday's performance, however, reinforced the rookie's need to stay on schedule.

Mendoza's only grimace-inducing moment of the night came on a 2nd-and-18 play on his second drive. In trying to check down to fellow rookie Mike Washington Jr., he led the running back into a massive hit from cornerback Denzel Burke, who was waiting in the flat. The Raiders then played it safe on third-and-long, waving the white flag with a draw.

Mendoza excelled at Indiana in obvious passing situations, with his back-shoulder connections becoming his signature throw.

At least for now, though, the quarterback is still trying to find his place with-

in the offense before he can truly lift it up.

No major hiccups with the basics

For whatever ups and downs Mendoza experienced, he managed to steer clear of any major gaffes.

The offense seemed to get set up without too much trouble, with no delay of game penalties on the night. Aside from one false start, the pre-snap process looked relatively seamless.

"As far as getting in and out of the huddle and commanding the group and getting the play calls down, I saw the same guy that we've seen in practice," Kubiak said. "I saw an ascending player. We just gotta keep getting better."

The under-center work figured to be a point of emphasis, given Mendoza's lack of experience in that area and his new scheme's reliance on play-action looks. Though he also had a heavy dose of shotgun snaps, Mendoza managed to get clean exchanges when under center.

His best throw of the evening even came on the kind of decisive dropback the team is eager to see more of. He kicked off his second drive by firing a tight-window throw over the middle off play-action to sixth-round rookie receiver Malik Benson - with whom he's formed a promising connection in camp - for 19 yards.

Cousins serves reminder of his value

With his one-day practice absence last week after getting into a training camp skirmish with Maxx Crosby, the 15-year veteran quarterback temporarily ceded first-team reps to Mendoza. On Thursday night, he made sure not to leave the door ajar.

The offense was supremely clean in Cousins' lone drive, with a 13-yard touchdown to tight end Michael Mayer capping the 10-play, 68-yard march.

There was nothing dazzling about the effort, but the heightened level of efficiency - particularly in all operational elements - drove home the value of leaving the offense in the hands of a capable caretaker until Mendoza is fully ready.

"Kirk's been getting the reps with the 1's," Kubiak said. "I think he's had a solid training camp, and it's his job to lose."

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NFL PRESEASON WEEK 1

Veterans, rookies make statements good, bad

Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz

USA TODAY

A facsimile of football has returned.

Week 1 of the NFL preseason is in the books, with all 32 franchises having made the transition from training camp to the exhibition slate. How much those exhibition matchups actually matter is a point of debate, with several teams keeping their starters out en masse and placing a higher emphasis on joint practices, as well as their own workouts.

Yet from unsettled position battles to rookies finding their way and end-of-roster hopefuls scrapping for spots, the initial tilts still can shape the coming weeks and months, even if at a reduced scale. With that in mind, here are the biggest winners and losers from Week 1 of the NFL preseason:

Winners

Bills WR DJ Moore

Preseason action wasn't necessary to confirm that a major role for Moore, who's cracked 1,000 yards four times in his career and for whom the Bills gave up a second-round pick to acquire. Still, his connection with Josh Allen looks to be in stellar shape. Moore broke free for a 32-yard catch-and-run on the opening drive against the Panthers for the clear highlight of his three-catch, 61-yard day.

This is sure to remain a group effort to support Allen, with targets spread out among Moore, fellow receiver Khalil Shakir, tight end Dalton Kincaid and running back James Cook, among others. But Moore has an extensive track record of propping up receiving corps in need of help. He looks in line to continue that trend in Buffalo.

Rams QB Ty Simpson

One key caveat here: The Rams invest less into preseason results than almost any other team, so any flourishes in these games might fade even faster than they would elsewhere. That said, the initial glimpses of their first-round quarterback were highly encouraging.

In nearly three full quarters against the Chiefs, Simpson completed 21 of 25 passes for 190 yards, with both of his scores going to undrafted free agent

New York Jets wide receiver Omar Cooper Jr. gains yards after a catch against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Aug. 14 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. VINCENT CARCHIETTA/IMAGN IMAGES VIA REUTERS CONNECT

rookie running back Dean Connors. The game plan looked to be narrowed a good bit for the former Alabama passer, who largely worked short throws to the sidelines until late in the game. Still, Simpson was precise and efficient while avoiding major mistakes. After operating alongside and against backups and roster long shots, it would be a leap to consider the one-year college starter fully ready to step in for Los Angeles soon. But for Simpson and the Rams, there's at least something to build on.

Ravens WR Ja'Kobi Lane

No rookie has generated hyperbole this summer quite like Lane, whom Ravens offensive coordinator Declan Doyle compared to former Saints great Michael Thomas. In his preseason debut, the highlights kept coming.

Lane hauled in three catches for 38 yards against the Eagles, with his night punctuated by a 16-yard catch over the middle that he took in for a score. The 6-foot-4, 208-pound wide-out also served up another reminder of his catch radius when he contorted and reached behind him for his first reception, an 18-yard gain. With everything

he can offer Lamar Jackson as a target capable of coming down with even the most difficult of throws to his area, Lane looks like a more convincing Week 1 contributor with every big play.

49ers WR De'Zhaun Stribling

Running with whatever is thrown his way has never been a problem for Stribling, the second-round receiver out of Ole Miss who made a habit of hauling in passes and racing downfield. And with the 49ers perhaps needing him to play a larger role than initially expected this season, he is again stepping up.

Extending strong work from camp, Stribling racked up seven catches for 63 yards while running with the starters. Coach Kyle Shanahan praised both his sure hands and his physicality. With Mike Evans and Deebo Samuel Sr. undoubtedly needing assistance to keep the aerial attack running after Ricky Pearsall was lost for the season, expect Stribling to play an important role.

Steelers' rookie class

Drew Allar is the clear headliner here for Pittsburgh after his 10 of 13 perfor-

mance against the Packers that included three TDs (two passing, one rushing). To be sure, the outing was a promising development for the third-round QB, with whom coach Mike McCarthy went back to basics this offseason after the Penn State product's star-crossed collegiate career. But with no real movement yet in the backup QB picture, let's zoom out to appreciate an impressive wider set of rookie performances.

Receiver Germie Bernard's showing is likely the most consequential to a team trying to retain its playoff contender credentials under McCarthy and Aaron Rodgers. The former Alabama standout showcased all of his selling points - consistent separation, trustworthy hands and abundant run-after catch ability - that helped make him a second-round pick. Speed demon Kaden Wetjen also took a slant from Allar for a 74-yard score, evading one defender before outracing all the others to the end zone. Seventh-round running back and all-purpose threat Eli Heidenreich got an extended look, logging nine carries for 21 yards. And fifth-round full-back Riley Nowakowski got in on the action with a 4-yard TD delivered by Allar.

Raiders WR Jack Bech

With the focus on Fernando Mendoza and Kirk Cousins' debuts for the Silver and Black, Bech's beginning to his second year wasn't a primary storyline for Las Vegas. Yet the receiver ended up being a rather captivating subplot in the contest against the Cardinals.

Working with both quarterbacks, Bech proved to be a sure-handed option, securing a team-high three catches for 25 yards and a touchdown strike delivered by Mendoza. His most significant value, however, might rest in what he can offer as the kind of blocker that new coach Klint Kubiak's scheme demands. Bech opened up opportunities for others, with his best work coming when he helped clear the way for rookie running back Mike Washington Jr.'s 53-yard scamper. Though sixth-round rookie wideout Malik Benson has impressed during camp thanks to his connection with Mendoza, Bech seems to be in a solid spot to work alongside Tre Tucker and Jalen Nailor in three-receiver sets.

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Jets QB Cade Klubnik

It was a fairly unremarkable night in debuts for Gang Green, with the Buccaneers giving No. 2 overall pick David Bailey plenty of attention to keep the Jets edge rusher at bay. Klubnik was the clear exception. The fifth-round quarterback looked sharp and composed in his run with the first-stringers, twice connecting with top receiver Garrett Wilson and directing two scoring drives. He finished 5 of 7 for 56 yards.

Coach Aaron Glenn said there were still things for the Clemson product to work on, but he lauded the rookie's moxie and called the performance "really a thumbs-up." The job of backing up starter Geno Smith should belong to Klubnik at this point, and – barring a surprising return to relevance – it would make sense for the team to get a closer look at him late in the year.

Dolphins WR Caleb Douglas

You might be hard-pressed to find a position group anywhere in the NFL less settled than the Dolphins' muddled receiving corps. New general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan's teardown has left marquee free agent signing Malik Willis with a rather ragtag crew of pass catchers. Douglas, however, looks capable of emerging as the group's top target.

Against the Commanders, the third-round rookie from Texas Tech hauled in a laser from Willis, tipping the pass to himself with one hand before coming down with the 28-yard catch on his back. That light production – he was unable to get both feet inbounds on his only other target – might not seem particularly noteworthy. But his extensive run alongside Malik Washington showed that the 6-foot-4, 205-pound wideout has as good a chance as anyone to leave his imprint on the passing game. His upside as a downfield weapon should endear him to Willis, who could find himself with a severe shortage of support on his new team.

Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr.

Seeing a player with Beckham's career accomplishments playing in the second half of a preseason game usually would warrant a double-take. Nevertheless, that's where the three-time Pro Bowl pass catcher stands as he tries to work his way back with the Giants.

In his first game action in more than a year, Beckham earned an ovation from

the crowd upon his insertion into the lineup in the second quarter against the Vikings. He continued to give fans reason to cheer from there. Though he only logged two catches for 6 yards, Beckham consistently created separation, including downfield on a play where backup quarterback Brandon Allen looked elsewhere and threw an interception. He also made his presence known as a blocker. Opportunities might be minimal on what is tracking to be a run-heavy offense, but Beckham furthered his case to stick around.

Losers

Lions WR Isaac TeSlaa

Despite trading up in the third round last year to land TeSlaa, the Lions extended a good deal of grace to the former high school quarterback as the Arkansas product found his footing. But if the hyper-athletic 6-foot-4, 214-pound wideout is to become more than a weapon on contested catches and in the red zone – six of his 16 receptions last year went for TDs – then he'll need to prove more reliable than he did in the preseason opener.

TeSlaa didn't catch any of his three targets against the Bengals, with the first rifling between his hands and bouncing off his helmet before falling into the grasp of safety Jordan Battle for an interception. Lions coach Dan Campbell largely shrugged off the issues, saying TeSlaa would be "just fine."

Nevertheless, it's difficult to envision a substantial volume of touches for him in an offense that won't often stray from feeding running back Jahmyr Gibbs, wide receivers Amon-Ra. St Brown and Jameson Williams and tight end Sam LaPorta.

Jets WR Omar Cooper Jr.

When a team trades into the first round for a receiver, it typically seems like a foregone conclusion that the pick will factor heavily into immediate plans for the offense. That might not be the case for Cooper, who seems to have fallen out of favor in New York.

By all appearances, Isaiah Williams has overtaken Cooper as the lead option in the slot. The 2024 undrafted free agent worked ahead of the No. 30 overall pick against the Bucs, and Cooper – who did manage to rip off a 26-yard gain on one catch – remained in the game through the Jets' sixth offensive drive. Glenn believes in giving young players

extensive work, but that setup still suggests that the Indiana product might be a good deal further away from contributing to an underdeveloped receiver room than anyone likely would have predicted three months ago.

Steelers RB Kaleb Johnson

Plenty of running backs from the 2025 draft class encountered tough sledding in their initial pro work. None, however, seemed to have a rockier acclimation than Johnson, the third-round pick out of Iowa whose special teams blunder in Week 2 torpedoed his rookie campaign. And while McCarthy declared this spring that all returning players would have a clean slate, the second-year ballcarrier's future with the franchise looks cloudy at best.

Johnson logged just two carries for 3 yards, and it didn't seem as though his minimal usage was a reflection of the coaching staff protecting him. He had to wait until the second half to enter the game, as other backs got more meaningful and extensive looks. With Jaylen Warren and Rico Dowdle figuring to handle the majority of touches in the backfield, Johnson finds himself in a precarious position as a backup without significant value as either a receiver or blocker on third downs.

Falcons QB Tua Tagovailoa

Since being hired in January, Falcons coach Kevin Stefanski has repeatedly tried to turn the temperature down on his team's quarterback competition. It stands to reason, then, that one quarter of preseason action wouldn't alter the battle much – especially with only one passer participating. Even with Michael Penix Jr. remaining sidelined in his recovery from a torn anterior cruciate ligament, Tagovailoa has done little to set himself apart in the race.

In two series against the Broncos, the veteran signal-caller threw for just 22 yards on 3 of 5 passing. The offense was inert under his direction, recording just one first down in two series. He also dropped a snap out of the shotgun and couldn't get anything going downfield. Even with some leeway granted given the absence of Bijan Robinson, the first impression wasn't a very auspicious one. Tagovailoa might win the job by default if Penix isn't soon cleared to participate in full practice work. Still, as has long been the case in Atlanta, more is needed from behind center.

Raiders defense

Between Maxx Crosby being held out and coordinator Rob Leonard likely watering down his scheme significantly, it seems safe to say Las Vegas' defense didn't resemble its expected Week 1 form. Kubiak and Leonard better hope that's the case, though.

The Cardinals engineered three long TD drives in the first half and two more field goals in the third quarter. It wasn't until the second half that an Arizona pass fell incomplete. Things can change quickly for this unit, particularly with Crosby back in the fold. The unit still might leave Las Vegas liable to getting into shootouts, creating a dynamic that's not exactly conducive to Mendoza's insertion in the starting lineup.

Vikings LB/S Jamal Adams

Rough blow for the former three-time Pro Bowl selection, who went down with a non-contact knee injury while in coverage against the Giants and was carted off. Adams had been trying to reboot his career as a hybrid defender in Brian Flores' defense, even switching numbers to reflect the dual role. Now, however, it looks as though the 30-year-old – whose litany of ailments from 2022 to 2024 limited him to just 15 games during that span – won't make any contributions for some time, with Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell saying after the game that the undisclosed injury "didn't look good."

"You're just crushed for him," O'Connell said during an in-game interview. "The role he was kind of paving for himself and just having a personality, experience, toughness that he brought in such a short amount of time – we're going to miss him."

Patriots K Andy Borregales

None of Borregales' three missed field-goal attempts were gimmes, with the whiffs coming from 49, 55 and 56 yards. Still, a 2-of-5 bottom line won't cut it for a second-year kicker who made just 84.4% of his field-goal attempts as a rookie. Patriots coach Mike Vrabel drove home that point in his postgame news conference.

"We're expected to make them," Vrabel said. "That's pro football. They're banging them in from 60 yards. They got two kickers on the roster, so Andy knows that we have to make those field goals."

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True freshmen set to make instant impact

Austin Curtright

USA TODAY

College football rosters have taken a hit in the depth department during the transfer portal era, allowing true freshmen to earn playing time earlier at even some of the biggest programs.

A pair of five-star true freshman quarterbacks are competing for starting jobs at Vanderbilt and Tennessee, headlining our list of potential early impact players in 2026. Heralded Miami offensive tackle Jackson Cantwell leads the list, after becoming the first offensive lineman to win Gatorade National Football Player of the Year in high school.

While five-star prospects take up most of the list, a few high-end four-star recruits are already impressing in fall camp and could push for big roles, like at Alabama and Southern Cal.

Here's a look at 10 potential early impact true freshmen heading into the 2026 season:

Jackson Cantwell, Miami

Cantwell is one of the most-gifted offensive tackle recruits in years. He's expected to start for the Hurricanes, a national championship contender.

Cantwell is 6-foot-8 and 330 pounds, which makes sense given his parents' athletic backgrounds. His dad, Christian Cantwell, won the silver medal in shot put at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. His mom, Teri Cantwell, competed in shot put at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and was a multi-time NCAA champion at SMU.

Cantwell was the No. 2-ranked prospect and No. 1 offensive tackle nationally, per 247Sports' Composite rankings of the 2026 class. His peak power output was already registered at 9,461 watts in 2026 – the highest of any player on the Hurricanes roster – even more than imposing first-round pick Francis Mauigoa from Miami's 2025 roster, per The Athletic.

Faizon Brandon, Tennessee

Brandon is still competing with redshirt freshman George MacIntyre for Tennessee's starting quarterback job, although it'll be hard to keep the talented true freshman off the field in some capacity.

It will be hard to keep dual-threat

Tennessee QB Faizon Brandon

(6-foot-4, 225 pounds) off the field.

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Brandon is listed at 6-foot-4, 225 pounds and was the No. 10-ranked prospect and No. 3 quarterback recruit in 2026, per 247Sports' Composite. He finished high school with a 35-1 record, including back-to-back state titles at Grimsley High School in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Brandon has tremendous upside among freshman signal-callers.

Jared Curtis, Vanderbilt

Another former five-star recruit quarterback, Curtis is the highest-rated prospect in Vanderbilt history.

Curtis is competing with veteran Blaze Berlowitz for the starting gig, although Curtis has been tabbed as the favorite for months. Curtis was the No. 4-ranked prospect and No. 2 quarterback in 2026, per 247Sports' Composite.

The Commodores appear to be putting a lot of expectations on the Nashville native. We'll see if the talented passer is ready for the SEC.

Cederian Morgan, Alabama

Morgan has a path to starting for Alabama in what should be one of the better receiver corps in college football.

Morgan, who's competing for the Crimson Tide's No. 3 receiver spot behind Ryan Coleman-Williams and NC State transfer Noah Rogers, has been impressing Alabama in spring practices and fall camp.

Morgan caught a 22-yard touchdown from potential starting quarterback

Keelon Russell in Alabama's spring game and has a ready-to-play 6-foot-4, 222-pound frame. Morgan's size could play nicely next to Coleman-Williams and Lotzeir Brooks, who also both played meaningful roles as true freshmen.

"He can catch the ball better than anybody I have ever seen," Brooks told reporters recently. "He is definitely going to play."

The Alexander City, Alabama, native was the No. 44-ranked prospect and No. 5 overall receiver in 2026, per 247Sports' Composite.

Chris Henry Jr., Ohio State

Henry Jr. could be the latest star-studded receiver to come through Ohio State, which has become a pipeline for first-round NFL draft receivers.

The son of late NFL receiver Chris Henry Sr., Henry Jr. could earn a path to playing time behind projected starters Jeremiah Smith and Brandon Inniss. He boasts big size – 6-foot-5, 211 pounds – and skill, tabbed as the No. 14 overall prospect and No. 2 receiver of the 2026 class.

Henry also showed off some of his explosiveness in a recent social media video of his plyometric workout. He's Big Ten ready.

Mark Bowman, Southern Cal

USC lost its leading receivers at tight end from last season in Lake McRee and Walker Lyons, opening the door for Bowman, a blue-chip true freshman.

Bowman appears poised for the starting job in a friendly offense led by offensive wunderkind Lincoln Riley and returning quarterback Jayden Maiava, one of the best passers in college football from 2025. Bowman has the pedigree, ranking No. 30 overall and No. 2 among all tight ends in the 2026 class, per 247Sports' Composite.

Savion Hiter, Michigan

Hiter, a five-star recruit, is looking to be a change-of-pace option behind returning starter Jordan Marshall, a breakout running back last season.

Hiter is one of the most well-rounded running backs of the 2026 class, tabbed as the No. 12 player and No. 1 running

back, per 247Sports' Composite rankings. The Mineral, Virginia, native is listed at 6 feet and 210 pounds, averaging nearly 14 yards per carry as a high school senior.

It'd be a surprise if Hiter didn't carve out a role at Michigan under first-year coach Kyle Whittingham.

Deuce Gerald, LSU

Geralds is already favored to earn a starting role on LSU's defensive line as a true freshman in Lane Kiffin's first season as coach.

The four-star recruit ranked as the No. 4 defensive lineman of the 2026 class is impressing for a Tigers defense led by returning defensive coordinator Blake Baker.

The Collins Hill, Georgia, native opted to stay committed at LSU despite coach Brian Kelly being fired midseason, and it's looking like the move is working out for the true freshman.

Kaiden Prothro, Georgia

Prothro was the No. 39-ranked recruit and No. 4 tight end of the 2026 recruiting class, although the 6-foot-6 true freshman has already lined up at receiver for Georgia in the spring game.

Prothro has an elite catch radius and could line up out wide more often earlier in his career while his 230-pound frame develops. He caught 24 touchdowns as a senior and holds the Georgia state record with 61 career touchdown receptions.

There isn't an obvious spot for Prothro in 2026, but Georgia potentially lacks a go-to receiving option and he could be a threat in red-zone situations.

John Meredith III, Texas

Meredith reclassified from the 2027 class to 2026 during the summer. He is competing for a rotational spot in Texas' defense.

Meredith was the No. 2-ranked prospect of the 2027 class before reclassifying and turning into the No. 20-ranked prospect and No. 2 cornerback of the 2026 class. He missed all of spring practices.

The Fort Worth native is listed at 6-foot-2,185 pounds, and his pure talent could be enough to get him on the field.

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Senator explains how sports form a life

Stephen Borelli

USA TODAY

Sports make us "wistful," even if we're U.S. senators.

It was the word Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, used when talking about his own career.

"How many New Jersey high school football players of the year do you talk to?" Booker told USA TODAY Sports in an interview late last month, with tongue in cheek. "The older I get, the better I was."

The memory isn't as much a riff from his home state's own Bruce Springsteen in "Glory Days" as it's a ballad to where those days took him.

Booker, who has held his seat since 2013, was once recruited to play football by Jack Elway (John's father) at Stanford. He later played at the school for coaches Dennis Green and Brian Billick, who went on to become highly successful in the NFL.

Somewhere from the time his parents dropped him off at a soccer field as a kid, and when he and an eclectic group of teammates pulled off one of college football's signature upsets (more on that later), Booker began to realize reaching the pros wasn't sports' purpose for him.

We don't have to attract college interest to understand their meaning.

"Sports and the arts aren't extras," says Booker, 57. "They're vital for our children's success. And I think we as a country, in the last generation or two, have really shortchanged our children from having not only a fullness in life, but experiences that actually can supercharge their success in other endeavors beyond sports and the arts."

Booker is a co-sponsor of the Let Kids Play Act, which was introduced in May and seeks to end what it terms "vulture practices" by private equity firms involved in youth sports. Congress members accuse them of putting profit – and charging high sums to stay and play at tournaments – before the needs and concerns of children and pricing some families completely out of sports.

"I think one of the biggest things that shocked me when I got to Newark (as a city councilperson) was how my kids didn't get the great fields and facilities that other towns less than 10 miles away had," says Booker, the mayor of the city

Cory Booker, left, shown in 1987 as a player for Old Tappan High School in New Jersey, and teammate Ken Oh sorted through plenty of college brochures before Booker decided on Stanford and Oh on Rhode Island.

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before he became a senator. "It seemed profoundly unfair to me that the access and opportunity I had, that changed my life outcome, wasn't universally available to all young people."

Booker spoke with us about his sports story and how his involvement in legislation might help us better navigate the ones our kids are creating.

'I saw miracles': Your accolades are temporary; your experiences last a lifetime

Booker, who grew up in northern New Jersey, has described football as a "jet-pack" that lifted him to opportunities that were beyond his dreams.

He was a "rambunctious kid" who his parents threw into sports – baseball, basketball, soccer – as an outlet. He didn't pick up football until high school.

Success came at him like a torrent. After his sophomore year, Street & Smith magazine named him as a preseason All-American.

"Suddenly, my house just started getting deluged with letters from colleges," he says. "And my parents, who would ground me if I brought home a C or threatened to take me out of sports if my grades dipped at all, (started) seeing sports (as) a great opportunity for me."

As a junior in 1985, his high school, Northern Valley Regional at Old Tappan, won a state championship after limited success, Booker says, over the previous two decades. By his senior season, Booker was receiving calls from former President Gerald Ford and civil rights leader Andrew Young during his recruiting process.

Booker was named to USA TODAY's 1986 All-USA high school football team

as a defensive back.

Sports success, and its spoils, can be intoxicating. From the moments we first find it, we gain confidence and feel pretty good about ourselves. But we can quickly learn that, from an individual perspective, success can be fleeting, and that handling sports without it can help mold us.

Jack Elway was gone during Booker's sophomore year after a 3-6-2 season, and in came Green and Billick.

"They came in and turned our program around," he says, "and just in terms of organizational leadership, witnessing this extraordinary coaching staff did so much for me. I learned a lot of great lessons about how do you build team and how do you build pride and a sense of accomplishment and I saw miracles."

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The power of team is real, and sometimes it makes you better than you are

Booker has learned how we draw strength and community from our interactions with and faith in others. Think about how those words apply to sports. While Booker got into 22 games in his career at Stanford, catching one touchdown as a tight end, what stays with him was how he learned to believe in teammates who weren't like him.

Stanford was 1-3 when it traveled to South Bend, Indiana, to face No. 1 Notre Dame on Oct. 6, 1990. Have you noticed around youth sports that there often seems to be that parent who tells you, "We can't win"? The Cardinal had every right to feel that way.

Booker even remembers his coaching staff telling him and his teammates that Notre Dame has better athletes than them.

"But come Saturday," the message was relayed, "we're going to be the better team."

Booker keeps a copy of Sports Illustrated in his office that called the 36-31 win the biggest upset of the year next to Buster Douglas toppling Mike Tyson. Stanford would lose its next three games and finish 5-6, but one game was enough to create a lifetime memory.

It's how sports can work for us, especially as kids. A game, or even just a singular experience within it, can exhilarate us.

"Those kind of experiences get seared into your DNA and you begin to understand things beyond the gridiron and how life works and to take this group, this incredibly diverse group of people – diverse racially, diverse religiously, diverse socioeconomically – and to turn us into a fine-tuned machine that could go in and pull off miracles – do impossible things beyond even our own imagination – is something that became the foundation for my future challenges," Booker says. "Like taking on a city like Newark, where so many people had turned their back on it, disregarding it, disrespecting it, or just plain dissing it, and me just telling people, 'We are going to do things that other people think are impossible in this city, and we're going to turn around generational trends.'"

"And I really felt in many ways of going back to the start of pulling a team together, being the coach and getting us to

Sen. Cory Booker hopes to be a sports dad. For now, he's pushing against private equity in youth sports. ERIC LEE/REUTERS

get other people to believe that we could do great things."

'My kids feel like we don't care about them': How do we get the most out of youth sports in today's world?

Booker admits it's much harder today for kids and parents to navigate today's system.

What can we do as a parent?

Booker isn't one himself (yet) but he has seen the psychological impact on Newark's kids who traveled to state-of-the-art facilities and wondered why they didn't have them for themselves.

"My kids feel like we don't care about them," parents would tell him.

We want to give our kids the world, so if they love sports, we might drive them anywhere, even if it means reducing our household budgets in other areas.

"Some trend happened in the last decade that is stunning to me," Booker

says. "We're seeing sports, which, for me was just my parents buying me a pair of cleats and sending me out to the soccer field, is now, for many parents, something that puts them into really serious financial stress. There is a woman in Montclair (New Jersey) who sticks out (who) had to take out side jobs just to get her 11-year-old son in sports.

"These are stories I hear hundreds of times over about how difficult it is to put their child in a position to have what was for me ... the only thing I had to do was show up and compete. But now families are really stuck with high barriers just to get their kid to be able to compete for the opportunities that came without putting my family in debt."

Booker made it a mission to transform Newark fields and courts and facilities with state-of-the-art turf and lights, cobbling together funds, he says, from every imaginable source – federal grants, state grants, city bonding money, "and a whole lot of philanthropy."

There is power in consensus, even at a much less grand scale. Our job as parents, whether we're talking about sports or education or anything else that affects our children, is to push back if something doesn't seem right, whether it be a "bad" coach or unsatisfactory team situation.

"Your pain and frustration of trying to come up with an extra $1,000 to $5,000 a year for your kid, you're not alone," Booker says. "And your voice right now is really needed because this is not a right or left issue. This is a, 'What's going to define American life?' Wide access to sports, or creating an exclusivity, that, unfortunately, works to the detriment of all of us. So, my real hope is that parents begin to speak up and speak out more about these trends that are really working against them and their families. ...

"All change, whether it's voting rights

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Former award-winning NFL sideline reporter wins Senate primary

Victoria Hernandez

USA TODAY

Michele Tafoya has won the Republican primary for senator in Minnesota, according to multiple sources.

The Emmy Award-winning NFL sideline reporter took the victory after the state voted on Tuesday, Aug. 11. She announced she was running for office in January.

Tafoya told Fox 9 in Minneapolis that her team was "thrilled" after she won the race by capturing 52% of the vote, according to NBC News.

"Minnesota is going in the wrong direction," she said.

Tafoya is aiming to flip an open seat in the state currently held by Democratic Sen. Tina Smith. Smith has announced she will not be seeking

reelection in 2026.

Senate elections are on Nov. 3. Minnesota last elected a Republican to the Senate in 2002 when Norm Coleman was given the position.

Tafoya – who worked for CBS, ABC/ESPN and NBC – retired from sideline reporting in 2022 after covering five Super Bowls and 327 NFL games.

She is best known for her stint as a sideline reporter for NBC's "Sunday Night Football" from 2011 to 2022.

"I'll ask the tough questions and demand honest answers," Tafoya said in her video announcement when she announced she was running in January. "Our campaign is bigger than right versus left: It's about confidence over corruption ... it's time to bring our state together and look to the future with pride."

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or union rights, never comes from Washington; it always comes to Washington for people who stand up and do something. You don't have to do everything, but you can't allow your inability to do everything to undermine your determination to do something on the issues that matter."

What's the latest on the Let Kids Play Act?

The Let Kids Play Act, introduced by Democrats in May, seeks to hold private equity companies accountable for their activity within youth sports and weed out those who engage in any activity that causes "harm or creates long-term risk of harm to an acquired entity in order to extract profit, assets, or other value for the benefit of a covered firm or its affiliates."

"I am a big believer that infusing capital into a situation can save fields, or save facilities," Booker says. "But I really do worry about the norm here, which is the investment of private capital has restricted access, jacked up costs unnecessarily, and really created an unlevel playing field that has squeezed out many working class families. And so the trend in general to me has been a very negative thing. I'm one of these people that is not gonna throw a whole category of investment into the trash heap but

I have seen the ills of private equity in many industries, and this is definitely one where, net net, it's been more bad than good."

Since the bill was introduced, some Congress members at a bipartisan hearing of the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education challenged us to look deeper at what private equity's influence means in specific cases.

"Investment's important but it's when the mission (is) our kids, not investors," Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, said at the hearing. "And we're seeing too much of this. We're gonna lose the soul of our nation if we don't get this right."

Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Virginia, said we are spending about $3 billion to $4 billion under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and suggested Congress could make more effort to use funds for more school sports.

As parents and school administrators, though, we can push harder, too, and contact Congress members on both sides of the aisle and urge them into action for funds for more sports options.

"I've seen movement and momentum growing and I've been around the Senate long enough to know how this goes: The more awareness is raised and the more you're hitting that pain point, the more momentum a bill will have," Booker says.

"And I think this is a bill that will get passed. It may take until January of 2029. If Democrats control the House, the Senate, and the White House, I think bills like this become a lot more possible, but right now you need that bipartisan support to get it through the Senate and I think this is something that can gain that kind of support as well."

Remember: Our sports careers are more about what they bring to us than what we leave behind

I was once talking to my sons, when they were in elementary or middle school, about the meaning of Springsteen's "Glory Days." It's about how we hold onto our past athletic accomplishments, sometimes so long that they become who we are.

Instead, I told them, we can learn to appreciate what we did and how it helped push us forward.

"I literally would not be standing here if it wasn't for my involvement in sports as a young person," Booker said at a news conference last spring to introduce the Let Kids Play Act.

Rep. Owens spoke at the congressional hearing last month about how he started out in Pop Warner football and made it all the way to the NFL for 10 seasons as a defensive back.

However, he says, playing sports as a student was foundational for his personal development, too:

"Sports gave me the confidence to grow from a young man who was a very quiet introvert to a U.S. congressman representing hundreds of thousands of Utahns."

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, Booker's co-sponsor of the bill, opened the news conference for the Let Kids Play Act by saying, "Assembled here is the washed-up former athlete caucus."

It was a joke that no athlete lasts forever. But what we take from sports can.

We can use this moment to think about what sports means for our kids, and what we can do about their situation.

Are they getting equal playing time? Is the extensive travel worth it?

Are we paying too much?

What are the long-term benefits?

"I used to tell people football became my ticket, not my destination," Booker says.

Steve Borelli, aka Coach Steve, has been an editor and writer with USA TODAY since 1999. He played baseball in high school, rowed in college and spent 10 years coaching his two sons' baseball and basketball teams. He and his wife, Colleen, are now sports parents to a college and high school baseball player. His Coach Steve column is posted weekly at usatoday.com/sports

Got a question for Coach Steve you want answered in a column? Email him at sborelli@usatoday.com

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Buss family selling remaining stake in Lakers

Lorenzo Reyes

USA TODAY

The new owners of the Los Angeles Lakers are consolidating their control over the franchise and amplifying their stake in the team.

The Buss family agreed to sell its re-

maining 17.8% stake Aug. 17 to the new majority owners, businessman Joshua Kushner and former Disney CEO Robert Iger.

Jeanie Buss

"We have decided as a family to sell the remaining Buss Family

Trust shares to the Bob Iger group as part of the ongoing transaction," the family said in a statement. "We love the Lakers, Laker fans and will continue to support Los Angeles; but it is time to use this opportunity to move on and exit gracefully."

This comes just days after Kushner and Iger stunned the NBA world by agreeing to a purchase agreement of the Lakers for a record $12.5 billion on Aug. 12. That happened just 10 months after Los Angeles Dodgers co-owner and TWG Global CEO Mark Walter bought the team from the Buss family.

The Busses had retained a minority position after the June 2025 sale. According to ESPN, the six children of Dr. Jerry Buss held a vote to consider the sale. The deal required four votes.

Monday's decision now ends the family's memorable 47-year run with the franchise. Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in May 1979 for $67.5 million, in a deal that included the NHL's Los Angeles Kings and the arena where both franchises played, the Great Western Forum in Inglewood, California.

Under the Buss family's direction, the Lakers ushered in the "Showtime" era and oversaw a stretch of consistent competitiveness. The Lakers won 11 championships during the family's reign as majority owners.

With Monday's decision, Jeanie Buss can no longer serve as governor of the Lakers. NBA rules mandate a person must retain at least a 15% ownership stake in a franchise to act as governor. The sale will need approval from the NBA's board of governors.

A star forever beloved in OKC

Jenni Carlson

The Oklahoman

USA TODAY NETWORK

Russell Westbrook skipped down the blue carpet, slapping hands and smiling wide.

As happy as he looked that August afternoon a decade ago, the thousands of Thunder fans who stood in the sweltering Oklahoma heat were way more ecstatic – Westbrook was staying.

Only a month to the day after Kevin Durant bolted for the Warriors, Westbrook signed a contract extension with the Thunder. Yes, he committed to the team, but he also said yes to Oklahoma City, to Oklahoma, to Thunder Nation.

Basically, everything Durant had turned his back on.

"I love Oklahoma City," Westbrook told the crowd once he reached the makeshift stage just outside the arena doors. "Man, I wanted to tell you guys first, but I can't be much more excited to be back.

"I love you guys."

Not as much as OKC loves him.

That's present-tense love, by the way. Just because Westbrook ultimately requested a trade after playing his first 11 NBA seasons as a Thunder, just because he wore the jersey of six other teams – Rockets, Wizards, Lakers, Clippers, Nuggets and Kings – Oklahoma City never stopped its unlikely love affair with the hard-charging, name-taking, snarl-making guy from the southside of Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, Aug. 12, Westbrook announced he was retiring from the NBA.

Even though it's been seven years since he drew a Thunder paycheck, he leaves the sport a Thunder.

His Basketball Hall of Fame picture will be in an OKC jersey. His retired jersey will be in the rafters in Oklahoma City.

His legacy is forever tied to here.

Those bonds began taking hold, of course, well before he signed that contract extension in 2016.

Westbrook was a rookie in the Thunder's first season, and like the city to which the franchise had moved, he was unconventional and feisty and imperfect.

But like OKC, he would not be denied.

Russell Westbrook averaged 20.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 8.0 assists per game through 1,301 NBA games. BRYAN TERRY/THE OKLAHOMAN

When lots of basketball experts said he wasn't a point guard, he took over as the Thunder's starter. He didn't play the position like most had – dribbling the ball slowly up the court, signaling a play, then passing the ball around wasn't really his style.

If most point guards played the position like symphony conductors, Westbrook played it like a death-metal lead guitarist with his hair on fire.

No fear.

Complete abandon.

And Oklahoma City loved him for it. Oh, sure, there were some "No, Russ, no!" moments.

But Thunder fans knew without a shadow of a doubt that Westbrook was going to play hard for their team every single night.

He had no half speed. No chill. No backdown.

His passion and energy was never more evident than when he said yes to the Thunder after Durant said no. Everyone knew that the Thunder weren't going to be as good without KD. That's not a knock on anyone. That's an honest assessment of how spectacularly talented Durant was.

But losing KD didn't dissuade Russ. He stayed. Stayed in the fight. Stayed in OKC.

His decision not only healed a lot of hurt but also led to so many more wonderful moments. The triple-double chase. The MVP season. The acquisition of Paul George. The re-signing of PG.

Obviously, Oklahoma City lived basketball's ultimate mountaintop experience a year ago when the Thunder won the championship, but so many of the best times came when Westbrook was in blue and orange.

He seems to feel the same way. He has gotten heavily involved with the resurrection of pro soccer in Oklahoma City and the development of the area around the new multipurpose stadium being built downtown, and at the groundbreaking, he spoke of feeling a duty to pour back into the city.

"I never wanted to let the people down here," he said. "I always gave it everything I had."

Oklahoma City didn't always understand his snarls or his prickliness, and we definitely struggled to make heads or tails of his fashion sense.

Remember when we thought those red-rimmed glasses that had no lenses were the wackiest thing we'd ever seen?

But OKC loved Westbrook then, and it loves Westbrook still.

The night he played for the first time in Oklahoma City as a visitor, the Thunder played a tribute video for him before the game against the Rockets. It didn't seem odd or out of place. Neither did the MVP chants that echoed after Westbrook made his customary sprint from the bench to the opposite corner of the arena before tip-off.

As the crowd roared, he raised his index finger in the air. He wore No. 0, but here, Westbrook will always be No. 1.

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AMERICAN LEAGUE STATS

Athletics
BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	BB	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Asseid	.417	.435	60	8	25	7	0	1	4	1	7	0	1	0
Graum
Stefani	.400	.400	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Geof	.276	.332	250	49	69	12	1	14	34	17	67	8	2	7
Willard	.212	.210	136	16	37	12	0	2	10	8	37	0	1	6
Bolte	.267	.339	266	30	71	10	0	6	25	20	82	14	8	6
Wilson	.269	.298	320	37	85	16	1	7	37	12	39	4	0	0
White	.265	.287	98	31	26	2	0	1	2	3	16	0	1	3
Langelers	.263	.332	376	55	99	19	0	22	70	34	96	2	1	3
Corles	.260	.337	246	23	64	15	1	3	35	26	42	2	0	0
McNeil	.259	.314	336	53	87	15	0	5	39	25	44	25	6	2
Kurtz	.256	.396	352	62	90	15	1	21	69	79	141	1	0	0
Soderstrom	.248	.328	396	58	97	27	3	19	56	53	91	2	1	1
Hernals	.242	.321	120	12	29	3	0	1	7	13	24	3	0	3
Moncy	.219	.284	186	24	40	9	2	5	21	15	70	3	1	2
Heon	.214	.274	220	27	47	10	0	3	16	49	9	1	0	0
Butler	.208	.259	331	47	69	13	1	11	36	42	95	9	3	3
Thomas	.196	.261	134	17	23	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rooker	.200	.281	180	20	36	4	0	10	29	19	65	2	0	0
Servett	.194	.219	31	3	6	0	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	0
Walton	.188	.375	43	10	8	2	1	0	4	10	9	1	2	1
Clarke	.170	.228	53	4	9	1	0	0	6	4	24	2	2	0
Ornelas	.167	.231	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	0
Newman	.150	.280	20	1	3	0	0	0	2	3	4	0	0	1
Ibanez	.118	.167	17	1	2	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	0
Wynns	.077	.143	39	3	3	0	0	0	3	3	10	0	0	0
Harris	.000	.333	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0
PITCHERS	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Kriske	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	2
Rom	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Blewett	0	0	3	2	7	0	0	11	13	6	4	0	3	4
Harris	3	3	3	3	0	12	54	48	22	21	6	34	72	0
Ginn	8	3	3	3	25	22	0	127	102	59	24	14	53	0
Medlin	4	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kaverino	2	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kahnel	1	2	4	21	25	0	4	25	27	12	12	2	6	14
Lailor Jr.	0	1	4	28	38	0	4	33	23	16	16	2	7	38
Basso	0	0	4	35	15	1	0	20	26	10	10	2	3	18
Jung	5	7	4	50	15	15	0	25	75	45	28	8	27	85
Alvarado	4	3	4	66	38	0	2	38	29	20	20	8	19	38
Suarez	1	3	4	69	33	1	0	40	39	24	21	6	11	38
Lopez	5	4	5	22	20	17	0	88	89	53	51	15	46	81
Chale	5	7	4	42	16	15	0	74	88	46	46	16	22	58
Hartfield	1	1	6	68	8	0	0	13	17	9	9	1	9	6
Jawiger	0	1	6	50	9	0	0	10	17	7	7	0	4	6
Sherner	2	3	6	12	46	0	1	42	46	31	29	11	13	40
Barnett	1	3	6	16	17	3	2	38	35	27	26	11	20	38
Spring	3	11	6	17	22	22	0	108	116	81	74	29	44	88
Barlow	2	0	6	48	36	0	2	33	28	26	24	7	19	29
Perkins	2	7	27	29	11	3	8	12	92	69	66	16	32	94
Elkins	0	0	8	21	1	0	4	5	4	4	4	1	4	0
Corles	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	8	13	4	4	0	0	0
Morris	0	1	11	70	3	1	0	10	19	13	13	4	6	6
Johnson	0	0	12	27	4	0	0	3	7	5	5	2	3	5
Morales	0	2	13	50	5	2	0	16	27	26	24	7	14	13
Krook	0	0	14	73	5	0	0	3	3	7	6	1	4	5
Kelly	0	0	16	20	1	0	0	5	12	9	9	1	6	6
Ferguson	0	0	27	100	1	0	0	11	4	4	4	2	5	1
Tur	0	0	32	79	3	0	0	4	2	14	17	17	4	0
Blundin	0	0	36	100	1	0	0	1	2	4	4	0	2	0
Baltimore
BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	BB	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Alexander	.312	.368	221	31	69	12	2	4	29	16	54	9	3	6
Mauritzcas-	.288	.333	14	0	4	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	0
the	.286	.313	14	3	4	0	0	1	2	1	3	0	0	0
Alons	.268	.361	463	76	123	23	0	27	60	63	129	5	1	3
Butschman	.251	.333	247	50	42	19	1	4	47	30	40	0	1	1
Encarns	.250	.293	76	7	19	4	0	5	18	4	20	1	0	3
Juni-Dinzel	.246	.383	410	64	101	20	0	7	30	87	103	4	3	1
Holliday	.245	.344	208	30	51	9	1	6	25	33	59	6	3	4
Basallo	.241	.305	282	34	68	1	1	46	26	82	0	0	1	1
Stevens	.239	.295	206	44	49	12	0	2	24	22	41	5	5	0
Jackson	.237	.287	225	53	50	0	0	2	7	8	8	0	0	0
Wilson	.231	.348	39	6	9	1	0	1	3	6	11	2	1	1
Swane	.228	.303	332	49	75	12	4	7	44	26	93	10	3	5
Henderson	.220	.303	496	75	109	21	4	20	51	51	124	9	5	14
O'Neil	.219	.309	275	37	47	8	0	10	23	26	68	1	1	0
Cowan	.217	.317	253	34	55	4	0	11	33	37	89	8	3	3
Mayo	.210	.274	291	42	61	11	1	15	45	23	104	2	0	7
Rogers	.200	.333	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0
Bushquz	.192	.333	11	0	2	1	0	0	2	3	6	0	0	0
Tromp	.125	.125	24	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	0	0
Huff	.117	.117	3	1	4	2	0	0	1	1	19	0	0	0
Franklin	.111	.304	18	1	2	1	0	0	0	4	7	1	0	0
Harvey	.103	.161	29	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	10	0	0	0
Handley	.000	.000	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Gans	.000	.000	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
PITCHERS
W
Kissette
Kissette
Kissette
Kissette
Kissette

Wilson	0	0	15.43	3	0	0	2	1	4	4	2	0	0
Vivoto	0	0	18.00	2	0	0	3	6	6	6	0	3	3
Tront	0	0	18.00	1	0	0	1	3	2	2	1	1	0
Boston	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jones	4	7	9.52	23	3	11	4	0	2	2	1	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
O'Neil	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Ballesteros	140	213	43	1	6	0	0	0	4	10	0	0	-
Candellario	171	200	18	3	2	2	0	0	1	8	0	0	1
PITCHERS	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO
Palmer	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	1	1
Joyce	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	1	0	0	1	6
Watson	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	1
Weiman	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	1	0	0	1
Valeria Jr.	1	1	2	20	23	0	3	27	13	6	6	1	10
Murphy	0	1	2	20	7	0	0	6	4	3	2	1	6
Urena	8	8	2	67	22	20	0	107.2	78	39	32	6	57
Ullseth	3	2	2	72	47	0	0	39.2	34	14	12	3	22
Fermin	4	2	3	35	38	0	1	41.3	32	17	14	5	20
Sunland	9	6	3	29	22	22	0	123	97	49	45	12	67
Zefeyllah	4	3	3	66	45	0	4	51.2	30	23	21	5	32
Deitmers	4	8	3	29	25	26	0	143	108	63	60	17	45
Kerry	0	0	3	95	3	0	0	13.2	11	6	6	1	2
Varso	0	5	3	95	31	0	3	27.5	20	13	12	2	12
Suter	1	2	4	12	41	3	0	63.1	63	35	29	7	17
Bachman	1	2	4	14	41	0	1	45.2	34	22	21	6	27
Farris	1	3	4	18	26	0	1	47.1	49	24	22	9	23
Heineman	0	0	4	50	2	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	0
Pomeranz	0	3	5	101	25	0	0	23.1	25	14	13	5	12
Aldepheri	1	4	6	58	9	6	0	33.2	31	21	19	5	17
Klassen	1	1	5	52	4	4	0	14.2	16	10	9	2	15
Kilactin	0	1	5	87	7	7	0	31	35	20	20	3	14
Peralta	0	0	6	0	2	0	0	3	4	2	2	1	1
Kochnowicz	2	5	6	19	13	13	0	64.6	67	44	37	28	47
Johnson	2	7	6	41	15	12	0	60.1	64	48	43	16	29
Sauredo	0	1	6	75	12	0	0	8	11	6	6	1	2
Rodriguez	3	5	7	77	13	13	0	59.6	50	47	10	28	55
Anderson	2	0	7	85	12	0	0	20.2	19	17	4	10	17
Manush	0	0	7	85	3	0	0	7.2	9	9	8	1	8
Romano	0	2	10	13	0	0	4	8	11	9	9	1	6
Sandler	0	0	7	85	3	0	0	5	9	9	9	1	6
Lucchesi	0	1	13	50	5	0	0	3.1	7	6	5	1	6
Frazier	0	0	18	0	3	0	0	2	7	4	4	1	2

Minnesota

BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Gonzalez	503	250	2	1	1	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0
Jackson	383	250	1	11	20	4	0	0	1	23	0	0	0	0
Jaffern	284	390	211	38	60	12	1	10	40	35	42	1	0	1
Lamach	273	359	326	50	89	19	1	10	42	45	6	2	2	1
Arcia	271	300	48	6	13	1	0	1	2	2	8	0	1	0
Naschall	266	382	387	57	103	18	1	7	36	47	71	14	7	8
Buxton	257	316	343	57	88	17	1	25	45	26	93	7	1	0
Ball	253	375	443	61	152	24	1	16	72	39	102	1	0	1
Culpepper	250	345	24	2	6	1	0	1	2	2	9	0	0	0
Lee	245	350	447	54	108	19	3	18	46	33	79	7	4	8
Lewis	243	317	329	45	80	20	1	13	44	34	95	11	0	10
Martin	241	352	382	41	68	17	0	3	23	45	60	12	7	1
Roden	236	323	55	6	13	3	0	0	10	8	9	0	0	0
Clemens	230	287	400	57	92	20	5	17	27	101	6	2	3	0
Kreidler	228	281	202	26	46	8	3	5	25	14	47	4	3	3
Carollin	227	317	282	26	44	9	0	7	38	31	67	0	0	2
Gray	225	267	173	16	39	5	0	4	29	10	60	2	0	8
Wallner	207	259	120	14	20	3	0	4	10	10	53	0	1	0
Outman	156	229	64	9	10	4	1	0	3	5	29	4	2	1
Indiko	000	305	18	1	0	0	0	1	2	8	0	1	0	0
PITCHERS	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO
Anderson	1	0	0	0	4	1	4	2	0	0	0	1	6
Winter	0	1	1	23	8	0	0	7	5	1	1	1	5
Nance	1	0	1	46	13	0	0	12	11	2	2	0	5
Gomes	2	2	2	20	41	0	16	25	15	0	2	18	37
Acton	1	1	2	20	4	0	0	6	4	5	2	0	3
Funderburk	3	1	2	72	41	0	0	39.2	27	12	2	0	22	18
Raya	0	0	3	0	0	0	4	5	2	2	1	3	4
Kremes	1	0	3	32	3	3	0	1	9	6	6	1	5
Rojas	1	1	3	34	12	4	0	29.2	23	11	11	2	22	14
Morris	0	4	3	29	48	2	1	59.5	55	25	22	3	22	51
Hoffman	4	1	3	60	5	0	0	5	3	2	2	0	5	6
Ryan	6	8	3	65	23	0	0	125.2	156	63	51	17	27	108
Abel	1	2	3	96	4	3	0	20.2	19	6	0	10	23
Bradley	9	5	3	88	24	24	0	125.2	156	60	60	19	59	151
Klein	0	1	4	15	3	0	0	4	3	2	2	1	4	2
Randa	2	0	4	46	39	0	2	34.1	31	19	17	3	15	33
Ober	7	4	4	64	18	18	0	9	97	54	51	17	25	67
Powales	0	0	4	4	7	9	5	34.1	36	19	18	6	13	9
Laweryson	1	0	4	86	15	0	1	16.2	15	12	9	3	8	18
Kent	0	0	4	49	2	0	0	3.2	4	5	2	2	5	2
Rogers	0	0	5	50	51	0	2	45	51	25	25	3	21	39
Matthews	6	8	5	54	16	18	0	91	93	59	54	18	50	77
Priepp	3	6	5	34	17	17	0	87.2	85	60	52	12	36	54
Orze	2	2	5	66	36	6	1	41.1	42	27	26	1	21	36
Adams	2	0	5	52	28	0	2	38	39	25	25	6	17	43
Woods	0	7	7	74	12	10	0	47.2	65	48	41	9	25	26
Richardson
Tojas	0	1	8	05	23	0	2	19	27	18	17	4	11	12
Sands	1	0	4	25	13	0	1	12	15	11	11	3	5	11
Arcia	0	0	9	05	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	0
Alvin	0	0	9	05	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	0
García	0	0	10	38	9	0	2	8.2	12	10	10	2	4	2
Voith	0	1	11	25	1	0	0	4	11	6	5	0	2	0
Jackson	0	0	13	50	2	0	0	2	3	3	2	2	1	0
Lawrence	0	1	18	00	7	0	0	6	10	12	12	4	9	12

New York

BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Lenderd Jr.	270	257	37	7	10	1	0	3	3	1	9	1	1	1
Sanchez	263	257	60	5	16	2	0	1	7	1	16	0	0	1
Bellinger	259	250	374	52	97	21	3	11	53	55	70	10	6	2
Stanton	256	302	90	8	33	6	0	3	14	4	29	1	0	0
Rice	251	344	443	76	111	20	3	33	78	61	128	3	0	4
Judge	248	275	234	43	53	10	0	17	38	42	72	5	3	0
Goldsch-	247	310	300	37	74	11	1	16	44	25	79	1	0	0
roth
Caballero	242	300	298	79	12	0	12	42	23	86	30	9	8	0
Volpe	240	325	171	20	40	9	1	19	22	45	7	4	4	0
García	238	283	42	3	10	3	0	1	3	7	0	1	1	1
Dominguez	230	270	250	21	46	12	0	6	16	9	4	7	1	1
Rosario	227	270	185	23	42	5	1	10	28	12	52	1	0	8
Grisham	221	252	362	60	80	19	2	16	57	49	72	7	1	3
Chisholm Jr.	216	295	402	56	87	14	2	17	48	45	140	32	7	8
McMahon	215	280	274	29	59	12	0	10	31	23	19	3	2	7
Jones	210	297	138	13	29	7	1	5	18	16	56	6	0	0
Grichuk	194	272	31	8	4	4	0	0	2	1	10	0	0	0
Schumann	194	333	72	17	14	6	0	2	8	12	21	3	2	1
Scarra	188	239	85	8	6	5	1	0	7	6	18	0	0	2
Wells	179	275	246	25	44	6	0	8	17	31	73	2	0	5
Ramos	180	254	36	0	3	3	0	0	0	4	11	1	0	0
Laurence	0	0	13	50	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
PITCHERS	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO
Poole	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0
Simpson	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Klener	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Alfons	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Garcia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osmura	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osmura	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osmura	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Osmura	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Tampa Bay

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Chicago

BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	RBB	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Dean	375	.500	8	3	3	0	1	0	3	2	4	1	0	0
Ramirez	299	.353	127	20	38	10	1	2	15	11	27	7	0	2
Crow	276	.374	475	87	131	24	7	28	75	65	151	30	7	5
Armstrong
Suzuki	273	.362	407	69	111	24	6	27	55	118	13	2	1	4
Kelly	261	.346	287	41	75	11	0	7	43	34	56	0	1	6
Steenner	260	.320	485	52	126	26	1	7	56	40	46	20	3	5
Breyman	251	.343	482	69	121	23	1	16	61	62	88	3	1	4
Kingsley	250	.250	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Busch	246	.353	468	52	115	20	2	14	63	69	123	2	1	4
Silvan	246	.322	330	20	32	6	2	4	20	12	27	4	0	1
Amaya	241	.347	174	30	42	9	0	5	22	20	51	0	0	1
Alcantara	238	.354	21	4	5	0	0	1	5	2	9	0	1	0
Ballastanos	231	.303	156	16	36	6	0	6	23	17	36	1	0	1
Conferho	229	.321	188	25	42	12	0	10	26	65	0	1	0	0
Swanson	216	.300	403	78	87	16	3	18	66	48	106	17	1	6
Happ	214	.323	439	71	84	22	2	20	51	65	158	4	4	1
Taylor	200	.292	20	2	4	0	0	0	1	2	4	1	0	1
Trenton	200	.222	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0
Carlson	200	.000	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0
López	200	.000	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
PITCHERS	200	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Black	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	2
Bally	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Rico	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
Velazquez	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	1
Brown	4	2	1	0	0	0	1	68	45	16	14	2	19	65
Martin	0	0	2	16	8	1	0	6	5	2	2	1	2	10
Webb	4	2	2	33	54	0	9	54	46	17	14	6	17	61
Civale	0	0	2	45	7	0	1	0	15	4	4	2	1	4
Horton	1	0	2	45	2	2	0	71	4	2	2	1	2	4
McDowell	0	0	2	21	14	0	1	141	11	5	4	2	8	112
Rolson	7	1	2	57	44	2	1	49	39	16	14	5	21	47
Thornton	5	4	2	58	37	0	3	263	27	14	11	4	15	21
Palencia	2	1	2	20	19	0	3	16	2	17	5	5	2	6
Holmes	1	1	3	38	2	2	0	10	2	7	4	4	1	4
Ferguson	0	1	3	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Miller	1	0	3	53	26	0	1	35	24	14	14	4	8	18
Wood	1	0	3	53	26	0	1	60	1	69	23	32	10	3
Imaraga	8	9	3	74	24	24	0	1371	122	58	57	28	130	1
Bryd	8	2	4	62	15	15	0	85	79	40	38	13	28	68
Peterson	4	1	4	19	8	8	0	43	43	22	20	5	16	31
Roberts	0	2	4	21	23	0	0	25	22	14	12	3	14	17
Wantz	0	0	4	50	1	0	0	2	3	1	1	0	1	0
Wax	8	8	4	58	25	19	1	1212	125	65	63	20	45	91
Thelma	3	2	5	54	44	0	3	371	36	24	23	10	14	46
Culenza	5	5	5	68	15	15	0	78	78	53	48	15	32	67
Taillon	1	6	5	92	15	15	0	76	76	51	50	25	27	68
Goutman	1	1	6	57	2	2	0	12	11	8	8	6	0	0
Maton	0	1	6	18	31	0	0	272	34	19	19	5	16	31
Dehughn	0	0	6	23	5	0	0	4	6	3	3	1	2	6
Harvey	0	1	6	75	4	0	0	4	5	3	3	2	2	4
Promanz	2	0	7	94	6	0	0	52	7	5	5	2	4	1
Stark	0	0	7	94	6	0	0	72	7	5	5	2	4	1
Barrett	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	2	4	4	3	0	3	1
Bally	0	0	9	0	2	0	0	3	3	2	2	2	0	0
Little	0	0	9	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	1	1	1
Woodford	0	0	9	0	2	0	0	3	6	3	3	1	5	3
Wicks	0	2	10	45	4	2	2	10.1	18	12	12	1	2	8
Martin	0	0	10	80	7	0	1	5	5	6	6	2	5	4
Murray	0	0	18	0	2	0	0	3	6	6	6	2	2	6

Cincinnati

BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	RBB	BB	SO	SB	CS	E
Dunn	.282	.335	142	20	40	7	1	1	70	33	6	0	1	0
Lowe	.266	.341	248	26	66	17	0	12	37	28	70	0	0	1
De La Cruz	.262	.344	409	68	107	18	5	20	56	51	124	21	7	14
Stewart	.259	.335	488	68	121	23	0	26	101	117	12	4	2	1
Stuyderman	.250	.333	299	32	75	16	0	12	39	36	86	0	1	3
Myers	.250	.348	192	22	48	8	0	3	18	27	58	8	0	0
Trevino	.250	.358	96	10	24	3	0	4	12	1	20	0	1	5
Arroyo	.244	.286	131	13	32	3	1	0	5	5	31	1	1	5
Silver	.233	.319	340	64	81	14	0	46	45	36	36	3	6	4
Higgins	.231	.276	26	1	6	1	0	0	4	8	0	0	0	4
Bleiby	.217	.332	336	45	73	13	1	20	47	57	64	6	5	0
Isueh	.194	.293	119	24	41	6	0	6	34	131	10	1	0	1
McLain	.194	.293	319	42	62	16	0	11	29	41	102	14	3	3
Marie	.193	.232	387	59	36	7	0	6	150	50	7	2	1	1
Benson	.188	.310	96	11	18	3	1	3	6	16	38	1	1	1
Toglia	.187	.225	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	1
Friedl	.160	.245	212	19	34	1	0	3	11	20	55	5	0	1
Hayes	.148	.292	376	17	26	2	1	5	8	10	37	1	0	2
Hinds	.121	.167	3	3	4	3	0	0	5	1	18	0	0	1
Johnson	.083	.254	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	6	2	0	1
Rodriguez	.083	.185	24	1	2	1	0	0	0	3	7	0	0	0
PITCHERS	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	SB
Dunn	.282	.335	142	20	40	7	1	1	70	33	6	0	1	0
Lowe	.266	.341	248	26	66	17	0	12	37	28	70	0	0	1
De La Cruz	.262	.344	409	68	107	18	5	20	56	51	124	21	7	14
Stewart	.259	.335	488	68	121	23	0	26	101	117	12	4	2	1
Stuyderman	.250	.333	299	32	75	16	0	12	39	36	86	0	1	3
Myers	.250	.348	192	22	48	8	0	3	18	27	58	8	0	0
Trevino	.250	.358	96	10	24	3	0	4	12	1	20	0	1	5
Arroyo	.244	.286	131	13	32	3	1	0	5	5	31	1	1	5
Silver	.233	.319	340	64	81	14	0	46	45	35	86	3	6	4
Higgins	.231	.276	26	1	6	1	0	0	4	8	0	0	0	4
Bleiby	.217	.332	336	45	73	13	1	20	47	57	64	6	5	0
Isueh	.194	.293	119	24	41	6	0	6	34	131	10	1	0	1
McLain	.194	.293	319	42	62	16	0	11	29	41	102	14	3	3
Marie	.193	.232	387	59	36	7	0	6	150	50	7	2	1	1
Benson	.188	.310	96	11	18	3	1	3	6	16	38	1	1	1
Toglia	.187	.225	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	1
Friedl	.160	.245	212	19	34	1	0	3	11	20	55	5	0	1
Hayes	.148	.292	376	17	26	2	1	5	8	10	37	1	0	2
Hinds	.121	.167	3	3	4	3	0	0	5	1	18	0	0	1
Johnson	.083	.254	12	0	1	0	0	0	2	6	2	0	1	0
Rodriguez	.083	.185	24	1	2	1	0	0	0	3	7	0	0	0
PITCHERS	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	SB
Halvorsen	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Elhans	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scott	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Edwards	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stallings	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fitzpatrick	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moisnowski	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kim	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Keith	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McGillan Jr.	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Franco	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McNutts	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Knack	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Knack	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McDermott	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McNutts	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McNutts	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
McNutts	.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Colorado

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Mattson	0	0	4.93	36	0	34.2	38	19	19	3	16	33	Giolito	2	3	5.16	7	5	0	29.2	32	19	17	4	23	18
Keller	6	6	5.29	22	20	0	15.2	117	73	68	15	42	89	Marquez	4	2	5.26	10	1	53	55	32	21	14	24	37
Lawrence	0	2	5.32	23	0	0	22	22	20	13	4	12	25	Jacob	1	0	5.40	3	0	0	5	5	3	3	1	2
Santana	2	5	6.05	44	0	2	41.2	40	20	28	8	27	37	Mize	1	1	5.87	3	3	0	15.1	17	10	10	2	6
Kelly	0	0	6.14	3	0	0	1	8	5	5	2	4	9	Ray	0	1	6.00	2	1	0	7	6	6	7	3	6
Robos	0	0	6.32	15	0	0	15.2	19	16	11	5	12	20	Canning	3	9	6.50	27	11	0	72	78	53	52	13	33
Marmaccio	0	0	6.71	4	0	0	0	0	4	4	1	2	4	Waldron	1	2	7.16	10	3	0	32.2	43	26	52	7	9
Barris	0	1	7.64	7	0	0	17.2	21	17	15	4	13	14	Duran	0	0	27.00	2	0	0	2	9	9	9	2	1
Deverocki	0	0	7.71	3	0	0	2.1	5	2	2	1	0	3	San Francisco
Eisert	0	1	7.71	7	0	0	7	10	6	6	0	4	8	BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB
Stratton	0	0	7.71	3	0	0	2.1	5	2	2	2	0	2	Arraez	.324	.360	420	52.19	23	7	0	6.43	25	21	10	0
Urquity	0	1	8.53	5	0	1	6.1	15	10	6	1	2	6	Lee	.292	.328	420	58.12	28	4	9	48	19	46	8	1
Sanders	0	0	8.68	9	0	0	9.5	9	9	9	1	10	10	Basaba	.283	.330	53	6	15	2	0	3	6	0	1	1
Weaver	0	0	9.00	3	0	0	3	5	3	3	3	0	1	Baricoto	.271	.282	70	7	19	3	0	4	10	1	20	1
SUN CHANG
BATTERS	AVG	OBP	AB	R	H	28	38	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	Reimos	.264	.304	288	36	76	13	3	9	34	16	82	3
Wortman	.333	.333	3	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	Cas	.258	.258	31	6	8	1	2	1	3	0	16	4
Taylor	.330	.410	88	14	29	1	1	1	11	12	30	6	1	Cavanaugh	.250	.360	76	5	19	1	0	5	13	19	1	0
Margillo	.323	.401	93	16	30	2	0	4	13	12	18	3	1	Leonard	.250	.350	8	0	3	1	0	0	0	2	0	0
Campusano	.313	.409	128	16	40	11	0	5	23	19	32	0	0	Elbridge	.247	.341	288	40	71	15	0	13	32	42	67	1
Franco	.291	.348	136	43	52	16	2	27	51	18	78	1	1	Stevens	.248	.330	468	60	115	30	1	26	69	52	137	0
Taitis Jr.	.280	.355	478	69	134	25	2	13	56	53	101	28	13	Susac	.243	.289	144	11	35	8	1	3	22	8	36	2
Hays	.273	.273	11	3	3	0	0	1	3	0	2	0	0	Gilbert	.242	.328	260	35	63	10	3	6	29	28	48	1
Andujas	.259	.303	239	24	62	20	2	5	22	11	38	2	2	Chapman	.235	.324	307	35	72	18	1	7	42	37	81	0
Wagner	.257	.422	35	5	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Rodriguez	.245	.316	57	7	12	3	0	2	8	5	8	1
Merritt	.244	.295	471	65	175	20	2	19	63	33	133	24	2	Adames	.224	.285	446	59	100	25	1	19	48	36	133	5
Biggberts	.223	.327	404	46	90	11	0	11	46	56	83	16	1	Ross	.208	.226	81	5	16	3	0	0	2	2	0	0
Cronen	.222	.306	248	31	55	7	0	4	20	25	60	7	1	Encarnacion	.176	.200	34	1	6	1	0	0	1	8	0	0
worth	.211	.295	454	62	96	20	0	23	70	56	133	2	3	Hill	.167	.250	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	2	0	0
Shields	.211	.312	341	45	72	15	0	16	40	47	82	4	0	Hraes	.162	.235	74	8	12	3	0	4	6	9	28	0
Song	.211	.312	341	45	72	15	0	16	40	47	82	4	0	Bailey	.144	.233	62	5	10	0	0	0	7	2	1	0
Lauriano	.203	.286	182	23	37	6	2	7	21	20	65	7	2	Oliva	.143	.143	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0
Fermin	.193	.268	197	18	36	10	0	4	16	17	44	5	1	Brenner	.087	.233	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0
Cactellanos	.191	.221	115	9	22	5	0	4	20	5	34	2	0	Kennedy	.087	.222	23	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	9	0
Johnson	.178	.229	46	5	8	2	0	0	2	2	18	5	1	Chapman	.235	.324	307	35	72	18	1	7	42	37	81	0
Bowen	.158	.200	76	12	12	2	0	2	7	2	20	5	0	Rodriguez	.245	.316	57	7	12	3	0	2	8	5	8	1
Duran	.146	.222	82	8	12	4	0	3	8	7	24	0	0	Adames	.224	.285	446	59	100	25	1	19	48	36	133	5
Solsk	.143	.300	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	Ross	.208	.226	81	5	16	3	0	0	2	2	0	0
Hunt	.000	.000	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Encarnacion	.176	.200	34	1	6	1	0	0	1	8	0	0
Vasquez	.000	.000	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Barter	.170	.198	106	10	16	5	0	5	14	4	34	0
PITCHERS
Miller	4	1	0.88	49	0	30	51.1	24	7	5	0	19.93		Hill	.167	.250	6	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	2	0
Rodriguez	3	2	0.29	51	4	1	16	42	17	13	3	17.59		Hraes	.162	.235	74	8	12	3	0	4	6	9	28	0
Matsui	3	1	2.25	36	0	0	48	27	13	12	6	28.50		Bailey	.144	.233	62	5	10	0	0	0	7	2	1	0
Adam	2	2	2.51	38	0	2	32.1	30	9	9	5	8.22		Oliva	.143	.143	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Morson	9	2	2.71	57	0	2	66.1	53	24	20	3	18.80		Brenner	.087	.233	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Boto	0	0	3.38	3	0	0	5.1	4	2	2	1	1		Kennedy	.087	.222	23	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	9	0
Estrada	2	2	3.38	31	0	1	29.1	17	13	11	2	15.37		McDonald	.087	.227	27	6	0	0	0	1	2	7	10	4
King	8	8	3.41	25	25	0	142.1	113	66	54	17	56.124		Furman	.000	.250	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Peralta	2	2	3.48	54	5	0	62	65	24	24	5	22.39		Arraez	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Hart	0	3	4.20	33	4	0	49.1	36	25	23	4	17.46		Arraez	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Vasquez	8	6	4.30	24	19	0	111	121	57	53	15	32.71		Pitcher	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Morgan	2	0	4.50	18	0	0	22	26	12	11	2	13.26		Brendon	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Prueitz	1	2	4.50	4	4	4	0	18	12	8	8	6.24		Brendon	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Sears	3	4	4.68	8	6	0	32.2	33	19	17	6	11.25		McDonald	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Marinaccio	1	0	4.79	33	0	0	47	50	25	25	9	18.38		Matile	.000	.250	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0
Buahler	7	5	4.88	24	24	0	114.1	116	53	62	14	47.100		Gage	.000	.250	1	1	5.60	34	0	1	1	27.1	28	18

AUG. 10

Toronto 2, Boston 1

BOS...000	000	100~	1	6	1
TOR...000	011	00x~	2	7	0
Boston	AB	R	H	BB	SO Avg.
Jungel ss	4	0	1	0	0 252
Raffaels cf	3	2	0	0	1 0 253
Alona cf	3	0	0	0	1 0 253
Guinness 1b	2	0	0	0	1 1 283
Yoshida dh	2	0	0	0	2 0 270
a White pr-dh	0	0	0	0	0 0 273
Durbin 1b	4	0	0	0	0 2 249
Dune 1f	4	0	1	0	0 1 291
Seigler 2b	3	1	1	0	0 0 250
Wong v	3	0	1	0	0 2 247
b Minustens ph	1	0	0	0	0 0 257
Totals	30	1	6	1	5 7
Toronto	AB	R	H	BB	SO Avg.
Labes cf	4	0	0	0	0 0 263
Guinness cf	4	0	1	0	0 0 222
Quenone Jr 1b	4	0	1	0	0 0 261
Seigler dh	4	1	1	0	0 0 234
Sanchez f	2	0	0	0	0 0 268
Straw f	1	0	0	0	0 0 257
Gimenez ss	4	0	1	1	0 2 238
McAdoo 2b	2	1	1	1	0 0 289
Clement 2b	1	0	0	0	0 0 284
Smith 2b-1b	3	0	1	0	0 2 236
Valenzuela c	2	0	1	0	0 0 232
Totals	32	2	7	2	1 5

a-ran for Yoshida in 8th. b-was announced for Wong in 9th. E: Seigler. 2B: Duran (12), Valenzuela (7). HR: McAdoo (2). RBI: Rafaela (61), Gimenez (48), McAdoo (4). SB: White (1), Springer (9), Gimenez (16). SF: Rafaela. S: Seigler. Bumens left in scoring position: Boston 4 (Dogard, Abreu, Yoshida, Durbin), Toronto 5 (Lukes, Bateman, Springer, Gimenez, Smith). RISP: Toronto 2 for 9. DP: Toronto 1.

Swiss	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Gray 1, 14-3	6.0	6	2	2	1	4	99	279
Weyer.	2.0	1	0	0	0	1	29	2.52
Toronto	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Tallon	4.0	1	0	0	3	3	61	3.38
Woods Richardson	3.0	4	1	1	1	2	45	6.23
W. 2-7
Rogers H, 24	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	18	1.67
Verland S. 25	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	15	1.12

HBP: Sanchez. WP: Gray, Tallon. Umpires: HP-Ramos, 1B-Ceja, 2B-Traynor,

3B-Guccione. T: 2:48. A: 42,511.

N.Y. Mets 0, Atlanta 5

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Arizona	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Sonoka	4.1	3	0	0	3	4	77	2.93
Litbell W, 8-6	4.2	2	0	0	2	2	45	4.77

Inherited runners: Litell 2-2: HBP; Carroll, Martin WP: Hughes. Umpires: HP-Muchlinski, 1B-Eddings, 2B-Jimenez, 3B-Murston. T: 2:41 A; 17,358 (48,263).

Houston 6, San Francisco 3 (10)

HOU_100	000	101	3	-	6	8	0
SP_000	110	100	0	-	3	6	0

Houston	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Pena Jr.	5	1	1	1	0	1	2.81
Alvarez dh	5	1	2	0	0	0	323
Paredes 3b-1b	4	0	2	2	1	0	254
Altune 2b	4	0	0	1	0	1	240
Travenell if	3	0	0	0	2	0	233
Walker 1b	3	0	0	0	1	0	238
b-Allier pn 1b	1	1	0	0	0	0	257
Valleir cf	4	2	3	2	0	1	226
Smith rf	4	2	3	2	0	1	226
Vaizucci c	3	0	0	0	1	1	273
a-Wade Jr. ph	0	1	0	0	1	0	216
Díaz c	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Totals 36 6 8 4 9 7 3

San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Lee rf	5	1	2	1	0	0	300
Adames ss	3	0	0	0	1	1	221
Eldridge dh	4	1	1	0	0	0	248
Devers 1b	3	0	0	0	1	2	247
Jordan 1b	3	0	0	0	0	1	248
Gilbert cf	3	1	1	2	0	1	237
Cananaugh c	4	0	0	0	0	1	226
McClay if	4	0	0	0	0	2	081
Keis 3b	4	0	1	0	0	0	161
Totals	34	3	6	3	2	7	1

a-walked for Vázquez pn 10th. h-ran for Walker in 8th. 2B: Alvarez (25), Paredes (21), Eldridge (15). HR: Smith (16), Lee (9). Gilbert (5). RBI: Perez (30), Paredes 2 (62), Altune (35), Smith 2 (44), Lee (46), Gilbert 2 (24). SP: Altune, Gilbert. Runners left in scoring position: Houston 3 (Walker 2, Allen), San Francisco 3 (Lee, Devers, Cavanaugh). RESP: Houston 4 for 9, San Francisco 1 for 7. GIDP: Lee. DP: Houston 1.

Houston	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wassoski	7	0	5	3	3	2	4	83
Obert	1	0	1	0	0	1	16	3.26
Hadler W, 4-1	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	22	1.00

San Francisco	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Tobard	5.2	4	1	1	5	6	66	7.28
Brubaker BS, 1	0.2	1	1	1	1	0	17	3.40
Heritges	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	15	2.60
Winn H, 14	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	5	3.88
Smith BS, 2	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	15	3.09
Foley L, 0-1	1.0	2	3	2	2	0	19	5.63

Inherited runners: Brubaker 2-2. IBB: Foley (1). WP: Smith, Foley. Umpires: HP-Viegner, 1B-Jaszinski, 2B-Torrilinson, 3B-Clemons. T: 2:45 A; 28,070 (40,260).

L.A. Dodgers 6, Kansas City 3

KC	102	000	200	-	5	6	0
LAD	002	003	10x	-	6	10	0
Kansas City	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Loftin 3b	3	1	2	0	1	0	249
Witt Jr. ss	3	1	0	0	1	2	282
Caglianone 1b	4	1	2	3	0	1	266
Perez c	4	0	0	0	0	1	234
Jensen dh	3	0	0	0	1	1	226
a-Sidker Jr dh	0	0	0	0	0	0	245
Witt 1b	3	0	0	0	0	1	245
Massey 2b	4	1	1	0	0	3	262
Collier if	4	0	0	0	0	1	236
Izbel cf	4	1	1	2	0	0	234
Totals	315	5	6	4	9

L.A. Dodgers	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Ohtani dh	4	2	2	1	1	0	254
Pagro cf	3	0	0	0	1	1	270
Freeman 1b	4	0	3	2	2	0	268
Edman if	4	1	1	0	0	0	278
Bettis ss	4	0	1	0	0	1	239
Wake cf	1	1	1	0	1	1	287
Hernandez rf	2	0	0	0	0	0	247
b-Tucker ph rf	1	1	0	0	1	0	243
Murcy 3b	4	0	1	3	0	2	248
Pelciccia c	3	1	1	0	0	0	273
Totals	32	6	10	6	3	4

a-ran for Jensen in 8th. b-walked for Hernandez in 6th. 2B: Loftin (20), Ohtani (23), Betts (12), Rojas (11), Murcy (17), Feduccia (1). HR: Caglianone (21), Izbel (4). RBI: Caglianone 3 (52), Izbel (5), Ohtani (72), Freeman 2 (57), Murcy 3 (55). SB: Loftin (22), Witt Jr. (32), Ohtani (7). Runners left in scoring position: Kansas City 2 (Caglianone 2), L.A. Dodgers 4 (Edman, Betts, Murcy, Feduccia). RESP: Kansas City 2 for 6, L.A. Dodgers 4 for 11. GIDP: Perez, Marte, Hernandez. DP: Kansas City 1, L.A. Dodgers 2.

Kansas City	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Cameron	5.2	6	4	4	2	2	501	4.43
Schreiber BS, 3	0.1	1	1	1	1	0	10	3.77
Limpe L, 1-7	1.0	3	1	1	0	1	21	4.57
Caleb	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	13	2.00
L.A. Dodgers	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Skubel	5.0	4	3	3	2	6	95	4.09
Vesta	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	8	2.88
Dreyer W, 5-1 BS, 3	1.0	2	2	2	1	1	17	3.39
Scott H, 10	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	15	2.27

Ibei 5, 6 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 12 542 Inherited runners: Schreiber 2-0. HBP: Loftin. Umpires: HP-Bacon, 1B-Walsh, 2B-Allier, 3B-Whitson. T: 2:37. A: 51,799 (56,000).

Tampa Bay 10, Athletics 6 (10)

TB	100	000	100	-	0	12	1
ATH	200	010	300	-	6	10	1

Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Dias 28	4	2	3	2	0	0	302
Aranda 1b	4	1	2	1	1	1	268
Caminero 3b	5	1	1	3	0	0	277
Edwiler 1	1	0	0	0	0	0	246
Palacios 2b	1	0	0	0	0	0	232
DeLuca cf-rf	1	0	0	0	0	0	266
Simpson if	5	1	2	1	0	0	305
Forres c	3	0	0	1	1	1	270
b-Mullins pr-cf	0	1	0	0	0	0	207
Walls cc	4	1	1	2	0	0	212
Williams 2b	3	0	0	0	0	2	083
a-Holls ph-c	1	0	0	0	0	1	278
Totals	30	10	12	10	3	5

Athletics	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
McNeil 1b	5	1	2	1	0	0	254
Soderstrom dh	5	1	1	1	0	2	245
Wilson 1b	5	0	1	0	0	0	268
Corres if	3	0	0	0	1	0	258
Butler cf	4	0	2	0	0	2	206
Henn c	4	0	0	0	0	1	221
Botte cf	4	1	2	0	0	2	260
Walton 2b	2	1	0	0	1	0	260
Jund 1b	4	2	2	2	1	1	277
Totals	35	6	10	5	3	4

a-struck out for C.Williams in 8th. h-ran for Fortes in 8th.

E: Fortes, Heim. 2B: Diaz (21), Soderstrom (26), Wilson (16), Gelof (12). HR: Diaz (16), Camimero (34), Gelof (12). RBI: Diaz 2 (67), Aranda (73), Camimero 3 (74), Simpson (24), Fortes (29), Walls 2 (25), McNeil (36), Soderstrom (56), Wilson (37), Gelof 2 (31). SB: DeLuca (13), Simpson 2 (33), McNeil (35), Soderstrom (2), Cortes (2). SF: Diaz, McNeil. Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 3 (Vilade, Simpson, Williams), Athletics 4 (Corres 2, Heim, Gelof). RESP: Tampa Bay 5 for 13, Athletics 2 for 10.

Tampa Bay	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Penafit	6	0	6	3	3	5	98	9.31
Reynold W, 1-0	1.0	3	3	1	0	0	25	1.04
Wells	1.0	1	0	0	1	3	26	2.47
Willy	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	7	1.98
Athletics	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
López	1.0	5	2	2	1	0	45	5.38
Johnson	0.0	3	4	4	1	0	11	16.68
Suarez L, 1-3 BS, 2	0.0	3	4	4	1	1	19	4.68
Blewett	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	18	3.12

Johnson pitched to 4 batters in the 8th. Inherited runners: Suarez 1-0, Blewett 2-0. HBP: Walton. WP: Blewett. Umpires: HP-Molcord, 1B-Dar Jesus, 2B-Johnson, 3B-Kelley. T: 2:54. A: 7,427 (13,416).

Texas 4, L.A. Angels 1

LAA	100	000	000	0	-	1	6	0
Texas	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Langford cf-rf	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	259
Seager ss	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	195
Quiao 8-2b	5	1	1	0	0	1	2	282
Alimmo cf	4	0	2	1	1	1	1	276
Burger 1b	5	0	1	2	0	1	1	237
Foscon dh	4	0	1	0	1	2	2	255
Díaz c	5	0	2	1	1	2	2	245
Bride 2b	5	0	2	1	1	2	2	260
a-Carter ph-cf	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	193
Qauley 2b	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	274
b-Pederson ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	248
López 2b	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	284
Totals	36	4	8	4	6	10
L.A. Angels	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Netto ss	5	0	0	0	0	1	1	223
Trout cf	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	237
Schauxel 1b	5	0	0	0	0	1	1	270
Grosson 1b	4	0	2	0	0	2	2	253
J-Guzman pr-3b	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	226
Siri if	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	264
Baderstrom c	4	0	0	0	0	2	2	154
Peraza 2b	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	233
i-Fischer ph-2b	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	200
d'Arnaud c	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	200
a-Looe ph	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	202
Heineman c	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	179
MacRae cf	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	305
Totals	35	1	6	1	4	12

a-Filed out for Bride in 7th. b-Filed out for Cauley in 7th. c-struck out for Peraza in 9th. d-ran for Grisson in 6th. e-singled for d'Arnaud in 7th.

HR: Trout (20). RBI: Nimmo (47), Burger 2 (68), Diaz (20), Trout (42). S: Cauley, Meckler. Runners left in scoring position: Texas 5 (Ganger 2, Diaz, Bride, Lopez), L.A. Angels 5 (Schauxel 2, Guzman 2, Meckler). RESP: Texas 4 for 15. GIDP: Seager, Siri. DP: Texas 1, L.A. Angels 1.

Texas	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Goss	1.0	4	1	1	2	0	920	4.43
Alexander	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	316
Gilseth	0.2	1	0	0	1	0	9	2.84
Alkhoriz	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3.30
Grey R, 6-0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	7	3.30
Latz S, 7-3	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	24	1.82
L.A. Angels	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

Dermers 6.0 2 1 1 4 6 88 4.00 Norms 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 2.60 Miles S, 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Athletics 1P H B EB BB SO NP ERA López cf-rf 1.0 5 2 1 1 4 6 5 8.88 Buerwo 0.0 0 0 0 0 1 5 40 4.57 Miami IP H B EB BB SO NP ERA Perez W, 6-0 7.0 3 0 0 2 7 0 0 3.39 Fleeman H, 19 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

AUG. 11

Miami 2, Pittsburgh 0

PIT	000	000	000	-	0	4	2
MIA	001	010	00x	-	2	5	0

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St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 0

PHI	000	000	000	-	0	5	0
STL	000	000	11x	-	2	6	0
Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Schneider 4h	3	0	1	0	1	0	2
a-Hill p-rh	0	0	0	0	0	0	253
Turner ss	2	0	1	0	2	1	249
Wayer rf	2	0	0	0	2	0	252
Arnaez 2b	4	0	0	0	0	0	314
Reydenco s	4	0	0	0	1	1	223
Stott 3b	3	0	1	0	1	2	266
March 4	4	0	1	0	0	0	274
Bolten 1b	3	0	1	0	1	0	228
Crawford 2	3	0	0	0	0	0	264
Totals	26	0	5	3	7	5
St. Louis	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Wetherholt 2b	4	0	0	0	0	1	244
Hermes 4h	4	0	0	0	0	2	249
Witness 4h	4	0	0	0	0	0	284
Burleson 1b	3	0	1	0	2	2	285
Kennel rf	3	0	1	0	0	0	243
Church cf	0	0	0	0	0	0	238
White ss	3	0	2	1	0	1	249
Jordan 3b	3	0	0	0	0	0	250
Revelia cf	3	1	1	1	0	2	200
Payser c	3	0	1	0	0	1	209
Totals	28	2	6	2	1	9

a-ran for Schwarber in 8th. HB: Pereira (1). RBI: Winn (4). Pereira (1). SB: Hill (6). Stott (23). Walker (15). Runners left in scoring position: Philadelphia 6 (Realmuto 3, Marsh, Crawford 2, St. Louis 1; Jordan). RISP: St. Louis 1 for 4. GIDP: Harper 2, Arnaez, Crawford, Wetherholt, Jordan. DP: Philadelphia 2, St. Louis 4.

Philadelphia	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Sanchez	6.0	4	0	0	0	7	89	2.54
McKenzie L. 0-1	1.0	1	1	1	1	1	126	4.50
Migica	1.0	1	1	1	1	1	13	3.50
St. Louis	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Pullante	6.0	4	0	0	3	2	97	3.46
Sonano W. 6-3	1.0	1	0	0	1	2	23	3.59
Ferguson	0.0	0	0	0	3	0	21	3.90
Starek H. 22	1.0	0	0	0	0	4	4	4.47
O'Brien S. 30	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1.54
Ferguson pitched to 3 batters in the 8th.Inherited runners: Stanek 3-3. Umpires:HP-Back, 1B-Iassoglou, 2B-Weyburn,3B-Krupa. T: 2:37. A: 27,222 (44,383).

N.Y. Yankees 4, Seattle 1

SEA	000	001	000	-	1	3	0
NYY		000	000	40x	-	4	8
Seattle		AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Ward 7		4	0	0	0	1	1
Antozeres 8		4	1	1	1	0	1
Rodriguez cf		3	0	0	0	1	1
Wolse 4h		3	0	1	0	1	1
Young 2b		4	0	0	0	0	0
Malejici c		4	0	0	0	2	159
Dominan 3b		3	0	1	0	0	0
Wilson 5b		2	0	0	0	1	0
Emerson ss		3	0	0	0	2	194
Totals		30	1	2	1	3	8

N.Y. Yankees	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Orrilsen cf	4	0	2	2	0	0	276
Rice 4h	3	0	0	0	1	2	255
Barron 3	4	0	0	0	2	0	209
Ward 2c 3b	3	0	1	0	1	1	261
Chisholm Jr. 2b	3	1	1	0	1	1	217
Lombard Jr. ss	4	0	1	0	1	1	266
Jones cf	2	1	0	0	1	1	208
McMahon 3b	3	1	1	0	1	2	173
Webb c	3	0	1	0	0	0	177
Totals	30	4	8	4	3	8

2B: Grisham (18), Garcia Jr. 2 (2). HR: Antozeres (15). RBI: Antozeres (50), Grisham 2 (46), McMahon 2 (30). CS: Chisholm Jr. (7), Lombard Jr. (1). SB: Chisholm Jr. (31). Runners left in scoring position: Seattle 2 (Raleigh, Emerson), N.Y. Yankees 4 (Ramos 2, Chisholm Jr. 2). RISP: N.Y. Yankees 4 for 10.

Seattle	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Woo	5.0	3	0	0	1	5	92	4.15
Ferrer H. 11	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	36	3.49
Butler L. 0-4 BS. 1	0.1	3	4	4	1	1	25	5.18
Baumth	0.2	2	0	0	0	0	9	2.26
Dominguez	1.0	0	0	1	0	0	24	4.57
N.Y. Yankees	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Weathers	5.2	2	1	1	3	4	106	3.58
Hill W. 4-2	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	10	4.40
Hendrick H. 17	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	9	1.49
Bettina S. 27	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	8	2.56

Inherited runners: Bazardo 2-0, Hill 1-1. Umpires: HP-Scheurwater, 1B-Valentine, 2B-Drake, 3B-Baker. T: 2:59. A: 41,407 (46,672).

San Francisco 4, Houston 1

HOU	010	000	000	-	1	5	2
SF	010	111	00x	-	4	9	0
Houston	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Pena ss	1	0	0	0	0	2	231
Alvarez dh	1	0	0	1	1	0	322
Paredes 5b	4	0	2	0	0	0	256
Wolson 1b	1	0	0	0	0	0	246
Allen 2b	3	0	0	0	0	0	250
Wallen 7b	4	0	0	0	0	0	238
Velazquez ff	3	0	0	0	0	1	000
a-Wilde Jr. ph-ff	1	0	1	0	0	0	277
Varsho cf	3	0	1	0	1	0	235
Smith ff	4	1	1	0	0	1	226

Diaz c	3	0	0	0	1	0	252
Totals	31	1	5	1	3	4
San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Lee rf	4	0	0	0	1	1	237
Rodriguez cf	3	0	0	0	0	0	223
Eldridge 1b	4	1	1	0	1	0	248
Steven 2b	4	1	0	0	2	1	246
Revesco fl	4	0	0	0	0	3	274
McCoy fl	0	0	0	0	0	0	081
Gilbert cf	3	1	1	1	1	1	238
Basabe 2b	4	0	2	0	0	0	282
Cavanaugh c	4	1	2	1	0	0	242
Koss 3b	4	0	1	1	0	1	167
Totals	33	4	9	4	3	8

a-singled for Velazquez in 8th. E: Pena 2. 2B: Adames (25), Koss (2). HR: Eldridge (12). RBI: Alvarez (87), Eldridge (29), Gilbert (25), Cavanaugh (5), Koss (2). SB: Adames (5), Cavanaugh (1). SF: Alvarez. Runners left in scoring position: Houston 3 (Paredes, Velazquez 2), San Francisco 7 (Lee 2, Deven, Bericoto, Koss 3). RISP: San Francisco 2 for 13. GIDP: Bericoto. DP: Houston 1.

Houston	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Brown L. 3-2	5.0	5	3	3	4	89	3.68
Da Lox-Santos	6.2	2	1	1	0	0	15	1.24
Wolson 1	1.1	1	0	0	0	2	78	5.09
Blubaugh	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	18	3.56
San Francisco	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

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San Diego 11, Milwaukee 2

MIL	001	000	001-	2	7	2
GD	000	122	00x-	11	17	0
Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Turang ss-2b	1	0	1	1	0	1
Church f	2	0	0	1	0	0
a-Lindbridge ph-ff	0	0	1	0	0	0
Mitchell cf	3	0	1	0	1	1
Baum 15	3	0	0	0	1	1
Contreras c	3	0	0	0	1	0
Yelch 2b	3	0	0	0	1	1
Leaer f	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hamlinh 3b-ss	4	1	1	0	0	0
Bae 2b	1	0	0	0	0	1
b-Vaughn ph-3b	2	0	2	0	0	0
Totals	34	2	7	2	3	7

San Diego AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Tatis Jr. rf 2 2 1 1 0 2 20 Sheets cf 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 212 Bengifo dh 1 1 1 2 4 0 0 2 4 20 Machado 3b 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 215 Song 5b 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Barnett L. 9-3 4.2 10 8 8 3 3 90 3.47 Barnett L. 9-3 2.1 5 2 3 0 2 39 4.91 Sanchez 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 19 0.00 San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego San Diego

Milwaukee	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Harrison L. 9-3	4.2	10	8	8	3	3	90	3.47
Jay	2.1	5	3	2	0	2	39	4.91
Sanchez	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	19	0.00
San Diego	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Beehler W. 7-5	6.0	3	1	1	2	5	98	4.88
Pereita	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	14	5.39
Caroling	2.0	3	1	1	1	3	35	6.59

Inherited runners: Wilson 1-1. HBP: Bae. Umpires: HP-Moore, 1B-Monquez, 2B-Estabrook, 3B-Barrett. T: 2:31. A: 40,534 (39,860).

Tampa Bay 12, Athletics 4

TB	201	301	230	-	12	11	0
ATH	000	200	002	-	4	8	1
Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Diaz dh	1	3	1	1	0	0	301
Aranda 1b	4	0	0	0	1	0	285
Allade 1b	0	0	0	0	0	0	246
Andremen 2b	3	2	1	2	1	1	1
a-Williams ph-3b	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hicks c	3	1	0	0	1	0	238
Fortes c	0	0	0	0	0	0	270
Simpson ff	4	0	2	1	0	0	307
Mesa Jr. cf	4	1	2	2	0	1	278
Mullins cf	5	0	0	0	0	1	204
Malacita 2b	4	2	2	0	1	2	237

Walls ss	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	216
Totals	38	12	11	12	4	6
Athletics	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Woland 1b	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	270
Wolny 3b	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	278
Gelof ff	4	1	1	1	0	2	2	277
Wilson ss	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	269
Williams ss	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	264
Cartes dh	4	0	0	2	0	2	2	258
Butler cf	4	1	1	2	0	0	0	206
Helen c	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	207
Butler cf	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	261
Walton 2b	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	281
White 3b-1b	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	244
Totals	33	4	8	4	4	9	5

a-hammed for Carminen in 8th. B. Bolte. 2B: Cortes (13). HR: Diaz (17), Caminero (35), Williams (1), Mesa Jr. (10), Walks 2 (2), Butler (8). RBI: Diaz (68), Caminero 2 (76), Williams 3 (6), Simpson (25), Mesa Jr. 2 (21), Walls 3 (28), Cortes 2 (30), Butler 2 (32). SF: Simpson. Runners left in scoring position: Tampa Bay 1 (Mullins), Athletics 1 (Henri). RISP: Tampa Bay 2 for 6, Athletics 1 for 3. GIDP: Wilson, Walton. DP: Tampa Bay 2, Athletics 1.

Tampa Bay	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Wardner W. 12-3	9.0	8	4	4	4	3	101	2.78
Athletics	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Barnett L. 1-3	4.0	5	6	5	3	0	67	6.16
Bento 2	2.0	3	1	1	0	2	39	4.76
Alvarado	1.0	1	2	2	1	1	21	4.82
Tyr	2.0	2	3	3	0	3	31	32.79

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Lowe 2b	4	0	1	0	0	1	251
Reynolds 1f	3	0	0	0	1	1	264
Reynolds 2	3	0	0	0	1	2	264
Gonzales 3b	3	2	2	0	1	0	307
Simon dh	4	0	2	0	0	0	276
Valdez rf	3	0	1	1	0	0	246
Gonzales ss	3	0	0	0	1	1	257
Davis c	3	0	0	0	0	1	174
Totals	25	2	6	1	2	5

Miami	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Edwards 2b	4	0	1	2	0	1	263
Lopez ss	5	0	0	0	0	0	314
Conine 1b-rf	2	3	2	1	3	0	276
Hernandez 1f	3	2	1	2	2	1	225
Mariner cf	5	1	1	0	0	0	256
Reynolds 1f	1	0	0	0	0	0	227
Calzola 1	1	0	0	0	0	0	227
a-Sampa ph-2b	2	1	1	0	1	0	276
Jimenez 3b-1b	3	0	0	1	0	0	210
Mack c	2	0	1	1	2	1	234
Navarreto c	0	0	0	0	0	0	171
Totals	32	5	9	8	8	5

a-walked for Caisse in 3rd. 6: Lopez. 2B: Gonzales (21), Conine (6), Ramirez (6). HR: Conine (13), Hernandez (17). RBI: Valdez (39), Edwards (146), Conine (27), Hernandez (146). Ramirez (15), Jimenez (14), Mack (35). SF: Valdez, Edwards. Runners left in scoring position: Pittsburgh 2 (Valdez, Davis), Miami 4 (Lopez 3, Ramirez). RISP: Miami 2 for 9. GIDP: Valdez. DP: Moore 1.

Pittsburgh	IP	H	B	BR	BS	SO	NP	ERA
Mitschenko L. 6-5	2.1	5	4	4	3	1	5.9	3.78
Sisk	0.2	0	1	1	2	0	21	2.66
Bachar	3.0	3	3	3	1	1	49	3.57
Yates	1.0	1	0	0	0	2	18	1.80
Storal	1.0	0	0	0	2	1	25	1.80
Miami	IP	H	B	BR	BS	SO	NP	ERA
Junk W. 6-7	6.0	4	2	1	1	2	81	4.41
Zuber	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	16	3.63
Haufner	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	8	4.26
Vodnik	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	21	5.27

Inherited runners: Sisk 2-0. HBP: Jimenez. Umpires: HP-Wendelstedt, 1B-Ballou, 2B-Carapazza, 3B-Lentz. T: 2:47. A: 7:441 (37,446).

Minnesota 7, Baltimore 5

BAL	103	000	001-	5	7	0
MIN	1.16	020	00x-	7	14	0
Baltimore	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Henderson ss	3	1	0	0	2	0
Alonso 3b	3	1	2	0	1	0
Rodriguez 2b	3	1	1	0	1	0
O'Neill 2b	4	1	1	0	0	1
Beavers 4f	3	1	1	3	0	2
b-Abey ph	1	0	0	0	0	1
Jackson 6	0	0	0	0	0	0
Encarnacion-Strand	4	0	0	0	0	1
3b	1	1	1	1	0	2
Tavresca rf	4	1	1	1	0	2
Haydde of	2	0	1	0	2	1
Guadalc	4	0	0	0	0	0
a-Coomer ph	1	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	32	5	7	5	5	1
Minnesota	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Larnach 7f	5	1	1	1	0	1
Martin 8f	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leves 5b	5	1	2	0	1	1
Bell 8f	5	1	3	1	0	1
Clemens 2b	4	1	1	1	1	1
Lee 2b	4	1	2	0	0	0
Keechall cf	3	0	0	0	0	1
Carsten c	4	1	2	1	0	0
Rodker 2f	3	1	3	1	1	0
Carsten ss	4	0	0	0	0	2
Totals	37	7	14	7	2	7

Minnesota
	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Larnach 7f	5	1	1	1	0	1
Martin 8f	0	0	0	0	0	0
Leves 5b	5	1	2	0	1	0
Bell 8f	5	1	3	1	0	1
Clemens 2b	4	1	1	1	1	1
Lee 2b	4	1	2	0	0	0
Keechall cf	3	0	0	0	0	1
Carsten c	4	1	2	1	0	0
Rodker 2f	3	1	3	1	1	0
Carsten ss	4	0	0	0	0	2
Totals	37	7	14	7	2	7

a-lined into a double play for Narvaez in 8th. b-struck out for Beavers in 8th. 2B: Lewis 2 (19), Roden 2 (3). HR: Beavers (3), Taveras (7). RBI: Holliday (22), Beavers 3 (22), Taveras (43), Larnach (42), Lewis (43), Bell (72), Clemens (56), Keaschall (35), Carsten (38), Roden (10). SF: Keaschall. Runners left in scoring position: Baltimore 3 (Henderson, Holliday 2), Minnesota 5 (Larnach 2), Bell, Keaschall 2). RISP: Baltimore 1 for 4, Minnesota 7 for 15. GIDP: Narvaez. DP: Minnesota 2.

Baltimore	IP	H	B	BR	BS	SO	NP	ERA
Baz L. 4-12	3.0	9	5	5	1	2	65	4.00
Sanders	1.1	4	2	2	0	1	30	3.60
Hiraldo	1.2	1	0	0	0	3	21	5.87
Hraper	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	10	5.28
Suarez	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	8	4.16
Minnesota	IP	H	B	BR	BS	SO	NP	ERA
Matthews W. 6-8	5.0	6	4	4	2	4	94	5.34
Marsh H. 16	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	98	3.64
Hoffman H. 14	1.0	0	0	0	2	1	24	3.81
Minter H. 2	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	9	4.00
Gomez S. 17	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	11	3.38

Inherited runners: Hiraldo 2-0. WP: Hoffman. Umpires: HP-Jones, 1B-Dreckman, 2B-Hamari, 3B-Tichenor. T: 2:41. A: 20,160 (38,544).

St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 1

PHI	000	100	000-	1	6	1
STL	010	040	20x-	7	8	0
Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Schwarber dh	4	0	0	0	0	2
Tarter ss	4	0	0	0	0	0

Harper 7	2	1	1	0	2	1	254
Arnard 2b	4	0	1	1	0	0	270
Scott 2b	1	0	0	0	2	1	266
Marsh 8	2	0	0	0	0	1	273
a-De La Cruz-ph-8	2	0	0	0	0	1	321
Realmoto c	3	0	0	0	0	2	220
Bolvin 5b	3	0	2	0	0	0	220
Crawford cf	3	0	1	0	0	0	264
Totals	31	1	6	1	2	8

St. Louis	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Weidenfuck 3b	3	2	1	0	2	2	245
Harness dh	4	2	1	1	1	1	249
Burleson 1b	3	1	2	3	0	1	287
Walker rf	3	1	1	1	0	0	284
Church of	3	0	0	2	0	1	243
Allen ss	3	0	1	0	1	1	243
Prieto 3b	2	1	1	0	0	0	036
b-Jordan ph-3b	2	0	0	0	0	0	233
Fermin 8f	0	0	0	0	0	1	240
Prieto 8f	1	0	1	0	0	0	333
Crooks c	3	0	0	0	0	1	173
Totals	31	7	8	7	4	9

a-ified out for Marsh in 7th. b-lined out for Prieto in 6th. E: Bolins. 2B: Harper (23), Arraez (26), Burleson (30), Walker (24), Church (10). 8B: Arraez (24), Herrera (10), Burleson 3 (84), Walker (84), Church 2 (39). 5B: Weidenfuck (15), Walker (16). SF: Church. Runners left in scoring position: Philadelphia 3 (Turner 2, Realmuto), St. Louis 4 (Hermes, Church, Winn, Fermin). RISP: Philadelphia 1 for 8, St. Louis 5 for 12. GIDP: Arraez, Marsh, Herrera. DP: Philadelphia 1, St. Louis 2.

Philadelphia	IP	H	B	BR	BS	SO	NP	ERA
Wheelen L. 10-4	5.0	8	5	4	1	5	54	2.89
Baley	1.0	0	0	0	0	2	13	2.18
Alvarado	0.1	1	2	2	3	0	22	6.54
Shagart	1.2	1	0	0	0	2	20	4.73

St. Louis. IP H B BR BR SO NP ERA Leahy W. 9-4 5.0 6.1 1.1 0.6 8.1 3.38 Bushl 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 16 3.32 Graceffe 1.2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3.17 Gantstein 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 14 6.69 Inherited runners: Shugart 3-2. HBP: Burleson, Crooks. Umpires: HP-Vanlogna, 1B-Reyburn, 2B-Krupa, 3B-Beck. T: 2:30. A: 22,565 (44,383).

San Diego 4, Milwaukee 3, 11 ins.
MIL	011	000	000	01-	3	5 1
SD	001	000	010	02-	4	7 2
Milwaukee	AB	R	H	BI	BR	SO
Church f	5	0	0	0	1	2
Young 2b	5	0	1	1	1	3
Vaughn 1b	4	0	0	0	0	2
Levy 1f	1	0	0	0	0	1
Baasnt f-1b	4	0	0	0	0	1
Contreras dh	3	0	0	0	2	0
d-Baar ph-8b	0	1	0	0	0	0
Sanchec 1	4	1	2	2	1	2
Lockridge d	1	0	0	0	1	2
a-Mitchell ph-cf	2	0	0	0	1	1
Hamilton 2b	4	0	0	0	1	1
Orto 3b	3	1	1	1	0	4
Totals	37	3	5	1	10	15
San Diego	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO
Bingth 7	4	0	1	0	1	0
Cronenworth 2b	4	1	1	1	1	2
Machado 3b	5	0	0	0	0	0
France 1b	4	0	2	0	0	1
v-Song p-	0	1	0	0	0	0
Worrill cf	4	0	1	1	1	2
Hays rf	3	0	0	0	0	1
Campusano c	3	0	1	1	0	0
Sheets dh	2	0	0	0	1	0
b-Bower pr-8b	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bogartts ss	4	1	1	1	0	0
Fermer c	3	0	0	0	0	2
e-Tatis Jr. ph-rf	0	1	0	0	2	0
Totals	35	14	4	4	5	7

San Diego	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Bengffe 7	4	0	1	0	1	0	240
Cronenworth 2b	4	1	1	1	1	2	218
Machado 3b	5	0	0	0	0	0	215
France 1b	4	0	2	0	0	1	295
v-Song p-	0	1	0	0	0	0	207
Worrill cf	4	0	1	1	1	1	247
Hays rf	3	0	0	0	0	1	333
Campusano c	3	0	1	1	0	0	314
Sheets dh	2	0	0	0	1	0	211
b-Bower pr-8b	1	0	0	0	0	0	345
Bogartts ss	4	1	1	1	0	0	221
Fermer c	3	0	0	0	0	2	194
e-Tatis Jr. ph-rf	0	1	0	0	2	0	281
Totals	35	10	13	10	3	8

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Garcia S.2	1.0	1	1	1	1	1	23	3.28
CIC White Sox	IP	H	B	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Martin	2.0	2	4	3	1	3	35	4.32
Heible L. 6-8	3.0	5	4	4	2	3	51	4.51
McDougal	0.1	0	1	1	3	0	25	27.00
Richards	2.2	1	0	0	0	2	28	3.35
Hicks	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	13	3.34

Inherited runners: Burke 2-1, Johnson 2-2, Fedde 1-0, Richards 3-3. HBP: Stewart, Stephenson, Suarez. Umpires: HP-Porter, 1B-Mackay, 2B-Ortiz, 3B-Wolf. T: 3:06. A: 17,013 (40,615).

Pittsburgh 13, Miami 1

PIT	000	023	035	-13	16	1
MIA	000	000	001	-1	3	0
Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Wheeler 3b	1	1	1	1	1	1
Lowe db	6	0	1	0	0	3
Reynolds ff	4	0	0	0	1	1
Garcia ff	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gonzales 2b	4	1	2	0	1	0
Valdez rf	5	2	2	0	1	1
Gonzalez ss	4	2	1	2	1	0
Bransgate 3b	0	0	0	0	0	0
Margum cf	4	3	3	1	0	0
Ovoliz 3b ns	4	3	3	0	0	0
Flores Jr. c	5	2	2	0	2	2
Totals	413	12	10	2	4	3

Miami	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Mariner cf	4	0	1	1	1	1
Edwards 2b	2	0	0	0	1	0
López cc	2	0	0	0	1	1
Cozinar db	2	0	1	0	1	1
Paaley 3b	1	0	0	0	1	1
Ramirez c	3	0	0	0	1	1
Jimenez 3b	3	0	0	0	0	2
Jones 3b	2	0	1	0	0	2
Jones 3b	2	0	1	0	1	0
Santija 3b-p	3	0	0	0	0	0
Ruiz 3	3	0	0	0	0	1
Totals	27	1	3	1	1	10

E: Gonzalez. 2B: Mangum (15). 3B: Mangum (2). HR: Gonzalez (4), Triolo (7), Flores Jr. 2 (3), Caiscie (13). RBI: Gonzalez 2 (11), Mangum (23), Triolo 3 (24), Flores Jr. 6 (8), Caiscie (52). CS: Ruiz (4). 5B: Reynolds (8). Runners left in scoring position: Pittsburgh 3 (Horwitz, Valdez, Gonzalez). RISP: Pittsburgh 4 for 9. GIDP: Edwards, Lopez, Ramirez. DP: Pittsburgh 3.

Pittsburgh	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Ashcroft W. 12-5	1	0	3	1	1	1	0	45
Miami	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Phillips L. 3-6	5	5	6	4	4	1	6	92
Gibson	1.2	1	1	1	2	3	37	5.51
King	0.2	2	3	3	1	0	21	3.59
Santija	1.1	7	5	5	0	0	29	15.50

Inherited runners: Gibson 2-0. HBP: Mangum. Bulk: Phillips (1). Umpires: HP-Ballou, 1B-Carapazza, 2B-Lentz, 3B-Wendelstedt. T: 2:27. A: 8,223 (37,446).

Detroit 3, Cleveland 0

CLE	000	000	000	-0	4	1
DET	001	001	01x	-3	6	1
Cleveland	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Kwan cf	4	0	0	0	0	0
DeLauter cf	4	0	2	0	0	2
Bailey cf	4	0	0	0	0	0
Ramirez db	3	0	0	0	1	0
Lowe 5b	4	0	0	0	0	0
Adell ff	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bazzana 2b	3	0	0	0	0	0
Genax 3b	3	0	0	0	0	0
Hedges c	2	0	0	0	0	0
Jonesbrez ph-rf	3	0	1	0	0	0
Rocchio ss	3	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	31	8	4	8	4	3

Detroit	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Torres 2b	1	0	0	0	1	1
Dingler c	4	0	0	1	0	1
McGonigle cc-3b	4	1	1	0	0	2
Valencia db	3	1	1	1	0	1
H-Keith ph-dh	0	0	0	0	1	0
Torkelson 1b	2	0	2	1	1	1
Lee 3b	2	0	0	0	1	1
a-McKinstry ph-rf	2	0	0	0	0	0
Clark cf	4	0	0	0	0	0
Bailey 3b	2	0	1	0	0	1
Malgeni rf	2	0	1	0	0	0
Totals	39	3	6	2	3	8

a-flied out for H.Lee in 6th. b-walked for Valencia in 8th. c-singled for Hedges in 8th.

E: Messick. 2B: Baez (7). HR: Valencia (5). RBI: Dingler (81), Valencia (14), Torkelson (63). SB: DeLauter (8), McGonigle (12). Runners left in scoring position: Cleveland 3 (DeLauter, Lowe 2), Detroit 4 (Valencia 2, Clark 2). RISP: Detroit 1 for 8.

Cleveland	IP	H	B	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Messick L. 9-7	5.2	3	2	2	2	4	102
Velox	1.1	1	0	0	0	2	20
Aleman	0.1	2	1	1	1	0	21
Harris	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	10
Detroit	IP	H	B	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Montero W. 9-7	6.1	3	0	1	1	0	88
Hutton H. 12	1.2	1	0	0	0	0	19
Jansen S. 15	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	10

Inherited runners: Yoho 1-1, Herrin 2-2. HBP: Malgeni. Umpires: HP-Hope, 1B-Jean, 2B-Barber, 3B-Libka. T: 2:24. A: 31,777 (40,988).

Boston 7, Toronto 0

DOS	100	000	042	-7	10	0
TOR	000	000	000	-0	2	1
Boston	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Sogard 2b	4	1	0	0	1	0
Rafaela cf	4	2	2	0	1	1
Abney rf	3	2	1	0	2	0
Contreras 3	4	0	1	1	0	1
Yoshida 3	3	1	2	1	1	0
Duchin 3b	5	1	3	3	0	0
Durant 3	4	0	0	0	1	1
Monasterio ss	4	0	1	0	0	1
Wong c	4	0	0	0	0	2
Totals	35	7	10	7	5	6

Toronto AB R H BR BR SO Avg. McAdola ff 2 0 0 0 1 1 164 A-Dinitz ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 214 Clement 2b 3 0 0 0 1 0 280 Guerrero Jr 7b 4 0 1 0 0 0 281 Springer dh 3 0 0 0 0 1 233 Shannon 3b 2 0 0 0 0 1 228 Gimmer ss 2 0 0 0 1 0 238 Sakemiyata c 2 0 0 0 0 0 228 Straw cf 3 0 0 0 0 0 224 Lukes rf 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 268 Totals 27 8 2 8 3 5

a-grounded out for McAdoo in 9th. E: Gimenez. 2B: Contreras (19). HR: Durbin (12). RBI: Contreras (72), Yoshida (27), Durbin 5 (60). SF: Yoshida. S: Contreras. Runners left in scoring position: Boston 5 (Yoshida, Duran 2, Monasterio 2), Toronto 2 (Okamoto 2). RISP: Boston 2 for 7. GIDP: Clement; Valenzuela. DP: Boston 2.

Boston	IP	H	B	BR	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Voile H. 8-6	8.0	2	0	0	2	4	91	2.97
Weissert	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	17	3.89
Toronto	IP	IP	B	BR	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Scherzer L. 1-5	5.0	3	1	1	2	4	92	6.59
Miles	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	5	136
Fisher	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	8	3.54
Lee	1.0	4	4	4	1	0	31	7.88
Ushada	1.0	1	2	2	2	1	28	5.54

HBP: Rafaela. IRB: Lee (2). WP: Estrada. Umpires: HP-Guccione, 1B-Ramos, 2B-Lloja, 3B-Traynor. T: 2:25. A: 43,442 (41,500).

Washington 7, Chicago Cubs 0

CHC	000	000	000	-0	1	0
WAS	000	150	01x	-7	10	0
Chicago Cubs	AB	R	H	BR	BR	SO

Crow-krmstrong cf 4 0 0 0 0 3 281 Suzuki cf 1 0 0 0 0 1 271 A-Taylor ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 236 Busch 3b 0 1 0 0 0 245 Sriantos 2b 0 0 0 0 0 200 Bregman 3b 1 0 0 0 0 1 254 Happ 3f 0 0 0 0 0 276 Pannero 2b-1b 3 0 0 0 0 294 Swanson ss 1 0 0 0 0 1 255 Confirto dh 3 0 0 0 0 2 230 Amaya c 1 0 0 0 0 1 238

Totals 27 8 1 0 2 11 Washington AB R H BR BR SO Avg. Abrams ss 1 1 1 0 0 1 264 Dritz 5s 4 2 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

a-was announced for Suzuki in 10th. 2B: Crews (11). HR: Ortiz (4). RBI: Ortiz 3 (8), Crews (27), Lile (65), Vivas (20), Pinckney (12). SB: Crews (8). SF: Pinckney. Runners left in scoring position: Washington cf (House, Ruiz). RISP: Washington 3 for 8. GIDP: Conforto. DP: Washington 1.

Chicago Cubs	IP	H	B	BR	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Sassmann L. 1-1	4.2	7	6	6	1	7	93	1.72
Dodde	3.1	3	1	1	0	1	37	2.84
Washington	IP	H	B	BR	BR	SO	NP	ERA
Caudill W. 10-5	8.0	1	0	2	1	0	10	10.5
Boston	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11	3.65

Inherited runners: Coulée 1-1. Umpires: HP-Barksdale, 1B-Willis, 2B-Additon, 3B-Parra. T: 2:20. A: 21,463.

Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 1

PHI	200	300	200	-7	12	0
MIN	010	000	000	-1	8	0
Philadelphia	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Chourin cf	4	1	2	3	0	1
Turner ss	4	1	1	0	1	0
Harper cf	4	1	1	1	1	2
Hill rf	0	0	0	0	0	0
Arvast 2b	5	0	3	0	0	0
Stott 3b	5	0	1	1	0	0
Bates 7b	5	1	1	0	0	2
Martin 1b	5	1	1	0	0	0
Rednouts c	4	0	0	0	0	1
Crawford cf	4	0	1	0	0	1
Totals	38	7	12	7	4	7

Minnesota AB R H BR BR SO Avg. Lannach ff 5 0 2 0 0 1 272 Bushon cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 263 Jeffers c 3 0 2 2 0 1 1 286 Bell dh 2 0 0 0 1 1 253 Lewis 5b 4 0 0 0 0 2 241 Clemens 2b 4 0 0 0 0 3 227 Kasachall rf 3 1 2 1 1 1 266 Lee 3b 4 0 0 0 0 1 245

Culpepper ss 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 176 Totals 34 1 8 1 3 12

2B: Turner (21), Bohm (18), Burton (17), Keaschall (17). HR: Schwarber 2 (37), Marsh (17), Keaschall (7). RBI: Schwarber 3 (72), Harper (72), Stott (54), Marsh 2 (54), Keaschall (36). SB: Marsh (11). Runners left in scoring position: Philadelphia 5 (Schwarber, Stott 2, Realeisto 2), Minnesota 4 (Lewis 3, Culpepper). RISP: Philadelphia 4 for 9. GIDP: Stott. DP: Philadelphia 1, Minnesota 1.

Philadelphia 7 H R BR BR SO NP ERA Noia W. 4-9 5.0 5.1 1 3 9 97 5.33 Raley 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 54 2.14 Bowlan 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 12 2.68 Kahleong 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 16 3.80 Duran 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 1.75 Minnesota IP H R BR BR SO NP ERA Bradley L. 9-5 4.0 7 5 5 4 3 89 3.98 Adams 2.2 4 4 2 2 0 1 4.62 5.92 Rogers 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 5.71 Rance 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 18 3.18

WP: Bradley. Umpires: HP-Dreckman, 1B-Rosi, 2B-Blaser, 3B-Visconti. T: 2:52. A: 7,963.

L.A. Angels, T, Texas 0

TEX	000	000	000	-0	5	1
LAO	020	040	30x	-7	15	2
Texas	AB	R	H	BR	SO	Avg.
Robinson 9b	3	0	0	0	1	1
Jr. Gailay ph-2b	3	0	0	0	0	0
Langford ff	4	0	1	0	0	2
Seager 2b	3	2	0	0	1	0
b-Diaz ph-dh	1	0	0	0	0	0
Reimer cf	2	0	0	0	1	0
c-Kalevic ph-rf	1	0	1	0	0	0
Duran 3b	4	0	0	0	0	0
Carter cf	4	0	1	0	0	1
Udehl ss	4	0	1	0	0	2
Wynns 1	4	0	1	0	0	0
Foxcar 2b-3b	3	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	33	6	5	8	2	8

L.A. Angels AB R H BR BR SO Avg. Macdon L. 8-6 4 2 1 0 1 1 301 Trout cf 5 1 3 1 0 1 1 245 Schwarel 5b 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 271 Grisson 3b 5 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 249 Salkestimos c 5 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 167 Guzman ss 4 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 241 Lower ff 4 0 2 2 1 0 2 1 209 Burr 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

L.A. Angels, T, Texas 0 B. was announced for Pederson in 8th. b-was announced for Seager in 8th. c-was announced for Nimmo in 8th. E: Duran, Siri, Guzman. 2B: Lowe (6). RBI: Trout (45), Guzman (18), Lowe 2 (24), Siri 2 (23), Frazier (8). 5B: Lopez (5), Grissom (1), Frazier (1). Runners left in scoring position: Texas 5 (Duran 2, Wynne 2, Foscue), L.A. Angels (7 (Meckler 2, Trout 2, Schanuel, Ballesteros, Lowe). RISP: L.A. Angels 6 for 18. GIDP: Nimmo, Grissom. DP: Texas 1, L.A. Angels 1.

Texas IP H B ER BR SO NP ERA Jackson L. 8-8 2.33 6.2 2 1 3 53 3.95 Gray 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 16 3.19 Montgomery 2.0 6.4 4 4 0 2 52 10.50 Peeples 1.0 0 0 0 1 1 13 2.51 Miles 1.0 3 1 1 1 2 22 5.95 Alexander 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 17 3.10

L.A. Angels, T, Texas 0 Jones W. 8-8 H BR BR SO Avg. Jones W. 8-8 6.0 2 0 0 2 5000 2.67 Kennet 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 15 3.05 Sawondo 1.0 2 0 0 0 0 12 4.70 Phyllis 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 1 50.000 Umpires: HP-Hudson, 1B-Mahrley, 2B-Jones, 3B-Gibson. T: 2:44. A: 24,959.

Milwaukee 5, L.A. Dodgers 4

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San Diego 2. Cleveland 5

SD	000	228	200	-	7	12	2
CLE	012	001	010	-	5	10	0

San Diego	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Tatis Jr. cf	4	1	1	1	0	1	282
Cromsworth 2b	5	1	2	0	0	1	222
Machado 3b	5	1	2	0	0	0	0
France 1b	4	3	2	0	1	1	298
Merrill cf	3	2	0	0	1	1	245
Campusano c	3	0	0	0	1	1	251
Fermin	0	0	0	0	0	0	194
Shwels dh	5	0	1	0	0	1	270
b-Tourg pr-dh	0	0	0	0	0	0	207
Bogaerts ss	1	1	1	2	2	0	223
Rengifo ff	4	0	1	0	0	3	241
Bowen f	0	0	0	0	0	0	147
Totals	36	7	12	7	6	8

Cleveland	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Kean 8b	3	1	1	0	2	0	266
Oik, other cf	5	0	1	0	1	1	284
McKneer, ff-cf	1	0	0	0	0	0	240
Lowe 1b	4	2	3	2	0	0	296
Buckano 3b	4	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gonza 3b	4	1	2	0	0	0	323
Hajkin cf	3	0	1	1	0	1	232
a-Adell ph-f	1	0	0	0	0	1	232
Bobby c	4	0	0	0	0	1	207
Rocchio ss	4	1	2	1	0	0	254
Totals	37	5	10	4	2	8

a-struck out for Halpin in 8th. b-ran for Sheets in 9th.

E: Bogaerts, France. 2B: France (16), Campusano 2 (11), Lowe (2), Halpin (4), Rocchio (18). HR: Tatis Jr. (13), Bogaerts (11), Lowe (2), Rocchio (10). RBI: Tatis Jr. (56), Campusano 3 (23), Bogaerts 3 (45), Lowe 2 (6), Halpin (8), Rocchio (51). SB: Merrill (24). SP: Bogaerts. Runners left in scoring position: San Diego 5 (Tatis Jr., Merrill, Rengifo 3), Cleveland 4 (Martinez, Bazzana, Bobby 2). RISP: San Diego 3 for 11, Cleveland 2 for 12. GIDP: Machado, Martinez. DP: San Diego 1, Cleveland 1.

San Diego	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
King W, B-8	6	0	8	4	3	1	4	83
Matour H, F	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	78
Estrada H, 12	1	0	1	1	1	0	2	18
Rodriguez S, 1	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	18
Cleveland	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Williams L, 11-7	4	1	7	5	5	4	5	91
Yoho	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	14
Abram	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	14
Holdeman	0	2	2	2	2	0	0	14
Harris	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	9
Festa	1	1	2	0	0	1	1	75

Inherited runners: Yoho 2-2, Herrin 1-1. HBP: Merrill. WP: Estrada. Umphres: HP-Lyenguaygei. 1B-Haman, 2B-Tichenor, 3B-Jones. T: 2:49. A: 35,726 (34,820).

Houston 10, Seattle 7 (10 inn.)

SEA	200	001	020	2	-	7	12	0
HOU	140	000	000	5	-	10	12	0

Seattle	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Young 2b	4	0	0	0	0	2	258
Antozeras ff	4	1	2	0	0	2	278
Canzone rf	4	1	2	1	1	1	255
Rodriguez dh	4	1	1	0	1	2	257
Naylor 1b	4	1	2	1	0	0	266
Donovan 3b	5	1	1	1	0	0	248
Raleigh c	2	0	0	0	0	0	156
a-Wilson pr	4	1	0	0	0	0	204
Jones cf	1	0	0	0	0	0	257
Robles cf	5	1	3	2	0	1	256
Recklen ss	4	0	1	2	0	2	250
Totals	39	7	12	7	4	11

Houston	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Pena ss	5	2	1	1	0	1	289
Alvarez dh	4	1	2	1	1	0	232
Paredes 3b	5	0	2	3	0	0	255
b-Alber pr	0	1	0	0	0	0	255
Traumell f	5	0	0	0	0	3	228
Albuw 2b	5	1	2	0	0	1	242
Carthers 1b	5	0	0	0	0	1	233
Walker 1b	5	2	2	3	0	0	238
Smith ef	4	1	1	1	0	1	235
Vazquez c	2	1	1	0	1	0	214
c-Wells Jr. ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	238
Diaz c	0	0	0	0	0	0	252
Totals	40	10	12	10	2	7

a-ran for Raleigh in 8th. b-ran for Paredes in 10th: c-grounded out for Vazquez in 9th. 2B: Anzozena (25), Rodriguez (17), Naylor (18), Rodden (1). 3B: Robles (1), Smith (3). HR: Alvarez (36), Walker (23). RBI: Canzone (51), Naylor (44), Donovan (9), Robles (27), Rodden (22), Pena (39), Alvarez (88), Paredes 2 (65), Varsho (29), Walker 3 (70), Smith (45). SB: Rodriguez (16), Altuve 2 (4). SP: Naylor, Rodden. Runners left in scoring position: Seattle 4 (Young 2, Donovan 2), Houston 2 (Trammell, Walker). RISP: Seattle 4 for 12, Houston 5 for 8. GIDP: Canzone. DP: Houston 1.

Seattle	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Kirby	4.2	8	5	3	2	59	3.89
Rucker	1.1	0	0	0	0	1	16	4.91
Sperer	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12	2.84
Bazarda	2.0	0	0	0	0	2	20	3.11
Moody L, 5-5:85, 7	0.2	4	5	4	0	1	2.3	4.47
Houston	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA

Lambert	5.0	4	2	2	2	6	96	3.11
House H, 5	1.0	2	1	1	0	2	18	3.48
Wehr H, 16	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	2	2.08
Abens BS, 1	1.0	2	2	2	2	0	29	4.50
Hader	1.0	2	0	0	0	2	23	0.93
De Los Santos W, 2-3	1.0	1	2	1	0	0	19	4.24

Inherited runners: Rucker 2-2. HBP: Anzozena. IBB: Kirby (1). Baik: Kirby (1). Umphres: HP-Mackay. 1B-Jones. 2B-Gibson, 3B-Hudson. T: 3:29. A: 30,582 (41,592).

Pittsburgh 8, Boston 4

BOS	000	020	101	-	4	9	1
PIT	010	330	10x	-	8	9	1

Boston	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Sogard 2b	4	0	2	2	0	0	258
Yoshida dh	5	0	2	1	0	2	272
Rutschman c	5	0	0	0	0	3	244
Contreras 1b	3	0	1	0	1	1	287
Valley cf	4	0	0	0	0	0	254
Durbin 3b	3	1	0	0	1	0	251
Duran ff	3	2	1	0	1	2	262
Monastiera ss	3	0	1	1	1	0	270
White cf	4	1	1	0	0	2	267
Totals	34	4	9	4	4	10

Pittsburgh	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Gonzales 3b	2	0	0	0	0	0	307
b-Gonzalez pr-ss	1	1	1	0	0	0	231
Simon dh	3	1	1	0	0	1	333
Reynolds ff-cf	4	3	2	0	0	2	244
Valdez cf	1	0	0	0	0	1	250
a-Cook pr-cf	0	0	0	0	0	0	200
Lowe 2b	4	1	1	2	0	2	250
Flores Jr. 1b	4	1	3	2	0	0	284
Mangum cf-df	4	0	0	0	0	1	267
Triolo ss-3b	3	0	0	0	1	0	247
Davis 1	3	0	0	0	0	1	171
Totals	32	8	9	7	1	8

a-ran for E:Valdez pr 7Th. b-ran for Gonzales in 5th: E: Durbin, Chandler 2B: Abreu (25), Gonzalez (3), Reynolds (29), Valdez (10). HR: Lowe (26), Flores Jr. (4). RBI: Sogard 2 (5), Yoshida (28), Monastiero (33), Valdez 2 (41), Lowe 3 (77), Flores Jr. 2 (10). SB: Gonzalez (2), Reynolds (9). SP: Sogard 5: Simon. Runners left in scoring position: Boston 3 (Yoshida, Rutschman 2), Pittsburgh 2 (Lowe, Davis). RISP: Boston 3 for 9, Pittsburgh 3 for 8. GIDP: Triolo. DP: Boston

Boston	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Bennett L, 7-6	4.0	5	4	4	1	6	82	3.46
Waver	1.0	2	3	3	0	2	27	3.00
Sambos	5.0	2	1	0	0	0	36	1.59
Pittsburgh	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Chandler W, 6-8	5.0	4	2	2	2	5	87	4.23
Solis	1.0	0	0	0	1	1	14	3.73
Daval	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	25	3.00
Weaver	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11	1.76
Yates	0.2	3	1	1	0	1	18	3.18
Montgomery S, 4	0.1	0	0	0	0	1	8	3.01

Inherited runners: Montgomery 2-2. HBP: Gonzales. Umphres: HP-Wills, 1B-Adelbois, 2B-Parra, 3B-Barksdale. T: 2:49. A: 32,036 (38,048).

N.Y. Mets 4, Washington 1

WAS	001	000	000	-	1	5	0
NYM	000	002	20x	-	4	7	1

Washington	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Abrams ss	2	1	0	0	2	1	283
Ortiz 1b	5	0	0	0	0	2	266
House dh	3	0	2	1	0	1	242
Life rf-ff	4	0	1	0	0	0	249
Ruiz c	4	0	0	0	0	0	270
Tena ff	2	0	0	0	1	2	237
Lowes cf	4	1	0	0	0	1	265
Nunez 2b	3	0	0	0	1	1	228
Vivax 3b	4	0	1	0	0	1	243
Young cf	4	0	1	0	0	0	248
Totals	32	1	5	1	4	9

N.Y. Mets	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Koing ff	4	0	0	1	1	1	255
Lindor ss	3	1	1	1	1	0	240
Richetta 3b	4	1	1	1	1	1	262
Robert Jr. cf	4	0	1	0	0	1	216
Benge cf	4	0	1	1	1	1	274
Alvarez dh	3	0	0	0	1	3	248
Semien 2b	4	0	1	0	0	0	271
Young 1b	4	1	1	1	0	1	262
Torrem c	2	1	1	0	1	0	235
Totals	32	4	7	4	3	8

E: Lindor. 2B: Semien (10). HR: Lindor (12), Young (8). RBI: House (28), Lindor (31), Bichette (63), Benge (44), Young (26). SB: Abrams (24). Runners left in scoring position: Washington: 9 Ortiz; Ruiz: 3, Young), N.Y. Mets 3 (Robert Jr., Alvarez, Young). RISP: Washington 1 for 8, N.Y. Mets 2 for 5. GIDP: Young. DP: N.Y. Mets 1.

Washington	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Alvarez L, 2-4	5.2	2	2	2	1	4	3.73	3.73
Bird	1.0	3	2	2	2	1	26	8.10
Krenick	1.1	2	0	0	0	3	18	7.59
N.Y. Mets	IP	H	B	BR	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Stock	4.1	3	1	0	3	5	64	6.57
Lawrester	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0.00
Pelican W, 1-0	2.0	1	0	0	1	1	2.34	4.15
Duarte H, 3	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	17	0.98
Gregg S, 1	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	14	7.95

Inherited runners: Bird 1-0, Kranick 2-1,

Lavender 2-2. HBP: Abrams, House. WP: Alvarez, Bird. Umphres: HP-Ramos, 1B-Caja, 2B-Traynor, 3B-Guccione. T: 2:31. A: 30,656 (41,927).

Colorado 5, San Francisco 2

COL	000	112	001-	-	5	6	1
SF	000	100	001-	-	2	7	2
Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
McCarthy cf-rf	5	0	0	0	0	1	266
Monkall ff	4	0	0	1	1	2	267
Castro 3b	4	0	0	1	0	1	262
Rundland 1b	3	1	1	0	1	1	284
Johnston dh	4	0	0	0	0	1	282
Wells 2b	0	0	0	0	2	1	308
Weed cf	1	1	1	0	2	1	333
Cerring cf	0	0	0	0	0	0	292
Timor ss	0	0	1	0	0	1	2026
Sullivan c	4	2	2	0	0	1	245
Totals	32	4	6	3	2	10

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San Francisco 1 AB R H BI BB SO Avg. Brians dh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh Wilson sh

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Blackburn 2-2, de los Santos 2-2. HBP: Valenzuela. IBB: Blackburn (1), de de los Santos (1). Umplees: HP-Lentz, IB-Hendelsheck, 2B-Baldson, 3B-Carapazza. T: 2:44. A: 42,580 (41,500).

Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 3, 10 ins.

BAI_010	011	000	1	4	0	1
TB_001	001	001	0	-	3	11

Baltimore	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
O'Neil II	0	0	1	1	0	2	273
Pinto I	0	0	0	0	0	0	273
Alonso 1b	5	1	3	1	0	0	264
Holliday 2b	1	0	1	0	0	0	260
Mayo 2b	3	0	0	0	0	2	208
Aldero 2b	0	0	0	0	0	2	244
Henderson ss	4	1	1	0	1	1	221
Encarnacion-Strand 3b	5	1	1	1	0	2	254

Franklin ff	3	0	0	0	1	2	118
Taveras cfl-rf	4	0	2	1	0	0	226
Narvaez c	4	0	0	0	0	2	175
Counsper crf	4	0	0	0	0	0	214
Totals	39	4	9	4	3	15
Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Oost 2b	4	0	2	0	1	0	250
Jones 2b	4	1	0	0	0	1	250
Aranda 1b	5	0	3	0	0	0	287
Caminero 1b	5	0	1	1	0	2	275
Hicks 1	1	1	0	0	2	0	300
Is-forms ph-c	3	0	0	0	0	0	268
Simpson ff	5	0	2	0	0	0	308
DeLuca rf	4	0	0	0	0	0	268
Adkins cf	4	0	1	0	0	0	298
Palacios 2b	4	1	1	0	1	1	242
Walls 2b	4	0	1	0	0	0	220
d-Moya Jr. ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	214
Totals	39	3	11	2	5	5

a-ran for Narvaez in 10th. b-lined out for Hicks in 7th. c-ran for Diaz in 9th. d-lined out for Waldo in 9th. e-struck out for Mayo in 8th. E: Narvaez, Aranda. 2B: Holliday (3), Palacios (11). 3B: Malino (2). HR: Alonso (27), Encarnacion-Strand (5). RBI: O'Neill (23), Alonso (78), Encarnacion-Strand (15), Taveras (44), Caminero (79), Mullins (38). 5: Holliday. Runners left in scoring position: Baltimore 5 (Mayo, Henderson, Encarnacion-Strand 2, Narvaez), Tampa Bay 5 (Forlan 2, Palacios 2, Walls). RISP: Baltimore 2 for 8, Tampa Bay 3 for 13. GIDP: DeLuca. DP: Baltimore 1.

Baltimore	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Bradish	6.0	7	2	2	4	3	93	3.65
Hoppe H, 3	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	8	5.17
Walker H, 2	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3.00
Garcia H, 16	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	12	3.48
Kittmeyer W, 2-3 BS	1.0	3	1	1	0	0	21	3.62
5
Sanders S, 3	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	20	2.84

Tampa Bay	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Seeman	6.0	6	3	1	1	9	93	4.11
Legumina	2.0	0	0	0	0	4	28	3.86
Roster	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	15	1.93
Baker L, 1-1	1.0	2	1	0	1	2	12	1.52

Inherited runners: Visibert 1-1. IBB: Baker (1). Umplees: HP-Schenwater, 1B-Bacchus, 2B-Noon, 3B-Baker. T: 3:03. A: 28,055 (25,025).

San Francisco 7, Colorado 1

COL	001	000	000	-	1	5	0
SF	001	600	00x	-	7	10	0

Colorado	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
McCarthy ff	4	0	1	0	0	1	296
Carrigg cf	4	0	1	1	0	1	291
Wendel 2b	3	0	0	0	1	1	285
a-Rodular ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	000
Buehlard 1b	4	0	0	0	0	1	280
Walter 2b	4	0	1	0	0	1	282
Veen rf	3	0	0	0	0	2	222
Life df	3	0	1	0	0	1	200
Sullivan c	3	0	0	0	0	1	241
Tover ss	3	1	1	0	0	1	209
Totals	32	1	5	1	0	11

San Francisco	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Gilbert cf	4	2	3	3	1	1	243
Devers db	5	1	1	1	0	0	244
Eldridge 1b	4	0	1	1	0	1	246
Lee rf	3	1	2	0	1	0	293
Basabe 2b	4	0	1	0	0	0	280
Cavanagh c	3	1	0	0	1	0	239
Hill ff	3	0	0	1	0	1	000
Kennedy 3b	3	1	1	0	0	0	050
Koss ss	4	1	1	0	0	2	199
Totals	33	7	10	6	3	5

a-struck out for Mcosial in 9th. 2B: Korthy (13), Devers (29). HR: Gilbert (6). RBI: Carrigg (31), Gilbert 3 (28), Devers (66), Eldridge (31), Hill (1). SF: Hill. Runners left in scoring position: Colorado 2 (Bumfield, Sullivan), San Francisco 2 (Basabe 2). RISP: Colorado 1 for 4, San Francisco 3 for 6.

Colorado	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lorenzon L, 3-11	3.2	4	6	6	3	1	82	7.08
Mushroom	0.1	3	1	1	0	0	15	3.86
Gordon	4.0	3	0	0	0	4	63	5.55
San Francisco	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Webb M, 8-7	6.0	4	1	1	0	7	60	3.50
Seerman	2.0	1	0	0	0	3	24	6.23
Smith	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	10	2.96

Inherited runners: Mushinski 2-0. HBP: Kennedy. WP: Mushinski. Umplees: HP-Bacon, 1B-Walsh, 2B-Morales, 3B-Barrett. T: 2:26. A: 35,069 (40,260).

N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 4

WAS	000	103	000	-	4	7	0
NYM	200	001	002	-	6	8	0

Washington	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Crews rf	4	0	0	0	0	1	214
Chaparo 1b	2	2	1	1	1	1	231
Is-2012 ph-1b	1	0	1	0	0	0	306
House 2b	4	1	1	3	0	2	242
Morano ss	4	0	0	0	0	0	280
Ford c	3	0	0	0	1	2	213
Young cf	4	0	2	0	0	1	251
Life db	4	0	0	0	0	2	247
Rover 2b	4	0	1	0	0	1	228
Pinckney ff	2	1	1	0	2	1	300
Totals	32	4	7	4	2	11

N.Y. Mets	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Living cf	4	1	0	0	1	1	245
Linder ss	4	1	2	1	0	1	244
McNolfe 3b	4	0	1	0	0	2	262
Berger 1b	4	0	1	1	1	1	275
Young 1b	4	0	2	2	0	2	266
Semien 2b	3	0	0	0	1	1	269
Baty ff	2	1	0	0	2	0	213
Polanco db	4	0	1	0	0	2	147
a-Pache pr	0	1	0	0	0	0	000
Alvarez	4	0	1	1	0	2	248
a-Robert Jr. pr	1	0	0	0	0	0	216
Totals	31	5	8	5	7	12

a-ran for Polanco in 9th. b-singled for Chaparo in 8th. c-ran for Alvarez in 9th. 2B: Young (11), Alvarez (11). 3B: Pinckney (1). RBI: Chaparo (7), House (9), Benge (14). RBI: Chaparo (29), House 3 (31), Lindor (32), Benge (49), Young 2 (28), Alvarez (30). 2D: Nunez (7). 3B: Living (16). Runners left in scoring position: Washington 2 (Ford, Lin), N.Y. Mets 4 (Semien 2, Polanco 2). RISP: Washington 1 for 4, N.Y. Mets 3 for 5. GIDP: Baty. DP: Washington 1, N.Y. Mets 1.

Washington	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lund	0.2	1	2	2	4	1	44	4.64
Dion	4.1	0	0	0	1	7	64	0.00
Chapreve H, 3	1.0	2	1	1	0	1	9	5.75
Albalda H, 11	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	17	3.41
Alvarez H, 6	1.0	2	0	0	1	1	19	3.55
O'Neill H, 1-1, 5, 2	0.1	2	0	0	1	1	23	0.00
N.Y. Mets	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Morano	6.1	6	4	4	2	7	93	4.22
Alvarez	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	11	13.50
Van M, 1-0	1.2	0	0	0	0	3	22	1.80

Inherited runners: Dion 3-3, Nunez 1-1, Yan 1-1. HBP: Pinckney. WP: Beeter. Umplees: HP-Clay, 1B-Traynor, 2B-Guccione, 3B-Ramos. T: 2:54. A: 34,737 (41,922).

Arizona 10, Atlanta 3

ARI	023	000	103	-	10	13	0
ATL	200	000	001	-	3	6	0

Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Hootham db	5	0	1	0	1	2	221
Carroll cf	4	1	2	0	2	0	248
Perdomo ss	5	0	0	0	0	1	249
Moreno c	4	3	3	1	1	0	309
Kepler ff	4	1	1	0	0	2	270
Berman	3	0	1	0	0	0	282
Arendula 3b	4	3	2	4	1	0	243
Tawe 3b	4	1	2	1	0	2	238
Vargas 2b	5	1	1	3	0	0	266
Walshchmidt cf-2	4	0	1	1	1	1	275
Totals	40	10	13	10	6	8

Atlanta	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Acuna Jr. rf	4	1	2	1	0	0	244
Baldwin db	4	1	1	0	0	0	278
Olson 3b	4	1	2	0	0	0	264
Allure 2b	4	0	0	0	0	0	252
Wright cf	3	0	1	0	0	2	288
a-Kim ph	1	0	0	1	0	0	066
Dubon ss	4	0	0	0	0	0	262
Thomas ff	3	0	1	0	0	1	214
Wlay 2b	3	0	0	0	0	2	221
Murphy c	3	0	0	0	0	0	129
Totals	33	3	6	3	8	5

a-grounded out for Harris II in 9th. 2B: Carroll (26), Moreno (25), Kepler (7), Baldwin (9), Olson (30), Thomas (2). 3B: Carroll (15). HR: Arendo 2 (20), Vargas (8), Acuna Jr. (13). RBI: Moreno (55), Arendo 4 (62), Tawa (28), Vargas 3 (59), Waldschmidt (16), Acuna Jr. (31), Harris II (68), Kim (4). SB: Nootbaar (2). Runners left in scoring position: Arizona 3 (Perdomo 3), Atlanta 2 (Acuna Jr., Dubon). RISP: Arizona 5 for 12, Atlanta 1 for 9.

Arizona	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Burlinguez M, 12-4	6.0	5	2	2	0	5	98	3.71
Lozinger	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	9	2.79
Ginkel	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	10	3.63
Abner	1.0	1	1	1	0	0	13	6.28
Atlanta	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA

Holmes L, 7-5 Bredwin H, 10-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4 Burgman M, 12-4

Cleveland 6, San Diego 1

SD	100	000	000	-	1	1	2
CLE	110	020	20x	-	6	11	0

San Diego	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Tatis Jr. rf	2	1	0	0	1	1	279
Cronneworth 2b	4	0	1	0	0	1	222
Wachland 3b	4	0	0	0	1	1	253
France 1b	2	0	0	0	0	1	296
Merrill cf	3	0	0	0	0	2	244
Campazone dh	2	0	0	0	1	1	313
Hays R	2	0	0	0	0	1	273
a-Slewks ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	250
Bowen R	0	0	0	0	0	0	167
Brugerts ss	1	0	0	0	0	0	221
Asman c	2	0	0	0	0	0	191
Totals	26	1	1	0	3	11

a-struck out for Hays in 8th. b-ran for Adell in 7th. E: Cronneworth 2. 2B: Kwan (15), Ramirez (19), Adell 2 (20), Bailey (6). RBI: Kwan (22), Ramirez (38), Adell (67), Bailey (59). CS: Tatis Jr. (13). SB: Kwan (9), DeLuster (9), Halpin (9). SF: Ramirez. Runners left in scoring position: San Diego (T. Lempzauers), Cleveland 4 (Xmas; Lowe, Genias, Halpin). RISP: Cleveland 2 for 11. GIDP: Machado. DP: Cleveland 1.

San Diego IP H B ER BB SO NP ERA Peraña Honda 1.0 3 1 0 1 0 1 13 3 48 Pierl L, 0-3 1 0 1 1 1 1 22 4 20 Simpson Rogers 1.0 7 4 4 1 1 1 0 0 4 20 Canning 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 50

Cleveland	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Carolito M, 9-7	4.6	1	1	1	3	7	87	3.80
Holdenman H, 10	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	16	2.39
Waldrich H, 24	1.1	0	0	0	0	2	15	3.48
Sabroesek	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	10	3.48
Inherited runners: Gaddis 1-1. HBP: FranceWP: Holderman. Umpres: HP-Hamari, 1B-Tolhener, 2B-Jones, 3B-Livensparger. T: 2:27. A: 35,153 (34,820).

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Jimenez in 8th.

E. Toglia, De La Cruz 2. 2B: Ramirez (7). HR: Hernandez (18), Sanoja (5), Stephenson (12). RBI: Hernandez (50), Ramirez 2 (17), Sanoja 3 (45), Conine (29), Stephenson (39). CS: De La Cruz (7), Trevino (1). SB: Ramirez (4), Edwards (19), Ruiz (29). Runners left in scoring position: Miami 6 (Sanoja, Ruiz 2, Navarreto 3), Cincinnati 2 (De La Cruz, Toglial). RISP: Miami 2 for 6. GIDP: Hernandez, Toglia. DP: Miami 2, Cincinnati 1.

Miami	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Reesi	6.0	2	0	0	1	1000	3	2.23
Ekness W, 1-1	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	12	1.64
Reimann H, 21	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	14	2.98
Zuber	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	13	3.33

Cincinnati	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lodolo	5.0	3	0	0	2	2	73	4.52
Garcia	2.0	1	0	0	0	4	26	3.04
Antone L, 2-2	0.2	2	2	1	2	0	30	3.60
Marinaccio	1.1	2	5	1	2	2	47	6.09

Inherited runners: Marinaccio 3-3. HBP: Hernandez. Umpiers: HP-Libka, 18-Hope, 28-Jean, 3B-Barber. T: 2:55. A: 24,092 (45,814).

Chi. White Sox 7, Detroit 5

1WS	001	021	201	-	7	8	0
DET	031	000	100	-	5	7	1

Chi. White Sox	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Antonacci P	4	1	0	1	1	0	275
Murakami Ib	5	1	1	1	0	2	259
Vargas 3b	4	1	1	1	1	1	239
Benichondi dh	1	0	0	0	1	0	248
Enchoban 2b	2	1	1	0	0	1	276
Montgomery rf	4	0	1	0	1	1	238
Montgomery ss	4	0	2	1	0	2	265
Meidroth 2b	3	0	0	0	1	1	278
Moess Jf	1	2	1	0	1	0	273
e-Doyle ph-cf	2	0	0	0	0	1	241
Moess J	4	1	1	2	2	0	335

Totals	35	7	8	7	4	5	5
Detroit	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Torres 2b	5	1	2	0	0	0	271
McGonigle 3b-ss	4	0	0	0	0	2	282
O'Connor 2b	2	0	0	1	1	1	259
Keith dh	2	2	2	1	0	0	269
a-Valencia ph-dh	2	0	0	0	1	1	289
McKinstry rf	2	1	0	0	1	0	216
c-Lee ph-3b	1	0	0	0	0	0	265
Torkelson Ib	3	0	0	0	1	0	228
Callalani P	2	1	1	2	0	1	500
d-Maguel ph-lf-cf	1	0	0	0	1	0	268
Clavi Jf	4	0	1	1	1	0	259
Sanchev ff	4	0	0	0	0	0	269
Totals	34	5	7	5	5	5	5

a-struck out for Keith in 5th. b-doubled for Benichondi in 6th. c-grounded out for McKinstry in 7th. d-lined out for Callahan in 6th. e-struck out for Peters in 6th. E: McGonigle. 2B: Grichuk (19), Peters (24), Torres (10), Dingler (24). 3B: Callahan (1). HR: Murakami (28), Vargas (28), Romo (7), Keith (9). RBI: Antonacci (36), Murakami 2 (57), Vargas (72), Montgomery (71), Romo 2 (15), Dingler (82), Keith (32), Callahan 2 (2), Clavi (8). Runners left in scoring position: Chi. White Sox 4 (Meidroth 3, Romo), Detroit 4 (Dingler 2, Lee, Baez). RISP: Chi. White Sox 1 for 10, Detroit 3 for 11. GIDP: Meidroth. DP: Detroit 1.

Chi. White Sox	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Butler	4.1	0	4	0	2	12	1.55
Smith W, 2-0	1.2	0	0	0	1	1	26	0.00
Brookhan R, 2	0.2	1	1	0	0	9	1.14
Newcomb S, 4	2.1	0	0	0	1	2	33	2.51
Detroit	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Anderson	5.0	4	3	3	2	4	14	4.01
Watson, 1, 5-85, 2	1.0	3	3	3	2	1	33	3.93
Rainey	1.0	0	0	0	2	2	24	0.00
Wegervosell	2.0	1	1	1	0	1	29	1.67

Holton pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. Inherited runners: Smith 1-1, Newcomb 1-1. WP: Smith, Rainey. Umpiers: HP-Baez, 1B-Nassogna, 2B-Reyburn, 3B-Krupa. T: 2:50. A: 34,251 (40,988).

N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3 (10)

NYY	001	000	100	2	-	4	6	1
TOB.	000	010	001	1	-	3	7	0

N.Y. Yankees	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Rice 5b	5	1	1	2	0	1	251
Garcia Jr. dh	3	0	1	1	1	1	238
Jones Jf	4	0	0	0	1	1	283
Ginahan cf	4	0	0	0	0	3	221
Jones rf	4	0	0	0	0	3	259
Lombard Jr. ss	3	1	1	0	1	0	270
McMahon 3b	2	0	0	0	0	2	265
a-Goldschmidt ph	0	0	0	0	1	0	247
b-Chisholm Jr. pr-2b	1	0	1	0	0	0	258
Wells s	2	0	0	0	0	1	179
f-Mouno ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	257
Jones Jf	4	1	0	0	0	0	261
Caballero 2b-3b	2	1	1	1	1	1	242
Totals	32	4	6	4	1	12	1

Toronto	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Balemian rf-cf	3	0	0	0	0	3	275
McAdoo Ib	3	0	2	0	0	0	250
e-Smith ph-3b	1	1	0	0	0	0	259
Kirk c	3	0	1	0	1	0	271
c-Valenzuela pr-c	0	0	0	0	0	0	225

Springer dh	4	0	0	0	0	0	228
Cameron 5b	3	0	0	1	1	0	239
McGonigle 1b	4	2	1	1	0	1	227
Cameron ff	4	0	1	1	0	1	250
Gimenez ss	4	0	2	1	0	1	240
Straw cf	1	0	0	0	1	0	221
d-Ludes ph-cf	2	0	0	0	0	0	264
Totals	34	3	7	3	2	5

a-wars intentionally roulised for McMahon in 7th. b-ran for Goldschmidt in 7th. c-ran for Kirk in 6th. d-lined out for Straw in 8th. e-reached on error for McAdoo in 9th. f-lined out for Wells in 7th.

E: Rice. 2B: Ramos (3), Lombard Jr. (1), Okamoto (17), Cameron (1). HR: Rice (33). RBI: Rice 2 (78), Garcia Jr. (3), Caballero (42), Clement (43), Cameron (1), Gimenez (49). SB: Ramos (1), Lombard Jr. (1), Chisholm Jr. (32), Caballero (30), Gimenez (17). SF: Garcia Jr., Clement. S: Caballero.

Runners left in scoring position: N.Y. Yankees 4 (Grisham 2, Wells, Sanchez), Toronto 4 (Bateman, Kirk, Springer, Okamoto). RISP: N.Y. Yankees 2 for 7, Toronto 2 for 9. GIDP: Ramos, Kirk, Springer. DP: N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 1.

N.Y. Yankees	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Weedram	1	0	6	1	1	4	49	3.58
Bednar W, 6-3 BS, 3	1.2	0	1	0	1	1	28	2.48
Hill S, 2	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	31	4.53
Toronto	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Lease	6.0	2	2	2	3	10104	2.42
Little	1.0	1	0	0	2	1	21	9.37
Sewald	1.2	1	0	0	0	1	18	0.00
Fisher L, 3-4	1.0	2	2	1	0	0	12	3.57

Inherited runners: Bednar 1-1, Little 1-0, Sewald 1-1. RBI: Little (4). WP: Bednar. Umpiers: HP-Wendelsstedt, 1B-Ballou, 2B-Carapazza, 3B-Lentz. T: 2:59. A: 42,351 (41,500).

Atlanta 5, Arizona 3

ABI	000	100	101-	-	3	6	0
ATL	001	010	30x-	-	5	8	0

Arizona	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Pocheros ss	4	0	0	0	0	2	247
Carroll 2b	4	0	0	0	0	1	288
Morrero dh	4	1	1	1	0	2	308
Marin 2b	4	1	0	0	1	1	249
Kepler ff	4	0	1	0	0	1	276
Arimatis 5b	2	0	0	0	0	2	240
Vargas 3b	2	1	1	1	0	0	268
Tiara 5b	3	0	0	0	1	1	234
McCann c	4	0	2	0	0	0	300
Barroia cf	4	2	0	0	0	1	188

Totals	20	5	6	2	3	9	1
Atlanta	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Balderic, 1	2	1	1	1	1	0	274
Acuna Jr. rf	4	0	1	1	0	3	244
Olson 5b	4	1	1	2	1	1	264
Harris II cf	4	0	1	0	0	1	288
Yamravonall ff	4	0	0	0	0	1	228
Albee 2b	3	0	0	0	1	0	251
Smith dh	4	1	1	0	0	1	264
Alley 3b	4	2	2	0	0	1	224
Jones 1b	2	0	1	0	0	0	223

2B: Acuna Jr. (12), Riley (19). HR: Moreno (9), Vargas (9), Olson (36). RBI: Moreno (56), Vargas (60), Tiara (29), Baldwin (62). Acuna Jr. (32), Olson 3 (77). SB: Carroll (17), Baldwin (2). Acuna Jr. (10), Olson (3). Harris II (7). S: Barroia. Jones. Runners left in scoring position: Arizona 3 (Carroll, Marys, McCann), Atlanta 5 (Olson, J Harris II 2, Smith). RISP: Atlanta 3 for 11.

Arizona	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Soroka	5.2	6	2	2	1	5	80	2.93
Clasky L, 2-2	0.2	1	1	1	0	1	10	2.29
Garcia	0.2	1	2	2	1	2	17	2.52
Carrillo	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.66
Atlanta	IP	H	8	ER	BB	SO	NP	ERA
Eldor	6.0	4	1	1	5	75	3.92
Fuentes W, 5-1 BS, 5	1.0	1	1	1	0	2	21	2.52
Jones 1b	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	76	1.56
Iglesias S, 25	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	21	3.35

Inherited runners: Garcia 1-0. RBI: Soroka (1). Bulk: Iglesias (1). Umpiers: HP-Jimenez, 1B-Porter, 2B-Ortiz, 3B-Wolf. T: 2:21. A: 29,629 (40,819).

Baltimore 10, Tampa Bay 2

BAL	000	037	000-	10	9	0
TB	000	101	000-	2	9	0

Baltimore	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Holliday 2b-ss	4	2	2	3	1	0	245
Alonso dh	1	1	1	2	2	0	288
A-Flanditz ph-dh	1	1	1	0	0	0	311
Henderson ss	3	1	0	0	1	0	220
a-Jackson ph-2b	1	0	0	0	0	0	220
Encarnacion-Strand	5	0	1	3	0	2	250

Beavers ff	5	0	0	0	0	2	238
Townes rf	4	2	1	0	1	1	226
Conner cf	4	1	2	0	1	0	217
Major	3	2	1	0	1	0	270
Price	3	1	1	0	1	0	286
Totals	35	10	9	10	7	7

Tampa Bay	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	Avg.
Díaz dB	5	0	1	0	0	1	302
Aranda 5b	4	0	0	0	0	3	285
Caminero 3b	3	0	0	0	0	2	274
Palacios 2b	1	0	0	0	0	0	241

Vilade rf	4	2	3	1	0	1	0	264
Simpson ff	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	309
McGon 2f	4	0	1	1	0	2	0	263
Malker 2b-3b	4	0	1	1	0	1	1	250
Forster c	3	0	1	0	0	0	269
Walls ss	4	0	1	0	0	0	220
Totals	34	2	9	2	1	10

a-possed out for Henderson in 8th. b-hooled out for Alonso in 8th.

2B: Holliday (9), Alonso (23), Encarnacion-Strand (4), Vilade (8), Simpson (13). HR: Conner (1), Vilade (10). RBI: Holliday 3 (25), Alonso 2 (80), Encarnacion-Strand 1 (9), Conner 2 (33), Vilade (36), Mateo (1). Runners left in scoring position: Baltimore 2 (Henderson, Beavers), Tampa Bay 4 (Dampson 2, DeLuca, Forster). RISP: Baltimore 4 for 7, Tampa Bay 2 for 6. DP: Tampa Bay 1.

Baltimore 1P H B E B B S O NP ERA

Rogers W, 6-8 6.0 0.2 2.2 1.5 5.98 4.55

1.0 0 0 0 0 0 2.10 5.01

Waltman 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Rogers 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Rogers 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Rogers 1.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Sanchez, Lockridge 2), L.A. Dodgers 1 (Ohtani). RISP: Milwaukee 2 for 6; L.A. Dodgers 1 for 2. GIDP: Vaughn, Ohtani, Edman. DP: Milwaukee 2, L.A. Dodgers 1.

Milwaukee	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SD	NP	ERA
Henderson W, 7-2	7.0	3	1	1	1	6	93	2.70
Patrick H, 8	0.1	2	0	0	0	0	11	3.39
Ashby H, 11	0.2	0	0	0	0	0	3	3.39
Hall	1.0	1	1	1	0	1	14	2.63
L.A. Dodgers	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SD	NP	ERA
Skobal L, 0-2	6.0	7	2	1	2	7	109	3.18
Henriquez	0.2	1	1	1	0	0	8	3.12
Vess	0.1	2	1	1	0	0	9	2.98

Hurt	1.1	1	2	0	1	3	30	4.31
Dreyer	0.2	0	0	0	1	2	18	3.04
Inherited runners: Ashby 2-2, Vesia 1-0, Dreyer 2-0. WP: Patrick. Umprez: HP-Jimenez, 1B-Thomas, 2B-Muchlinski, 3B-Eddings, T: 2.51, A: 45,828 (56,000).

Seattle 3, Hampden 2

SEA	101	001	000	-	3	8	0
HOU	000	101	000	-	2	7	0
Seattle	AB	B	H	BI	BB	SD	Avg.
Donnan 3b	4	0	0	0	1	1	25.4
Arozarena P	5	1	2	1	0	0	27%

Canzone #	4	0	2	1	1	2	260
Rodriguez #	5	0	1	0	0	2	258
Naylor 3b	5	0	1	0	0	2	261
Young 2b	3	0	0	0	0	1	260
Raleigh 1	3	1	1	1	1	1	258
Wilson dh	2	0	0	0	2	0	200
Rodgers q	2	1	1	0	2	1	500
Totals	33	3	6	3	7	8
Houston	AB	B	H	BI	BB	SD	Avg.
Pena ss	4	1	1	1	0	0	268
Alvarez #	4	0	1	0	0	1	321
c-Smith pr-ct	0	0	0	0	0	0	223
Paredes 3b	3	0	1	0	0	0	260
Altune dh-2b	3	0	1	0	1	1	245
Vanho cf	4	0	0	0	0	1	231

Walker 1b	4	0	0	0	0	3	234
Wade Jr. #	3	0	1	0	1	1	222
Daer c	4	0	1	0	0	1	201
Allen 2b	2	1	1	1	0	0	259
a-Velazquez ph	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
b-Tranneill ph	1	0	0	0	0	1	223
Totals	33	2	7	2	2	9

a-popped out for Allen in 8th. b-struck out for Hader in 9th. c-ran for Alvarez in 8th.

2B: Arozarena (26), Canzone (19), Rodriguez (18). HB: Arozarena (17), Raleigh (13), Pena (14), Allen (2). RBI:

Arozarena (53), Canzone (52), Raleigh (44), Pena (40), Allen (13). CS: Arozarena (7), Naylor (7). SB: Naylor (24). Runners left in starting position: Seattle 7 (Donnan 3, Naylor 2, Raleigh 2), Houston 2 (Varsho 2). RISP: Seattle 1 for 11, Houston 1 for 2. GIDP: Allen. DP: Seattle 1.

Seattle	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SD	NP	ERA
Woo W, 9-8	6.0	3	2	2	1	5	75	4.10
Baulardo H, 24	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	16	3.05
Speler H, 15	0.2	2	0	0	0	0	10	2.78
Dominguez H, 5	0.1	1	0	0	0	1	6	4.60

Munoz 5, 22	1.0	0	0	0	1	2	18	4.32
Houston	IP	H	B	ER	BB	SD	NP	ERA
Brown L, 3-3	5.0	3	2	2	5	5	90	3.67
Sioux	1.0	2	1	1	1	1	24	3.86
Abreu	1.0	1	0	0	1	0	22	4.40
Obert	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	11	2.04
Hader	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	15	0.90

Inherited runners: Dominguez 2-2. HBP: Young, Paredes. Umprez: HP-Gibson, 1B-Hudson, 2B-MacKay, 3B-Jones. T: 2.55, A: 27,971 (41,592).

MLB STANDINGS THROUGH AUG. 16

AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Tampa Bay	74	49	.602	—
N.Y. Yankees	69	55	.556	5%
Boston	66	58	.532	8%
Baltimore	61	63	.492	13%
Toronto	61	65	.484	14%

Central Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Chi. White Sox	65	58	.528	—
Detroit	60	64	.484	5%
Minnesota	65	65	.480	6
Cleveland	60	65	.480	6
Kansas City	51	74	.458	15

West Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Houston	63	62	.504	—
Texas	61	64	.488	2
Seattle	59	66	.472	4
Athletics	61	49	.75	39%
L.A. Angels	49	76	.392	14

NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Atlanta	74	50	.597	—
Philadelphia	67	58	.536	7%
Miami	64	61	.512	10%
Washington	60	66	.476	15
N.Y. Mets	56	69	.448	18%

Central Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
Milwaukee	77	48	.618	—
Chicago Cubs	72	53	.576	5
St. Louis	63	61	.508	13%
Pittsburgh	61	65	.484	16%
Cincinnati	59	64	.480	17

West Division

	W	L	Pct	GB
L.A. Dodgers	74	51	.592	—
San Diego	67	58	.536	7
Arizona	66	59	.528	8
San Francisco	51	73	.451	22%
Colorado	50	74	.403	23%

MLB LEADERS THROUGH AUG. 16

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Batting Average — Alvarez, Houston .321; Simpson, Tampa Bay .309; Diaz, Tampa Bay .302; Jung, Texas .294; DeLauter, Cleveland .285; Rafaeia, Boston .285; Aranda, Tampa Bay .285; Hicks, Tampa Bay .284; Witt Jr., Kansas City .282; Clement, Toronto .281.

Home Runs — Alvarez, Houston 36; Caminero, Tampa Bay 35; Rice, New York 33; Vargas, Chicago 28; Murakami, Chicago 28; Alonso, Baltimore 27; Dregler, Detroit 26; Montgomery, Chicago 26; Buxton, MIN 25; Contreras, Boston 24.

RBI — Alvarez, Houston 88; Dregler, Detroit 82; Alonso, Baltimore 80; Caminero, Tampa Bay 79; Garcia Jr., New York 79; Rice, New York 78; Aranda, Tampa Bay 75; Burger, Texas 73; Contreras, Boston 72; Bell, Minnesota 72.

Stolen Bases — Simpson, Tampa Bay 35; Chisholm Jr., New York 32; Witt Jr., Kansas City 32; Caballero, New York 30; Ramirez, Cleveland 29; Naylor, Seattle 24; Arozarena, Seattle 20; Mullins, Tampa Bay 18; Walls, Tampa Bay 18; Gimenez, Toronto 17.

Wins — Gray, Boston 15; Griffin, Cleveland 13; Rasmussen, Tampa Bay 12; Martinez, Tampa Bay 12; Williams, Cleveland 11; Eovaldi, Texas 10; Schlittler, New York 10; Kay, Chicago 9; McClanahan, Tampa Bay 9; Martin, Chicago 9.

ERA — Schlittler, New York 2.19; Cease, Toronto 2.42; Messick, Cleveland 2.59; Gray, Boston 2.65; Martinez, Tampa Bay 2.74; Rasmussen, Tampa Bay 2.78; Burke, Chicago 3.15; Soriano, Toronto 3.16; Montero, Detroit 3.22; Griffin, Cleveland 3.25.

Strikeouts — Cease, Toronto 201; Williams, Cleveland 190; Schlittler, New York 189; Detmers, Los Angeles 187; Gore, Texas 154; Burke, Chicago 154; Gilbert, Seattle 152; Bradley, Minnesota 151; deGron, Texas 147; Messick, Cleveland 142.

Saves — Baker, Tampa Bay 34; Smith, Cleveland 31; Varland, Toronto 28; Chapman, Boston 27; Bednar, New York 27; Sewald, Toronto 24; Latz, Texas 24; Munoz, Seattle 22; Hader, Houston 17; Gomez, Minnesota 17.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Batting Average — Arraez, Philadelphia .315; Moreno, Arizona .308; Lopez, Miami .308; Gonzales, Pittsburgh .307; Freeman, Los Angeles .298; McCarthy, Colorado .296; Lee, San Francisco .292; Rumfield, Colorado .291; Ohtani, Los Angeles .289; Burleson, St. Louis .288.

Home Runs — Schaeuber, Philadelphia 37; Olson, Atlanta 36; Goodman, Colorado 34; Wood, Washington 30; Abrams, Washington 29; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago 28; Ohtani, Los Angeles 27; Lowe, Pittsburgh 26; Stewart, Cincinnati 26; Harper, Philadelphia 25.

RBI — Abrams, Washington 91; Stewart, Cincinnati 91; Burleson, St. Louis 90; Walker, St. Louis 88; Lowe, Pittsburgh 79; Pages, Los Angeles 78; Olson, Atlanta 77; Turang, Milwaukee 76; Ohtani, LAD 75; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago 75.

Stolen Bases — Nunez, Washington 40; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago 30; Ruiz, Miami 29; Tatis Jr., San Diego 28; Lopez, Miami 24; Abrams, Washington 24; Merrill, San Diego 24; Stott, Philadelphia 23; Hamilton, MIL 22; Cruz, Pittsburgh 21.

Wins — Sanchez, Philadelphia 15; Burns, Cincinnati 14; Alcantara, Miami 13; Ashby, Milwaukee 13; Supano, Colorado 12; Yamamoto, Los Angeles 12; Pallante, St. Louis 12; Ashcraft, Pittsburgh 12; Misionowski, Milwaukee 12; Sale, Atlanta 12.

ERA — Misionowski, Milwaukee 1.75; Sale, Atlanta 2.16; Burns, Cincinnati 2.47; Sanchez, Philadelphia 2.54; Yamamoto, Los Angeles 2.60; Rodriguez, Arizona 2.71; Luzardo, Philadelphia 2.32; Ray, San Diego 3.28; Cavalli, WAS 3.36; King, SD 3.41.

Strikeouts — Misionowski, Milwaukee 210; Luzardo, Philadelphia 185; Sanchez, Philadelphia 181; Slenes, Pittsburgh 166; Sale, Atlanta 160; McLean, New York 159; Ashcraft, Pittsburgh 155; Cavalli, WAS 151; Burns, CNYST; Gaumman, CNC 138.

Saves — O'Brien, St. Louis 30; Miller, San Diego 30; Duran, Philadelphia 26; Iglesias, Atlanta 25; Megill, Milwaukee 22; Fairbanks, Miami 18; Williams, New York 16; Scott, Los Angeles 16; Pagan, Cincinnati 15; Soto, Pittsburgh 14.

MLB TRANSACTIONS

Monday, Aug. 10

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — P. Zack Littell signed as free agent one-year contract. P. Kade Strood sent to minors. P. Michael Soroka removed from 15-Day IL - Left glute strain. P. Michael Soroka recalled from minors rehab. P. Paul Sewald designated for assignment.

ATHLETICS — 38 Zack Gelof removed from 10-Day IL - Right knee laceration. 38 Zack Gelof recalled from minors rehab. 28 Jonathan Ornelas designated for assignment.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — P. Cam Sanders called up from minors. P. Cade Povich sent to minors.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Wikelman Gonzalez acquired off waivers to Miami Marlins.

CINCINNATI REDS — DH Ivan Johnson sent to minors.

HOUSTON ASTROS — LF Nelson Velazquez acquired off waivers. 38 Shay Whitcomb designated for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — P. Easton McGee sent to minors. P. Justin Topa released. P. Craig Kimbrel signed as free agent one-year contract.

MIAMI MARLINS — Wikelman Gonzalez sent to minors. Wikelman Gonzalez acquired off waivers.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — P. Bryse Wilson Refused minor league assignment - free agent.

NEW YORK YANKEES — P. Kevin Castro placed on 15-Day IL - Right shoulder strain. P. Jonathan Pintaro called up from minors.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — P. Caleb Kilian placed on 15-Day IL - Strained left oblique. P. Chase Shugart called up from minors.

SEATTLE MARINERS — P. Nolan Kingham acquired off waivers. P. Casey Lawrence released.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — LF Nelson Velazquez acquired off waivers to Houston Astros.

TEXAS RANGERS — P. Nolan Kingham acquired off waivers to Seattle Mariners.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — C. Willie MacIver designated for assignment. P. Simeon Woods Richardson purchased from minors. Rudy Martin Jr. outrighted to minor leagues. 1B Charles McAdoo called up from minors. LF Davis Schneider sent to minors. P. Lazaro Estrada sent to minors.

Tuesday, Aug. 11

BOSTON RED SOX — 28 Isiah Kiner-Faleta transferred to 60-Day IL - Left forearm inflammation. C. Jake Rogers designated for assignment. C. Adley Rutschman removed from 10-Day IL - Left wrist inflammation. C. Adley Rutschman recalled from minors rehab.

CINCINNATI REDS — P. Zach McCambley sent to minors. P. Hunter Greene transferred to 60-Day IL - Right elbow surgery - out for season. P. Nick Lodolo removed from 15-Day IL - Left index finger blister. P. Nick Lodolo recalled from minors rehab. Michael Toglia purchased

from minors.

COLORADO ROCKIES — 28 Edouard Julien designated for assignment. Zac Veen called up from minors.

DETROIT TIGERS — Tanner Rainey purchased from minors. P. Emmanuel De Jesus placed on paternity leave list.

HOUSTON ASTROS — CF Jake Meyers sent to minors.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — P. Charlie Barnes sent to minors. P. Blake Snell removed from 60-Day IL - Left elbow loose bodies. P. Blake Snell recalled from minors rehab. P. Blake Treinen transferred to 60-Day IL - Right elbow inflammation. MIAMI MARLINS — 3B Graham Pauley called up from minors. 1B Kyle Stowers placed on 10-Day IL - Left hamstring strain.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — P. Lyon Richardson designated for assignment. P. Bryse Wilson signed as free agent.

NEW YORK YANKEES — P. Kevin Castro placed on 15-Day IL - Right elbow recutis. Bradley Hanner called up from minors.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — P. Alan Rangel sent to minors. P. Alex McFarlane called up from minors.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Zach Morgan sent to minors. Andrew Knizner signed as free agent. LF Eddys Leonard designated for assignment. RF Victor Benicoto removed from 10-Day IL - Left oblique strain. RF Victor Benicoto recalled from minors rehab.

TEXAS RANGERS — 38 Jonah Bride designated for assignment. RF Jarred Kelenic purchased from minors.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — P. Chase Lee called up from minors. P. Jameson Taillon placed on 15-Day IL - Right forearm ten-dinitis.

Wednesday, Aug. 12

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — P. Paul Sewald acquired off waivers to Toronto Blue Jays.

ATHLETICS — 28 Jonathan Ornelas outrighted to minors. P. Hayden Juenger called up from minors. P. Jose Suarez placed on 15-Day IL - Strained right hip. P. Yunior Tur sent to minors.

BOSTON RED SOX — P. Alec Gamboa called up from minors. P. Seth Martinez designated for assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — P. Jeff Criswell sent to minors. P. Jeff Criswell removed from 15-Day IL - Right shoulder strain. P. Jeff Criswell recalled from minors rehab. Adael Amador called up from minors. 3B Kyle Karros placed on 7-Day IL - Concussion.

DETROIT TIGERS — Corey Julks purchased from minors. LF Riley Greene placed on 10-Day IL - Strained right hamstring. Troy Watson designated for assignment. P. Emmanuel De Jesus reinstated from paternity leave list. P. Yilber Diaz sent to minors.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — P. David Morgan sent to minors. P. David Morgan removed from 15-Day IL - Left knee inflammation;

recalled from minors rehab.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Willie MacIver sent to minors. Willie MacIver acquired off waivers.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Willie MacIver acquired off waivers to Seattle Mariners. Jake Bloss placed on 60-Day IL - Right teres major strain. Jake Bloss, NTR - called up from minors. P. Paul Sewald acquired off waivers.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Jackson Kent purchased from minors. P. Miles Mikolas designated for assignment.

Thursday, Aug. 13

BOSTON RED SOX — P. Garrett Whitlock placed on 15-Day IL - Right elbow inflammation. P. Greg Weissert called up from minors.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — C. Eric Haase released.

COLORADO ROCKIES — 28 Edouard Julien outrighted to minors.

DETROIT TIGERS — CF James Outman placed on 7-Day IL - Concussion. RF Trei Cruz called up from minors.

HOUSTON ASTROS — 3B Shay Whitcomb acquired off waivers to San Francisco Giants.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Tony Gonsolin placed on 15-Day IL - Recovery from right elbow surgery. Tony Gonsolin signed as free agent one-year contract. P. Eli Morgan designated for assignment. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — C. Chuckie Robinson released. P. Jonathan Hernandez outrighted to minors.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — P. Lyon Richardson outrighted to minors.

MINNESOTA TWINS — P. German Marquez signed to a minor league contract. CF Byron Buxton removed from 10-Day IL - Right hip impingement.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — CF Kameron Misner called up from minors recalled as 27th roster player.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — C. Endy Rodriguez placed on 10-Day IL - Left hip inflammation. P. Evan Sisk sent to minors. P. Isaac Mattson called up from minors. 3B Jack Brannigan called up from minors.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — 3B Matt Chapman transferred to 60-Day IL - Abdominal strain. P. Trevor McDonald transferred to 60-Day IL - Right elbow sprain. 3B Shay Whitcomb sent to minors. 3B Shay Whitcomb acquired off waivers.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — P. Jesse Scholtens called up from minors. P. Michael Grove sent to minors. SS Carson Williams sent to minors. SS Jorge Mateo signed as free agent one-year contract. P. Trevor Martin designated for assignment.

TEXAS RANGERS — 3B Jonah Bride outrighted to minors.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — P. Lazaro Estrada called up from minors. P. Brendon Little placed on paternity leave list.

Friday, Aug. 14

ATHLETICS — 28 Jonathan Ornelas signed to a minor league contract.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — P. Chris Bassitt re-

moved from 15-Day IL - Low back discomfort. P. Chris Bassitt recalled from minors rehab. P. Yaraml Hiraldo sent to minors.

BOSTON RED SOX — C. Jake Rogers acquired off waivers to Chicago White Sox. P. Seth Martinez outrighted to minors.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — C. Jake Rogers acquired off waivers. P. Joe Rock designated for assignment. P. Davis Martin placed on 15-Day IL - Blister on right middle finger. P. Tanner McDougal sent to minors. P. Tyler Schweitzer called up from minors.

P. Jose Urquidy called up from minors. DETROIT TIGERS — CF Michael Siani signed to a minor league contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — P. Abner Uribe placed on 15-Day IL - Right forearm flexor strain. P. Grant Anderson called up from minors. P. Lyon Richardson signed to a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — C. Alex Jackson designated for assignment.

NEW YORK METS — 28 Andy Ibanez released.

NEW YORK YANKEES — P. Justin Topa signed to a minor league contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — P. Casey Lawrence signed to a minor league contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — CF. Jhostyraxon Garcia sent to minors. P. Yohan Ramirez placed on paternity leave list. CF Billy Cook called up from minors. P. Wilber Dotel called up from minors.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — LF Eddys Leonard outrighted to minors. Turner Hill purchased from minors. CF Jonah Cox called up from minors. 2B Nate Furman sent to minors. CF Grant McCray sent to minors.

SEATTLE MARINERS — SS Colt Emerson placed on 10-Day IL - Left wrist tendon inflammation. Brock Rodden purchased from minors. SS Colt Emerson sent to minors.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — 3B Cesar Prieto sent to minors.

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NFL PRESEASON SCHEDULE

All times Eastern; subject to change.

Thursday, Aug. 6

Hall of Fame Game

Carolina 33, Arizona 30

Preseason Week 1

Thursday, Aug. 13

Cincinnati 16, Detroit 14

Pittsburgh 28, Green Bay 9

Indianapolis 13. New England 13

L.A. Chargers 27, Houston 7

Arizona 27, Las Vegas 14

Tennessee 19, San Francisco 13

Friday, Aug. 14

Washington 20, Miami 7

Denver 27, Atlanta 7

Tampa Bay 24, N.Y. Jets 16

Saturday, Aug. 15

Buffalo 29, Carolina 14

Minnesota 13, N.Y. Giants 10

Chicago 34, Cleveland 10

Jacksonville 24, New Orleans 20

L.A. Rams 20, Kansas City 12

Baltimore 24, Philadelphia 7

Dallas 17, Seattle 7

Preseason Week 2

Thursday, Aug. 20

Las Vegas at Houston, 8 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 10 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 21

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

Green Bay at Denver, 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 22

Washington at Detroit, noon

Buffalo at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Baltimore at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 4 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Miami, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at New England, 7 p.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 23

Seattle at Tennessee, 8 p.m.

Preseason Week 3

Thursday, Aug. 27

Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

New England at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

San Francisco at Las Vegas, 8 p.m.

L.A. Rams at L.A. Chargers, 10 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 28

Washington at Baltimore, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 7 p.m.

Houston at Carolina, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at N.Y. Jets, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 8 p.m.

Arizona at Green Bay, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Kansas City, 8 p.m.

Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 29

Detroit at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Tennessee, 6 p.m.

Continued from previous page

Rivero transferred to 60-Day IL - Left hamate fracture. P Sammy Peralta sent to minors. Michael Fulmer purchased from minors. P Trevor Martin sent to minors. P Trevor Martin acquired off waivers.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS - 28 Jihwan Bae designated for assignment; 28 Jonathan Ornelas traded for cash considerations. SAN DIEGO PADRES - P Brent Honeywell signed to a minor league contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS - Troy Watson sent to minors. Troy Watson acquired off waivers.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS - Joshua Baez called up from minors.

TAMPA BAY RAYS - P Trevor Martin acquired off waivers to Los Angeles Angels. P Joe Boyle called up from minors. P Chris Roycroft sent to minors.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS - Ricky Tiedemann called up from minors. P Chase Lee sent to minors. 1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr. placed on 7-Day IL - Concussion. Daz Cameron purchased from minors. P Lazaro Estrada designated for assignment.

Sunday, Aug. 16

ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS - P Philip Abner designated for assignment. P Dennis Santana purchased from minors. ATHLETICS - P Justin Sterner transferred to 60-Day IL - Right knee surgery, out for season. P Joe Rock sent to minors. P Joe Rock acquired off waivers. LF Tyler Soderstrom placed on 10-Day IL -

Left hip impingement. SS Darell Hernaiz called up from minors.

ATLANTA BRAVES - P Danny Young designated for assignment. Ray Kerr purchased from minors.

BOSTON RED SOX - P Justin Slaten placed on 15-Day IL - Right elbow inflammation. DH Masataka Yoshida placed on 10-Day IL - Strained left hamstring. P Raymond Burgos called up from minors. C Mickey Gasper called up from minors.

CHICAGO CUBS - P Edward Cabrera removed from 15-Day IL - Strained right hamstring. P Edward Cabrera recalled from minors rehab. P Javier Assad sent to minors.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX - P Joe Rock acquired off waivers to Athletics.

DETROIT TIGERS - RF Trei Cruz designated for assignment. Brett Callahan purchased from minors.

HOUSTON ASTROS - P Ronel Blanco sent to minors. P Miguel Ullola called up from minors.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS - P Justin Wrobleski placed on 15-Day IL - Left forearm inflammation. P Kyle Hurt called up from minors.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES - 3B Nick Yorke called up from minors. 3B Jack Brannigan sent to minors. P Wilber Dotel sent to minors. P Hunter Barco called up from minors.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS - P Ricky Tiedemann sent to minors. P Brendon Little reinstated from paternity leave list.

NFL TRANSACTIONS

Monday, Aug. 10

ATLANTA FALCONS - DE Cameron Sample signed. T Jack Nelson, C Philip Florenzo cut.

CAROLINA PANTHERS - TE Chamon Metayer cut. G Joshua Gray signed. LB Nick Hampton placed on IR undisclosed. CHICAGO BEARS - CB Nick McCloud signed/unrestricted free agent to Miami Dolphins one-year contract (through 2026). WR Kyron Hudson cut. WR Ray-Ray McCloud III signed.

DALLAS COWBOYS - DT Quinnen Williams re-signed Three-year extension (through 2030).

DETROIT LIONS - TE Anthony Firkser, CB De'Shawn Rucker cut. QB Joshua Dobbs signed one-year contract (through 2026). DT Aidan Keanaaina placed on IR undisclosed.

GREEN BAY PACKERS - CB Marlon Jones, S Johnathan Baldwin II placed on IR undisclosed.

HOUSTON TEXANS - WR Juwann Win-free signed. LB Sione Takitaki placed on IR undisclosed.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS - WR Mante Morrow cut. LB Andre Carter II signed.

LOS ANGELES RAMS - CB Drey Norwood cut.

MIAMI DOLPHINS - T Caedan Wallace traded w/ pick for 2028 sixth-round draft pick. RB Anthony Hankerson cut. CB Nick McCloud signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). K Zane Gonzalez placed on IR undisclosed.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - DT David Blay Jr. signed to Philadelphia Eagles. QB Joshua Dobbs signed to Detroit Lions one-year contract (through 2026). T Caedan Wallace traded to Miami Dolphins w/ pick for 2028 sixth-round draft pick. LB Niko Lalos signed. TE Hunter Henry re-signed Two-year extension (through 2028).

NEW YORK GIANTS - WR Ray-Ray McCloud III signed to Chicago Bears. S JT Woods signed. DT Sam Roberts cut. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES - TE Dae'Quan Wright, G Jaeden Roberts cut. DE Tarron Jackson signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). RB Ja'Quinden Jackson, DT David Blay Jr. signed. RB Elijah Mitchell placed on IR undisclosed.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS - T Lorenzo Thompson cut. WR Isaiah Winstead, WR Cornell Powell signed.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS - DE Cameron Sample signed to Atlanta Falcons. DE Tarron Jackson signed/unrestricted free agent to Philadelphia Eagles one-year contract (through 2026). G Nick Zakelj cut. C Doug Kramer Jr. signed.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS - CB Kemon Hall cut. CB Roman Parodie signed. CB Kemon Hall placed on IR undisclosed. TENNESSEE TITANS - LB Shad Banks Jr. cut.

Tuesday, Aug. 11

ARIZONA CARDINALS - DT P.J. Mustipher cut. DT P.J. Mustipher Taken off IR foot. ATLANTA FALCONS - G Jaeden Roberts acquired from waivers. LB Malik Verdon, WR Le'Meke Brockington cut. TE Nick Muse, RB Trey Sermon signed. T Jack Nelson placed on IR undisclosed.

CHICAGO BEARS - S Brandon Hill cut. C Wesley French signed. WR Kyron Hudson placed on IR undisclosed.

CLEVELAND BROWNS - C Wesley French signed to Chicago Bears. S Trey Dean III signed to Green Bay Packers. TE Dae'Quan Wright acquired from waivers. WR

Aaron Anderson cut. CB Damarri Mathis placed on IR leg. WR Aaron Anderson Taken off IR undisclosed.

DETROIT LIONS - TE Nick Muse signed to Atlanta Falcons. TE Miles Kitselman cut. TE Miles Kitselman Taken off IR leg.

GREEN BAY PACKERS - G Karsen Barnhart, TE Drew Biber cut. S Tra Fluellen, S Trey Dean III signed.

HOUSTON TEXANS - WR DJ Turner cut. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS - DE Emmanuel Ogbah signed/unrestricted free agent to Kansas City Chiefs one-year contract (through 2026). CB Kemi-H Lovely cut. LB Amari Burney signed.

MIAMI DOLPHINS - S Omar Brown cut. S Omar Brown Taken off IR undisclosed. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES - TE Dae'Quan Wright acquired from waivers to Cleveland Browns. G Jaeden Roberts acquired from waivers to Atlanta Falcons. RB Elijah Mitchell cut.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS - RB Trey Sermon signed to Atlanta Falcons. T Lorenzo Thompson placed on IR undisclosed. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - LB Aaron Smith signed. RB Robbie Ouzts placed on IR undisclosed.

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS - LB Curtis Jacobs signed. S Robert McDaniel cut. G Sala Aumavae-Laulu cut. DT Byron Cowart signed.

Wednesday, Aug. 12

ATLANTA FALCONS - LB Malik Verdon placed on IR undisclosed. WR Le'Meke Brockington placed on IR undisclosed. BALTIMORE RAVENS - QB Austin Reed signed. QB Skylar Thompson placed on IR undisclosed.

BUFFALO BILLS - DE Kody Huisman cut. CB Anthony Kendall signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026).

CAROLINA PANTHERS - WR Malick Meiga cut. WR Malick Meiga taken off IR undisclosed.

CLEVELAND BROWNS - CB Anthony Kendall signed/unrestricted free agent to Buffalo Bills one-year contract (through 2026).

GREEN BAY PACKERS - TE Luke Lachey Taken off IR undisclosed, cut.

HOUSTON TEXANS - LB Xavier Thomas signed to San Francisco 49ers. WR Montrell Washington cut. K Chris Freeman signed.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS - RB Zamir White signed/unrestricted free agent to San Francisco 49ers one-year contract (through 2026). G Justin Pickett cut. G Braeden Daniels signed.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS - RB Jordan Mims cut. RB Jerman Jefferson signed.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - RB Myles Montgomery cut. RB Hassan Haskins signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026).

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS - DT Kahli Saunders signed. T Dillon Radunz placed on IR torn right ACL.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS - RB Jermar Jefferson signed to Minnesota Vikings. DE K.J. Henry, P Jack Bouwmeester, WR Junior Bergen cut. RB Zamir White signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). LB Xavier Thomas, CB Eli Apple signed.

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS - DE Efe Obada retired.

Thursday, Aug. 13

CLEVELAND BROWNS - S Tyson Herring cut. CB Jeremiah McClendon signed.

DENVER BRONCOS - CB Sam Webb signed to New York Giants. G Lecitus

Smith signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). C Michael Deiter placed on IR quadriceps.

GREEN BAY PACKERS - G Lecitus Smith signed/unrestricted free agent to Denver Broncos one-year contract (through 2026). TE RJ Maryland cut. TE RJ Maryland Taken off IR undisclosed.

HOUSTON TEXANS - LB Sione Takitaki cut. LB Sione Takitaki taken off IR undisclosed.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - CB Bryce Phillips cut. DE Emmanuel Ogbah signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026).

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS - LB Elandon Roberts signed/unrestricted free agent to Pittsburgh Steelers one-year contract (through 2026). G Justin Pickett placed on IR undisclosed.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - RB JaMycal Hasty signed. RB Myles Montgomery, RB Terrell Jennings placed on IR undisclosed.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS - CB Jeremiah McClendon signed to Cleveland Browns. S Ugo Amadi signed/unrestricted free agent to New York Giants one-year contract (through 2026).

NEW YORK GIANTS - CB David Long Jr. cut. CB D.J. James cut. CB Sam Webb signed. S Ugo Amadi signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026).

NEW YORK JETS - DE Eric Watts cut.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS - T Lorenzo Thompson cut. LB Elandon Roberts signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). DT Logan Lee placed on IR undisclosed. T Lorenzo Thompson Taken off IR undisclosed.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS - DE K.J. Henry placed on IR undisclosed.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS - CB Kemon Hall cut. CB Kemon Hall Taken off IR undisclosed.

Friday, Aug. 14

ATLANTA FALCONS - T Jack Nelson cut. DE James Pearce Jr. suspended 8 games (NFL Personal Conduct Policy).

BALTIMORE RAVENS - T Kendall Lamm retired.

BUFFALO BILLS - DT Phidarian Mathis suspended 3 games (NFL Substance Abuse Policy). LB Otis Reese IV cut. S Wande Owens signed.

CLEVELAND BROWNS - S Tyson Herring placed on IR undisclosed.

HOUSTON TEXANS - K Chris Freeman cut.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - LB Brandon George signed to Philadelphia Eagles. NEW YORK GIANTS - WR Beaux Collins cut. CB D.J. James placed on IR undisclosed.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - CB Brandon Johnson cut.

TENNESSEE TITANS - S Nazeeh Johnson suspended 6 games (NFL Policy on PEDs).

WASHINGTON COMMANDERS - DE Dorance Armstrong suspended 1 game (NFL Personal Conduct Policy).

Saturday, Aug. 15

ARIZONA CARDINALS - RB Tre Stewart signed. DT Keveiorita Spears signed. TE Baylor Cupp signed. LB Austin Keys placed on IR undisclosed. TE Jameson Geers placed on IR undisclosed. G Chase Bisontis placed on IR torn left MCL.

BALTIMORE RAVENS - TE Baylor Cupp signed to Arizona Cardinals. CB Matthew McDoom signed to Cincinnati Bengals. CINCINNATI BENGALS - CB Ceyair

Wright reserve/left camp. CB Matthew McDoom signed.

CLEVELAND BROWNS - C Darrian Dalcourt signed to New England Patriots. DENVER BRONCOS - C Joe Michalski signed to New England Patriots.

GREEN BAY PACKERS - QB Kyron Drones cut.

HOUSTON TEXANS - DT Folorunso Fatu-kasi signed/unrestricted free agent to Las Vegas Raiders one-year contract (through 2026). QB Brett Ryplen signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). RB Joshua Pitsenberger placed on IR ankle. QB Graham Mertz placed on IR torn right ACL.

INDIANAPOLIS CULTS - TE Sean McKeon cut. TE Sean McKeon Taken off IR undisclosed.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS - LB Brandon George signed to Philadelphia Eagles. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS - DT Folorunso Fatu-kasi signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). LB Brennan Jackson placed on IR undisclosed.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS - RB Tre Stewart signed to Arizona Cardinals. QB Brett Ryplen signed/unrestricted free agent to Houston Texans one-year contract (through 2026).

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS - RB Terrell Jennings cut. LB Niko Lalos cut. C Joe Michalski signed. C Darrian Dalcourt signed. G Andrew Rupcich placed on IR undisclosed. RB Terrell Jennings Taken off IR undisclosed.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES - WR Brandon Hayes cut. LB Brandon George signed. PITTSBURGH STEELERS - DT Keeanu Benton re-signed Four-year extension (through 2030).

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS - CB Devon Witherspoon re-signed Four-year extension (through 2031).

Sunday, Aug. 16

ARIZONA CARDINALS - CB Ekoe Boye-Doe signed to Detroit Lions.

BALTIMORE RAVENS - RB Jonathan Ward signed.

CHICAGO BEARS - S Gervarrius Owens cut. WR Kyron Hudson cut. CB KC Eziomume cut.

CLEVELAND BROWNS - RB Trayveon Williams signed/unrestricted free agent to Detroit Lions one-year contract (through 2026).

DALLAS COWBOYS - RB Dominic Richardson signed to Miami Dolphins.

DETROIT LIONS - RB Trayveon Williams signed/unrestricted free agent one-year contract (through 2026). CB Ekoe Boye-Doe signed. S Loren Strickland cut. RB Kye Robichaux cut.

HOUSTON TEXANS - TE Louis Hansen signed.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS - TE Matt Lauter signed to Tennessee Titans. P Jack Bouwmeester signed International Player Pathway Program.

MIAMI DOLPHINS - RB Dominic Richardson signed. LB Cam Riley signed. QB Mark Gronowski signed. CB Ethan Robinson cut. G Jamaree Salyer placed on IR undisclosed.

NEW YORK GIANTS - CB Sam Webb retired.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS - P Jack Bouwmeester signed to Las Vegas Raiders International Player Pathway Program.

TENNESSEE TITANS - LB Cam Riley signed to Miami Dolphins. TE Matt Lauter signed. TE Jaren Kanak placed on IR torn pectoral muscle. DE Jaylen Harrell placed on IR torn ACL.

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Debut may be the start of something big

Steve Gardner

USA TODAY

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Joshua Baez certainly announced his presence in the major leagues with authority when he became the first player ever to hit three home runs in his MLB debut.

While Baez's Aug. 15 performance at Wrigley Field against the Chicago Cubs will go down in the history books, it also serves to remind fans that single-game dominance doesn't always translate into a memorable or lengthy career.

The game has seen many a rookie make a big splash in his first game or first few, only to have a forgettable season (or career) come afterward.

What could be in store for 23-year-old Joshua Baez? Let's look at a variety of possibilities.

Other impressive '26 MLB debuts

While Baez's three-homer debut was unprecedented, it's not uncommon for players to have a great game in their first major league appearance. Just look at a couple who did so already this season.

Kevin McGonigle, Detroit Tigers

The highly touted prospect who made the Tigers roster out of spring training has validated the team's confidence in him from the get-go. Starting at third base on opening day and batting sixth, McGonigle got four hits, (two of them doubles), scored two runs and drove in two more in five at-bats. He's now Detroit's everyday starter at shortstop and a leading contender for American League rookie of the year honors.

Chase DeLauter, Cleveland Guardians

Though it technically wasn't his first appearance in a major league uniform (after suiting up for the Guardians in the 2025 playoffs), DeLauter's first official MLB game was a memorable one. He slugged two solo home runs and scored three times in going 3-for-5 on opening day in Seattle. DeLauter has battled injuries this season, as he has throughout his baseball career, but he's been an above average hitter and one of the Guardians' team leaders in Wins Above Replacement.

St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Joshua Baez hit the first pitch he saw in the majors for a two-run homer on Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. He went on to hit two more home runs in his next two at-bats in the game, setting a record for an MLB debut. KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/IMAGN IMAGES

Most impressive debuts in 2000s

What makes a stellar debut even more memorable is when it becomes a stepping stone to an even more accomplished career. Some recent examples:

Stephen Strasburg, Washington Nationals

Taken first overall by the lowly Nationals in the 2009 draft, Stephen Strasburg didn't take long to reach the major leagues. After 11 starts (and a 1.30 ERA in the minors), the 21-year-old right-hander was summoned to Washington to face the Pittsburgh Pirates on June 8, 2010.

What happened that night was pure magic. Strasburg not only lived up to the hype, he exceeded it by striking out 14 batters in seven innings and getting the win. He went on to earn three All-Star berths and capped his injury-shortened career with a World Series MVP award as the Nats defeated the Houston Astros in the 2019 Fall Classic.

Trevor Story, Colorado Rockies

Sure he played his home games in hitter-friendly Denver, but Story kicked off

a stellar 2014 rookie season with a two-homer game at Arizona. In fact, he homered in each of his first four MLB games on his way to hitting seven in his first six contests. Thanks to that blazing start, Story finished with 27 dingers that year and finished fourth in the National League rookie of the year voting. He would hit as many as 37 in a season and earn two All-Star nods in Colorado before signing with the Boston Red Sox as a free agent in 2022.

Aaron Judge, New York Yankees

Judge did famously struggle in his initial season (.179 average, four HRs in 84 at-bats), but his first game as a major leaguer was one to remember. Both he and fellow rookie Tyler Austin went back-to-back ("and belly-to-belly") over the fence at Yankee Stadium against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 13, 2016. Judge has since gone on to win three AL MVP awards and earn eight All-Star selections. (Austin has not.)

Great start, not-so-great career

On the other hand, a player can have an incredible first game, first week or even first month in the majors ... and

never really approach that kind of success again. For example:

Aristides Aquino, Cincinnati Reds

Aquino's MLB debut was completely forgettable (to anyone else) when he struck out in his lone appearance in August 2018. He made it back to the majors the following August, and after going hitless in six at-bats, he reeled off seven home runs in his next seven games. By the middle of the month, he tallied a record 11 homers in his first 17 games. Over 56 games in 2019, Aquino hit a total of 19, to go along with 47 RBIs.

But after that, things would never be the same. Pitchers exploited a massive hole in his swing and he lasted only three more seasons in the majors - never playing more than 84 games, slugging more than 10 homers or hitting over .200.

J.P. Arencibia, Toronto Blue Jays

Taken 21st overall in the 2007 draft, Arencibia reached the majors on Aug. 7, 2010. That day against the Rays, the catcher set a record with 11 total bases in his MLB debut, hitting a pair of home runs, as well as a double and a single. While he did have a couple of 20-homer seasons with the Blue Jays in 2011 and 2013, Arencibia would play in just 86 more major league games after leaving Toronto. He finished with a .212/.258/.412 slash line and 80 home runs in his MLB career.

Nick Kingham, Pittsburgh Pirates

Finally, here's one of the best - and most obscure - pitching performances in a major league debut. On April 29, 2018, the Pittsburgh Pirates needed a spot starter so they called up the 26-year-old Kingham from Class AAA Indianapolis. Once a top prospect until having Tommy John surgery in 2015, the right-hander sliced through the Cardinals lineup, taking a perfect game into the seventh inning. With two outs, he give up a single to Marcell Ozuna before concluding his day by getting one final out. He appeared in 18 games for the Pirates that season and lasted one more year in the majors before playing three more professional seasons in Korea, China and Mexico.