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It’s easy to forget that Sal Stewart is still two weeks away from his one year anniversary as being a big leaguer. Called up by the Cincinnati Reds on September 1st of 2025 when rosters expanded, he hit the ground running back then, too, but his 2026 season just continues to show that the Reds […]
Box Score The high for the Brewers coming off their 22-0 victory over the Mariners the night before was very quickly brought crashing back down to earth on Wednesday night. Seattle attacked Brewers starter Dustin May, who did not have his best stuff, early and often. The first three batters reached base, going single-single, double […]
For a few innings anyway, Ethan Pecko was the center of the Astros universe on Wednesday Night. Fortunately for Pecko, his bullpen mates were hovering in the same cosmos. Astros 3 Angels 2. Making his major league debut, Pecko would flirt with danger, but went largely unscathed during the opening three […]
The Cubs have signed shortstop Jackson Cluff to a minor league deal and assigned him to Triple-A Iowa. In the eighth inning of the Pelicans game, there was a 32-minute delay as someone in the Pelicans dugout suffered a medical emergency. The person, and I don’t know who it was at the moment, was taken […]
The devil is in the details. In the headline, a key word is “talent” which is different from “performance”. My point here is that as bad as the 2026 A’s have been, and will undoubtedly continue to be with the majority of their key players on the IL, the “core” much ballyhooed is indeed legitimate. […]
The Texas Rangers didn’t score a run but the Washington Nationals scored six runs. Everything that was fun and nice and enjoyable about last night’s game was immediately extinguished by tonight’s game. It was a complete reversal of an experience down to a nearly fully flipped final score. The Rangers are hope vampires hunched over […]
Mariners 7, Brewers 5 Wednesday’s performance: Dominic Canzone, +0.17 WPA; Taylor Ward, +0.11 WPA; Andrés Muñoz, +0.09 WPA Tuesday’s performance: Seranthony Domínguez, -0.05 WPA Game Thread Comment of the Day:
The Athletics took on the Kansas City Royals in the penultimate game of their four-game series. For the second straight night, the A’s offense did its job, with the team holding a multi-run lead entering the final two innings, only for its arguably worst-ever bullpen to implode. While last night’s collapse felt like a small […]
Longtime reality television star Kim Kardashian will serve as an executive producer for Team Moms: Baseball, set to premiere Thursday, Sept. 24 on Paramount+. Kardashian teamed up with ITV America (producers of Love Island USA) and Skydance Sports to produce the reality TV series. The unscripted series will focus on a group of parents whose…
The Athletics have the only bullpen worse than the Royals by ERA in 2026. For the second night in a row, they let Kansas City take away a Sacramento lead. The Royals took the game 9-7 and set up a possible four game sweep for tomorrow afternoon. The day started poorly for Seth Lugo who […]
Former Reds reliever Ron Marinaccio cleared outright waivers and elected free agency, according to Charlie Goldsmith of Charlie’s Chalkboard. Cincinnati also signed right-hander Darius Vines to a minor league contract. Marinaccio had a brief run with the Reds. They claimed him off waivers shortly after the trade deadline. He spent two weeks in their bullpen and […]
Sometimes baseball is weird. Sometimes it’s sloppy. Sometimes, neither team looks exceptionally sharp. But all of the time, someone has to win. The way this game started, it looked like it would last as long as those classic four-hour Yankees-Red Sox July marathons at Fenway, and although this one clocked in at three hours and […]
On the latest episode of Phillies Stoplight🚦, Tim Kelly and Anthony SanFilippo break down the six-game winning streak for the […]
Sometimes when a ship is floundering, sitting dead in the water with no momentum, they just need a little help from a tugboat to make it safely into the harbor. In 2026, the San Francisco Giants are that sinking ship. Wednesday night in Cleveland, Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson was that tugboat. Beefy 23-year-old rookie left-hander Wilkinson […]
Aaron Nola tossed seven innings for the second time this season on Wednesday, helping the Phillies close the gap on the Braves' NL East lead.
A series of unfortunate events in the 7th and 8th innings sent the Orioles to their second straight loss to the Yankees with a 5-3 defeat. With the game tied at 3-3, Pete Alonso stepped up to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the 7th. Lefty reliever Brent Headrick’s first pitch to […]
Jays 6 Rays 7 So, the game changed on two fly balls to left. In the bottom of the first, with one out, Junior Caminero hit a fly down the left field line, Jesús Sánchez was going into foul territory to get it, then it landed fair. Very weird, because a ball going foul will […]
What appeared to be a go-ahead home run for Pete Alonso in the seventh inning of Wednesday's contest between the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees was ruled a foul ball.
Ketel Marte didn’t just miss a game. He never showed up at Fenway Park on Monday for the series opener. The Arizona Diamondbacks had to scramble for a replacement just before the first pitch. And the worst part? Initially, none of his teammates or his manager knew the reason for his absence. The Diamondbacks’ manager, […] The post “Such Abnormal Behavior”: Ketel Marte’s Unexplained Absence Has Legendary MLB Manager Speaking Out appeared first on EssentiallySports .
Update 8:30pm MT: Eli Whitney reports that Kyle Freeland left with neck tightness. Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland left today’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers with two outs in the top of the fourth inning. Freeland threw 66 pitches, 43 for strikes while allowing four runs (all earned) on six hits with one […]
August 19: As was inevitable following the DFA, Lorenzen has been released. The move is reflected on the MLB.com transaction tracker. He’s a free agent who can sign with any club for the prorated league minimum. August 17: The Rockies announced that they have recalled right-hander TJ Shook from Triple-A Albuquerque. Fellow righty Michael Lorenzen […]
Tyler Glasnow continued to run roughshod through his minor league rehab assignment, including nine strikeouts and pitching into the sixth inning in his likely final start for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Wednesday night in Sugar Land, Texas. Glasnow needed only 77 pitches to get through 5 1/3 innings, of which 54 were strikes. He allowed […]
The San Diego Padres promoted catching prospect Ethan Salas from Double-A San Antonio to Triple-A El Paso on July 29. Since then, the Padres’ top prospect has made up for the lack of extra-base hits that he had while in San Antonio. If a confidence boost was the goal for the promotion, that goal was […]
The Cardinals are in agreement with left-hander Josh Fleming on a minor league contract, reports Derrick Goold of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch. They also announced they’ve re-signed first baseman/outfielder Bligh Madris and assigned him to Triple-A Memphis. Fleming is a St. Louis area native who was drafted by the Rays when Cards’ president of baseball operations […]
For the St. Louis Cardinals to have a good chance of taking down the Cincinnati Reds and their All-Star starter Chase Burns Wednesday night, they’d need the best version of Matthew Liberatore. They got that and some clutch two-strike hitting, too. Well, they got that for 5 innings. The 6th inning was a different story […]
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