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The wonderfully messy Yankees and Blue Jays saga: An overly dramatic play in 4 parts

What a bunch of drama this four-game series was!

USA Today Sports Media Group

How Angels Pitchers Imitate Shohei Ohtani’s Most Unhittable Pitch

Los Angeles’s superstar mastered one of MLB’s trendiest pitches. Now, other members of the team’s staff are learning from the best.

Sports Illustrated

Dodgers unsure if Julio Urías was tipping pitches in blowout loss to Cardinals

ST. LOUIS — The Los Angeles Dodgers were behind the eight-ball from the start of Thursday’s game.

Los Angeles Times

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Cardinals overpower Dodgers, 16-8, by blasting record seven home runs

ST. LOUIS — The rules of the hamburger phone are simple as initially codified during a charter flight to Chicago and just in time to make some history Thursday.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dylan Hernandez: Dodgers no longer have the backbone to be social trailblazers

LOS ANGELES — Imagine if Stan Kasten was the president of the Dodgers when Jackie Robinson was about to break baseball's color barrier.

Los Angeles Times

Aaron Judge homers again as Yanks take 3 of 4 from Blue Jays

TORONTO — The eyes have it.

Newsday

Ben Frederickson: Sorry, Houston Astros apologists, not all sign stealing is the same

It’s been more than three and a half years since the world found out St. Louis native Jim Crane’s baseball team was using a center-field camera and trash-can-banging relay system during the 2017 and 2018 seasons to tell hitters which pitches were on the way to the plate, and those…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Paul Sullivan: Liam Hendriks’ return might be the only thing to look forward to for shellshocked White Sox fans

CHICAGO — Liam Hendriks’ return to the mound for the Chicago White Sox has been a moment fans have been looking forward to since the news of his cancer was announced in January.

Chicago Tribune

Bryce Miller: 'Lost' Padres need to play to their pay stubs before it's really too late

This has gotten far beyond the talking stage, for the lost and reeling Padres. After coughing up a home series Wednesday to the hapless Royals, the worst MLB team not named the A's, they're painfully and inexplicably tardy for the doing-it stage.

Tribune News Service

Funding gap of $75M holding up A’s stadium deal

LAS VEGAS — The Oakland Athletics are negotiating with Clark County to bridge a $75 million dollar gap in public financing for the proposed $1.5 billion MLB Las Vegas ballpark.

Tribune News Service

Chicago White Sox fall short in bid for 1st series sweep of the season, falling 3-1 to the Cleveland Guardians

CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox wasted a bases-loaded, no-out opportunity early in their game Thursday against the Cleveland Guardians.

Chicago Tribune

Michael Cunningham: Braves slugger Ronald Acuña Jr. is a superstar again

There was a time when I wondered whether we ever would see the 2019 version of Ronald Acuña Jr. again. He’d been very good since then, but I’m talking about the Acuña who put up MVP-level production over an entire season. The start of the pandemic in 2020 and power-and-speed…

Tribune News Service

Rays’ Kevin Cash sums up 4-6 road trip: ‘Frustrating’

NEW YORK — Though they had only a train ride from Baltimore to New York and the convenience of not changing hotels as they faced the Yankees and Mets in consecutive series, the Rays still felt the road was long and seemingly without end.

Tribune News Service

Benjamin Hochman: The art of ‘not hitting.’ Cardinals’ Lars Nootbaar walks better than most in baseball

The walk in baseball is actually kind of weird. In-game success is generally generated from a physical accomplishment — hitting a ball, throwing a ball, catching a ball — but the base on balls is a reward for not doing anything to the ball (or, really, at all).

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Miami Herald

Eury Perez picks up first MLB win as Marlins sweep Nationals, extend win streak to four

MIAMI — Eury Perez’s final pitching line wasn’t very different from his recent major league debut except one very important difference.

The Orange County Register

Angels rally for dramatic victory to split series against Orioles

BALTIMORE — The Angels pulled out just the type of roller-coaster victory that makes a cross-country flight much more pleasant.

Tribune News Service

Pete Alonso homers again as Mets take first series in a month with win over Rays

NEW YORK — It’s been a long time coming, but the Mets have finally won a series for the first time since Apr. 19. Just hours after their comeback win led by their young guns Mark Vientos and Francisco Alvarez, Buck Showalter turned back to the veterans in Thursday’s 3-2…

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Oakland A’s final destination is unknown, but rookie Esteury Ruiz is getting somewhere in a hurry

Esteury Ruiz is in a hurry to get somewhere, and we’re not talking about Oakland or Las Vegas.

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Chicago Sun-Times

White Sox closer Liam Hendriks expected to throw live batting practice on Friday

“He’s close [to return],” manager Pedro Grifol said, “so now we’ve got to really do a good job of just evaluating him, how close he really is to being Liam Hendriks, not how close he is just to pitch here in the big leagues.”

Los Angeles Times

400 saves and no regrets: Kenley Jansen embraces veteran leadership role with Red Sox

BOSTON — Kenley Jansen got up from his locker in the home clubhouse at Fenway Park on Monday afternoon and announced a request.

Los Angeles Times

Ugandan major league hopeful finally gets visa to play in MLB Draft League

LOS ANGELES — After declining to issue a travel visa to Dennis Kasumba, the Ugandan orphan profiled in The Los Angeles Times, the American Embassy in Kampala backtracked Thursday and approved Kasumba's request to travel to the U.S. this month to play in the MLB Draft League.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs’ lack of a closer forces manager David Ross to be creative

The Cubs’ walk-off loss to the Astros Wednesday encapsulated their bullpen conundrum.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Joe Kelly wowed MLB fans with a stunning 99 mph sinker that seriously looked like CGI

That pitch looks fake.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB issues warning against batters trying to trick pitchers into clock violations

“In recent days, we have seen batters attempt to induce pitchers to violate the pitch timer regulations by creating the appearance that they are in the batter’s box and alert to the pitcher ... when, in actuality, they have not fully entered the batter’s box,” MLB senior vice president Michael…

Sports Illustrated

MLB Fans Crushed an Ump for Ejecting White Sox Batter After Laughably Bad Called Strike

This ump had a horrific night behind the plate.

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