The Angels have lost 7 of their last 8 and have gone from 3 1/2 to 10 1/2 back in the AL West during that stretch. Mike Trout says his team can't think about that. "If you do that, it's going to snowball, and it's just going to get worse."
Over his last seven games, Mike Trout has reached base via a walk or a hit in 24 of his 33 plate appearances. The Angels, who lost 7-4 to the D-backs tonight, are 1-6 in that stretch.
Justin Upton's face when Jarrod Dyson robbed him of a game-tying grand slam.
Kole Calhoun in May versus Kole Calhoun in June. Crouched stance, lower hands. When you're reaching base less than 20 percent of the time, you have to change it up,
It's game 12 of the Astros' 36-game stretch against .500 and under opponents — and they've won all 12 after beating the Rays in dramatic fashion with a walk-off rally in the bottom of the ninth. The winning streak ties the 1999 and 2004 teams for longest in franchise history.
Albert Pujols, who went back-to-back with Justin Upton, is on pace for 90 RBIs, which would mean he finishes the season with 2,008. He can join Hank Aaron and Alex Rodriguez as the only players with 600 HRs, 3,000 H and 2,000 RBIs.
12 straight! The @astros walk it off and now have the longest win streak in MLB this season. pic.twitter.com/5WgduWJHXR
Following Monday's 4-2 win, Yankees have now gone UNDER the betting total in 13 straight games
Yankees pitcher Sonny Gray, who was on base once Monday for the first time in three years, got chided by teammates for having a slow trot on Aaron Hicks' fifth-inning home run. Aaron Judge joked it was as if Gray thought he hit the homer. As a pitcher, Gray also didn't know the hitters' handshakes, so he kind of messed up the celebration with Hicks at the plate. Said Hicks: "Don't do that. Not on live TV!"
In speaking about how Jonathan Holder got the Yankees out of a key sixth-inning, no-out, first and third jam Monday night, Sonny Gray said: "After he did that, you could feel a jolt go across the bench, and we kind of knew we were going to win this game." The Yankees pulled through with a 4-2 win.
They have postponed the Dodgers-Cubs game after a delay of two hours, 53 minutes because of additional bad weather expected to move in as well as the on-going power outages at Wrigley Field. The clubs will play a split doubleheader on Tuesday, with the first game starting at 1:05 p.m. EST, and the second game starting at the previously scheduled 8:05 p.m. EST.
The next round of rain hasn't hit but the lights have gone out again at Wrigley Field. It's been a topsy-turvy sea of emotions at the ballpark tonight, almost on par with last year's NLCS.
And the lights are back on at Wrigley Field, but the tarp is still down. More rain is expected to hit the ballpark soon.
Mike Trout just got caught stealing for the first time all year. He's 13-for-14, on pace for 29. There were thoughts early in his career that he would steadily give up speed for power as he aged, but that has not been the case. He still has a healthy amount of both.
The rain stopped some time ago at Wrigley Field but there still has been no announcement about when the Cubs-Dodgers game might begin. There is a bank of lights out on the right-filed roof and it's also dark all through the stands up the left-field side of the park. But no word on what is going on. And ... they just brought the tarp back and started to cover the infield. The crowd, who has stuck it out for the last three hours, is not happy, and there is a lot of them. Can't blame them.
The Angels have so many players on the DL (13) that they added an extra, stand-alone locker stall near the entrance of their clubhouse. But Kole Calhoun, their starting right fielder, returned today. He was batting only 145/195/179 when he suffered an oblique strain 16 days ago, which he said happened because he was "swinging out of my mind." He thinks going on the DL helped him reset and get in the right frame of mind.
The Angels are open-minded about the path Shohei Ohtani's rehab will ultimately take (i.e., hitting while recovering as a pitcher). "It's really two different players," Mike Scioscia said. "And one does not necessarily impact the other."
The Nationals have acquired Royals closer Kelvin Herrera, and they didn't have to give up a whole lot to get him. Rookie sensation Juan Soto stays put in Washington, as does fellow outfielder Victor Robles. In return, KC gets three minor leaguers, the most highly rated of whom is Blake Perkins (Nats' no. 8 prospect according to Keith Law). Herrera, who has a 1.05 ERA and 14 saves, joins a Washington pen that already has three guys (Sean Doolittle, Ryan Madson, and Brandon Kintzler) with significant closing experience.
Nothing has really changed with Angels pitcher/hitter Shohei Ohtani. Angels are still 2-3 weeks from evaluating him after getting a PRP injection to treat the Grade 2 sprain of his UCL. But Scioscia said the team is "very optimistic about the prognosis." Ohtani is currently taking swings with only his left arm to keep his lower half active.
Bad stuff is moving in overhead in Chicago, so the Cubs have already announced that tonight's game against the Dodgers will not start on time. However, they added that every effort will be made to play tonight, so we may be in for a late night.
