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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How to Watch Jac Caglianone's MLB Debut vs Cardinals
How to Watch Jac Caglianone's MLB Debut vs Cardinals originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The St. Louis Cardinals remain seven games above .500 after what was an extremely productive month of May, but still trail the Chicago Cubs by four games in the National League Central race. Advertisement Next up, the Cardinals (33-26) travel home to host their neighbors and rivals, the Kansas City Royals (31-29). St. Louis comes into the contest coming off a road series loss to the Texas Rangers. The Royals enter having lost three-straight series against the Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Reds and Minnesota Twins. With the team falling down the standings, manager Matt Quatraro decided it was time to call up No.1 prospect Jac Caglianone. Tuesday, June 3, 6:45 p.m. CT How to watch/listen: FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, FanDuel Sports Network Kansas City, KMOX 1120 AM/104.1 FM, Royals Radio Network Probable starters: Cardinals: Andre Pallante (4-3, 4.23 ERA) Advertisement Royals: Michael Lorenzen (3-6, 4.33 ERA) Wednesday, June 4, 6:45 p.m. CT How to watch/listen: FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, FanDuel Sports Network Kansas City, KMOX 1120 AM/104.1 FM, Royals Radio Network Probable starters: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (4-2, 3.90 ERA) Royals: Noah Cameron (2-1, 1.05 ERA) Thursday, June 5, 6:45 p.m. CT How to watch/listen: FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, FanDuel Sports Network Kansas City, KMOX 1120 AM/104.1 FM, Royals Radio Network Probable starters: Cardinals: Matthew Liberatore (3-4, 3.08 ERA) Royals: TBD Gators first baseman Jac Caglianone (14) singles in the Texas A&M Aggies during the eighth inning© Steven Branscombe-Imagn Images Storylines to watch for: 1. Royals' Jac Caglianone expected to make MLB Debut The Royals called up Jac Caglianone on Monday morning after selecting him with the sixth overall pick in the 2024 Draft. Caglianone is the No. 10 overall prospect in baseball and he has been dominating the Double-A and Triple-A scene. Will the Cardinals starters be able to keep the young power-hitter at bay? Advertisement 2. Rivalry Weekend Rematch After facing off during MLB's first ever 'Rivalry Weekend' last month, both teams are hungry to stay in the playoff hunt. The Cardinals took the three-game series in Kansas City 2-1, and after a series victory over the Giants, the Royals have struggled to find their footing. No matter what, these teams are going to put up a strong fight against each other, but will the Cardinals stay hot? Or will the Royals break their losing ways? 3. Battle of the 'Best-Kept Secret' Pitchers This matchup features two of Bleacher Report's 'Best-Kept Secrets for 2025 Season': Cardinals reliever Kyle Leahy and Royals rookie starter Noah Cameron. Advertisement Leahy has posted a 2.32 ERA over 31 innings as a reliable late-inning option, while Cameron owns a 1.05 ERA through four starts since his April call-up. Neither entered 2025 with fanfare, but both are now key arms on two of the league's most surprising teams. Related: Cardinals Labeled 'Pleasant Surprise of 2025' by MLB Writer This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 3, 2025, where it first appeared.
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
North Penn's Jones hits grand slam in seventh inning of district title game win
What to expect from MLB's inaugural Rivalry Weekend | Baseball Bar-B-Cast Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman give their perspective on MLB's inaugural Rivalry Weekend. Hear the full conversation on the 'Baseball Bar-B-Cast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. 2:29 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
New York Post
22-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Post
Why the NFL is starving for must-see rivalries
MLB created 'Rivalry Weekend' to boost fan excitement. If the NFL ever did the same and fell back on tradition, the opposite might happen. In other words, some of the NFL's biggest time-tested rivalries have become so lopsided that a whole generation of fans might not view the games as must-see. Players might not share the bad blood that truly fuels rivalry. Advertisement Credit to MLB for using Rivalry Weekend to generate its best weekend total and per-game average attendance prior to Memorial Day since 2012.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Yankees Fan Are Not Regretting Juan Soto Free Agency Decision
Summer 2025 is shaping up to be a thrilling season for sports in the Big Apple, as "Bing Bong" energy has culminated from multiple directions. Not only are the New York Knicks appearing in the NBA's Eastern Conference Finals for the first time in a quarter century, but the New York Yankees (27-19) and New York Mets (29-18) — both leading their respective divisions — just wrapped up a contentious Subway Series over the weekend. New York Mets right fielder Juan Soto between pitches at Yankee Jones-Imagn Images Major League Baseball's inaugural "Rivalry Weekend" brought all the adversity in the Bronx, especially toward Mets outfielder Juan Soto. Advertisement Of course, Soto was a member of last year's AL pennant-winning Yankee team. However, the Dominican slugger elected to sign in Queens during the recent offseason, making Friday his first visit back to the short porch in right field. Not only did the raucous Yankee Stadium crowd scream at the Metropolitans' high-priced right fielder without relent, but on Sunday, one particular player in pinstripes made supporters in the Bronx overjoyed to have gone a different direction in regards to Soto. Former-MVP Cody Bellinger joined the Yankees for 2025 (via trade) after eight campaigns in the National League. Bellinger used last night to produce his pinnacle moment in pinstripes so far by launching a cascading two-out grand slam in the eighth inning of Sunday's rubber match off Mets pitcher Ryne Stanek, providing the Yanks with an 8-2 insurance policy. Advertisement Ironically, the lefty's slam sailed into the right-field bleachers, leaving Soto looking directly up at the homer. It was all part of a 3-3, 6 RBI outing for Bellinger. Related: Knicks Star Sends 1-Word Message to Cody Bellinger Amid Mets' Loss to Yankees The novelty of the eighth-inning blast to the "Bleacher Creatures" was noticed by Yankee media members and fans alike. Jake Asman of 880 ESPN New York wrote on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter), "Fitting that the guy that replaced Soto hits the grand slam over his head to ice the game for the Yankees..." Baseball is Dead by Underdog added to a screenshot of ESPN's broadcast with a young Yankee fan holding Bellinger's home-run ball, captioned, "Chirping Soto after Bellinger hits a Grand Slam with your son holding the ball >." As noted, the Bronx Bombers won Sunday by a score of 8-2, taking the first Subway Series of 2025 along with it. Meanwhile, Bellinger — who plays left field for New York — is playing solidly behind a .342 weighted on-base average (per FanGraphs). Advertisement On May 19, Belli is second on the team in RBI (28), fifth in home runs (7) and fourth in total runs scored (25). Compared to $765-million Soto, Bellinger also features more defensive flexibility and far, far less investment. Related: Juan Soto Facing Major Backlash for Behavior in Mets' Loss to Yankees The Yankees are idle before resuming action on Tuesday at home versus the Texas Rangers (7:05 p.m. ET). The Mets will make the short trip north to visit the Boston Red Sox for a Monday matchup. Projected starters are Kodai Senga and Hunter Dobbins; first pitch is scheduled for 6:45 p.m. ET.
Fox Sports
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Last Night in Baseball: Rivalry Weekend or Sweeps Week?
There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to handle themselves. That's why we're here to help, though, by sifting through the previous days' games, and figuring out what you missed, but shouldn't have. Here are all the best moments from this weekend in Major League Baseball: The brooms were out this weekend MLB's inaugural Rivalry Weekend ended up being a lopsided affair overall. Out of the 15 series, seven of them were sweeps. Some of those outcomes were not terribly surprising — the Phillies winning three games against the Pirates, and the Cubs doing the same to the White Sox, for example — but at least a couple were unexpected. For one team, their sweep over a crosstown rival was a long time coming — 15 years to be exact. The Los Angeles Angels came into the weekend with the worst record in the AL West and hadn't even won a three-game series at Dodger Stadium since 2012. The Dodgers, the reigning World Series champs, hadn't been swept since last season in Philadelphia. But the Angels gave the Dodgers more trouble than they could handle. On Sunday, one day after spoiling Clayton Kershaw's season debut, they took an early 4-0 lead and then rallied late. After the Dodgers had tied the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning, one of their former players delivered the fatal blow. Travis d'Arnaud briefly played for the Dodgers in 2019 —extremely briefly, as in one game — so this was his first Freeway Series. And the Long Beach native delivered with the go-ahead home run, his first with the Angels. The Angels added an insurance run for the 6-4 win to complete the sweep. And although they're still in last place in the AL West, and the Dodgers are still in first in the NL, for one weekend the City of Angels belonged to the Angels. Rockies avoid sweep, however… One team that somehow wasn't swept over the weekend was the Rockies, who merely dropped two out of three to the Diamondbacks, courtesy of a 14-12 victory on Saturday. Why bother to single them out here, then, when it was a ho-hum series for them at this point? To catch you up on where they stand historically, of course. The Rockies' record now sits at 8-38 through 46 games, which is the worst record through that many games in history, just as 8-37 was the worst record for 45 games, and 7-37 was the worst through 44. The current holder of Worst through 47 belongs to the 1904 Washington Senators, who were 8-36-3, two losses behind the present-day Rockies. Which is to say that the Rockies will still have the most losses in history through 47 games even if they win on Monday against the Phillies, and also beyond that for a little bit, since it took the Senators 50 games to lose their 38th of the season. The Rockies need to string together a few wins in a row, basically, before things get even worse from here. Twins' winning streak comes to an end in gut-wrenching fashion For the past two weeks, no team had been hotter than the Twins this season. On Saturday, they extended their winning streak to 13 games and were two short of tying their franchise record of 15 straight wins set during the 1991 season. (OK, technically, the franchise won 17 games in a row in 1912 as the Washington Nationals, but for simplicity's sake, let's only count the Minnesota Twins, as they've existed since 1961.) The Twins fell behind the Milwaukee Brewers early on Sunday, their franchise-record scoreless streak ending at 34 innings. Their winning streak, however, still had a chance to reach 14 straight. Down 4-2 in the eighth inning, Royce Lewis launched a deep ball to center field that seemed destined to tie the game and give Minnesota its best opportunity to keep its run alive. Jackson Chourio had other plans. The 21-year-old leaped near the wall, reached his glove up and snagged the ball at the exact perfect moment, robbing Lewis of the two-run home run. Even Lewis had to tip his cap to Chourio for that play, despite it more or less snapping the Twins' impressive streak. Yankees get the last laugh The Subway Series, as usual, garnered quite a bit of attention this season. Most of that was due to Juan Soto, who decided to sign with the Mets this past offseason after they gave him a better offer than the Yankees did. Yankees fans welcomed Soto back to the Bronx with, naturally, a chorus of boos. Soto paid them back by going just 1-for-10 with four walks and three strikeouts across the three games. Still, Soto and the Mets could have clinched the series with a win in Sunday night's rubber match. Instead, it was one of Soto's replacements who came through for the Yankees. Cody Bellinger was acquired by the Yankees last December once Soto had agreed to his mega deal with the Mets. In his first Subway Series, he blasted a grand slam in the bottom of the eighth inning that broke open the game. With that one swing of the bat, Bellinger totaled four more RBIs than Soto had all weekend. He had two more earlier that night, matching a career high with six RBIs, on a perfect 3-for-3 night at the plate. In all, Bellinger was 7-for-11 with two home runs, three walks, four runs and seven RBIs against the Mets. With a 13-game hitting streak, he's kind of playing like he's from another planet right now, which is fitting because he always looks like that's where his mind is: Phillies are able to get the sweep thanks to Abel The Phillies and Pirates don't have a ton in common, other than residing in the same state and laughing at, as we all do, the "POOP" scoreboard (RIP). But perhaps nothing sums up their differences more than Sunday's duel between two young pitchers. Paul Skenes, the reigning NL Rookie of the Year, threw his first complete game in the majors. He gave up one run on a fielder's choice, lowering his ERA to 2.44 (fourth-best in the NL). He struck out nine batters. He surrendered just three hits. And he lost. In fact, Skenes has yet to win this month, falling to 0-3 in May with a 3-5 record overall. Meanwhile, Phillies right-hander Mick Abel made his MLB debut and tossed six scoreless innings for the win. He fanned nine batters, tying a franchise record for the most strikeouts in a debut. Abel allowed five hits, but the Pirates did nothing the two times they had runners in scoring position while facing him. Not to take anything away from Abel, who was terrific in his first outing. But he should probably feel fortunate that he was drafted by Philadelphia and not Pittsburgh. Want great stories delivered right to your inbox? 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