Rafael Devers Player Props: July 12, Giants vs. Dodgers
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Devers has put up a team-high 17 home runs and 67 runs batted in. In MLB play, Devers ranks 29th in homers and 10th in RBI.
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New York Times
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- New York Times
Dodgers second-half storylines: What to watch for from the defending champions
The Los Angeles Dodgers opened the season in Tokyo with chances of winning the World Series set at 23.2 percent, according to FanGraphs, easily the best in the sport. They woke up to the All-Star break with chances set at 21.6 percent, albeit with an even wider gap over their next-closest competitor. The Dodgers haven't played all that well. They are banged up. 'Four days off,' Freddie Freeman said, 'comes at the right time.' Advertisement Still, the Dodgers are in first place with the best record in the National League and a roster that projection systems remain endlessly bullish on. Here are three storylines that matter over the final 65 games of the Dodgers' season: He has been a productive player. He hasn't looked like one. His 2.4 Baseball Reference WAR this season is largely carried by his superb defense at shortstop, which is a sentence no one expected to type when Betts took on this unprecedented position change experiment in earnest this winter. His .696 OPS would be the worst of his career. Betts has had sound reasoning in that, if he knew what was wrong, it would no longer be an issue. It's not as if he's striking out — he's actually done so less frequently (10.7 percent) than ever and at the eighth-lowest rate in baseball. But he's swinging more than ever to try to break out of this season-long slump, and getting much less out of it. His power numbers are way down (.381 slugging percentage compared to .491 last year). So is his average exit velocity (down from 89.9 mph to 88.5 mph). Betts said he created bad habits trying to combat his decreased bat speed, something he's trained for in the past. Losing 20 pounds due to an illness right before Opening Day surely didn't help. His struggles reached a point this month when Betts got the proverbial Dave Roberts 'reset' day Still, no one in the organization will tie Betts' decreased offensive production to his position change. Even if shortstop doesn't have as much of a mental wear on him as it did last year, when Betts produced an .892 OPS at the position, there's a physical toll. There are no plans to move him off the spot. 'I just can't see that you go out there and stick him in right field tonight and he's going to throw out two hits or three hits, or he goes to second base and he's going to go on a heater,' Roberts said this month. 'That's hard for me to kind of imagine. But it's a fair ask. I just don't see that as the case.' Advertisement Still, there's reason to believe that Betts could use the All-Star respite as much as anyone. 'I think he's healthy,' Roberts said. 'I think he's strong. I think he's playing great defense. It's just trying to figure out his offense and the mechanics of it. He hasn't really gotten ahead by getting hot yet. But it's coming.' The Dodgers probably need it. It's not likely they will pivot to something different anytime this season. The Dodgers invested plenty into this bullpen over the winter, hoping to avoid Andrew Friedman's least-favorite activity: trading for relievers at the deadline. They likely will have to trade for at least one by the end of this month anyway. So it goes. But adding a rotation piece, barring an impact one becoming available at the right price, doesn't seem to be as likely a move. So that means crafting an October rotation will include choosing from internal options. Yoshinobu Yamamoto is a first-time All-Star who has already topped his workload from his rookie season with 104 1/3 innings pitched. He's topped those workloads in Japan, and his shoulder issue from a year ago appears to be a thing of the past, but it's still worth monitoring how Yamamoto handles a full year's work. The Dodgers' cushion in the standings should give them the ability to be flexible, anyway. Only Yamamoto and Dustin May have made every turn through the Dodgers' rotation this season. May's availability has been a pleasant surprise. Roberts said the right-hander will likely get shut down at some point in the second half for a respite. Though if fully healthy, it's fair to wonder if May (and his 4.96 ERA that ranks 10th-worst in baseball) gets bounced from the rotation entirely. Health is still a major 'if.' Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow combined to make just eight starts in the first half. Glasnow made his return just before the break, but he must show he will still be standing in October. Snell is on a rehab assignment and will spend part of the All-Star break throwing three innings against hitters at the Dodgers' Arizona spring training complex. If both are healthy and pitching well in the postseason, they could join Yamamoto to form a formidable trio. Advertisement Shohei Ohtani's role in the picture remains relevant. The Dodgers are being as deliberate as they can be with a guy who is essentially treating big-league games as a minor-league rehab assignment. Will he be built up for full starts before the postseason? Do the Dodgers even want that? He's looked incredibly effective in his short bursts, which creates the temptation to unleash a full-fledged Ohtani. There are wild cards. Emmet Sheehan has hit the ground running, just more than 13 months removed from Tommy John surgery. If healthy and effective, it's hard to imagine a postseason pitching staff without him in it. Clayton Kershaw is pitching well and helped the Dodgers soak up innings, reaching his 3,000th strikeout along the way. Maybe Tony Gonsolin gets back and changes the math. What is there to make of Roki Sasaki? This isn't the year anyone envisioned. But he's started throwing bullpen sessions this week. He's healthy enough for the Dodgers to start tweaking his delivery in hopes of unlocking what they believe can be an effective major-league pitcher. Roberts threw out a late August timeline for Sasaki, which is the first time there's been any remote clarity on what the rest of his season looks like. The National League leader in batting average (and runner-up in OPS) hits in the center of the Dodgers' lineup. It's not Shohei Ohtani, who is in the midst of another MVP-worthy campaign. It's not Freddie Freeman, who torched the sport through May before cooling off considerably. It's Will Smith, who holds a 30-point lead over Freeman and Brendan Donovan for the NL batting title and has produced one of the finest starts to a season in his career. 'He's up there as far as being overlooked,' Roberts said. 'That's why he's vanilla. You know what you're going to get, but you probably don't appreciate it as much as you should.' Smith floundered in the second half of 2024. Same goes for 2023. Each time, it involved a reason inherent to the catching positon: he was banged up. In 2023, Smith played through a broken rib that altered his swing mechanics. Last year, he played through a bone bruise in his ankle that bothered him up to this spring. The Dodgers have sought to give him extra rest this year as a result. It's part of why Dalton Rushing is up with the big-league club, and why longtime backstop Austin Barnes was discarded. The team wants to avoid a similar drop-off, meaning Rushing has essentially logged one start per series. Smith has caught three days in a row just five times all season. It's worked. Advertisement 'It's very demanding because of the catching, right?' Roberts said. 'I do think us being mindful of how we're using him has kept him fresh.' He's still played enough to keep him qualified for something baseball hasn't seen in a while: Buster Posey was the last catcher to win the batting title, while logging 114 games behind the plate in his 2012 NL MVP season. Joe Mauer did it three times — 2006, 2008, 2009. Before him? Only Ernie Lombardi (1938, 1942) and 'Bubbles' Hargrave (1926). (Top photo of Will Smith: Eric Thayer / Getty Images)
Los Angeles Times
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- Los Angeles Times
The Sports Report: Dino Ebel turns out to be key man on NL All-Star team
From Jack Harris: Technically, there was no winning pitcher in Major League Baseball's 95th All-Star Game. The man who gave up the night's biggest swings, however, was probably as deserving as any. As the American League stormed back from a 6-0 deficit in Tuesday's Midsummer Classic, a rarely contemplated reality started to dawn in both dugouts. Three years ago, MLB changed its rules for how to break ties in its annual marquee event, instituting a home run 'swing-off' to be conducted at the conclusion of the ninth inning. Each team selected three players, who each got three swings. Whichever team hit the most home runs in those nine swings wins the game. Enter Dino Ebel — veteran Dodgers' third base coach — and, now, victorious pitcher in the inaugural All-Star Game swing-off. 'What an exciting moment, I think, for baseball, for all the people that stayed, who watched on television, everything,' Ebel said, after teeing up the NL hitters for a 4-3 win in the home run swing-off, and a 7-6 win overall in the All-Star Game. Continue reading here ———— From Jack Harris: In a week where so much of the focus was on players who weren't playing in the All-Star Game, and those who were selected that weren't seen as deserving, it was the player who had been in more Midsummer Classics than anyone else who delivered the most profound reminder. Before the start of Major League Baseball's 95th All-Star Game at Truist Park in Atlanta, National League manager Dave Roberts called upon longtime Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw to speak in the clubhouse. And in an impromptu pregame speech as the team's elder statesman, Kershaw imparted the most important lesson he's learned from his 11 All-Star Games. 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Continue reading here From Kelvin Kuo: AVP, the biggest and longest-running professional volleyball league, hosted beach volleyball matches for the first time in an NBA arena last weekend. Hosted at the Intuit Dome, crews were tasked with bringing 300 tons of sand from a quarry in Palm Springs, which is roughly 16 truckloads. AVP is looking for creative ways to attract a new audiences to the sport, often hosting its marquee volleyball events in unconventional locations. A wooden sandbox was constructed to contain the pre-washed sand and form a single court. It took the crew, which consists of about 150 people for a change over a typical event at Intuit Dome, five hours after the conclusion of the event to ready the arena for Clippers season ticket-holders the following day. Click here to watch video of the transformation. LAFC defender Aaron Long will miss the rest of the season after having surgery to repair a ruptured left Achilles. The team — which said the surgery was successful — made the announcement on Tuesday, three days after Long was injured in the 76th minute of a 2-0 win over Dallas. The 32-year-old Long is in his third season with LAFC and has started all 15 games this year, scoring one goal. He's started 60 games for the club over the last three seasons. Continue reading here Commentary: 2026 FIFA World Cup dress rehearsal exposes the big problem of extreme heat From Ira Gorawara: Dearica Hamby lined up for one of those last-second launches as the first-half clock dipped toward zero. The ball clanged off the front rim, appearing short — until backspin carried it to the back iron for a second bounce. With Julie Allemand holding her knees and Kelsey Plum already prancing away, the ball kissed the rim twice more. And, finally, after a two-second pause that held the whole arena hostage, the ball dropped. 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'We got a proposal from the league, which was honestly a slap in the face,' Phoenix Mercury forward and union rep Satou Sabally said. Increased salaries, revenue sharing and roster size are three areas where the union expect to see major changes from the current CBA that will expire at the end of this season after the players decided to opt out last year. Nearly all the players who aren't on rookie scale contracts right now will be free agents after this season and looking for big salary increases. Continue reading here Expansion WNBA team brings back the original Portland Fire name 1920 — The United States sweeps Australia in five matches to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1913. The U.S. team is made up of Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston. 1938 — Paul Runyan wins the PGA Championship by routing Sam Snead 8 and 7 in the final round. 1947 — Rocky Graziano scores a technical knockout with a barrage of 30 punches against Tony Zale in the sixth round to win the world middleweight boxing title. Held in Chicago Stadium, it's the largest grossing fight in history. 1950 — Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 to win soccer's World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. 1967 — Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA championship by one stroke over Shirley Englehorn. Whitworth sinks a fifty-foot uphill putt for a birdie on the 18th green at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton, Mass. 1989 — Betsy King birdies three of the first four holes of the final round to win her first U.S. Women's Open championship by four strokes over Nancy Lopez. 1993 — Nick Faldo ties the best single round in 122 years of the British Open with a course-record 63 to give him a one-stroke lead after the second round. 1995 — Annika Sorenstam of Sweden wins the U.S. Women's Open by one stroke over Meg Mallon, her first victory on the LPGA Tour. 2005 — In Las Vegas, Jermain Taylor beats Bernard Hopkins for the undisputed middleweight title. Hopkins, a winner of a record 20 consecutive defenses, starts slowly and the undefeated challenger builds up a big enough lead on two judges' scorecards to take the crown. 2006 — J.R. Todd becomes the first Bblack driver to win an NHRA Top Fuel event, beating Tony Schumacher in the Mopar Mile-High Nationals. 2011 — Kyle Busch wins the Nationwide race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to become the third driver to win 100 races in NASCAR's three national series. Busch, with 22 Cup victories and 29 Trucks wins, also ties Mark Martin for first place in career Nationwide Series victories with 49. Richard Petty and David Pearson are the other drivers with at least 100 wins. 2012 — Roger Federer surpasses Pete Sampras to set the record for the most weeks at No. 1 in the ATP rankings. After winning Wimbledon a week ago — his 75th career ATP title — Federer returns to the top for the first time since June 2010. 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The Rockies beat the Giants 5-3 and tied the 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates, 1938 New York Yankees and 1976 Cincinnati Reds with 11 7-run games. 1997 — Kevin Brown pitched his first career one-hitter to lead Florida to 5-1 win over the Dodgers. Brown, who no-hit San Francisco on June 10th, faced two batters over the minimum and allowed a lead-off single to left by Raul Mondesi in the fifth. He struck out eight and retired his final 15 batters. 1998 — Randy Johnson pitched a one-hitter to lead Seattle to a 3-0 win over Minnesota. Johnson struck out 11 and gave up a single to third baseman Brent Gates. 2006 — Chipper Jones hit a two-run homer in Atlanta's 10-5 win at San Diego to give him an extra-base hit in 14 straight games, tying a 79-year-old major league record. Jones tied the record set in 1927 by Pittsburgh's Paul Waner. 2006 — Mariano Rivera earned his 400th save, escaping two jams and getting six outs to preserve the New York Yankees' 6-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. 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Hardy and Jason Kipnis drove in runs to back a night of pulsating pitching, and the American League beat the National League 3-0. 2015 — Brock Holt became the first Boston player to hit for the cycle since 1996 and the Red Sox slugged their way out to a 9-4 victory over Atlanta. 2021 — Jake Cronenworth hit for his first career cycle, Wil Myers had a grand slam and a two-run shot and the San Diego Padres set a franchise record for runs in a 24-8 blowout of the Washington Nationals. Compiled by the Associated Press That concludes today's newsletter. If you have any feedback, ideas for improvement or things you'd like to see, email me at To get this newsletter in your inbox, click here.
New York Post
an hour ago
- New York Post
What to watch on sports' slowest day
There are very few days on the sports calendar when MLB, the NBA, NFL or NHL aren't on in some capacity, but one of those rare instances usually falls on the day after the MLB All-Star Game, and that's once again upon Metro-area sports fans. While sports fans on Wednesday may feel like they have a dearth of options to choose from without Major League Baseball in full swing and the start of the British Open a day away, there's still plenty of action to tune into for those in need of a sports fix. While baseball's biggest stars will be enjoying some downtime, the WNBA's biggest star, Caitlin Clark, will be in Brooklyn for the first time this season as the Fever take on the defending champion Liberty. Clark, however, is a question mark after she re-aggravated a groin injury in Tuesday's win over the Connecticut Sun. The game between the Liberty and the Fever also serves as a chance for Indianapolis to make up some ground on the Liberty, who lead the Eastern Conference. While the NBA regular season is still months away, the potential stars of the future are in action in Las Vegas for the NBA Summer League, with the Nets facing the Magic on Wednesday night. Aliyah Boston talks with Caitlin Clark after she re-injured her groin in the Fever's 85-77 win over the Sun on July 15, 2025. Getty Images For anyone looking for more soccer after the Club World Cup came to an end last weekend, Major League Soccer has a full slate of matches Wednesday, with the Red Bulls facing the Revolution at Sports Illustrated Stadium and New York City FC traveling to Orlando. Soccer GOAT Lionel Messi will also be on the pitch Wednesday when Inter Miami faces FC Cincinnati. And the ESPYs take place Wednesday night, hosted by comedian Shane Gillis. The annual sports-centric awards show includes former Giant Saquon Barkley being nominated for best men's athlete, and Gillis bringing his brand of comedy to the hosting duties. 'Yeah, I'm excited about it,' Gillis said on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' earlier this week about hosting the ESPYs.
