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Blue Jays beat Giants 6-3 for ninth straight home win
TORONTO (AP) — Addison Barger had a career-high four hits, Will Wagner hit a go-ahead two-run double in a four-run sixth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Saturday for their ninth straight home victory. Tyler Heineman homered and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays. They have won 15 of 19. Eric Lauer struck out seven in six innings as the AL East-leading Blue Jays won for the 21st time in their past 25 home games. Toronto is 34-16 at home. Jeff Hoffman finished for his 23rd save in 27 chances. The Blue Jays trailed 2-0 entering the bottom of the sixth against right-hander Logan Webb, but turned it around as five of the first six batters had hits. Webb (9-7) allowed four runs and a season-high 11 hits in six innings. Willy Adames hit a pair of solo home runs for the Giants, his 13th and 14th. It was his ninth career multihomer game. Lauer (5-2) allowed two runs and two hits in six innings. The left-hander retired the first 13 batters in order before Adames homered in the fifth. MARLINS 3, ROYALS 1 MIAMI (AP) — Otto López hit a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth inning and Miami beat Kansas City. Xavier Edwards tripled and doubled for the Marlins, who won their fourth straight and are 21-10 since June 13. Miami's Kyle Stowers doubled and had two walks after hitting five homers in the last two games. Salvador Pérez homered for the Royals' run. Graham Pauley drew a leadoff walk against Kansas City reliever Lucas Erceg (4-3) in the eighth before he advanced two bases on Edwards' double. After Jesús Sánchez was intentionally walked, López hit a drive over left-fielder Nick Loftin to score Pauley and Edwards. Anthony Bender closed with a perfect ninth for his third save. REDS 5, METS 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Jake Fraley matched a career high with three hits and drove in two runs as Cincinnati Reds beat New York. On a festive afternoon at Citi Field, the Mets honored David Wright by retiring his No. 5 jersey and inducting him into the team's Hall of Fame during a pregame ceremony. They jumped out to a 2-0 lead, too, before Fraley doubled and scored on a two-base throwing error by catcher Luis Torrens in the third inning. Fraley then delivered a tiebreaking single in the fourth and a run-scoring double in the sixth for the Reds, who moved a season-high five games over .500 at 52-47. New York's first two batters reached base in the ninth, but Emilio Pagán pitched out of trouble to earn his 21st save. PHILLIES 9, ANGELS 5 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit a grand slam in the sixth inning and Bryce Harper capped the scoring with a two-run homer in the eighth, carrying Philadelphia to a win over Los Angeles. Schwarber's shot to right field off reliever José Fermin was his eighth career grand slam and 32nd homer of the season. Taylor Ward and Jo Adell hit back-to-back home runs for the Angels in the fourth inning for a 3-1 lead that wouldn't stand after Los Angeles starter Yusei Kikuchi left after five solid innings. The Phillies ruined what could have been a big inning in the first, when Schwarber and Trea Turner got caught in rundowns and were tagged out on the same grounder by Harper. Nick Castellanos followed that with a two-out, RBI single for a 1-0 lead. WHITE SOX 10, PIRATES 4 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Tauchman had a go-ahead three-run double in a six-run sixth inning, Lenyn Sosa had three hits and three RBIs and Chicago beat Pittsburgh. Tauchman gave Chicago a 7-4 lead with the two-out double off Isaac Mattson. The White Sox scored the first four runs of the inning off Caleb Ferguson (2-2), who retired one batter and gave up four hits. Bryan Reynolds and Nick Gonzales had back-to-back singles leading off the fourth against Adrian Houser. Both scored on a one-out double by Ke'Bryan Hayes, who scored on a two-out single by Isiah Kiner-Falefa to give the Pirates a 3-0 lead. Luis Robert Jr. had the first hit off rookie Mike Burrows when he reached on an infield single with one out in the fifth. Robert stole his 24th base before scoring on a single by Sosa. Josh Rojas' RBI double cut it to 3-2. RAYS 4, ORIOLES 3 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Chandler Simpson had a tying RBI single and scored the go-ahead run on Ryan O'Hearn's throwing error in a three-run eighth inning in Tampa Bays' victory over Baltimore. Tampa Bay rallied after Seranthony Domínguez replaced Baltimore starter Dean Kremer to begin the eighth inning with the Orioles leading 2-1. Ha-Seong Kim had a leadoff single and a steal and scored on Simpson's single to center. Simpson stole second and advanced to third when José Caballero walked on a wild pitch. Caballero stole his 32nd base — tops in the majors — and Gregory Soto replaced Domínguez with the bases loaded. Jonathan Aranda hit a grounder to O'Hearn at first base, but his throw home was off target when Soto crossed his path allowing two to score for a 4-2 lead. Tyler O'Neill had a one-out double off Scott Fairbanks in the ninth and scored on Cedric Mullins' two-out single to get Baltimore within a run. Mullins swiped his 14th base before Fairbanks finished it for his 16th save in 19 opportunities. RANGERS 4, TIGERS 1 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kumar Rocker took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Rowdy Tellez hit a three-run home run in his second game with the Rangers as Texas beat slumping Detroit. Rocker (4-4) pitched 6 1/3 innings, allowing only Wenceel Pérez's two-out single in the sixth that was pulled down the first-base line on an 0-2 cut fastball that was low and inside. The rookie struck out five and walked three, throwing 96 pitches, one shy of his career high. The Rangers won for the sixth time in their last eight games despite having only four hits. At 50-49, they're over .500 for the first time since being 25-24 on May 20. Riley Greene broke up the shutout bid with a ninth-inning home run.
New York Times
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- New York Times
Ranking the Giants' trade deadline needs
At the moment, the San Francisco Giants are not winning baseball games. If they continue not winning baseball games, please forget everything that follows. A much, much different article will be needed. However, let's proceed with the assumption the Giants will continue to be in the postseason chase, and when the trade deadline comes, they'll be buyers. I disagree with The Athletic's trade tiers, which have the Giants as 'trending to the buy side.' If the Giants are within even a game of the final wild-card spot, they'll be aggressive buyers. Not in the sense that they're going to make another blockbuster for a player making nine figures, but they'll have a clear goal and the means with which to accomplish it. The Giants are committed to several players for many millions for many years, and they're not getting younger. This is as win-now of a team as there's been since 2021. Advertisement That's not to say it'll get an All-Star, a long-term solution or anything other than a utility infielder. Or even that it'll get that utility infielder. Just that it'll be a buyer. Ostensibly an aggressive one. Hopefully, a creative one, too. Here's a ranking of the positions in most need of help, from lowest need to top priority. You don't care about the backup catcher four games out of five, and then you suddenly do. It's not the most important job on the roster, but that doesn't mean it's an unimportant job, and if the Giants feel like there's an upgrade to be had, they should go for it. It's not like it's even close to a priority, though. (And, no, they're not getting a more offense-oriented catcher to take starts from Patrick Bailey.) Possible targets: Gary Sánchez, Matt Thaiss, Christian Vázquez, Freddy Fermin, plenty of others. Pick a bad team, check out their catchers. It's not like they have to be better than Buster Posey to be the second-best catcher on the Giants. Hayden Birdsong and Landen Roupp are likely to blow past their career high in innings within the next week or two. Justin Verlander still isn't helping much. There's not an urgent need to upgrade, demote or make another change, but there are reasons for the Giants to keep an open mind. A potential Game 3 starter at a reasonable price would make a lot of sense for them, and they can deal with the roster fallout however they see fit. A trade for a starting pitcher would likely strengthen the rotation and bullpen in the same transaction, in theory, depending on who moves to what role. Still, the Giants have finite resources, and this is a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have. Possible targets: Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly, Sandy Alcantara, Seth Lugo, Edward Cabrera, Zack Littell, Zach Eflin, Mitch Keller, Nick Martinez, Chris Paddack, plenty of other fourth and fifth starters. Advertisement There's a way to get plenty of starts and at-bats for Heliot Ramos, Jung Hoo Lee, Mike Yastrzemski and Other Guy without anyone feeling like they've been demoted, especially with the DH. And if there's a way to do this while improving the offense as a whole, the Giants should consider all sorts of outfielders. The Giants would be flexible enough to consider outfielders with more power than speed, as well as outfielders with more speed than power. Outfielders who expect to start every day, and outfielders with experience in a supporting role. All-Stars, platoon heroes, left-handed outfielders, right-handed outfielders, switch-hitting outfielders, outfielders, outfielders, outfielders, every outfielder will be considered at Crazy Buster's, so call up Crazy Buster's and sell them your outfielders. If the price is right. And if the fit is right, too. Possible targets: Cedric Mullins, Taylor Ward, Bryan Reynolds, Harrison Bader, Alek Thomas Casey Schmitt has hit into a couple of hard-hit outs over his last few starts, but he still hasn't forcefully claimed the position yet, and he might be running out of time. If he can show off more top-shelf exit velocities, bat speeds and, especially, swing decisions over the next two weeks, the Giants will look elsewhere to upgrade the lineup. If he starts swinging at pitches in the other batter's box again, there will be a bit more urgency. That written, second base just isn't an offensive position in baseball right now. Of the 17 second basemen who qualify for the batting title, only four of them are slugging over .400. None of them is slugging over .500. In theory, it would be great to upgrade the production at the position. In practice, it's probably more practical to help Schmitt be the best durned Casey Schmitt he can be. Advertisement Possible targets: Ozzie Albies, Ramón Urías, Brandon Lowe Also, it's at least plausible the Boston Red Sox sink enough to consider trading Alex Bregman, and that would 100 percent be the most appealing option, both in terms of ability to help and in terms of potential comedy. A Bregman/Devers right side of the infield winning the pennant after all that would be extremely comical. I originally had this category as '1B/DH' and opened with a long-winded explanation of how Rafael Devers' health and ability to play the field would factor into all, but I junked it. Give the Giants another guy who can hit, and they'll figure it out, whether it's at DH or first base or in the outfield. The Guy Who Can Hit can even play second base if the Tampa Bay Rays get froggy enough to give Brandon Lowe away. Guy Who Can Hit has no set position. Only a white horse that he rides into town as he vows to save the Giants' lineup by himself. Guy Who Can Hit will hit, like, eight home runs between the deadline and the end of the season. Don't get too excited. But he's still a deadline necessity. Possible targets: Eugenio Suárez, Ryan O'Hearn, Josh Naylor, Marcell Ozuna This is pure theory and uninformed speculation, but it's possible the reliever-ification of baseball could have a beneficial trickle-down effect for teams looking for bullpen help at the deadline. As in, with more teams putting resources into weaponizing their relievers, it would follow there would be a larger number of helpful relievers available and potential trade partners. We'll see whether the prices come down accordingly. Matt Gage made his Giants debut Friday night, which is notable because they're the team that drafted him in 2014. That was the same year Logan Webb and Tyler Beede were drafted, which means you can fit entire baseball lifetimes into the span it took Gage to appear in the majors for the team that drafted him. Because of this journey, he has the potential to be The One. Ryan Vogelsong. Conor Gillaspie. Travis Ishikawa. You know. The One. Every great Giants story needs the returning hero. Maybe Gage will throw innings 13 through 18 of a Game 7 without allowing a run. Advertisement Or maybe the Giants will just trade for a proven left-handed reliever instead. That seems about 100 percent more reasonable and comes with a better chance of helping. This was the likeliest deadline target for the Giants on March 1. It was the likeliest target for them June 1, and it will be the likeliest target for them Aug. 1. It feels like 'which left-handed reliever' is a better question to ask than 'will they trade for a left-handed reliever?' Heck, this might have been the plan all along. Possible targets: An incomplete list includes Reid Detmers, Gregory Soto, Garrett Cleavinger, Danny Coulombe, Brandon Eisert, Hoby Milner, Robert Garcia, Jacob Latz, Dylan Lee, Aaron Bummer, Andrew Chafin and Caleb Ferguson. Detmers is going to be the hot commodity, but there might be relative bargains to be found. (Top photo of Reid Detmers: Isaiah Vazquez / Getty Images)
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Giants' strikeout artist begins injury comeback after not pitching in 2 years
Cole Waites hasn't pitched in a baseball game since late 2023. That changed Thursday night, when he began a rehab assignment at the San Francisco Giants' complex in Arizona. Waites is trying to complete the long road back from Tommy John surgery. The talented right-handed pitcher only got brief big league action before getting hurt, and he got hit around in his short San Francisco stint. In the minors, though, Waites has been dominant throughout his career. He has a 3.76 minor league ERA and has struck out 14.6 batters per nine innings as a minor league ballplayer. MORE: Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak was almost much longer than 56 games At 27 years old, Waites is a player who can still get back to the big leagues. It'll likely take a month-plus just to get Waites back to full strength at Triple-A, but if he gets to Sacramento and performs well, the Giants will have the chance to consider calling him up for the stretch run. MORE MLB NEWS: Trevor Bauer has the worst ERA in Japan's NPB Eugenio Suarez breaks silence on Yankees trade rumors Deion Sanders, Bo Jackson once had the most legendary clash at Yankee Stadium Cal Raleigh, aka Big Dumper, signs the perfect endorsement deal Aaron Judge reveals how long he plans to play in MLB Is Paul Skenes cursed?
Newsweek
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Braves Blockbuster? Why Latest $65 Million Trade Prediction Makes Sense
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Atlanta Braves have been quite disappointing this season, and it could result in a shocking trade deadline in Atlanta. The Braves will likely sell most of their expiring contracts ahead of the trade deadline, including superstar designated hitter Marcell Ozuna. FanSided's Cody Williams recently predicted the Braves would cut ties with Ozuna ahead of the upcoming deadline in a massive deal. SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 09: Marcell Ozuna #20 of the Atlanta Braves runs to third base at Sutter Health Park on July 09, 2025 in Sacramento, California. SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 09: Marcell Ozuna #20 of the Atlanta Braves runs to third base at Sutter Health Park on July 09, 2025 in Sacramento, California."Make no mistake, trading Marcell Ozuna won't be as easy as some are trying to make it seem," Williams wrote. "The Braves are certainly motivated to do so in the final year of the slugger's contract, but his 10-5 veto rights allow effectively give him a no-trade clause if he doesn't like the deal that Atlanta is about to make. On top of that, Ozuna has dropped off a bit from his monster form of a year ago. "While his .762 OPS is a far cry from the .900+ mark he posted in each of the past two seasons, it's obvious why a buying contender would one of the more proven power bats on the market. Teams like the Houston Astros, who are still without Yordan Alvarez, could use that power at DH, and others like the San Francisco Giants have already proven their aggression on the trade market, but could still use more pop in the lineup." Trading Ozuna won't be a walk in the park for the Braves, but there are enough teams in the league who would be willing to trade for him that a deal will likely come to fruition. Atlanta is unlikely to retain him in free agency after this season, so a trade makes even more sense. With teams like the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres desperate for production in the loaded National League West, it wouldn't be surprising to see them in the hunt for Ozuna. The Braves likely won't net a haul for him, but a mid-level prospect or two should get a deal done. More MLB: Phillies Adding On? Blockbuster Trade Rumors Heating Up As Deadline Nears
Edmonton Journal
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Blue Jays' bottom of the order comes up big in comeback win over Giants
Article content From top to bottom, the Blue Jays' lineup has generally been good as evidenced by the club's excellent record and first-place standing in the AL East. Article content The team's big boys tend to reside in the top of the order, but this season, if anything, has shown that even the alleged unknowns are more than capable of producing. Article content Article content Witness Saturday's 6-3 comeback win over the San Francisco Giants at a sold-out Rogers Centre crowd of 42,015. Article content Article content All six of Toronto's runs came from the bottom of the order as the triumvirate sparked the team to its longest home winning streak in 10 years. Article content Article content Clement has hit as high as leadoff. He has that rare bat control that allows him to lay down bunts, hit behind runners or be used in hit-and-run scenarios. Article content Wagner came on the scene last season following the trade deadline deal with Houston that also netted Joey Loperfido. Article content Article content Article content Heineman has come out the blue, but he is more than a serviceable backup catcher. Article content Article content Saturday's belt was Heineman's third of the season, while his first-career multiple extra-base hit game would also be produced in the win. Article content As well as the bottom of the order performed, it was hard to overlook Addison Barger's career-high four-hit performance. Article content 'A guy with really, really great talent,'' added the skipper on Barger. 'He can hit the ball hard, he can hit the ball out of the ballpark, and you pair that with a very good approach. Article content 'He's got a bright future. He can be as good as anyone … It's tools, it's approach, it's confidence. He's in a good spot.' Article content The same could be said for the Jays, who have taken the first two games of the series after losing three of four just before the all-star break. Article content
