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Brent Maguire

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Writer and researcher at mlb dot com. BBWAA member. Formerly: San Francisco Giants • The Athletic • Locked On Angels 📍Southern California ✉️: brent.maguire@mlb.com https://www.mlb.com/news/topic/brent-maguire

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PCA walks it off for the Cubs. What a wild night at Wrigley.

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Max Muncy and Ildemaro Vargas were both injured after this nasty collision at first base. Both players were down for a while but got up under their own power. They each left the game.

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Shea Langeliers "inside-the-park home run"

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Insane home run robbery from Drew Gilbert

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Julio Rodríguez is very much reversing course on his usual slow starts so far this season. He's homered 13 times and his .782 is just below his career .798 clip. This could be one of his best seasons yet.

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Here’s another view of Jo Adell’s catch gone wrong. TJ Rumfield’s ball hit Adell’s glove, then his head and went over the wall. BRUTAL.

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Oh my god. Jo Adell just pulled a José Canseco and had a ball hit off his head and go over the wall for a homer. TJ Rumfield's ball hit off Adell's head and ricocheted over the yellow line on Angel Stadium's right-field wall. The Angels are losing 8-0.

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Kyle Harrison struck out 12 Giants hitters and allowed one run in 5 2/3 innings tonight. Among pitchers with at least 50 innings, Harrison's 1.57 ERA is third-lowest behind Shohei Ohtani and Cristopher Sánchez. His 31.9% strikeout rate only trails Jacob Misiorowski and Dylan Cease.

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Angels-Rockies is officially off the rails thanks to a game-tying two-run triple from Jorge Soler. It's his fifth career triple and first since 2024. And as we know now after Shohei Ohtani's inside-the-park homer last month in Anaheim, that netting down the line is in play on balls like this.

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The Angels and Rockies are playing a hideous game of baseball tonight. There have been lots of walks, hit-by-pitches and errors and now a bullpen meltdown by the Angels. Hunter Goodman's three-run homer puts Colorado up in the 8th inning.

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Ketel Marte's last three home runs: 111.9 mph exit velocity, 409 feet (tonight) 113.7 mph exit velocity, 452 feet (May 26) 112.4 mph exit velocity, 424 feet (May 23)

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Jose Siri robbed a grand slam in Tampa Bay yesterday. He hit a grand slam in Anaheim today. Baseball, man.

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2026 Miguel Vargas: 14 home runs in 59 games 2025 Miguel Vargas: 16 home runs in 138 games

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JJ Bleday simply can't be stopped right now. He's homered 10 times and has a 1.076 OPS this season.

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Juan Soto hits the first Mets grand slam of the season to put them up 10-1 over the Marlins

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Jacob Misiorowski’s first four strikeouts came on fastballs clocked at 101+ mph. He switched it up in the fifth inning with a pair of 87-ish mph curveballs for punchouts. Outlandish stuff.

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Jose Siri robbing Taylor Walls of a grand slam is not something I expected to see today

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Ronald Acuña Jr. is so back. On the first pitch of the game, he crushed a pitch 438 feet that left his bat at 112.0 mph. He's homered in four straight games, tied for the second-longest streak of his career.

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Roki Sasaki had four strikeouts at 99+ mph tonight. That's tied with 2023 Bobby Miller for the most 99+ mph strikeouts by a Dodger in a single outing in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008).

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Jaron Elkins has homered in three straight games for the Tower Buzzers. Dude's crushing baseballs so far this season.

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Ronald Acuña Jr. has homered in three straight games for the first time since Aug. 31 to Sept. 2, 2023. He's heating up, folks.

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Home Run No. 14 May 30 at TB Distance: 417 feet Exit velocity: 105.3 mph Bat speed: 78.2 mph

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Fernando Tatis Jr.'s reaction to his first home run in 2026 was priceless

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Fernando Tatis Jr. FINALLY has his first home run in 2026 and he absolutely mashed it. 114.0 mph off the bat. 451 feet. A lot of frustration taken out on one swing.

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Another homer for Oneil Cruz. He has 13 in 57 games. Cruz is well on his way to setting a career high in homers (21 in 2024 is his season high).

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First career grand slam for Wade Meckler (!!!)

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Randy Arozarena walks it off (not a homer) in extra innings for the Mariners. Fun night across MLB.

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Jaron Elkins is one of the more exciting prospects in the Dodgers system. Tools are off the charts (7 HR and 16 SB this season) but strikes out far too much (roughly 30% entering today). After two failed bunt attempts, he nearly hit Ontario's LF scoreboard on the fly with a go-ahead homer.

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Ezequiel Tovar makes it FOUR walk-off home runs across Major League baseball tonight: Bryan Reynolds (PIT) vs. the Twins Miguel Vargas (CWS) vs. the Tigers MJ Melendez (NYM) vs the Marlins Ezequiel Tovar (COL) vs. the Giants

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Kyle Schwarber ends Justin Wrobleski's no-hit bid with a two-out homer in the sixth inning

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Justin Wrobleski has struck out a career-high eight batters in five no-hit innings. He's absolutely shoving against the Phillies.

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Shohei Ohtani makes it three straight innings with a Dodgers home run against Zack Wheeler

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Freddie Freeman took Zack Wheeler deep in the first inning. Max Muncy did it in the second inning. It's 2-0 Dodgers.

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MJ Melendez walks it off with an extra-innings homer for the Mets. That's three walk-off homers in roughly the last 30 minutes (Bryan Reynolds in Pittsburgh and Miguel Vargas in Chicago).

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Miguel Vargas walks it off with a two-run homer in the 10th inning. The White Sox are FUN again.

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The Pirates win it on a walk-off two-run homer from Bryan Reynolds

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Not to be outdone, Oneil Cruz just crushed one 450 feet into the Allegheny River. 110.8 mph off the bat. My goodness.

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Trevor Larnach took a 98.1 mph fastball from Jared Jones and deposited 424 feet out of PNC Park into the Allegheny River

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Ronald Acuña Jr. kicked off today's MLB games with a gargantuan leadoff home run. 113.3 mph off the bat. 429 feet. 81.5 mph bat speed.

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Andy Pages has 13 home runs and an .899 OPS this season. His 2.8 WAR only trails Bobby Witt Jr. (3.5) and Yordan Alvarez (2.9) among position players. Pages has nine hits, three homers and three doubles over his last four games.

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Tyler Freeman ends the Dodgers' no hitter with two outs and two strikes in the 8th inning

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Shohei Ohtani has hit leadoff home runs in consecutive games as the starting pitcher. 111.3 mph off the bat. 424 feet. Dodgers up 1-0.

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Yordan Alvarez did it again and the second one was CRUSHED. 110.0 mph off the bat. 448 feet. He's homered twice in consecutive games and is up to 20 homers on the year.

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20 home runs for Munetaka Murakami. Going 108.3 mph EV / 432 feet the other way is some crazy pop.

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If you told told me before the season that Yordan Alvarez would have 19 home runs and a 1.060 OPS before the end of May, I would've assumed the Astros would be in a prime playoff position. Alas ...

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Most strikeouts on a single pitch type this season: Jacob Misiorowski: 68 on four-seamers Cristopher Sánchez: 61 on changeups Chase Burns: 50 on sliders Eury Pérez: 46 on four-seamers Chris Sale: 44 on sliders

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Dustin May is through seven no-hit innings against the Brewers. He's thrown 60 of 82 pitches for strikes. And his stuff has been wicked (look at this sweeper he struck out Brice Turang on).

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"Pages to the pavilion" is a great call from Stephen Nelson

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First homer of 2026 for Kiké Hernández. Dodger Stadium was pretty pumped about it.

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Two MLB games, two outfield assists for Rikuu Nishida. The second one is a pivotal assist to get the potential go-ahead run in extra innings.

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Casey Schmitt has tied his career high with 12 home runs. It took him 95 games to reach that mark last year. It's only taken 47 games this season.

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Munetaka Murakami's 19th home run is a game-tying two-run homer in the 8th inning. Dude's pretty good.

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Woah. Vaughn Grissom hits a go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning to put the Angels on top in Detroit. Grissom has three hits and six RBIs tonight.

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Goodness gracious, Yordan Alvarez crushed his 17th home run of the season. 112.2 mph off the bat. 449 feet. 83.5 mph bat speed.

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Daniel Schneemann robs Curtis Mead of a home run. What a grab.

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Esmerlyn Valdez's two-run homer caps a five-run first inning for the Pirates against the Cubs. Valdez's first two career hits have been homers.

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Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa combined for an Astros' no-hitter against the Rangers. It's the first MLB no-hitter since the Cubs' combined no-hitter against the Pirates on September 4, 2024.

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Pitchers with 100+ strikeouts and no more than 15 runs allowed in their first 11 outings of a season (since at least 1901): 2026 Jacob Misiorowski 2021 Jacob deGrom 2020 Shane Bieber 2000-01 Pedro Martínez

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Reid Detmers' slider was downright nasty in last night's 14-strikeout performance. That pitch accounted for half of his strikeouts and produced whiffs on 12 of 18 swings. Detmers' 34 strikeouts on sliders this year ranks fourth in the Majors, behind Sale (44), Burns (44) and Cease (35).

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The Angels walk it off on a Rangers error and secure the sweep on Sunday Night Baseball

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Make that 14 strikeouts for Reid Detmers. That hasn't been done by an Angels pitchers since Andrew Heaney on Aug. 20, 2019.

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Reid Detmers has struck out a career-high 13 batters. He's the first Angels pitcher with 13 strikeouts in a game since Shohei Ohtani on May 3, 2023.

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Reid Detmers has recorded the seventh double-digit strikeout game of his career. It's his first such game since a 12-strikeout game on Sept. 27, 2024.

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Corbin Carroll has eight triples in his first 49 games this season. He's just the fifth player with that many triples within his first 50 games of a season in the Wild Card era (since 1995). Only 2004 Chone Figgins has more (9).

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Go-ahead grand slam from Rafael Devers. Two straight days with grand slams from the Giants

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Casey Schmitt is crushing baseballs this season. Home run No. 11.

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Aaron Judge walks it off for the Yanks with a two-run homer in the ninth inning. Judge snaps his 11-game homerless streak with his fourth career walk-off homer (first since he hit three in 2022).

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On consecutive pitches, Kyle Tucker tripled home two runs to put the Dodgers ahead and then Andy Pages crushed a two-run homer. It's been quite the season for Pages, who has homered 11 times and is running an .830 OPS.

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What a heads-up play from Cody Bellinger, who threw out the runner at third base before the potential go-ahead run scored at home with two outs ... and the opposite can be said of Junior Caminero, who can't make that kind of mistake in this situation.

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Oneil Cruz demolished this slider (415 feet) from Dylan Cease, the second homer he's already allowed today. After allowing just one home run in his first nine starts, Cease has allowed two home runs in consecutive outings.

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Home Run No. 13 May 23 vs. TEX Distance: 411 feet Exit velocity: 108.9 mph Bat speed: 78.3 mph

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Jordan Walker ties the game with an RBI single in the 9th inning. It's been a huge game for Walker, who has also homered and doubled in the second game of the doubleheader.

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Teoscar Hernández is heating up. He hits a three-run homer off the foul pole to give the Dodgers a 4-3 lead over the Brewers.

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Omg. More sun chaos. Rafael Devers popped up a ball to Munetaka Murakami, who lost the ball in the sun (he had shades on his hat). Devers, though, wasn't running out of the box and was called out at first base after a replay reversal.

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Bader's grand slam came three pitches after Miguel Vargas lost a foul ball in the sun with two outs in the inning. Rough break for the White Sox.

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Harrison Bader hits his second grand slam in the last week. The Giants have blown that game open to a 9-3 lead.

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First multi-homer game of the season for Zach Neto. Fourth of his career.

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Oswald Peraza set a career-high with his sixth home run, which left his bat at 110.3 mph and traveled 418 feet. He's been one of the real bright spots for the Angels this season.

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Sam Antonacci was hit by a pitch twice in the same inning tonight. This happened a few times last year (CJ Abrams and Francisco Lindor) but it hadn't happened since 2014 before then.

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There's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll tie things up in San Diego

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Oh, and Wade Meckler made this catch in left field to end the top half of the first inning. It's hard to have a better debut inning.

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Anaheim native Wade Meckler homers on the first pitch he ever sees as an Angel ... against Jacob deGrom in Anaheim.

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Zach Neto homered on the first pitch of the game. It's his second career leadoff home run against deGrom. Neto has also hit leadoff home runs against Tarik Skubal, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Chris Sale and Dylan Cease in his career.

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Recent pinch-hit home runs in the 9th inning or later to break a scoreless tie: Kyle Manzardo, tonight, CLE vs. PHI Bo Bichette, 5/28/25, TOR vs. TEX Brandon Nimmo, 7/11/18, NYM vs. PHI Josh Phegley, 4/25/17, OAK vs. LAA Kelly Johnson, 6/25/16, NYM vs. ATL

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William Contreras smokes a first-inning three-run homer to put the Brewers up 3-0 over the Dodgers

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Juan Soto took a 99.8 mph fastball from Eury Pérez and crushed it 449 feet. Soto is feeling it right now.

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Kevin McGonigle homers on the first pitch of the game

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Gerrit Cole records his first strikeout of the season in a scoreless first inning

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