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Matt Carlson / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Detwiler gets 1st win in 3 years, White Sox power past Twins — CHICAGO (AP) — Ross Detwiler pitched five effective innings for his first win in nearly three years and the — Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota 6-4 on Friday night to snap a seven-game losing streak against the Twins.
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South Side Sox, Boston Red Sox News …, MLB Trade Rumors and Twinkie Town
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Steve Adams / MLB Trade Rumors:
Twins Place Eddie Rosario On Injured List, Promote Lewis Thorpe
Twins Place Eddie Rosario On Injured List, Promote Lewis Thorpe
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Twinkie Town, South Side Sox and MLB Baseball News …
Connor Byrne / MLB Trade Rumors:
White Sox Outright Odrisamer Despaigne
White Sox Outright Odrisamer Despaigne
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MLB Baseball News …
Connor Byrne / MLB Trade Rumors:
Rangers Sign Austin Bibens-Dirkx — The Rangers have reunited with right-hander Austin Bibens-Dirkx on a minor league contract, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News reports. Bibens-Dirkx will take the ball for their Triple-A affiliate in Nashville on Saturday.
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Lone Star Ball
Derrick Goold / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Down and out: Cardinals' sickly offense loses top producer Ozuna — SAN DIEGO — Shortly before they found a way, through video replay, to vanquish the lengthiest scoreless streak of their season, and long before Friday's game was decided in any way, the Cardinals already had suffered a loss …
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MLB Trade Rumors
Lance Hornby / Toronto Sun:
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. seeing star as Jays down equally woeful Royals — Lourdes Gurriel Jr. has a new nickname — “it's hot” assured the Cuban's interpreter Hector Lebron — though the two don't want to reveal it quite yet. — Perhaps they're saving it for Sunday if Gurriel is named to the American League all-star team.
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MLB Baseball News … and Royals Review
Jenna West / Sports Illustrated:
Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger, Christian Yelich Headline All-Star Game Starters — Find out which players are starting for the American and National Leagues at the 2019 All-Star Game. — Mike Trout and Cody Bellinger headline the list of All-Star Game starters announced by Major League Baseball on Thursday night.
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MLB Baseball News …
Associated Press:
Mets Lose to Braves and Reach a Season Low — The rookie Mike Soroka outpitched Jacob deGrom, a Cy Young Award winner, and the visiting Atlanta Braves got a two-run homer from Austin Riley, a fellow youngster, in a 6-2 victory Friday night over the plummeting Mets.
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MLB Baseball News …
Field Level / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Yankees, Red Sox set to renew rivalry in London — America's most storied sports rivalry makes its way across the pond for a historic series as the Boston — New York Yankees face off in the first of two games at London Stadium on Saturday. — The series marks the first-ever games contested in London for Major League Baseball.
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baseballmusings.com, MLB Trade Rumors, McCovey Chronicles, Boston Red Sox News … and Pinstripe Alley
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Julian McWilliams / BostonGlobe.com:
Michael Chavis's cup of coffee in the majors turns into a full-course meal
Michael Chavis's cup of coffee in the majors turns into a full-course meal
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MLB Baseball News …, McCovey Chronicles, Pinstripe Alley, MLB.com, Over the Monster, NBCSports.com, Red Sox News and NESN.com
Emma Baccellieri / Sports Illustrated:
Power Rankings: Spotlighting MLB's Most Modern Teams — This week's Power Rankings highlights the teams that most exemplify what baseball is in 2019: homers, strikeouts and walks. — Another Friday is here, and so is another edition of SI's MLB Power Rankings.
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Royals Review
Joe Reedy / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Olson homers twice, leads Athletics over Angels 7-2 — Mike Fiers remained unbeaten in his last 10 starts and the — Los Angeles Angels 7-2 Friday night. — It is Olson's first multihomer game this season and the fifth of his career. He had Oakland's first hit with a two-run shot to right-center in the first inning off
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Athletics Nation
Bob Duff / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Sanchez beats old team, lead Nationals over Tigers, 3-1 — Anibal Sanchez beat his former team for his third win in four starts, — Juan Soto hit his 14th home run of the season and the — Detroit Tigers 3-1 on Friday night. — Sanchez (4-6), who went 46-49 for the Tigers from 2012-17 …
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Federal Baseball and Bless You Boys
Josh Dubow / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Posey breaks out of slump in Giants' 6-3 win over D-Backs — Buster Posey had a pair of RBI hits and — Alex Dickerson homered and drove in two runs to lead the — San Francisco Giants to a 6-3 victory over the — Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.
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McCovey Chronicles
Rich Rovito / MLB Baseball News, Scores …:
Newman homers, Pirates rally late to beat Brewers 3-2 — Kevin Newman homered and extended his hitting streak to 18 games, and the — Pittsburgh Pirates rallied with two late runs to beat the — Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 on Friday night in the opener of a three-game series.
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Bucs Dugout
Connor Byrne / MLB Trade Rumors:
Astros Place Brad Peacock On Injured List — The Astros have placed right-hander Brad Peacock on the 10-day injured list with shoulder discomfort and recalled lefty Reymin Guduan from Triple-A Round Rock, Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle was among those to report.
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MLB Baseball News … and The Crawfish Boxes