The Latest Breaking News from Chris Stratton

Each potentially playoff-bound team made some moves, big or small. Here’s where things stand heading into the season’s home stretch.

After making a deal with the Cardinals Sunday, Texas will get the pitching depth needed to realize its hopes for a postseason run.

PHOENIX — This was not a repeat of Saturday’s classic game, it wasn’t even a critics-pick sequel of an evening crammed with historic homers and memorable moments.

Paralysis was not an option.

The Pirates traded the veteran left-hander to the Cardinals in exchange for reliever Johan Oviedo and corner infield prospect Malcolm Nunez. Pittsburgh also sent right-handed reliever Chris Stratton to St. Louis.

WASHINGTON — Richard Pederson was enjoying a beautiful summer night at the ballpark and flipping through his phone Monday when he heard the crack of a bat, looked up and saw a small white sphere hurtling toward the seats in section 142 that he occupied with his cousins, Hannah and…

ATLANTA — It genuinely felt like this time might be different for the Pirates.

LOS ANGELES — As the oldest player on the Pirates’ active roster and the only one other than Roberto Perez who was born in the 1980s, Quintana was 11 years old the last time the Pirates swept a series at Dodger Stadium.

PITTSBURGH — Daniel Vogelbach finished his swing, dropped his bat and stared toward the Clemente Wall in right field. The Pirates’ designated hitter found a low-and-inside fastball, and he did what many left-handed hitters do with pitches there — pulverized it. No question Vogelbach knew it was gone.