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Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
SeaWolves let late lead slip away, fall to Reading and more in FNL part I
The Erie Seawolves fell to the Reading Fightin' Phils by a final score of 5-4 on Friday night. The Fightin' Phils scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth to win the game in walk-off fashion. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Reuters
16 hours ago
- General
- Reuters
Yainer Diaz slams walk-off homer as Astros edge Rays
May 31 - Yainer Diaz socked an opposite-field, walk-off home run with two outs in the ninth inning to lift the Houston Astros to a 2-1 victory over the visiting Tampa Bay Rays on Friday. Diaz clubbed his seventh home run off Rays' left-handed reliever Garrett Cleavinger (0-1), who struck out the first two batters of the ninth. Diaz drilled a first-pitch slider to right for the victory. Trailing 1-0 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, the Astros rallied to draw even. Jake Meyers opened the frame with a double to left-center field off Rays' reliever Kevin Kelly and scored when Zach Dezenzo followed with an infield single. The grounder was fielded by second baseman Curtis Mead, who attempted a challenging jump throw that eluded first baseman Jonathan Aranda and allowed Meyers to round third base and score the tying run. The Rays grabbed a 1-0 lead on the second pitch of the game when Jose Caballero smacked his second home run of the season 383 feet to left field off Astros left-hander Framber Valdez (5-4). That was the extent of the damage surrendered by Valdez, who retired 12 consecutive batters following the Caballero homer. Aranda opened the fifth with a single, but Valdez erased him by getting Mead to hit into a double play. Valdez then retired the Rays in order in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings. Valdez allowed a one-out single to Taylor Walls in the ninth, who advanced to second base on a wild pitch. After a walk to Caballero, Diaz cut down Walls as he attempted to steal third base. Valdez completed the ninth by getting Yandy Diaz to ground out to short. He allowed one run on three hits, with one walk and nine strikeouts. He threw only 83 pitches. Rays right-hander Ryan Pepiot was brilliant in producing his fifth consecutive quality start. Pepiot faced the minimum through four innings, thanks in large part to a base-running gaffe by Meyers in the bottom of the third. Meyers dumped a single into shallow left field to open that frame, and with one out, broke for second base on a pitch to Mauricio Dubon, who sent a line drive to Caballero in right field. Meyers hesitated a beat as Caballero made the catch and was doubled off first base to end the threat. Pepiot cruised from there, retiring the Astros in order in the fourth and sixth and working around a two-out walk to Cam Smith in the fifth. He set down Isaac Paredes and Jose Altuve to open the seventh but departed when Christian Walker slapped a single to center field. Pepiot allowed two hits and one walk while recording four strikeouts over 6 2/3 scoreless innings. He tossed 93 pitches, 61 for strikes, in his second consecutive scoreless appearance. --Field Level Media
Washington Post
3 days ago
- General
- Washington Post
Durbin's sacrifice fly gives the Brewers a 6-5 walk-off win over the Red Sox
MILWAUKEE — Caleb Durbin's sacrifice fly drove in the winning run for the Milwaukee Brewers, who earned their first sweep of the season with a 6-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox in 10 innings on Wednesday. For the second consecutive day, the Brewers won in walk-off fashion in extra innings, a day after Christian Yelich's grand slam in the 10th gave them a 5-1 victory .
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brewers' Christian Yelich sinks Red Sox with walk-off grand slam, the first walk-off HR of his career
Christian Yelich woke up Tuesday having never hit a walk-off home run in his 12-plus season MLB career. He ended the drought in grand fashion Tuesday night. With his Milwaukee Brewers and the Boston Red Sox knotted in a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the 10th inning, Yelich tripled the game's run tally with one swing of his bat. Advertisement After Jorey Ortiz was given second base because it was extra innings, the Brewers loaded the bases with a Brice Turang single and a Jackson Chourio walk. William Contreras flied out, bringing Yelich to the plate. Yelich watched a first-pitch ball and a second-pitch strike without a swing. When Liam Hendricks left a third-pitch slider over the heart of the plate, Yelich unleashed. And there was no doubt about this one. As soon as Yelich made contact, the entirety of American Family Field knew it was gone. The ball traveled deep over the right field wall for a walk-off grand slam and a 5-1 Brewers win. Before that blast, Yelich had hit 213 career home runs in the regular season. None of them were of the walk-off variety. Now Yelich knows one of the best feelings in baseball that he didn't before. Advertisement 'It was kind of a weird feeling going around the bases knowing that the game's over," Yelich told reporters postgame. "Obviously, I've never done that before.' Yelich's heroics provided the Brewers with a much-needed win as they improved to .500 at 28-28 in a crowded NL Central and race for the NL wild card. They also provided a boost to the former MVP, who's off to a slow start this season and entered Tuesday's game flirting with the Mendoza Line with a .205/.294/.364 slash line with nine home runs and 30 RBI. Yelich finished the night going 2 for 5 at the plate with two runs scored and the grand slam providing all four of his RBI.
Forbes
5 days ago
- Sport
- Forbes
The Rockies' Triple-A Team Loses A Game In A Very On-Brand Screw Up
Connor Kaiser thought he hit a walk-off double, then he didn't, and then he did. Last week the Reno Aces (the Arizona Diamondbacks' Triple-A club) walked off the Rockies' Triple-A team, the Albuquerque Isotopes, in one of the most bizarre endings you will ever see. Let's set the scene. And, be forewarned, there is some real baseball rules wonkiness about to be described. The Isotopes led the game 4-3 going into the bottom of the ninth inning. The first batter, Aramis Garcia, reached on a throwing error by Isotopes shortstop Ryan Ritter. At the major league level, the Rockies are far and away the worst defensive team measured by Defensive Runs Saved (-39). Ritter made the next play, a slow roller, recording the out at first, moving Garcia into scoring position. Cristian Pache then got hit by a pitch, putting the winning run on base. Second baseman Andy Weber then singled to left to load the bases, putting the winning run in scoring position with one out. This is when the fun starts. The next batter, catcher Connor Kaiser, laced a 3-2 pitch into the right centerfield gap. This seemed to be the game-winner. Garcia scored easily from third, tying the game at four. Pache, racing around third trying to score the winner, ran smack into teammate Ildemaro Vargas, who had run onto the field (with a phone, ostensibly to record the celebration) to meet the runner at home. Pache went down, got up, and tried to score. But the home plate umpire ruled Pache out due to base coach interference pursuant to Official Baseball Rule 6.01(a)(8). That rule provides: 'In the judgment of the umpire, the base coach at third base, or first base, by touching or holding the runner, physically assists them in returning to or leaving third base or first base.' Interestingly, no third base coach was involved (it was a teammate wandering onto the field from the dugout) nor was there any 'assist,' rather he knocked the runner down and did not help him back to his feet. Nonetheless, the umpire invoked the rule and took the tying run off the board, resulting in the second out for the Isotopes. At this point, it should have been a tie game with the batter standing on second base with two outs. But that would be too boring. You see, center fielder Sam Hilliard ran down the liner at the wall, but knowing (assuming?) the game was over, casually flipped the ball into the stands to a young kid. They say no good deed goes unpunished. Well, it turns out that due to the interference call, the ball was still 'live.' So, when Hilliard tossed the ball out of play, the umpires invoked Official Baseball Rule 5.06(b)(4)(G), which states: 'Each runner including the batter-runner may, without liability to be put out, advance two bases when, with no spectators on the playing field, a thrown ball goes into the stands.' Because Weber, who had been on first base, was past second when Hilliard engaged in his community relations, the umpires awarded him two bases, allowing him to score the winning run. The Colorado Rockies had the worst record through 50 games (8-42) in MLB history, and they are 1-2 since then. It is Memorial Day Weekend and they have yet to win ten games. The Padres got to ten wins on April 9th. The team is on a 28-win pace; said differently, they are on a 134-loss pace. That is way, way beyond the record of 121 losses set by the Chicago White Sox just last season. The team fired their hitting coach in April and their manager earlier this month. And yet, nothing has changed. They are 2-11 under interim manager Warren Schaeffer. Thus, it should not be shocking that their Triple-A affiliate is equally inept. It is one thing to blow a one-run save opportunity – that happens nearly every day. But to blow it because of an error, a hit by pitch, and then a former big leaguer tossing a live ball into the stands to end it on an obscure rule, is maybe too on-brand for this franchise that seems to be going nowhere and getting there fast.
