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Marcus Hayes: Underappreciated ace Zack Wheeler: Best starter in baseball? Most important Phillies player?

The Phillies faced their biggest game in recent memory Sunday night. The visiting Cardinals sat just ahead of them in the playoff race, and they’d split the first two games of the weekend series.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Kyle Schwarber homers twice as the Phillies rout the Nationals to inch closer to wild-card contention

PHILADELPHIA — After an 11-0 win over the Nationals on Tuesday, the Phillies are a half a game out of a wild-card spot. Of course, there is plenty of baseball left — half an 162-game season left, to be exact — but it is still a remarkable feat, considering how…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jeff Gordon: Elite starting pitching could be scarce in baseball's trade market

Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Frankie Montas was cruising along this summer, building big value ahead of baseball's Aug. 2 trade deadline.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Paul Sullivan: A tragic event in Highland Park became just another day at the ballpark — and in America

About 3½ hours before the Chicago White Sox met the Minnesota Twins Monday to start the biggest series of the season, manager Tony La Russa’s pregame media session in the dugout competed with a singer practicing over the Guaranteed Rate Field sound system.

Chicago Tribune

The wife of ailing Orioles owner Peter Angelos met with MLB commissioner after her son’s lawsuit questioned her leadership

BALTIMORE — A week after one son’s lawsuit described her as isolated and indecisive, the wife of ailing Orioles owner Peter Angelos and her other son met with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, who was reassured about her oversight of the team as part of her control over her…

Tribune News Service

SI:AM | Julio Rodríguez Is Living Up to the Hype

The Mariners rookie is off to a historically great start.

Sports Illustrated

Dylan Hernández: Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw deserves the All-Star start

There was no mention of the month Clayton Kershaw spent on the injured list or how he hasn't pitched a sufficient number of innings to qualify to be on the earned-run average leaderboard.

Los Angeles Times

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Mike Persak: What we think we know about the Pirates at the season's (almost) halfway point

The Pirates are almost halfway done with their season. That unofficially important mark will come Wednesday, when they wrap up a two-game set against the best team in baseball, the New York Yankees.

Tribune News Service

White Sox, MLB decide to play game after parade shooting

The Chicago White Sox talked to Major League Baseball about postponing their game against the Minnesota Twins after a gunman opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, killing at least six people

The Independent UK

Liam Hendriks calls out gun laws after Highland Park shootings. ‘The access to the weaponry ... totally needs to change,’ Chicago White Sox closer says.

The Chicago White Sox consulted with Major League Baseball on whether to play Monday night’s game with the Minnesota Twins after shootings at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park killed six and wounded more than two dozen others.

Chicago Tribune

Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki legged out a wild inside-the-park home run and baseball fans were in awe

Welcome back off of the IL, Seiya Suzuki!

USA Today Sports Media Group

Baseball by the numbers: A look at some trends halfway through the season

Home runs and sacrifice bunts are down. So are strikeouts, but that is almost entirely because of the National League using the DH.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball should honor Larry Doby, another pioneer in integrating the sport

On July 5, 1947, the unassuming 22-year-old joined the Cleveland Indians and played at Comiskey Park, the first Black player in the American League. Every July 5, AL players should wear his No. 14.

Chicago Sun-Times

Benjamin Hochman: Cardinals legends Gibson, White and Flood profiled in powerful documentary 'After Jackie'

During a poignant moment in the documentary “After Jackie,” the words of Jackie Robinson catch your attention and your breath: “I think that one day, white Americans are going to take a real good look at themselves and recognize the harm that they're doing to America — not to Black…

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Paul Sullivan: Boston Red Sox rookie’s 1-star review of Wrigley Field hits a nerve with the Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs owners have spent the last decade-plus trying to emulate the Boston Red Sox.

USA Today Sports Media Group

A baseball manager threw 10 bats and drew the strike zone in the dirt during epic tantrum

What an amazing meltdown.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ron Coomer’s sentimental journey

The Cubs radio analyst, a Southwest Side son, spent a day reliving his past — and the emotions came flooding back.

Chicago Sun-Times

This week’s baseball quiz: Time to do ‘the hustle’

Some White Sox might be slowing down, but the quizmaster knows only one speed

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Max Fried shuts down Reds, Braves offense surges late

CINCINNATI — Max Fried shut down the Reds and the Braves’ offense exploded late as Atlanta beat Cincinnati, 9-1, in Friday’s series opener.

Tribune News Service

Peter Angelos built an empire of Orioles baseball, law and Baltimore real estate. Will a family feud break up the kingdom?

BALTIMORE — It is an empire built piece by piece, but reaching expansively across the Baltimore area and beyond — through real estate that includes a downtown landmark and a renowned horse farm, to an aggressive law firm that won billions of dollars for workers harmed by asbestos and smokers…

AAP

Murderer put victim in 'unimaginable fear'

A NSW man was the subject of an apprehended violence order when he used a baseball bat and knife to murder his ex-partner.

Chicago Sun-Times

Cubs players, manager react to Rob Manfred’s MLB robo-ump plans

Cubs catcher Yan Gomes, who is opposed to an automated strike zone, says the “best thing in baseball” is the human element.

Tribune News Service

Braves’ Ronald Acuña leads NL in voting, will start All-Star Game

PHILADELPHIA — Major League Baseball on Thursday announced that Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña finished as the top vote-getter for the National League in the first phase of voting for the July 19 All-Star Game. This means Acuña will have a starting spot for the NL team, managed by Brian Snitker.

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MLB thinks ‘robo-umps’ could automate pitch counts by 2024

It's part of a broader shift to speed up the pace of the game and draw in more viewers for a league that's been in steep decline.

Newsroom.co.nz

Kiwi baseball catcher proves her doubters wrong

Standing up to those who told her there was no place for a girl in baseball, Sharysse Kjestrup-Caudwell continues to make waves - the first Kiwi invited to a girls' global tournament

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