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A Yandy Díaz home run off Jacob López set the tone quickly, and Tampa Bay pulled away late to beat Oakland 10-6 in a night that left the AL East pennant picture feeling more fluid.
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The reigning National League Cy Young winner heads into his Aug. 11 matchup with Miami seeking a return to the sharp form that defined his first Big League success and his Cy Young season.
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The left-hander returned to the Baltimore mound with a calmer focus after an Aug. 3 rumor cycle swirled around his future, including an incorrect report tying him to the Cubs.
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Tarik Skubal makes a Dodger Stadium debut as the American League’s back-to-back Cy Young winner goes up against the Royals, who battled with patience and hard at-bats. The matchup highlights Kansas City’s ability to extend innings, even as Los Angeles’ star-studded pitching and a hot bat edge the game.
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A recent MLB team feature points to relief pitchers with the steepest strikeout-rate jumps over the past seven weeks, including Seattle’s Andrés Muñoz and Oakland’s Mason Miller, and frames Chicago’s Jordan Hicks as a potential “reinvention” success story in the bullpen.
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Cristopher Sánchez takes the mound for the Phillies at Busch Stadium on Tuesday night, looking to extend a five-start win streak in a matchup that carries real relief value for a team that has been inconsistent week to week.
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Minor League Baseball comes back to the iconic Dyersville, Iowa, set for a featured broadcast matchup between the Triple-A St. Paul Saints and the Iowa Cubs.
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Baseball’s rotation picture tightened again with multiple starting pitchers nursing elbow-related issues. The Rays absorbed another bullpen/rotation adjustment after Griffin Jax went down, Nathan Eovaldi was sidelined with elbow inflammation, and Hunter Greene’s season appears to be ending with planned elbow surgery. For Los Angeles, Blake Snell is slated to come back Tuesday.
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A new preseason ranking places 2026’s strongest head coaches just below the sport’s most established tier, framing the debate as much about timing and late-game proof as it is about career resumes.
