However, Verlander also shared he has some additional hurdles to clear to see if he can return off the IL for his scheduled start on Wednesday, June 4.
Justin Verlander threw a 40-ish pitch bullpen today and said all went well and he’s “trending forward.” Says there are a couple more boxes to check before he can determine if he’ll start after the IL stint.
Verlander still hasn’t recorded a win in a Giants uniform, though he has rounded into shape after a slow start to the season. The veteran’s ERA through four starts was a startling 6.75, but he has recovered with a 2.97 mark in his last six outings.
San Francisco would welcome the return of Verlander to bolster its already strong pitching staff that has been one of the best in MLB — especially as its offense continues to struggle. Speaking of which, the Giants got some more good news Tuesday on that front as well.
Slugger Jerar Encarnacion, who is yet to make his season debut after sustaining a left hand fracture during spring training, will return to his rehab assignment Tuesday night with the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate Sacramento River Cats.
Giants say Jerar Encarnacion will return to his rehab assignment with Triple-A Sacramento tonight. Their hope is he’s only a few days away.
Encarnacion paused his rehab for a few days earlier this month after dealing with some hand soreness; he was eligible to come off the 60-day IL on Monday.
So, that’s two pieces of good news that potentially could help propel San Francisco amid a nine-game East Coast road trip.
The Mets' win over the White Sox on Monday at Citi Field marked the one-third point of the season, and New York is in strong shape.
With a 33-21 record, the Mets are on pace to finish the year at 99-63.
The above record or something close to it would almost certainly be enough to secure a playoff appearance, which would be historic for the Mets.
New York has never reached the postseason three times in a four-year span. That would change if they get to the playoffs this year following their run to the NLCS in 2024 and entry as a Wild Card in 2022.
Let's assess how things are going for the 2025 Mets and what's to come...
The good
The most obvious thing to highlight is the pitching staff.
Even while dealing with injuries to multiple key contributors in the starting rotation and bullpen (which lost A.J. Minter for the season), New York's pitching has been elite.
They lead all of baseball with a 2.78 ERA, and there have been some incredibly pleasant surprises that appear to have staying power.
In the rotation, Kodai Senga (1.46 ERA a year after losing most of his campaign due to injury) and Clay Holmes(2.98 ERA as he transitions from reliever to starter) are leading the way.
Meanwhile, David Peterson (2.79 ERA) is building off his impressive 2024, Griffin Canning (2.88 ERA) looks like a different pitcher than the one who was with the Angels last season, and Tylor Megill (3.56 ERA) has been solid while missing tons of bats.
May 13, 2025; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets starting pitcher Kodai Senga (34) waves to the crowd after getting taken out in the sixth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field. / Wendell Cruz - Imagn Images
In the bullpen, Edwin Diaz has been nearly unhittable after a brief early-season scuffle, Ryne Stanek and Reed Garrett have served as strong bridges to the closer, and both Huascar Brazoban and Max Kranick have emerged as serious weapons.
Offensively, it's been Pete Alonso and Francisco Lindor carrying much of the load while having strong campaigns. But they need help.
The imperfect
The offense was humming along early, but has been in a serious rut over the past few weeks.
In the Mets' last 12 games, they've scored just 30 runs -- averaging a paltry 2.5 per game.
Some of the struggles have to do with the fact thatLindor, Juan Soto, and Alonso were slumping at the same time recently. But the Mets also aren't getting much from Brandon Nimmo (.683 OPS) or Mark Vientos (.682 OPS and just five home runs).
New York's approach at the plate has also left a lot to be desired, especially with runners in scoring position -- where they have struggled badly. The Mets are hitting just .213 in those spots, better than only the Rangers, lowly White Sox, and historically-abominable Rockies.
It's fair to believe those RISP numbers will see a serious improvement and that the offense will wake up soon enough. If not, some changes could be in store.
The defense has also been off, both in terms of physical errors and mental mistakes. The normally surehanded Lindor is having a merely very good season at shortstop, not a best-in-class one. Alonso has made a number of miscues at first base, and Vientos' defense at third base has really hurt New York's cause.
With Jesse Winker out, Brett Baty up, and the DH spot open, it makes all the sense in the world for the Mets to use Vientos as the DH and other options at third -- at least for now.
Of course, the elephant in the room is Soto, who is not off to the start he or the Mets would have hoped. But it's impossible to believe he won't break out in a big way soon enough.
What's to come
The cavalry should be coming in waves starting soon, as injured players make their way back.
Aug 21, 2024; New York City, New York, USA; New York Mets starting pitcher Sean Manaea (59) walks off the field after the top of the fourth inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Citi Field. / Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports
First could be Frankie Montas, who is in the middle of a rehab assignment. After Montas should be Sean Manaea, who is set for a live bullpen session on Thursday and is nearing a rehab assignment of his own.
The Mets are expected to turn to a six-man rotation once healthy, but it will be interesting to see how they handle things soon if they have seven viable starters for six spots.
Also making strides toward a return is Jose Siri, who is doing some running and is set to hit on Thursday. As far as Winker, he's a ways off.
Later in the season, it's possible the recently re-signed Brooks Raley makes his way back. Even Drew Smith could make a late-season return.
The Mets could also get a jolt from the minors, with the two most buzzy possibilities being pitchers Brandon Sproat and Nolan McLean, who are both at Triple-A Syracuse.
As SNY contributor Joe DeMayo recently pointed out, Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff, and Freddy Peralta all got a significant amount of time in the bullpen early in their careers while Stearns was in charge in Milwaukee.
Beyond the pitching prospects, it's possible the Mets get a contribution from outfielder Drew Gilbert, infielder Ronny Mauricio, and even infielder/outfielder Jett Williams.
There's also the trade deadline.
With the Mets now firmly in their championship window, the philosophy has changed when it comes to how they might handle things. That doesn't mean they're going to gut their budding farm system, but the willingness to deal a prospect of note for an impact return is different than it was last season.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Jacob deGrom had a start like no other he’s ever had in the major leagues. The two-time Cy Young Award winner didn’t strike out a batter for the first time in his career.
“I actually didn’t know that. I heard it when I walked inside, but they were aggressive early,” deGrom said after going 5 1/3 innings for the Texas Rangers in his 229th career game, a 2-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.
It was the first loss in the past seven starts for the 36-year-old deGrom (4-2), who has made 11 starts overall this season after missing most of the last two years following his second Tommy John surgery.
Daulton Varsho hit a solo homer in the first inning, and the only other run deGrom allowed came on a sacrifice fly. He gave up five hits and walked two before manager Bruce Bochy pulled him in the sixth after 81 pitches.
“They were putting a lot of balls in play early. So I was like, oh man, I might be able to go deep in this game ... let’s see how deep I can go in this and try to keep them off the board,” deGrom said. “Fighting myself, started yanking the ball, walked a couple guys, just wasn’t very efficient.”
Meanwhile, Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman threw 72 of his 96 pitches for strikes — with first-pitch strikes to 26 of the 29 batters he faced for a career-high 89.7%. His first 14 pitches were strikes, and he needed only 12 of those to get through the first two innings.
Gausman (5-4) struck out six in eight innings, with all his punchouts coming after Wyatt Langford’s one-out homer in the fourth. Two of the strikeouts came when the right-hander retired three consecutive batters after Texas opened the fifth with back-to-back bloop singles.
“We got some good jam shots early in the game,” Gausman said. “Being able to pound those guys so early in the game in, it opened up for them chasing later in the game.”
As for pulling deGrom in a 2-1 game, Bochy said he wanted to lighten the load on a pitcher who threw 103 pitches over seven innings against the New York Yankees last Wednesday and at least 90 pitches in each of his two starts before that.
“He’s been working pretty hard,” Bochy said. “It’s what we thought this game would be, a tight ballgame, two really, really good pitchers going out there. They came out on the good end. ... Jacob was good, their guy was really good.”
DeGrom has 1,728 career strikeouts, and entered Monday’s game with a 30.9% career strikeout rate. He had multiple strikeouts in all but one of his previous 228 starts, at Philadelphia on Sept. 16, 2020, when he had only one strikeout before exiting after two innings with a right hamstring spasm. That was 10 days after he struck out 12 Phillies in a game.
There are no physical issues this time, and deGrom said he hasn’t even thought about his workload — 63 1/3 innings through 11 starts. He threw only 64 1/3 innings during his final season with the New York Mets in 2022, when he didn’t make his first big league start until Aug. 2 after being shut down late in spring training because of a stress reaction in his right scapula.
The right-hander threw just 41 innings combined the past two seasons after signing a five-year, $185 million contract with Texas in free agency.
“I feel good. I was just fighting myself today, flying open,” deGrom said. “It’s something I’ve been working on almost every start. And today, it kind of took a step in the wrong direction. So I wasn’t able to really locate down and pitch off that with my slider.”
CLEVELAND — Nic Enright thought he would be caught up in the emotions of finally making it to the majors this past weekend.
Compared to everything he has dealt with the past three years since being diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, the 28-year-old Cleveland Guardians right-hander was able to take everything in stride.
Enright threw two scoreless innings and struck out three for Cleveland on Sunday in a 5-0 loss to Detroit. He was called up on Saturday after Hunter Gaddis was placed on the bereavement list.
“I remember feeling calmer and much more at peace than I thought I would,” Enright said Monday before the Guardians’ 7-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“After I finished warming up and when I jogged in, we stopped for a minute to play ‘God Bless America.’” he added. “I used that time to just kind of think of everything that had gone on these last couple of years, all the obstacles that I’ve been through, everything that I and my parents have overcome. And then when the song finished, I was like, ‘All right, let’s go play baseball.’”
Enright received his cancer diagnosis in December 2022 after experiencing tightness in his neck. He was surprised about the diagnosis before going through some of the symptoms — such as getting itchy at night, experiencing night sweats and eczema on his elbow — and discovering he had all of them.
Enright has been undergoing treatments before and after each season, including four rounds of immunotherapy at the end of last season. He will have four more rounds of immunotherapy at the end of this season.
Cleveland selected Enright in the 20th round of the 2019 amateur draft out of Virginia Tech. The Miami Marlins took him in the Rule 5 draft two weeks before his cancer diagnosis in 2022.
“There were some dark days, and that’s when I leaned on all those people around me,” he said. “The biggest thing was not letting cancer control me and not letting it dictate how I was going to live my life.”
Enright returned to the Guardians organization in 2023. He missed most of last season due to a right shoulder strain, but went 2-1 with a 1.06 ERA in 16 appearances with Triple-A Columbus.
He missed the first three weeks of this season due to a lat muscle injury. When Enright returned, he allowed only two earned runs in nine innings with one save in nine appearances with Columbus.
Enright made the majors after a 17-11 record and 3.13 ERA in 156 minor league games, including two starts. He is wearing No. 59 with Cleveland, the same number worn by Carlos Carrasco for 12 seasons. Carrasco was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2019 and returned to pitch for Cleveland later that season.
Coincidentally, Enright’s big league debut came in Detroit when the Tigers were hosting Strikeout Cancer Weekend.
“You can’t draw it up. It’s just one of those cool things,” manager Stephen Vogt said. “Just to see all that he’s persevered through different organizations, coming back to Cleveland and getting to make his major league debut with the Guardians. It was a really special day for Nic and his family and really fortunate we were there to watch it.”
Enright said he has received plenty of text messages the past couple days, but one of the more meaningful ones came from Boston’s Liam Hendriks, who recently returned to the majors for the first time in two years after battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and recovering from Tommy John surgery.
Even though Enright has reached a couple of significant milestones, he doesn’t want his story to end with what happened Sunday.
“I’m super happy with how yesterday went, but the goal isn’t to just debut,” he said. “The goal is to come up here, take the ball every time my name is called and do everything I can to help this team win games.”
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The Athletics, yet again, made a series of roster moves ahead of Tuesday’s game against the Houston Astros at Dalkin Park.
The Green and Gold placed first baseman Nick Kurtz on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hip flexor and selected outfielder Drew Avans from Triple-A Las Vegas.
Kurtz, who made his big league debut April 24, just nine months after the A’s selected him No. 4 overall in the 2024 MLB Draft, has slashed .245/.315/.762 with five home runs and 15 RBI in 94 plate appearances.
Avans, meanwhile, was batting .328/.444/.858 with four home runs and 34 RBI in 189 plate appearances in Las Vegas.
Additionally, the A’s acquired veteran left-handed pitcher Sean Newcomb from the Boston Red Sox for cash considerations.
Newcomb returns to the A’s after spending parts of the 2023 and 2024 seasons with the club. The 32-year-old, however, only tossed 25 innings for the two seasons due to knee injuries.
Newcomb tallied a 3.95 ERA this year with the Red Sox, tallying 41 strikeouts and 17 walks in 41 innings pitched across 12 appearances, five of which were starts.
To clear space on the 40-man roster, the A’s designated left-handed Matt Krook and right-handed pitcher Ryan Cusick for assignment.
Meanwhile, Seth Brown cleared waivers and the A’s outrighted the outfielder/ first baseman to Las Vegas. Brown was hitting just .212 in his seventh year with the Green and Gold.
As it stands, the Athletics are last in the AL West, losing nine of their last 10 games.
It remains to be seen exactly how long Kurtz will be out, but manager Mark Kotsay and Co. will hope a second round of roster moves in a week’s time will inject some much-needed life into the team.
Angels broadcasters Wayne Randazzo, left, and Mark Gubicza in their broadcast booth before the Angels' home game against the Miami Marlins on May 24. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
The adjective hit me like a line drive.
Wayne Randazzo, the television voice of the Angels, was detailing just how poorly the team’s relievers had performed. He recited the Angels’ earned-run average in the late innings, inning by inning. Over 5.00. Over 6.00. In the ninth inning, at that time, over 7.00.
“The numbers,” Randazzo said, “are gargantuan.”
What a colorful, descriptive and absolutely apt adjective. Not the “struggling” or “scuffling” or “slumping” a broadcaster typically offers, bland adjectives presented with the assurance that better times are ahead. No team can win with that kind of bullpen performance, and no one can guarantee that better times are ahead for a relief corps where only the closer has a successful track record.
For all that has gone wrong on the field for the Angels in modern times, they have struck gold in the broadcast booth. In pairing Randazzo with longtime analyst Mark Gubicza, the Angels just might have their best broadcast team since Dick Enberg and Don Drysdale half a century ago.
Randazzo, in his third season with the Angels, grew up listening to Harry Caray in Chicago. He filled all sorts of roles on the New York Mets’ radio broadcasts — pregame and postgame shows, clubhouse interviews and eventually play-by-play — before the Angels hired him.
That background, he says, informs his honesty with the audience. “Gargantuan” isn’t about trying to tear down the players; it’s about being forthright with the fans.
“I’m from Chicago, I worked in New York, and those markets do the same thing,” Randazzo said. “Carrying that through makes it a more respectable listen for the people that are really listening, which are the fans of the team.
“They know what is really happening.”
Joe Davis, the television voice of the Dodgers, knows Randazzo well. The two broadcasters trained together in the Southern League, calling games for teams in Alabama: Davis for the Montgomery Biscuits, Randazzo for the Mobile BayBears (now the Rocket City Trash Pandas). The two were in each other’s weddings, Davis said.
For the Dodgers, Davis calls a nightly all-star game. Randazzo calls games for a team that has not posted a winning record in a decade.
“I joke with people, but I’m only half-joking,” Davis said recently at Dodger Stadium, “that if this team had lost 100 games a year since I got here rather than won 100 games, I might not still be here.
“People enjoy when you’re delivering good news, and I have no control over that. Similarly, he and guys that cover teams that aren’t winning have no control over that. Maybe his upbringing as a Cubs fan helped.”
Indeed it did. The Cubs might have been in their “lovable losers” era, but Caray was leaning out of the broadcast booth and leading “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” without a care in the world.
“When you’re 5 years old and you’re watching the Cubs play a day game at Wrigley Field, all that matters is that day’s game,” Randazzo said. “I didn’t even know if the game was important, but Harry made it seem like it was the best game ever.”
Gubicza grew up in Philadelphia, listening to Harry Kalas and Richie Ashburn.
“At that point, the Phillies were really bad,” Gubicza said. “But every game was fun because they made it enjoyable and entertaining. They had some laughs together.”
Angels broadcasters Mark Gubicza, left, and Wayne Randazzo prepare for a game against the Miami Marlins on May 24. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Randazzo and Gubicza do too, which frankly is a stroke of luck on the Angels’ part, since the two men said the team did not have them do a trial run together before hiring Randazzo.
On one recent broadcast, after a foul ball was lined back into the booth, the audience saw Randazzo triumphantly hold up the ball, which would have been the end of the scene on many broadcasts.
“I knew you had it,” Gubicza said on the air.
But then came the replay: Randazzo had ducked and covered as if he were doing an earthquake drill, before safely retrieving the ball after it had landed.
“Where’d you go, Wayne?” Gubicza laughed.
“It’s 100 mph off the bat,” he shot back on air. “What am I, crazy?”
Said Randazzo: “I think not taking yourself seriously is a huge part of this.”
There is a time to be serious, of course. Randazzo went viral last year when he used a retroactive change to a scoring decision as the impetus for a rant in which he trashed the league for choosing to take action on that issue amid “scandal after scandal” — the “fiasco” of the A’s move from Oakland, the “ridiculous-looking jerseys” with the tiny letters produced by Nike, the “constant pitcher injuries” and the “global superstar … embroiled in a betting scandal.”
Davis might never go that far, but he fully endorses Randazzo and his approach.
“He has a really classic, big-time baseball sound,” Davis said. “He’s as good as anybody there is these days at recalling an appropriate thing from baseball history in the moment.
“He has this huge bank of information and stories that a guy his age typically doesn’t have, and he has the confidence to tap into it. I’m a huge fan of his.”
On the air during one of the recent Dodgers-Angels games, Randazzo shouted out Davis and broadcast partner Orel Hershiser, then pointed out how staggeringly high the decibel level is at Dodger Stadium: “There’s no shortage of noise in this place. Ninety percent of it comes out of the sound system.”
The Angels’ broadcast could use a touch more silence, fewer mentions of exit velocities, and more barbs like Randazzo mocking Sacramento fans for doing the wave while an A’s player batted with the tying run in scoring position.
“Nobody is ever like, ‘Hey, you gave a great statistic in the third inning,’ ” Randazzo acknowledged. “They’re like, ‘You made us laugh; you told a great story; you had a great interview.’ ”
Randazzo, 41, could earn his halo from fans if he sticks around long enough to see the Angels win again. He says he plans on doing just that, however long it takes.
Angels broadcasters Wayne Randazzo, left and Mark Gubicza in their broadcast booth before a game against the Miami Marlins on May 24. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
When we talked earlier this month in San Diego, Enberg’s picture was on the wall of the visiting broadcast booth at Petco Park. Enberg was dressed in an NBC Sports blazer. He left the Angels in 1978 and finished his distinguished career with the Padres in 2016, with national network stints in between.
The Dodgers accommodate Davis so he can fulfill his commitments to Fox in baseball and football. Davis and Hershiser are a terrific pair on the Dodgers’ television broadcasts, but they did just 51 games together in 2023 and 60 last year, according to Eric Stephen of True Blue LA.
Davis said he and Hershiser will be in that range again this year. The SportsNet LA broadcasts have featured five different announcer pairings this season, down from nine last season, Stephen said.
Randazzo said he and Gubicza will do about 125 games together this year. He also calls Friday night baseball games for Apple TV.
“I love baseball,” Randazzo said. “I don’t ever want to not be associated with a team.
“I wouldn’t want to be gone doing a football game on a Saturday or Sunday in September when the team is in a pennant race. I would be beside myself if I was in Morgantown for a big college football game. It’s just not for me, because I love this game and this sport so much. For my career, that would be a success.”
For the Angels, a September that matters would be a success. Randazzo already is.
Its Tuesday, May 27 and the Nationals (24-29) are in Seattle to take on the Mariners (29-23). Mitchell Parker is slated to take the mound for Washington against Logan Evans for Seattle.
Both the Mariners and Nationals had rest days yesterday. Seattle has lost two straight games and three of the previous four, while Washington is 6-2 in the past eight games, but 2-2 over the last four.
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Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Time: 9:40PM EST
Site: T-Mobile Park
City: Seattle, WA
Network/Streaming: MASN2, RSNW, MLBN
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Moneyline: Nationals (+126), Mariners (-150)
Spread: Mariners -1.5
Total: 8.0 runs
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Pitching matchup for May 27, 2025: Mitchell Parker vs. Logan Evans
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The Mariners have won four of their last five matchups against NL East teams
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It's Tuesday, May 27 and the Athletics (23-31) are in Houston to take on the Astros (28-25). JP Sears is slated to take the mound for Oakland against Hunter Brown for Houston.
Both the Astros and Athletics had off days yesterday for this short two-game series. Houston is on a two-game winning streak and won three of the past four games, while the Athletics are coming off a 5-4 win over the Phillies, which snapped an 11-game losing streak.
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Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Time: 8:10PM EST
Site: Minute Maid Park
City: Houston, TX
Network/Streaming: NBCSCA, SCHN
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Moneyline: Athletics (+170), Astros (-206)
Spread: Astros -1.5
Total: 7.0 runs
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With Hunter Brown starting the Astros have won 4 of their last 5 head-to-heads against the Athletics
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Its Tuesday, May 27 and the Marlins (21-31) are in San Diego to take on the Padres (30-22). Max Meyer is slated to take the mound for Miami against Stephen Kolek for San Diego.
The Padres took Game 1 of the series, 4-3 yesterday behind a Manny Machado homer in the bottom eighth. San Diego has followed up a six-game losing streak with three victories in the past four games. Miami's two-game winning streak was snapped yesterday as the Marlins are 2-4 in the last six.
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Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Time: 9:40PM EST
Site: Petco Park
City: San Diego, CA
Network/Streaming: FDSNFL, SDPA
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Moneyline: Marlins (+152), Padres (-183)
Spread: Padres -1.5
Total: 8.0 runs
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Pitching matchup for May 27, 2025: Max Meyer vs. Stephen Kolek
Marlins: Max Meyer, (3-4, 4.15 ERA) Last outing: 6.0 Innings Pitched, 1 Earned Run Allowed, 5 Hits Allowed, 1 Walk, and 4 Strikeouts
Padres: Stephen Kolek, (2-1, 2.84 ERA) Last outing: 6.0 Innings Pitched, 3 Earned Runs Allowed, 7 Hits Allowed, 3 Walks, and 6 Strikeouts
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Its Tuesday, May 27 and the Pirates (19-36) are in Phoenix to take on the Diamondbacks (27-27). Mike Burrows is slated to take the mound for Pittsburgh against Corbin Burnes for Arizona.
The Diamondbacks won Game 1 in shutout fashion, 5-0, yesterday as the Pirates batters totaled six hits by four different players. Arizona had 10 hits and two homers behind 6.2 innings from Ryne Nelson. Both teams are 5-5 in their last 10 games.
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Game details & how to watch Pirates at Diamondbacks
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Time: 9:40PM EST
Site: Chase Field
City: Phoenix, AZ
Network/Streaming: SNP, ARID, MLBN
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Odds for the Pirates at the Diamondbacks
The latest odds as of Tuesday:
Moneyline: Pirates (+207), Diamondbacks (-256)
Spread: Diamondbacks -1.5
Total: 9.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Pirates at Diamondbacks
Pitching matchup for May 27, 2025: Mike Burrows vs. Corbin Burnes
Pirates: Mike Burrows, (0-1, 7.20 ERA) Last outing: 5.0 Innings Pitched, 4 Earned Runs Allowed, 4 Hits Allowed, 2 Walks, and 3 Strikeouts
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Angels pitcher Jack Kochanowicz delivers in the second inning of a 5-1 loss to the New York Yankees at Angel Stadium on Monday night. (Kevork Djansezian / Associated Press)
Jack Kochanowicz mowed through his first three innings against the Yankees on Monday night.
The 6-foot-7 sinkerballer was doing all of what manager Ron Washington asked of him before the game: pitch to contact and let his defense do the work.
"Just be Jack,” Washington said. ‘Throw his sinker, change, eye-level, put the ball in play early — which is when he's at his best. That's what he does. So that's all. I'm not looking for him to be nothing more than that, and if he's that, it'll be good enough."
Nine up, and nine down on 28 pitches — Kochanowicz looked “good enough.” He was hurling just as efficiently as he did against the Dodgers on May 16 when he limited the Angels’ crosstown foes to just one run across 6 ⅔ innings. As he jaunted to the mound for the fourth, the crowd woke up, rising in volume; but not for Kochanowicz.
“Let’s go, Yankees,” the fans in the right-field seats of Angel Stadium bellowed, much like the “Bleacher Creatures” would back in the Bronx. First baseman Ben Rice singled, and then center fielder Trent Grisham did too. Following a rousing ovation, designated hitter Aaron Judge — who upped his batting average to a league-high .398 — loaded the bases on an infield single.
As Yankees fans roared louder, Kochanowicz hiccuped. The sophomore starting pitcher walked Cody Bellinger on four pitches to bring in a run, and two batters later, Anthony Volpe hit a bases-clearing double off the center-field wall to power the Yankees (33-20) to a three-run lead. It was more than enough to take down the Angels (25-28), who struggled to string together hits for the third consecutive game in a 5-1 loss to open the series.
“Always just comes down to pitch calling,” Kochanowicz said. “It's very easy to ask yourself a million questions about every pitch you throw, but I think I just — I came at them hard that inning. I didn't start anyone off with the breaking ball. So that was probably it.”
Shortstop Zach Neto led off the bottom of the first with a 440-foot solo home run to center field — the longest of his career — but it was all the Angels had to offer at the plate. Before the game, Washington called his offense young and inconsistent.
The Angels offered more of those characteristics against the Yankees and left-hander Ryan Yarbrough.
Outside of a fluke infield single from Jo Adell, Neto's home run was all the Angels mustered against the funky, sidearm delivery of the New York southpaw through six innings.
“The way we were swinging the bat, I did think that we would have at least three or four guys in that line of constantly clicking,” Washington said after the Angels were limited to five hits. “Miami come up in here and put us away, and then now we fight to try to find it back again.”
Yarbrough easily dispatched Chris Taylor — who started in center field and went 0 for 3 with two strikeouts in his Angels debut — for a flyout and second baseman Kevin Newman for a strikeout to end the fifth.
“Yarbrough did a good job,” Taylor said. “Shut us down for the most part.”
The sixth inning was no better as the top of the Angels' lineup went down 1-2-3 and Yarbrough exited with his longest and arguably best start of the season, striking out seven. The Angels struck out 11 times in the game.
“Sustaining that offense that we had,” Washington said when asked before the game about matching the offensive rhythm of the Angels’ eight-game winning streak, “it’s impossible.”
Outside of his four-run, fourth inning, Kochanowicz was in the “midseason form” he described himself in on Sunday. The right-hander pumped his fastball as high as 97.3 mph and averaged 95 on his sinker, both a tick below his season averages. Four of his 6 ⅔ innings concluded in 1-2-3 fashion.
“I thought he was good, really,” Washington said. “Those first three innings, he was dominating. … If we could just take [the fourth inning] back it’d be a different ballgame.”
Kochanowicz struck out five and walked two, giving up just five hits. But the Angels' offense didn’t back up their pitchers, sending them to a three-game losing streak.
Note: Angels catcher Logan O’Hoppe was removed from the game in the eighth inning after being hit in the head on a backswing from Yankees second baseman Jorbit Vivas. O’Hoppe was removed as a precaution, Washington said, and was unavailable for comment after the game. “[O’Hoppe is] telling me he can play [tomorrow], but we’re going to wait and see,” Washington said.
Left-handerRyan Yarbrough's impressive May as a starting pitcher in the Yankees' injury-bitten rotation featured his best outing yet Monday at the Los Angeles Angels. He shoved for a season-high six innings, allowing one run on two hits while striking out seven and walking two in New York's 5-1 win to open a series with the Angels.
Takeaways
The Yankees made a late offseason move by signing Yarbrough to a reported one-year contract worth $2 million and an additional $500,000 in incentives, and the move is aging well. Yarbrough, 33, is 2-0 with a 3.06 ERA and 1.05 WHIP in 35.1 IP over 12 games (four starts). He entered the rotation in May and has been more than what New York could have hoped for, following his season-high eight strikeouts in last Wednesday's 4-3 win over the Texas Rangers with Monday's gem. Yarbrough allowed a leadoff home run against Zach Neto on a 2-2 changeup at 78 mph in the bottom of the first inning, giving the Angels a 1-0 lead, but shoved from there. In a season where the Yankees are without ace Gerrit Cole for the year and started with 2024 American League Rookie of the Year Luis Gil on the 60-day injured list, production such as this one from Yarbrough is invaluable.
Anthony Volpe's bases-clearing double over center fielder Chris Taylor's head in the fourth inning gave the Yankees the lead at 4-1 and Yarbrough and New York's bullpen enough room to work with. Volpe, who picked up Jasson Domínguez's strikeout swinging in the previous at-bat, now has five RBI in his past three games after he scratched two across during this past Saturday's 13-1 win at the Colorado Rockies. Through 52 games, Volpe is slashing .244/.323/.440 with six home runs and 31 RBI.
Cody Bellinger bounced back from an 0-for-4 game in Sunday's 5-4 win at the Rockies and was the only Yankee with two hits Monday. Bellinger's four-pitch walk with the bases loaded and none out in the fourth inning set the table for Volpe's game-changing knock. On the season, Bellinger has a .268/.337/.475 slash line with eight home runs and 32 RBI through 48 games.
The Yankees (33-20) are winners in seven of their past eight games. They have three straight victories and lead the American League East Division by 5.5 games.
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Yarbrough, who needed little run support and passed the baton to the bullpen's 7-8-9 shutdown.
The Yankees and Angels (25-28) continue their three-game set at Angel Park in Anaheim, Calif., with Tuesday's 9:38 p.m. start. New York is set to go for the series win with left-hander Carlos Rodón (6-3, 2.88 ERA) on the mound while Los Angeles starts fellow southpaw Tyler Anderson (2-1, 3.60 ERA).
The veteran outfielder finds a way to make his mark for the Mets night in and night out.
Sunday it was with his arm -- he ranged over into right-center in the top of the first and made a terrific throw to the plate, gunning down the speedy Mookie Betts trying to score on a potential Will Smith sacrifice fly.
Then on Monday, he came through with his bat.
With the game tied at one apiece, Taylor dug in, leading off the top of the ninth against White Sox reliever Steven Wilson. And with the count evened at 2-2, he crushed a high fly ball into the left-center gap.
Speedy CF Luis Robert Jr. ranged back and attempted to make a terrific sliding grab on the warning track, but the ball dropped in off of his glove and Taylor ended up at second base with a leadoff double.
“It was a good pitch,” Taylor said. “I was just trying to be on time for a fastball up close to me and I was able to put a good swing on the sweeper -- I was probably staring at it in the air too long, but I’m glad it dropped in.”
The Mets certainly had to be glad, too, as Jeff McNeil was intentionally walked and Luis Torrens laced a single to load the bases before Francisco Lindor lifted a first pitch walk-off sacrifice fly to deep right.
Lindor’s third walk-off of the season will be what’s remembered the most from the thrilling come-from-behind victory, but that wouldn’t have been possible without Taylor’s hustle and big knock to get things started.
The 31-year-old has been more known for his glove to this point in his career, but he’s been excellent for the Mets on both sides of the ball of late.
With the offense struggling to get back into a groove, he’s provided a much-needed spark at the bottom of the order -- hitting .286 with a .366 OBP in May and recording hits in eight of his last nine appearances.
“I see a guy that has a lot of confidence [right now],” Lindor said. “I see a guy that feels like he can hit every pitch, a guy that gives good at-bats every single day -- he’s been doing this for a long time, but this year the first couple days of the year it seemed things weren’t going his way.
“All of a sudden now he’s picking it up. He lengthens the lineup. He’s making the bottom of the lineup look really good, so I’m proud of him with the work he puts in day in and day out. He goes out there and gives everything he’s got.”
