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Trevor Bauer went 4 innings on short rest, including an immaculate inning, to help get his Mexican League team to the league’s final championship round: instagram.com/p/C_bfxNLOaJc/
It’s not likely, but in case you were wondering: Bauer, if at this point signed by a Major League team, would not be eligible for MLB’s postseason.
The Aaron Judge plaque at Globe Life Field, at the spot where Judge hit his American League record 62nd HR in 2022, is gone and not coming back.
According to YES Network’s Justin Shackil, Rangers employees say the plaque was “stolen once, replaced and stolen again. There will not be a third plaque put up.” ⤵️
PLAYOFF CHANCES 👀
Here's where all teams stack up based on their chance to clinch a playoff spot, per ESPN. Will any of the fringe teams beat the odds and get in?
Strength of schedule is factored in to these calculations, which is why you'll see two teams close to each other like the Padres and Dbacks have the difference in percentages that they do.
The Cubs bats on FIRE and hacking their way closer to a playoff spot 🔥
Chicago has won 6 in a row and scored 99 RUNS in their last 10 games, and is 3.0 games out of a Wild Card spot with the Mets, Braves, Padres and Dbacks in front of them.
With 25 games to play, can they grab one of those spots?
OF COURSE ITS CASTY: After sports announcer Thom Brennaman made his return to the booth, Nick Castellanos knocked a walk-off single for Philly.
Castellanos is forever linked in history to Brennaman for interrupting Thom’s mid-game apology in 2020 with a home run, leading to “deep drive into left field by Castellanos” lore.
Brennaman made his return Saturday for the CW Network to call College Football. It would have been perfect for Castellanos to do some damage that same night, but this is still some fantastic timing: instagram.com/p/C_Zi9mot5Nz/
The Angels’ Caden Dana doesn’t go to restaurants, and travels with a portable grill to cook for himself in his hotel rooms.
Ground beef, avocado and steaks — “that’s my diet,” Dana says. “I’m very healthy.”
Dana went 6.0 IP and 2 ER with a win in his Major League debut.
via The Athletic’s Sam Blum
It’s officially the worst season in Chicago White Sox history after the team’s 107th loss — and there’s about a full month of baseball left to play.
In a possible playoff preview, the Astros have completed a 4-GAME SWEEP of Kansas City.
Both teams have 75 wins. At this time last year, the Royals were already mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, so the team fighting in the standings into September just one year later is a statement of their own.
Lindor heard the chirps because next to no one is showing up to White Sox games 😂 instagram.com/p/C_WOPbruNff/
The Nationals are calling up Darren Baker, son of Dusty, most known for getting way too close to the action during the 2002 World Series as a 3-year-old bat boy.
Baker, now 25, is a second baseman and known as a contact hitter and a stolen base threat. https://www.instagram.com/p/C_V63P5JTle/
That’s baseball: Travis Jankowski pulls off one of the BEST game saving catches of the year — and gets placed on outright waivers the next day.
Texas waived Jankowski less than 24 hours after the “once in a lifetime” play, as Jankowski himself called it, where he went over the wall to rob what would have been a walk-off home run for the White Sox.
Being on outright waivers means any of the other 29 teams can claim him while taking on the remainder of his salary. instagram.com/p/C_RXOmDuwXx/
Taijuan Walker’s 6.50 ERA is going to the Philly bullpen — after a 6 ER start against Houston which Walker called a “step in the right direction” because of the amount of ground balls he induced.
Walker is in the second year of a 4-year, $72M deal with the Phillies.
The Angels are calling up prospect Sam Aldegheri, who will be the first pitcher born and raised in Italy to play in MLB 🇮🇹🤌 (Jeff Passan)
The Pirates did something we haven’t seen in a WHILE 😅
Up 10-3 over the Cubs going into the 7th, they’re the first team to blow a 7+ run lead in the 7th inning or later in the last 7 years, per Jay Cuda: instagram.com/p/C_PCRoSNfYJ/
Pittsburgh ended up losing 14-10.
MLB exec level sources say Juan Soto’s free agency this off-season will come down to the Yankees and Mets, per Jeff Passan.
"I don’t really have an approach, I look for the baseball and hit it as hard as I can."
After hitting a homer off Justin Verlander in the Phillies' win, Castellanos stressed that his style of hitting is like "glorified batting practice." instagram.com/p/C_N7PHFJXpa/
TIED! After 3 straight wins vs Cleveland, the Royals are now even with the Guardians atop the AL Central.
At one point, Cleveland had a 9-game division lead.
Justin Steele was told to wash his hands after a foreign substance check — by Vic Carapazza, the SAME crew chief who earlier this season ejected and caused an automatic 10-game suspension for Edwin Diaz over the same issue.
What’s your take? 🤔 instagram.com/p/C_Ml67Ptscq/
Patrick Corbin, owner of the league’s worst ERA, went six scoreless innings and got his 4th win of the year against Judge and Soto’s Yankees.
Corbin’s ERA is now down to 5.50. Miles Mikolas is 2nd-worst in baseball at 5.23.
It's your updated WORST qualifying players and teams in baseball! 🚮
• While the Mariners have the best staff ERA in baseball (3.53), they once again have the WORST team batting average
• Patrick Corbin keeps alive his streak of being dependable enough to take the bump consistently but owning the worst ERA
• Oakland's Zack Gelof is not far behind, with the 2nd-worst qualifying batting average and OBP in baseball
• The 2024 White Sox are... the 2024 White Sox
The Diaz brothers — Edwin and Alexis — have given up game losing walk-off home runs on the same day.
Alexis Diaz gave up a walk off bomb to Yasmani Grandal, and Edwin to MERRILL MADNESS rookie Jackson Merrill. threads.net//post/C_HRVs2tDJL/
The White Sox have lost their hundredth game of the year, falling to 31-100 with 31 games to play.
Dbacks manager Torey Lovullo chills with Dana White mid-game as Arizona sweeps the Red Sox at Fenway 💪😂
Players to have hit 50 home runs in a season three times: Babe Ruth, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Alex Rodriguez — and now, Aaron Judge. 🔥5️⃣0️⃣
The Babe Ruth "called shot" jersey from home run at Wrigley Field in the 1932 World Series is now the world's most valuable piece of sports memorabilia — it sold for $24,120,000.
The legend is that during Game 3 Ruth pointed to center field promising to hit the very next pitch out for a home run, which he did.
According to 'Cllct' Media, Ruth gave up the jersey when he lost a golf bet years later.
On this date in 1989, Pete Rose was BANNED FOR LIFE from Major League Baseball over betting.
Two years later, the Hall of Fame, separate from MLB, decided that anyone on MLB’s permanently ineligible list may not appear on the HOF ballot.
So baseball’s all-time hits leader (4,256) has not had a chance to become a Hall-of-Famer ever since.
The Phillies’ Taijuan Walker has evidently deactivated his X and Instagram accounts.
Walker had another bad performance against Kansas City, giving up 6 ER in 3 innings, his ERA now at 6.26.
He’s in the second year of a 4-year, $72M deal with Philly.
h/t matttadelphia on X
The minor league park where the A’s will be attempting to play Major League ball for at least three years is DEFINITELY a small-time venue. 😅
The visitors’ clubhouse is located beyond the left-center field wall, meaning any away team’s player or manager taken out of the game, ejected or otherwise, will have about a 380-foot walk back to their locker room. 😂
🎥: Salt Lake Bees manager Keith Johnson gets tossed and has to do the long stroll to get off the field. Watch: instagram.com/p/C_D2hHBOv1W/
Shohei Ohtani’s 40/40 home run ball was missed by a fan in the front row and bounced back onto the field, only to be heaved back into the stands by Jose Siri 😅 instagram.com/p/C_C1iuPO4dW/
per the LA Times’ Mike DiGiovanna
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When told that Rajai Davis' clutch Game 7 World Series bomb off of him was "lucky," Aroldis Chapman gave a smile and a nod 😂 Davis' home run tied the game in the 8th inning, but the Cubs went on to win the game, and the World Championship. 🎥: theclevelandmenace on IG
Got ‘em back 🤌 Former teammates Bryce Harper and Whit Merrifield messing with each other. 😂 Merrifield got his payback 2 days later 🎥: NBC Sports Philadelphia, ESPN
That time Philly made Orlando Arcia go OFF on them from the dugout 😭 This was during the 2023 NLDS between the Braves and Phillies, after the Arcia “atta boy” remark about Bryce Harper, and after Harper would later stare down Arcia on his home run trots. via Plumsteadrocks on X
Canseco recognizes this kid’s game 😂
The great ones never lose their eye for the game: Keith Hernandez 🚬🐐
Javy come on 🤣
Could Babe Ruth hit a Paul Skenes fastball? Tyler Glasnow’s answer ✍️ via Foul Territory
Ohtani, Teo and Yamamoto enjoying the Dodger Stadium ambiance 🥊🎥: Robbie Morimoto
Some presidential heat 🔥
"We'll go watch the Yankees" 😂
On this date Manny Machado was traded to the Dodgers, then after the 2018 season went to San Diego in free agency. He made a "bet" with a Dodger fan about winning the World Series. Do you think he "paid up?" 😂 via MosheL451 on X
Just here to ruin your day again!
Most “PAUSE” quotes of the first half 😂
CLUTCH. Manny Machado now has EIGHT career walk-off home runs. 🔥 h/t Sarah Langs
You CANNOT deny the Grimace Mets 🍺💜
Shōta Imanaga is a national treasure While finishing 7 strong innings against the Cardinals, only one thing was on his mind: WHAT TO EAT
Banana ball vibes are insane 🍌 🎥 via Chetan Rakieten
@yoshinobu__yamamoto so casual with it 🔥 He then went on to shut out the Yankees for 7 innings.
Rookie Jared Jones shuts out the Dodgers and creates one of the greatest gifs of all time 👅 Jones went 6 IP, 0 ER and the Pirates won 1-0
Harper says many umpires understand their job — this one doesn’t.
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