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His father, Allen, was the Sox’ longtime strength and conditioning coordinator before the team didn’t renew his contract last offseason.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The squeeze play executed by Nicky Lopez and Kye Isbel broke the ice for the Kansas City Royals, then rookies MJ Melendez and Bobby Witt Jr. punched through in a big way as a five-run inning swung the night in a completely different direction.

SAN FRANCISCO — Not much was working for Logan Webb. Absolutely nothing worked for the Giants against Zac Gallen.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants came into Wednesday’s game riding a five-game win streak with their starting rotation turned to its ace, who gave them their best shot until the Arizona Diamondbacks put together a comeback against the bullpen. The Giants lost 3-2.

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SAN FRANCISCO — In a positive development for the Giants postseason hopes, Jakob Junis returned to form Tuesday night against the Diamondbacks. A not-so-good development saw the Giants fail to crack their Kryptonite this season that has taken the form of Arizona right-hander Merrill Kelly.

DENVER — The Rockies were late to the party Sunday afternoon and it cost them.

PHOENIX — Teams don’t win many games when they allow seven runs in an inning.

PHOENIX — In their first two games in the desert, the Pirates’ offense was dying of thirst, scoring just four runs, three of which came Tuesday in quasi-garbage time of a loss.