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Ian Harrison / Associated Press:
Judge, Stanton homer in 13th as Yankees beat Blue Jays 3-0 — TORONTO (AP) In two days, Yankees slugger Aaron Judge went from terrible to triumphant. — Judge hit a two-run homer to snap a scoreless tie in the 13th inning, Giancarlo Stanton went deep moments later and New York beat …
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Judge, Stanton homer in 13th as Yankees beat Blue Jays 3-0 — Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer to snap a scoreless tie in the 13th inning, — Giancarlo Stanton went deep moments later and the — Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 on Wednesday night for a two-game sweep. — Yankees starter
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Pinstripe Alley
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MLB, take note: Yankees aren't a team you let hang around — TORONTO — The lesson took 3 hours and 41 minutes this time, a little longer than usual, but by the end of the night the moral of the story is the same: when you have the opportunity to take out the Yankees, you'd better seize that chance.
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Baseball Prospectus
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Steve Buffery / Toronto Sun:
Blue Jays sinking fast but Donaldson still believes
Blue Jays sinking fast but Donaldson still believes
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Red Schoendienst Passes Away — Baseball lost a legend on Wednesday evening, as the Cardinals announced that Red Schoendienst has passed away at the age of 95. The Hall of Famer was a 10-time All-Star who won a pair of World Series rings as a player and another during a managerial career …
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MLB Baseball News … and Viva El Birdos
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Will Graves / Toronto Sun:
Pirates break out of funk, topple Dodgers 11-9 — PITTSBURGH (AP) Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle had a sense of deja vu while watching his team take and then threaten to blow three four-run leads during an 11-9 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night.
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MLB notebook: Cespedes is close to return with Mets — A slumping New York Mets offense could possibly receive some help from Yoenis Cespedes this weekend, just in time for the Subway Series against the New York Yankees. — Cespedes has been out since May 16 with a strained right hip.
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Tigers can't overcome 4-run third inning, take another beating in Boston — Boston — Whatever happened Wednesday night, good or bad, Blaine Hardy was going to have to wear it. — The Tigers, without any available long relievers in the bullpen after using both Drew VerHagen and Artie Lewicki …
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baseballmusings.com and Over the Monster
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MLB renders verdict on Luke Heimlich, but will it be a life sentence? — They scouted him, analyzed him, debated over him, and a few teams actually spoke directly to him. — But, in the end, no one would touch him. — Forty rounds passed in Major League Baseball's amateur draft.
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Reactions: Luke Heimlich not selected in 2018 MLB Draft
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The Comeback and Baseball Prospectus
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Colon matches Marichal with 243rd victory as Rangers top A's — ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Bartolo Colon worked five innings for his 243rd career victory, matching Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal for the most by a player born in the Dominican Republic when the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 8-2 on Wednesday night.
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Stefan Stevenson / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
Rangers Reaction: Big Sexy's historic win
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Garlick leads Okla. City over Sacramento 9-3 — SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Garlick hit a two-run home run and had two hits as the Oklahoma City Dodgers topped the Sacramento River Cats 9-3 on Wednesday. — Trailing 2-0 in the second, Sacramento cut into the lead when Tyler Beede hit an RBI single, driving in Myles Schroder.
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Ibandel Isabel has seven homers in seven games for Daytona Tortugas — The Cincinnati Reds couldn't have received that much in return for a pitcher they designated for assignment after he posted a 5.18 ERA and walked 22 in 24 1/3 innings for the team last season and was optioned to Triple-A Louisville in early March, right?
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Former Grizzlies pitcher Richards set to join Marlins — If you look northwest of the Gateway Grizzlies' ballpark, you get a can see a vivid outline of the St. Louis skyline. It's a 15 minute drive to Busch Stadium, but for most Grizzlies' players, the journey is nearly impossible.
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Real or not? Mets can't do much of anything right during brutal slump — How's the team song go? … Umm ... about those home runs ... there haven't been enough of them over the past week and definitely not enough of anything else. The Mets have scored seven runs in their past six games, all losses.
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Nelson, Wagner carry Tampa to 4-1 win over St. Lucie — TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brandon Wagner homered and had two hits, driving in two, and Nick Nelson hurled seven scoreless innings as the Tampa Tarpons beat the St. Lucie Mets 4-1 on Wednesday. — St. Lucie had runners on first and second …
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Diamondbacks Acquire Jon Jay — 9:41pm: Bob Nightengale of USA Today tweets that the D-backs are taking on the remainder of Jay's salary and will be on the hook for any of the $1.5MM worth of incentives he unlocks. Jay reportedly receives $100K for every 25th plate appearance beginning …
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MLB Baseball News …, MLB Daily Dish, AZ Snake Pit, Royals Review and FanGraphs Baseball
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Angels' Shohei Ohtani exits game with blister on right middle finger — Los Angeles Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani left Wednesday night's game against the Kansas City Royals with a blister on his right middle finger. — He was warming up for the fifth inning and left the field accompanied by trainer Eric Munson.
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MLB Baseball News … and Halos Heaven
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Molina starts back-to-back games as Cards aim to bounce back — Coming off an ugly 7-4 loss to Miami on Tuesday, the Cardinals will be looking to get back on track Wednesday when they host the Marlins in the middle game of a three-game series at Busch Stadium. Game time is 7:15 p.m.
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Fish Stripes
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Journal: Rockies' 2018 success riding on better location by Bryan Shaw and rest of bullpen — In each season in which the Rockies qualified for the postseason, their bullpen had an ERA well under 5.00. — CINCINNATI — A cardinal rule of real estate also applies to big-league pitching: Location, location, location.
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Purple Row
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Baseball: GW's Pasteur, Winters Mill grad, drafted by Yankees — George Washington University's Isaiah Pasteur, a Winters Mill High School graduate, was drafted June 6, 2018 by the New York Yankees in the 13th round of the MLB Draft. (Courtesy of George Washington Athletics / Manny Fernandez)