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Ryan McMahon became the unlikeliest of heroes as his two-run homer lifted the Yankees to a 4-2 win over the Royals on Friday night in the Bronx.

McMahon entered Friday's game with just five hits on the season, all singles. He also didn't start, with manager Aaron Boone opting to go with the more consistent Amed Rosario.

Subbing in for defense in the eighth, McMahon came up with a runner on and two out with the game tied. The left-hander took a changeup down in the zone the other way for an opposite-field blast.

Here are the takeaways....

-Cam Schlittler had his good stuff on Friday. After allowing three runs in his last start, which was also his worst of the season, the young right-hander was filling up the zone and overwhelming the Royals hitters with his fastball that hit 99 and sat around 97 mph.

He was perfect through 3.2 innings before Vinnie Pasquantino lined an opposite-field single.

Schlittler was cruising until the sixth. He walked Maikel Garcia with one out before Bobby Witt Jr. put a charge into one that went to deep center. Trent Grisham seemed to have a bead on it, but the ball hit the heel of his glove for a two-base error. Schlittler limited the damage, allowing an unearned run on a groundout before striking out Salvador Perez to get out of the inning with a 2-1 lead.

Schlittler would start the seventh, but a leadoff walk and single forced him out of the game, and Brent Headrick was the first arm out of the bullpen. Headrick got a strikeout, pinch-hitter Jonathan India to fly out on a nifty backwards catch by Ben Rice in foul territory, and -- after a throwing error on a pickoff attempt at second -- got Starling Marte to ground out softly to get out of the inning and put an end to Schlittler's line.

Schlittler tossed 93 pitches (63 strikes) across six-plus innings, allowing one unearned run on three hits, two walks, while striking out six.

-The Yankees entered the game second in the majors in PA/BB (8.18) and pitches per plate appearances (4.08), but had a plan to be aggressive against Michael Wacha early, with three of the first four batters swinging on the first pitch. Aaron Judge picked up a one-out double but was stranded by Cody Bellinger (strikeout) and Giancarlo Stanton (popped up).

That extended to six of the first eight batters, but they didn't lead to positive results until the fourth inning. Bellinger hit a leadoff bloop single and two batters later, Rice went down and launched a changeup down in the zone over the short porch in right to put the Yankees up 2-0. On a windy night in the Bronx with hard-hit balls dying in the outfield, Rice's 103.3 mph laser cut through the wind.

-The Yankees threatened in the fifth after Jose Caballero led off with a walk and moved to second on a groundout. Caballero stole third, catching the Royals third baseman sleeping. Judge walked and stole second without a throw, but Bellinger flew out to center as the Royals got out of the jam.

New York had another chance in the seventh with two runners on and two outs for Judge. But Judge grounded out to third. The Yankees were 0-for-5 with RISP and left six runners on base.

-After Headrick, Camillo Doval was called on to pitch the eighth. After getting the first two out, Pasquantino took a Doval sinker deep to right field to tie the game at 2-2. It was the same spot that Rice took Wacha deep.

David Bednar came on for the save in the ninth and, after walking the leadoff hitter, got the next three batters in order to lock down the win.

-Rosario, starting against a right-hander instead of McMahon, went 0-for-3 but had two of the top five hardest hit balls in the game according to StatCast.

-The Yankees entered Friday with 25 stolen bases, the most in the AL and tied with Miami for the second-most in the majors. They added to that total with two more swipes. Caballero logged his ninth stolen base of the season, which now puts him in first in the AL.

Game MVP: Ryan McMahon

McMahon was able to put his struggles behind him for one night and ended up being the hero.

Highlights

BEN RICE!

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RYAN MCMAHON IN THE CLUTCH!

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What's next

The Yankees and Royals play the middle game of their three-game series on Saturday afternoon. First pitch is set for 1:35 p.m.

Will Warren (1-0, 2.45 ERA) will take the mound while Noah Cameron (1-0, 3.94 ERA) opposes him for Kansas City.

When the Texas Rangers swept the Seattle Mariners over three games last week, I don’t think anyone blamed the Mariners’ starting pitching. So the good news is that the Mariners are slated to throw the same three starters back at the Rangers this weekend, beginning tonight with Logan Gilbert. Gilbert is fresh off what I rated as his best start in a year, with his slider finally looking as crisp as it had in 2024.

The bad news is that the Mariners’ offense will have to face the same three starters the Rangers threw at them, beginning tonight with deGrom. Gilbert v. deGrom would be a compelling matchup on the strenght of their pitching alone, but the narrative adds a little something to the mix on the basis that they’re both alumni of Stetson University. They’re two of just ten Hatters to make it to MLB. While they both pitched great when they faced off last Monday, the Rangers ultimately eked out a 2-1 victory.

This is in the Game Info section below too, but something cool about this game is that the Mariners are back on basic cable: Tonight’s game will be simulcast on both Mariners TV and KING 5. And that’s not all! Ryon Healy will be joining Aaron Goldsmith in the booth to do color commentary. I’m not sure what to expect in terms of insight, but I do think his himbo energy will be a perfect foil for Goldy. For a preview, enjoy this video the Mariners produced shortly after the trade that brought him to Seattle. Come for Mitch Haniger eating normal food back before he went off the rails, but stay for Ryon melting at the dessert at 0:57.

Revisit the other Ryon highlights compiled by Matthew Roberson here.

Lineups

The Mariners will roll with what’s become their standard lineup against righties.

The Rangers will roll with Joc Pederson and a weirdly dour-looking deGrom. No really, why is this the promo photo?

Injury Updates

• Víctor Robles is still not allowed to throw for a couple more weeks
• Carlos Vargas has started playing catch but won’t begin a full buildback routine until late May
• Patrick Wisdom has an oblique strain and will be going to the IL. Rob Refsnyder is back from paternity leave to take his place on the 26-man anyway.
• Bryce Miller will start a rehab assignment tomorrow in Tacoma. Read more here.

Game Info

First pitch: 6:40 PDT
TV: KING 5 and Mariners TV
Radio: Old Reliable

The Atlanta Braves entered Friday’s series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies hot. The Phillies…did not.

That showed up on the field as the Braves jumped out to a big lead early and coasted to a 9-0 throttling of the Phillies in the first game of the three-game set at Citizens Bank Park, earning their major-league-leading fourth shutout of the season.

Martín Pérez and Jose Suarez combined for the shutout (a truly crazy thing to write), giving up just six hits and three walks while stranding eight runners.

Austin Riley sparked the offense with a pair of homers, giving him three in the last two games after he had none through 18 games this season.

The game didn’t seem to be going down this path when both teams had prime scoring chances in their respective first innings. The Braves loaded the bases with no outs, while Philadelphia did so with one out.

Atlanta struck for two runs on a groundout and a Mike Yastrzemski infield single before Pérez escaped the jam to keep the Phillies off the board. As it turned out, that set the tone for the game.

The Braves took command in the second inning when they plated four runs, all with two outs. Matt Olson’s RBI single made it 3-0 before Riley’s first homer doubled that advantage to 6-0, bringing out the boo birds in Philly.

Phillies right-hander Taijuan Walker (1-3, 9.16 ERA) was rocked by the Braves lineup, allowing seven runs on seven hits over four innings, striking out four and walking three.

Pérez (1-1) escaped the first-inning jam he put himself in with a hit-by-pitch, single and walk with a strikeout of Edmundo Sosa on an elevated fastball and by inducing a J.T. Realmuto flyout to left.

He managed just one 1-2-3 inning across his six shutout frames but consistently navigated trouble, scattering four hits and two walks with four strikeouts. Through four games (three starts) this season, the veteran has allowed five runs over 20 1/3 innings for a 2.21 ERA.

Atlanta tacked on two more in the eighth on Michael Harris II’s third homer of the season, a two-run shot for his third hit of the night, and Riley closed out the scoring with a line-drive solo shot to right.

Suarez preserved the shutout as well as the bullpen by working the final three innings, working around two hits and a walk.

A familiar face was back at T-Mobile Park on Friday.

“Hello, hi, yes, it’s me, I’m back. Yes, hi, hello,” said Bryce Miller in his familiar Texas accent as he ambled down the clubhouse hallway, greeting the assembled media like a visiting dignitary in a receiving line.

It’s been a long layoff for Miller, who hasn’t pitched since February 26th, when he made his first start of spring and then promptly went on the IL with a left oblique injury. The injury is unrelated to the right elbow injury that kept Miller out at times for last year, but it’s not less frustrating for the amiable Miller, who – as is typical – joked about his injury in a media availability prior to Friday’s game.

“I was on a 27 year streak without an oblique injury, so if I restarted it, that gives me another 27 or so.”

Miller said he didn’t learn a new pitch during his long layoff, despite “scouring” social media looking for one, but said he has been messing with his cutter and trying out a new grip on his slider that he picked up from Houston’s Bryan Abreu; he’s curious to see how the slider will play in Seattle’s colder air after it was really “depthy” in Arizona.

“I’m just trying to get some kind of breaking ball I can get more whiff on. That’s something I struggled with the last few years, so hopefully this is the one – I’ve tried every slider grip possible. This is one I think I’ll be able to throw in any count, and hopefully have a little bit of leeway if I do miss. The slider of the past kind of felt like if I missed it, it kind of got punished.”

Miller will have a chance to try out his new slider when he makes his first rehab start for Tacoma tomorrow, although he’ll only have about two innings and 30 pitches to work on it. His next start will progress to three innings and 45 pitches, and then on to four, five, and six innings and 60-plus pitches. Mariners GM Justin Hollander says Miller will be on an every-sixth-day schedule, allowing him to pitch once per series on the minor-league schedule. Miller will alternate between Tacoma and Everett when those teams are at home over the next month, allowing him to remain close to T-Mobile Park.

The thing the Mariners have been monitoring with Miller is how quickly he’s been bouncing back after outings. What was slowing Miller earlier in the rehab process was lingering soreness for days after he’d thrown; that soreness abated and then eventually disappeared, at which point the team determined it was time to send him out on a rehab assignment.

“It was kind of a roller coaster of a rehab process,” said Miller, “because I’d get to a point where it felt really good, and then I’d throw a bullpen, it’d go really good, velo would be great, and then the next couple days I just wouldn’t recover quickly enough.”

But Miller said he finally has gotten to the point where he bounced back quickly after a bullpen, feeling “100% completely normal” in the days following his last outing.

“Over the last week, 10 days, we’ve gotten to the point where he feels great all the time,” said Hollander. “He doesn’t feel any aching or soreness while he’s throwing, and he doesn’t feel any soreness afterwards. So that’s the progression.”

While the team will be monitoring Miller’s mechanics over his rehab outings, making sure he’s not changing anything to compensate for any lingering injury, they probably won’t need to wThere’s been no downturn in Miller’s stuff, which was looking great in his lone spring training outing before he was shut down with the oblique injury. His fastball has been up – 98 and touching 99 – consistently through his bullpens.

Miller says the thing he’ll be focusing on is all the little details he didn’t get to do with no spring training or competitive games, things like pitching on a pitch clock, holding a runner, or doing pickoff moves, something he said Logan Gilbert—who completed his first successful big-league pickoff to first last homestand—has offered to help him with.

“I’ve seen him for ten minutes in there, he’s already brought it up,” said Bryce.

Miller also this recent spate of injuries, after a lifetime of being fortunate in that regard, has taught him the importance of controlling what he can control.

“I’ve just been really trying to make sure I do everything I can to take care of my body, make sure I’m ready to go, not skip anything on the prep side, nothing on the recovery side. And then if I do all that and something happens, then it’s out of my hands, but I can’t look back and be like, damn, if I would have just prepped a little more, maybe it would have been fine.”

The question hanging over all of this is: what does the team do when Miller is ready to return to the big-league club while his replacement Emerson Hancock has been so effective? Hollander, unsurprisingly, says that’s a bridge the organization will cross when it comes.

“There’s one thing that I never lie there at night, not able to sleep, thinking about, and that’s what if we have too many good starting pitchers. It’s just not a thing that happens to almost anyone. If we get to be a month from now and that’s what happens, we’ll figure it out. We haven’t made any decisions on that whatsoever.”

“And truthfully, God bless us if it’s a problem we have thirty days from now.”

Bibee was okay today. Gave up a lot of hard contact but managed to navigate through 6 innings without giving up a run.

On both sides of the ball, Daniel Schneemann was unbelievable today.

In the 5th, he made this superman catch to nab this Taylor Ward 102mph grounder.

In the 7th, Kwan reached on error, DeLauter doubled, and Jose was intentionally walked. Both Manzardo and Hoskins made outs, but Schneemann obliterated this fastball to right-center.

Armstrong came on in the 8th and loaded the bases (all reached via walk), and then Sabrowski gave up a sac fly and an absolute missle of a double down the line in left. Brogdon came on and immediately gave up a 3-run homer to Jeremiah Jackson.

Jose walked 4 times today, and only got home once.

It’ll be Gavin Williams vs. Dean Kremer tomorrow

It is Friday night.

The Orioles have beaten the Guardians, 6-4, storming back from a 4-0 deficit late in the game on the strength of a go-ahead Jeremiah Jackson home run. Chris Bassitt started the game with five rocky but still scoreless innings, Weston Wilson had a clutch hit before the homer, and Rico Garcia and Ryan Helsley closed the door to bring the Orioles back up to .500.

YOU KNOW WHAT MUST BE DONE.

For their first West Coast road trip of the year, the Chicago White Sox need to find some gold. They’re looking to do so against the hot Athletics, who are 9-4 in their last 13 games. It’ll be a tall task, but if the Sox were able to dig deep and sweep the Toronto Blue Jays, they’ll have to find that same energy against the A’s to turn the season around.

Ahead of tonight’s series start, the Sox made the following roster move:

Doug Nikhazy has two career MLB games under his belt, his most recent — coming the same year he made his debut — on July 4, 2025. Drafted as a starting pitcher in 2021’s second round, Nikhazy will take up a bulk-innings role in the bullpen.

With the bullpen acting as a revolving door to begin this season, the stable Davis Martin will take the bump for the South Siders, and he’s been a bright spot for the struggling Sox. For one, he’s been the only Sox starter to notch a seven-inning start this season, although the Sox did lose that game, 2-0, against the Kansas City Royals. Second, while this game takes skill, we all know it takes luck too, and Martin has been on the receiving end. Between too good to be true 2.50 ERA (5.07 xERA) and being in the bottom 10% for ground ball and hard-hit rates as a pitcher known for inducing the ground ball, Davis has been able to overcome the numbers and help manufacture a couple of wins for the Good Guys. Hopefully, tonight, the numbers and luck continue to feed off each other for a White Sox victory.

Longtime AL Central foe and former White Sox (for 13 starts!) Aaron Civale will share the mound with Martin this evening. In his first season with the Athletics, Civale has been worth his one-year, $6 million deal so far: Across three starts, Civale is pitching to the tune of a 1.72 ERA (3.72 xERA) and has only given up three earned runs while coming off a 5 2/3-inning shutout performance against the New York Mets. Unlike Martin, Civale has yet to pitch into the seventh inning, and I know our Sox would love nothing more than to head into the A’s bullpen early.

Here’s the lineup looking to make it happen:

Given his eight-way tie for second on the MLB triples leader board, Andrew “Wheels” Benintendi (2) finds himself leading off while the normal leadoff hitter, Chase Meidroth, drops down to the eighth spot.

In the home dugout, the A’s will assemble like so:

To counteract the wheels of Beninchickentendies, Tyler Soderstrom and Max Muncy, with one triple apiece, will bat fourth and sixth. In a five-way tie for third on the MLB leader board with six home runs, Shea Langliers bats second.

For your late-night West Coast viewing pleasure, you can catch tonight’s Sox game on CHSN at 8:40 p.m. CT.

The Jays are in beautiful, downtown Phoenix, Arizona (well, I don’t know if it is beautiful or not), for three games against the Diamondbacks. Yet another park with a retractable roof. I remember how strange it was when the Jays had the retractable roof, all those years ago. They had real grass in Phoenix until 2019 when they put in fake grass. They say it was to save water, as Arizona does have water supply issues.

My parents did the snowbird thing to Arizona, every year, for many years, Yuma. I haven’t been there, but it seemed like a nothing little place in the desert. One of the ways I’m different than they were: I like the idea of going somewhere new, instead of going to the same place all time. But then, they had their friends and activities there.

I’d like to go to Phoenix sometime. Not in the next three years, but maybe sometime after that.

Go Jays Go

DENVER –– Freddie Freeman has made a future Hall of Fame career out of a simple offensive approach.

“My dad always taught me: Hit the ball to left field,” he said.

Which, during his childhood in Orange County, made Garret Anderson his favorite baseball player to watch growing up.

“As a left-handed hitter, seeing him be able to hit line drives to left field whenever it felt like he pleased, he could do it,” Freeman said. “He made me, as a little boy, love watching the game of baseball.”

That’s why Friday’s stunning news of Anderson’s death, at age 53, struck an especially somber chord for Freeman –– who not only idolized Anderson as a kid but eventually forged a personal relationship with the three-time All-Star as his own MLB career took off.

“You always hear, ‘Don’t meet your heroes,’” Freeman told The California Post. “But then I got to meet him, and I was like, ‘I’m glad I did.’ Because he was a beautiful man. And I wish he was still here. He meant a lot to so many people … I’m at a loss for words really.”

An avid Angels fan in his adolescent years, Freeman always marveled at Anderson’s approach in the box and the ease with which he sent so many of his 2,529 career hits screaming the other way over the shortstop’s head.

It served as inspiration for Freeman’s own game, giving him a role model to look up to as a similarly tall, lanky left-handed hitter always looking to go to the opposite field.

“I just loved watching Garret hit and Darin Erstad play defense,” Freeman recalled of going to Angels games as a kid with his dad. “When you’re taught to hit the ball to left field, and then you see a major leaguer who is pretty much doing what you’re being taught to do, you gravitate toward him.”

Eventually, Freeman’s own career would bring him into Anderson’s direct orbit.

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In 2009, they were in spring training together with the Braves, when Freeman was just a teenage prospect and Anderson was a 16-year veteran who had just left the Angels.

While Freeman relished his brief interactions with Anderson in that year’s camp –– he still vividly recalls stretching alongside him on the field –– he never mentioned his childhood admiration to his new, elder teammate.

Instead, it wasn’t until 2019 that Anderson “finally caught wind” he’d been Freeman’s favorite player, the Dodgers star joked.

And before long, they formed a connection while crossing paths around Orange County.

Turned out, Anderson’s children went to school at Orange Lutheran, where one of Freeman’s uncles worked and got to know the Anderson family.

In recent years, Freeman and Anderson also became occasional golf partners, playing together at Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine.

Freeman’s favorite memories of Anderson were from every time he visited Angel Stadium with the Dodgers. If Anderson was there, Freeman would wave over Dodgers team photographer Jon SooHoo to get a picture of them.

“Like, ‘Jon! Jon! Get me and my favorite player!’” Freeman recalled with a laugh.

Like the rest of the baseball world, Freeman said he was shocked to learn of Anderson’s passing Friday. 

“53 is too young,” he said. “Getting to know him, and how nice and genuine and wonderful of a human as he was –– it doesn’t make sense.”

At one point, he almost got choked up while describing the impact Anderson had on him.

“To say he ‘was‘ my favorite baseball player is really saddening to me,” Freeman said. “But I don’t wanna talk about the sad stuff because he brought so much joy to so many people.”

The D-backs come home after a road-trip which likely surpassed all expectations. I know I would not have minded too much if they had gone 4-5 over those nine games. 5-4 would have been a good result. But for the D-backs to go 6-3, winning all three series, was beyond anything I would have predicted. Now, it is worth noting that the three teams they faced have all been struggling. The Mets, Phillies and Orioles, were all initially expected to be contenders this year. ZIPS preseason projection had the trio each winning between 88-91 games. Instead, they are all below .500, with a combined record of 24-32. Even discounting our games, they’re 21-26: not as good as expected.

The Mets, in particular, are startling. Their cash payroll is over $360 million, most in the majors by thirty million dollars. But it’s as if the D-backs broke them. Beginning with our two victories over them, New York have now lost nine games in a row, and have slumped to a mark of 7-13. After today’s loss in Chicago, that currently gives them sole possession of the worst record in the National League. Hard fact: no Mets team in history that lost nine games in a row, has won more than 77 games that year. I think maybe it’s a scheme to get out of a salary cap, because Manfred can point at the Mets and say, “See? Money isn’t everything!” [Adjusts tin-foil hat]

Anyway, back in D-backs land, the scuttlebutt has Lourdes Gurriel Jr. joining the team at some point this series. It’ll be interesting to see what the move it. Luken Baker has only have five PA since being called up on April 7, so would seem a credible option – especially with Gurriel being expected to play mostly at DH initially. He doesn’t have any options left, so sending him down would involve a DFA. That would open a 40-man roster spot, although worth noting they do NOT have to do so for Gurriel. He has been on the 10-day IL this season, so still requires his own 40-man slot. So they could alternatively option Tim Tawa down to Reno.

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Gerrit Cole took a significant step in his long journey back to The Bronx on Friday night via TD Bank Ballpark, making his first rehab start (Double-A Somerset) since undergoing Tommy John surgery more than 13 months ago.

The Yankees ace displayed strong command, along with some rust, in his 4 ¹/₃-inning outing, allowing three runs (one home run), three hits and one walk, while throwing 44 pitches (36 strikes) and recording three strikeouts.

The 2023 AL Cy Young winner, who isn’t expected to rejoin the Yankees until late May or early June, hadn’t pitched in an official game since Game 5 of the 2024 World Series.

“I have a lot of confidence, but tonight was probably not the exact same guy,” Cole said. “Hopefully, it’s on its way.”

Cole took the mound to a standing ovation, giving the minor league crowd a rare chance to see a potential Hall of Famer at the 6,100-seat ballpark. Even rarer was the sight of a six-time All-Star eager to step onto such a stage, making his long-awaited return.

“I felt good,” said Cole, who threw 2 ²/₃ innings in two outings during spring training. “It was fun to get back out there, game situations, a little extra adrenaline with the crowd.”

In a perfect first inning, Cole nearly surrendered a home run to right to Reading’s second batter, Carson DeMartini, but the ball drifted foul, allowing the right-hander to recover with a swing-and-miss breaking ball for a strikeout.

Before the second inning, Cole was thrown a curveball when his temporary teammates batted around in a five-run frame. Following the 20-plus-minute wait, Cole issued a one-out walk, then surrendered a two-out, run-scoring double, followed by an opposite-field, two-run homer.

“I didn’t come out quite so sharp that inning so that was a good challenge,” Cole said. “That was really the only time the command was a little shaky. The walk was a bad walk.”

In a four-pitch third inning, Cole found frustration — and a reminder of the lowest moment of his career — when he didn’t immediately break for first base on a grounder to the right side, though Somerset first baseman Coby Morales stepped on the bag in time.

“I got there late,” Cole said. “That was not good.”

The 35-year-old, whose fastball consistently reached the mid-90s, needed just four pitches to complete the fourth inning. He returned for one more at-bat and finished by fielding his position, leaving to his loudest applause of the night.

“Probably the only thing I didn’t accomplish was really moving the four-seam [fastball] as well as I know I can,” Cole said. “I was pleased with the changeup. I misexecuted one. The curveball was very sharp. I didn’t make any mistakes with that pitch. The slider was good. I hung one slider. … The fastball was good overall. Good pressure at the top and a lot of strikes, but I know I can move it better.”

Cole isn’t the only nine-figure starter the Yankees expect back in the near future.

Carlos Rodón — who underwent surgery on his left elbow in October — is scheduled to throw live batting practice Saturday at Somerset after throwing 50 pitches in a simulated setting Monday at Yankee Stadium. Rodón, 33, had been on the verge of making a rehab start, but suffered a setback two weeks ago when he felt tightness in his hamstring.

“We’re very excited to get those guys back,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Friday. “We know how good they are their entire careers. We know what they’re capable of. But it’s a process, too, of getting them back. They’re still a little ways off. The biggest thing right now is making sure they’re checking all the boxes and getting built up properly and then hopefully, when they enter back into the rotation, we get the impact we hope and expect.”

The Dodgers continue their weekend series against the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night in Denver, with Emmet Sheehan coming off his best start of the season.

Sheehan struck out six in six innings against the Texas Rangers last Saturday at home, allowing three runs. The right-hander has started three times at Coors Field and won all three games, with a 4.76 ERA in 17 innings, with 22 strikeouts against only two walks.

Right-hander Ryan Feltner starts for the Rockies. He’s allowed 10 runs in 12 1/3 innings in his three starts this season, with nine strikeouts and six walks.

Saturday game info

• Teams: Dodgers at Rockies
• Ballpark: Coors Field, Denver
• Time: 5:10 p.m. PT
• TV: SportsNet LA
• Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)

The Athletics are back at it this evening at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento as they begin a three-game series against the American League Central rivals, the Chicago White Sox. The 6-13 White Sox are currently sitting in last place in the AL Central while the A’s are 10-9 and are tied for first place with the Texas Rangers

Aaron Civale, the 30-year-old righty will get the start for the A’s tonight. He’s currently 2-0 with a 1.72 ERA in his first season with the Athletics. He’ll go up against 29-year-old righty Davis Martin for the White Sox.  Martin is 2-1 with a 2.50 ERA in three starts for Chicago, while tossing 15 strikeouts in 18 innings of work.

Martin will go up against this lineup for the homestanding Athletics:

Civale will look to remain undefeated against this batting order for rookie manager Will Venable and his club:

Follow the Game:

Watch:
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Athletics – Talk 650 KSTE, KVMX 92.1/105.5, A’s Cast