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On Friday night in Milwaukee, the Yankees were shut down by Brewers’ phenom pitcher Jacob Misiorowski to spectacular effect. On Saturday, it was the Yankees’ turn to throw their young star, and he was quite good himself. Cam Schlittler ended up going six innings, for the Yankees, allowing no runs on just two hits. He even came back from taking a line drive off the leg to put in another excellent outing.

It’s just that the rest of the team didn’t pull their collective weight. The Yankees managed just three runs on Saturday, despite seven hits and seven walks. However, they twice held late leads, as they were ahead in both the eighth and tenth innings. The bullpen couldn’t close things out either though, as they dropped a frustrating one to the Brewers, 4-3 in 10 innings.

Before the frustration, the game started on a pretty decent note. It took just one batter for the Yankees to surpass their run total from Friday night. On the second pitch of the game, Paul Goldschmidt took Kyle Harrison deep to give the Yankees a good start.

In the bottom of the first, there was a scary moment as Cam Schlittler took a comeback liner off the calf, causing him to limp around for a bit. After the trainer came out to look at him and some practice pitches, he remained in and struck out Jake Bauers.

The Yankees picked up a second run in the fourth inning, although it was a missed chance at even more. Amed Rosario and Jazz Chisholm Jr. opened the inning with hits, giving the Yankees runners at the corner, with a José Caballero walk then loading the bases. However, Harrison got the next two outs, leaving the inning up to Goldschmidt. The first baseman picked up another RBI after Luis Rengifo couldn’t handle his liner at third, giving Goldschmidt an RBI single. The Yankees couldn’t tack on any more in the inning, though.

After Schlittler left the game, it didn’t take long for Milwaukee to get on the board. On the very first pitch reliever Brent Headrick threw in the seventh inning, Bauers crushed a homer into the second deck in right field, cutting into the Yankees’ lead. Headrick came back after that to get through the seventh and the first out of the eighth. Camilo Doval replaced Headrick and got the second out of the seventh before Brice Turang kept the inning alive with a single. Turang then stole second and you knew what was coming after that. William Contreras dropped a single into left field and Turang just beat Cody Bellinger’s throw home, tying the game up. With little room for error, David Bednar came out and threw a nice 1-2-3 inning on just 12 pitches, sending the game to extras.

It seemed like the Yankees would then go down pretty quickly in order in the 10th. Ben Rice and Bellinger couldn’t do anything with the auto-runner at second, with Aaron Judge getting intentionally walked, as is custom. However, McMahon, having come in earlier for Rosario as a defensive replacement, poked a single up the middle to give the Yankees the lead back. Judge would get caught in a rundown after the run scored and the throw home was cut off to end the inning though, and the Yankees would regret missing out on the chance to get insurance runs.

For the bottom of the 10th, the Yankees turned to Fernando Cruz. He got off to a rocky start, as a wild pitch moved the runner up, and he then issued a walk. While a fly out ended up keeping the runner in place in the next at-bat, a Jackson Chourio grounder left Caballero with no play, tying the game back up.

The Yankees then went to Tim Hill, who immediately got a ground ball. However for whatever reason, Hill tried to go to third to get the lead runner. His throw hit Rengifo, the runner, allowing everyone to be safe. Hill then finally did get the second out, but it was a Contreras fly out to right that was deep enough for Aaron Judge’s throw home to be a couple steps late. You can somewhat chalk up Friday’s loss as just running into a freak of nature. Harrison and the pitchers Milwaukee used on Saturday are all pretty good, but the Yankees wasted this one.

Tomorrow, the Yankees and Brewers will wrap up their series with one final game in Milwaukee. It’s also a notable one for the Yankees especially, as Carlos Rodón will make his return from the injured list, opposite Logan Henderson for the Brewers. First pitch in that one will be at 2:10 pm ET.

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Ending their short-lived losing streak, the Chicago White Sox tied the series against the Seattle Mariners with a 6-1 win, and the longball got the job done.

Sam Antonacci led off the ballgame with an opposite-field single to left-center, and his heart-and-hustle nature paved way for a stolen base and an aggressive tag from second to third on a Munetaka Murakami fly to right. With two outs and two strikes, Colson Montgomery faced his Achilles heel of a pitch, but took that up-and-in fastball to the left field bleachers to make it 2-0, Sox. Montgomery entered the double-digit club with his 10th homer, is up to 28 RBIs, and extended his on-base streak to 21 games:

After wreaking havoc on the basepaths, Antonacci kept that same energy in the outfield. With two outs in the second inning, Superman Sam stole a base hit to end the frame:

I cannot overstate how impressive Sam has been in left field. Heading into today’s game, he’s played only 19 MLB games in left field (144 innings) and just 10 extra games in the minors (100 innings). This compares to more than 1,030 innings in the infield throughout his professional career, with the majority at second base. And yet, he’s making routine and not-so-routine plays in left look so easy at the highest level of play.

Mirroring the first inning and in the game of Sam, Antonacci wore a hit-by-pitch to make way for Miguel Vargas to mash the second two-run homer of the ballgame and his eighth of the year:

Although he still hasn’t pitched into the sixth inning since early April, Anthony Kay had the start that he and the Sox needed. Notching a full five innings, Kay gave up just one unearned run via the sacrifice fly after a Murakami error, allowed only three hits, walked two batters and struck out five.

The Good Guys drove Luis Castillo out of the ballgame after four innings. Although he allowed four earned runs and five hits, he did strike out six and walked zero batters. However, the two home run balls plagued what otherwise would have been a bounce-back start.

In the bottom of the fifth with Josh Simpson on the mound, Vargas worked an 11-pitch at-bat ending in his second blast of the ballgame at 112.9 mph and a 5-1 Sox lead!

Grant Taylor took over pitching responsibilities in the sixth and seventh innings. He sat down Seattle’s core —Julio Rodríguez, Josh Naylor and Randy Arozarena — 1-2-3 while notching a couple of strikeouts and a ground out in his second inning of work.

Heading into the eighth, yesterday’s birthday boy Bryan Hudson handled some adversity when Naylor’s foul ball was overturned to fair, which put runners on the corners with two outs. However, Hudson hunkered down to strike out Arozarena at the plate to escape the inning and extend his own scoreless streak to 15 innings.

Looking for an insurance run in their half of the eighth, Chase Meidroth recorded his first hit of the night off the first pitch he saw, a double down the left field line. Jarred Kelenic followed with a walk, and Tristan Peters moved up both runners to second and third with a sacrifice bunt.

Randal Grichuk, once my enemy for his anti-bat flips stance during Tim Anderson’s reign, was hit on his toe to load the bases. To my dismay, after some miscommunication in the outfield, Edgar Quero was looking at an RBI single, but Grichuk, taking only a modest step toward second — even with no one covering the first base bag in case a catch was made — was forced out. Fortunately, the run scored for a 6-1 ballgame, but via a fielder’s choice variety.

Locking down the win was Tyler Schweitzer, recently recalled to fill Jordan Leasure’s spot in the bullpen. The southpaw put up a 1-2-3 ninth to secure the Sox victory, tying the series at one!

The White Sox improve to 18-21 while the Mariners fall to 19-21. Tomorrow’s rubber match begins at 1:10 p.m. CT on CHSN and ESPN 1000 radio.

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After a 12-run explosion yesterday, the Mariners couldn’t summon up a ton of offense, and their pitchers gave up three homers in a 6-1 loss against the White Sox.

Luis Castillo couldn’t wiggle out of some first-inning trouble after giving up a leadoff single to Sam Antonacci on a fastball that came in at 95 but right on the plate. Castillo was a pitch away from getting out of it when Colton Montgomery turned on a fastball in his lefty loop zone, squeaking it just 367 feet over the right field fence for a 2-0 lead the White Sox would never surrender.

Meanwhile, the Mariners couldn’t solve Anthony Kay’s changeup. He struck out three hitters on the pitch in the first two innings alone, while throwing a bunch of other soft stuff that the Mariners hitters just couldn’t make solid contact on. They got a little something going in the top of the third, getting two runners on without a hit, but couldn’t convert the gifts of free baserunners.

Castillo gave up his own gift in the bottom of the inning, grazing Sam Antonacci in a two-strike count and serving Miguel Vargas a first-pitch sinker right on the plate that he yanked into center field for another two-run homer. Castillo settled after that, limiting the damage to the two two-run homers, although with a little help from Cole Young:

The Mariners finally got a run back in the fifth, again without a hit: Mitch Garver led off with a walk, and Young reached on a fielding error by Munetaka Murakami. Leo Rivas sac bunted the two over into scoring position, which, sure, and Rob Refsnyder got the job done with a sac fly. That brought up Cal Raleigh who, to his credit, battled Kay for seven pitches but ultimately took a called strike three, fooled on a sinker that wound up right on the plate.

The White Sox then immediately took that run back, again with two outs, as Vargas – again – won an 11-pitch standoff with Josh Simpson, homering on yet another sinker that got too much plate. Sinkers are stinkers.

From there it was a bullpen battle for both teams. The Mariners threw the B-side of their bullpen: following Simpson was Nick Davila, who gave up a double but worked a scoreless bottom of the sixth, and José Suarez made his Mariners debut in the seventh, working around some trouble from a single and a walk but not able to get out of the eighth cleanly, striking out the side but also loading the bases on a hit and two walks and giving up the lone non-homer run for the White Sox. The White Sox bullpen fared much better, throwing four scoreless innings with an additional four strikeouts to add to Kay’s five. The Mariners will try it again tomorrow to secure a second series win in a row.

Dustin May had a great start to the game not allowing a hit to the San Diego Padres until the bottom of the 5th inning, but that’s when the wheels came off the no-hit wagon. The Padres would eventually outslug the Cardinals 4-2 Saturday night.

The bats of both the St. Louis Cardinals and San Diego Padres were quiet until the top of the 4th inning when Jordan Walker and Nolan Gorman hit back-to-back singles. After Masyn Winn hit into a double play, Nathan Church belted a gap double to left center to score Walker and give the Cardinals a 1-0 lead.

Dustin May’s strong start did not end well. He didn’t allow a hit until the bottom of the 5th inning, but that first hit left the park as Ty France tied the game with his solo blast.

May then walked the next batter Song. Fermin singled moving Song up to second base. Two batters later, Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a bloop single that scored both runners giving the Padres a 3-1 lead. Dustin May did give the Cardinals a quality start by definition as he completed 6 innings allowing only 3 hits, but only 2 earned runs as Fermin had advanced to second on a passed ball against Pedro Pagés. May also struck out 7 while only walking 2.

Stop me if you’ve heard me say this before, but the St. Louis Cardinals were not done. In the top of the 8th inning, JJ Wetherholt was barely grazed by a pitch, but it counted which resulted in him on base again. Ivan Herrera then jumped on an inside pitch from reliever Morejon drilling it down the third base line scoring Wetherholt all the way from first base cutting into the Padres lead 3-2.

The good news is the Cardinals were only down a run. The bad news is it triggered the entry of super-saver Mason Miller. He didn’t strike out Jordan Walker, but did get him to ground out weakly to short to end the Cardinals 8th inning threat.

Justin Bruihl pitched a decent inning of relief in the bottom of the 7th not allowing a run and Matt Svanson pitched a respectable 8th with one very long exception. He gave up a no-doubt home run to Manny Machado to extend the Padres lead to 4-2.

The Cardinals were able to make Mason Miller sweat in the top of the 9th inning. His control of his four-seam fastball was questionable and both Nolan Gorman and Nathan Church took advantage of it as they were both walked putting the tying run on base. But, both Masyn Winn and Thomas Saggese were completely overmatched as Miller struck them out. Yohel Pozo also struck out, but the ball got away from Fermin to load the bases for JJ Wetherholt. He unfortunately was frozen by a Miller fastball to end the game on a strikeout looking. There’s always tomorrow, but at least we made Miller throw 29 pitches.

The St. Louis Cardinals wrap up their 4-game series versus the San Diego Padres Sunday at Petco Park. Kyle Leahy will start for St. Louis while Walker Buehler takes the mound for San Diego. First pitch is scheduled for 3:15pm central time.

Thus far in May, the Mets have done a much better job putting some wins on the board than they did in April. Despite that, it’s not as though all the problems we saw last month have magically gone away. Most notably, the offense continues to be a struggle on a fairly regular basis. In last night’s series opener against the Diamondbacks, the Mets struggled to score all evening (despite facing off against Ryne Nelson, a pitcher who had been previously been scuffling), but were able to finally get some clutch hits in extra innings to secure the win. Tonight, the offense was quiet once more, and this time those struggles doomed them to a 2-1 loss.

Like Nelson, Diamondbacks starting pitcher Merrill Kelly has struggled mightily in his four starts so far this season, as he entered tonight’s game with an unseemly 9.95 ERA. And the Mets did take a small early lead against him in the top of the second. After the first two batters of the frame were retired, Marcus Semien lined a single to left field, and he subsequently came home after Brett Baty smacked a double in the right field gap. Unfortunately, Francisco Alvarez grounded out to end the inning, and that proved to be the only offense the Mets would muster against Kelly all night. He hadn’t made it through six innings in any of his other 2026 starts, but he went seven tonight and did so tonight with relative ease, surrendering just the one run. The only other hit he surrendered aside from the two in the second was on a two-out double from Tyrone Taylor in the top of the fifth, and Kelly subsequently intentionally walked Juan Soto, giving the Mets two runners on for Bo Bichette. But he softly flew out on the first pitch he saw, and that was the extent of the danger that Kelly would face on the evening.

Meanwhile, Clay Holmes—who has arguably been the best pitcher on the Mets’ staff thus far in 2026—took the mound against Kelly tonight. After being given the lead in the second, he worked through a runners on first and second with one out threat in the bottom of the frame to preserve the 1-0 lead. Unfortunately, Holmes would not be quite as successful in the following inning. He retired the first two batters he faced in the third, but he then loaded the bases on two singles and a walk. Ildemaro Vargas—the current batting leader of the National League—then came up, and he grounded a 2-1 pitch through a hole on the left side of the infield to bring two runners home and give the Diamondbacks a 2-1 lead. Holmes did retire the next batter to end the threat, and those two runs would be the only blemishes against him tonight—though a two-walk in the sixth did end his night before he was able to secure a quality start. Still, his final line—5.2 innings, 5 hits, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts, and 2 runs—would have been good enough to secure a win if the offense had provided more support.

The bullpen subsequently did its job: Austin Warren got the final out of the sixth and then pitched a scoreless seventh as well. Craig Kimbrel overcame two leadoff walks in the eighth to also keep the deficit at just one run. But the Mets bats, as they have done so often this year, were completely and utterly silent in the latter half of the game. Kelly retired the final seven batters he faced on his night, and Taylor Clarke and Paul Sewald then came out of the bullpen to both toss 1-2-3 innings of their own—making it thirteen straight Mets batters retired to close out the night. It marks approximately the 500th time that the Mets went 10+ batters without getting on base this season (that number might be slightly exaggerated, but you know damn well that it feels correct).

The Mets still have a chance to secure their third straight series victory tomorrow, though they will have to do so facing off against Eduardo Rodríguez, who—unlike the other two starters the Mets have faced this weekend—has pitched quite well thus far in 2026. It’s naturally a bit hard to feel overly optimistic that they’ll be able to generate some offense tomorrow after seeing how the previous couple games have done. And even if they do manage to secure the win and get another series victory, the hopes of a miraculous season turnaround will be awfully hard to realize if we don’t see a dramatic improvement in the lineup production soon.

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What’s WPA?

Big Mets winner: Austin Warren, +7% WPA
Big Mets loser: Mark Vientos, -16% WPA
Mets pitchers: +14% WPA
Mets hitters: -64% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Brett Baty RBI double in the second, +11.6% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Ildemaro Vargas two-run single in the third, -19.7% WPA

White Sox 6, Mariners 1

Giving up two two-run homers: Luis Castillo, -.22 WPA

18 whiffs: no one deserves praise, none of you are without sin

Game thread comment of the day:

There’s a new approach to how the Colorado Rockies front office is managing the prospect pipeline. In past years, some prospects were stuck behind a logjam of veterans who didn’t seem to fit the organization’s path forward, while other prospects were yo-yoed between the majors and various levels of minor league ball. Frustration grew among fans of the club as there never seemed to be a clear path forward in development.

Colorado Rockies President of Baseball Operations, Paul DePodesta, recently spoke about the team’s philosophy this year, embracing patience with players at all levels. The front office is trying to avoid being reactionary, offering a longer leash to players who are struggling out of the gate in the MLB season, while also giving prospects time to blossom in Triple-A or below without rushing them up the ladder.

DePodesta notably said that the team’s plan is to “call players up when they are banging down the door where we have to make room for them because they’re just playing so well,” along with a foundation of skills to survive at the major league level. Production alone is not enough; prospects must sustain that production and showcase an approach that will translate.

Fans this year seem to be more on board with that approach, seeing how prospects in past years were hurt by being rushed up to the majors. But there’s still an appetite to call certain players up when they’re hitting well and gathering accolades at the minor league level.

With all that said, how is this front office philosophy sitting with you? What, to you, constitutes “banging down the door?”

If you were calling the shots, who is the first prospect you’re calling up? And when would you do it?

Do you embrace the “let them learn in the big leagues” philosophy? Is there anyone on the farm that you would have already called up for a spot on the Opening Day roster?

Or are you a more patient roster developer who would bring folks up after the All-Star Break or even deeper into the season?

Let us know what you think in the comments!

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The Texas Rangers scored six runs while the Chicago Cubs did not score a run.

Welcome to The Shed, Chicago.

Pure usual Rangers anti-scoring energy radiated from the Arlington den where the dreadful ley lines for impotent RISP ability seem deeply rooted. Luckily, those undesirable powers wafted from the home dugout over the visitors and the National League’s best and hottest club turned 13 scoring chances into zero runs while stranding eleven runners.

Meanwhile, the team that might as well hold the patent on runless scoring chances collected four hits with RISP in nine such opportunities to plate six runs. Those six runs equaled Texas’ home high-water mark along with a 6-1 win over Pittsburgh back in late April.

Fresh off winning their tenth in a row last night in the series opener, the Cubs were made to take the place of the Rangers in run production misery. It was like watching two teams swapping fates akin to a zany ‘80s comedy where a straight laced nerd wakes up in the body of a charming popular kid.

It was an odd game in many respects as the Cubs wore down Rangers starter Jack Leiter with five walks and had him out of the game after 97 pitches and just 4 2/3 innings but they still came away with nothing to show for it.

Meanwhile, for Texas, several unlikely sources picked tonight to contribute. The top of the lineup went 0-for-11 with a walk but the bottom four produced six hits and five of the six RBIs.

As the Rangers sent the Cubs to the loss column for the first time in eleven games, they’ve earned a much-needed win and have a shot to claim the series in Sunday’s finale.

Player of the Game: Josh Jung had three more hits, including a home run. Alejandro Osuna had two hits and drove in two. Joc Pederson doubled and drove in a run.

But, No. 9 hitter Justin Foscue laced a solo home run for the first of his big league career. Foscue has notably had a pretty miserable go of it in the majors in a few stints over the last few seasons, so getting that first home run was special for the former first-rounder.

Congratulations, Justin!

Up Next: The Rangers close out this series and this treacherous 40-game stretch to begin the season with RHP Jacob deGrom expected to pitch for Texas against RHP James Taillon for Chicago.

The Sunday afternoon Mother’s Day finale from The Shed is scheduled for 1:35 pm CDT and will be aired on the Rangers Sports Network.