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After the Rays took game one, the Nats grinded out a one run win in game two of the three game set. That sets the stage for a rubber match this afternoon. The Nats will look to win yet another series, while the Rays look to stay hot at home.

Blake Butera made a few tweaks to his lineup. Jacob Young is out of the lineup after banging into the wall yesterday. The outfield will consist of Daylen Lile in left, Dylan Crews in center and James Wood in right. Jose Tena will be in the DH spot and Drew Millas will be behind the plate. Andrew Alvarez is on the mound, and the Nats will look for more length than usual from the southpaw.

With a lefty on the mound, the Rays are making a few changes. Ryan Vilade will make his first start of the series in right field. Jonny DeLuca will also be back in the lineup. Ben Williamson will play second base, while Nick Fortes gets his first start of the series behind the plate. Nick Martinez has been a great signing for the Rays, and will take the ball today.

Game Info:

Stadium: Tropicana Field

Time: 1:40 PM EST

TV: Nationals.TV

Radio: 106.7 The Fan

This is a big rubber match for both teams. The Nats will look to enter a massive 4 game clash with the Phillies with some momentum. Another series win would be a massive boost for the boys on this Father’s Day. Follow along in the comments down below and let’s go Nats!

We were dazzled on Friday night, and disappointed yesterday. The Yankees, and certainly the readership, are hoping to be at least satisfied come Sunday afternoon, as the club looks to win yet another series, this time against the Reds. It’s not going to be easy — Chase Burns isn’t quite Cam Schlittler, but he is The Guy The Reds Turn To In Games Like This.

The 23-year-old Burns showed flashes of his potential last year, and is rounding himself into a damn good form this season, his first full in The Show. (This will actuallly be his second start against the Yanks, as he fanned eight Yankees in his MLB debut last year.) The second overall pick in the 2024 MLB Draft out of Wake Forest, Burns features one of the best fastballs in the game and maybe the best slider, a hilarious pitch with a .192 wOBA against and a 52.6 percent whiff rate that made me laugh aloud when I looked it up. If a Yankee gets to two strikes today, you can have a pretty good idea what pitch Burns is going to turn to. The problem is most major-league hitters haven’t been able to help themselves even when they know what’s coming.

Rodríguez is a little bit of a different story. The org’s top pitching prospect at the start of the season, the righty has been more than respectable with Triple-A Scranton but has stumbled a little in his first three MLB starts. He has been used in times of semi-to-real emergency, which might explain part of it, but the big issue is his walks. He’s walked more big leaguers than he’s struck out, and at this level you’re just allowing too much traffic for anything to happen. Despite what we saw yesterday, the Reds aren’t typically a powerhouse offense — if you don’t give them chances, you can have a decent day on the mound.

Spencer Jones gets a taste of the cleanup spot today, and Jasson Domínguez finds himself batting in the two hole. The youngsters look to play a significant role in the game for at least one day. Also note that Austin Wells is back with the Yankees today, activated off the IL following a rehab assignment in Triple-A. J.C. Escarra was sent back to Triple-A with the Yanks electing to keep Ali Sánchez as the backup.

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Location: Yankee Stadium – Bronx, NY

First pitch: 1:35 pm ET

TV broadcast: YES, RedsTV

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Here’s the Guardians lineup:

Here’s the Astros lineup:

Let’s go, Guardians!

The Braves are going for the sweep. The offense has to wake up and Elder has to set the tone early to bounce back from his last outing.

First pitch is set for 1:35 p.m. EDT

Game Notes

Lineup

Preview

It’s not raining in Chicago right now but there’s a forecast of rain all afternon and evening.

And so, today’s 1:20 p.m. CT game between the Chicago Cubs and Toronto Blue Jays at Wrigley Field has been postponed due to forecasted inclement weather.

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Chicago Cubs shortstop Dansby Swanson draws one of the toughest matchups in baseball today against Dylan Cease, whose elite swing-and-miss arsenal should neutralize the struggling slugger.

Read on for my top Blue Jays vs. Cubs predictions and MLB picks for this Sunday, June 21 matchup.

Editor's Note: This game has been postponed due to weather. 

Blue Jays vs Cubs predictions

Blue Jays vs Cubs best bet: Dansby Swanson Under 0.5 hits (-130)

Dansby Swanson has been one of the worst hitters in baseball this season with a .177 batting average, while ranking in the second percentile in xBA.

Additionally, his hitting profile does not match up well at all against Toronto Blue Jays starter Dylan Cease, who has elite swing-and-miss stuff. 

Swanson can’t hit the breaking ball this season, owning a .095 average with a 33% whiff rate. 

That won’t bode well against Cease, who ranks in the 99th percentile in strikeout rate with a 37% whiff rate. 

A lot of his whiffs come from his slider, which is his most-used pitch to right-handed batters, which is also a pitch that Swanson struggles with (.048 batting average, 37% whiff rate). 

Additionally, Swanson is just 1-for-6 against Cease in his career. I’d play this prop up to -140. 

COVERS INTEL: Swanson doesn’t generate much contact against Cease's two most used pitches, owning a porous .048 average and a 34% whiff rate against the slider and changeup combined.

Blue Jays vs Cubs same-game parlay (SGP)

Cease has electric stuff, leading the American League with 110 Ks. He’s eclipsed today’s number in seven straight starts and owns a 39% strikeout rate against this Chicago Cubs lineup. 

George Springer is turning a corner with a 1.089 OPS over his last nine games, and profiles well against Shota Imanaga, who’s primarily a fastball pitcher.

Springer owns a .291 xBA over the last three seasons with a .613 xSLG. 

Blue Jays vs Cubs SGP

• Dansby Swanson Under 0.5 hits
• Dylan Cease Over 6.5 strikeouts
• George Springer Over 1.5 total bases

Blue Jays vs Cubs home run pick: Kazuma Okamoto (+365)

Kazuma Okamoto's hitting profile matches up perfectly against Imanaga’s stuff. 

The Cubs starter throws a heavy dose of the fastball and gets barreled up at a 10.4% rate. The Jays third baseman barrels the ball better than anyone in the Blue Jays lineup (13.5%) while possessing a 63.2% hard-hit rate against the four-seamer. 

Additionally, Imanaga has allowed 14 home runs over 15 outings this season. 

This is a half-unit wager.

Blue Jays vs Cubs odds

• Moneyline: Toronto -116 | Chicago +102
• Run line: Toronto -1.5 | Chicago +1.5
• Over/Under: Over 7 | Under 7

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Condolences to the many members of the national media who have been hoping and praying to see the Astros sell at the deadline, and have their roster picked apart to go to other teams. That doesn’t appear to be happening.

According to a report from longtime MLB insider Bob Nightengale, the Houston Astros intend to be buyers at the deadline and teams calling up asking for Astros stars are wasting their time.

According to Nightengale, the Astros are still on the hunt for bullpen help and a left-handed hitting outfielder. These are two of the 3 primary things they sought this offseason as well (the other being starting pitching).

The AL West has been the weakest division in baseball this season, and entering play today there are no teams in the division over .500. The Seattle Mariners lead the division at 39-39.

The Astros enter play today only 3 games out in the division, and 2.5 back in the race for the final Wild Card spot.

Over the last month, dating back to May 21, the Astros have gone 16-11 (.593), which ties as the fifth-best record in the Majors and is the second-best record in the AL.

Top Records since May 21 (AL)

1. Yankees        16-9 (.640)

2. Astros          16-11 (.593)

3. Blue Jays      16-12 (.571)

Rochester Red Wings 14, Toledo Mud Hens 1 (box)

An 11-run sixth inning led to a 14-1 loss for the Toledo Mud Hens on Saturday.

Scott Effross and Carl Edwards Jr. were decent through the first four frames. They combined for nine straight outs after a leadoff single, but Christian Franklin broke the shutout with a solo shot off Edwards in the fourth. Max Anderson homered in the top of the inning, but that was Toledo’s only run of the day.

Edwards gave up another homer in the fifth, Anderson had a double in the top of the sixth, and then the bad times began. A leadoff single and walk got the bullpen going, and Konnor Pilkington replaced Edwards on the mound after a groundout put men on the corners.

Pilkington gave up an RBI single, hit a batter and watched two more runs cross on a double up the middle. Tyler Mattison was next out of the bullpen. He immediately got tacked for a two-run double over the right fielder’s head. If the wheels weren’t already falling off, they were definitely gone after this sequence: walk, single, single, walk, single. 10-1, Rochester.

Mattison finally got the second out, striking out Yohandy Morales, and in came Woo-Suk Go. Three more runs crossed before the inning ended. Go wasn’t particularly good, walking two batters — one with the bases loaded — and allowing a two-run single. None of those baserunners were on his ledger, though.

At least Beau Brieske went 1-2-3 in the seventh, right?

Toledo went to a position player on the mound in the eighth. Morales homered for good measure, and that’s all she wrote.

Clark: 1-4, K

Anderson: 2-4, HR (6), 2B (8), RBI

Edwards (L, 2-6): 3.1 IP, 3 H, 4 R, 4 ER, BB, 5 K, 2 HR

Effross: 2.0 IP, H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

Coming Up Next: It’s a 1:05 p.m. ET start on Sunday. Rochester leads the series, 3-2.

Erie SeaWolves 8, Harrisburg Senators 0 (box)

Erie put together a complete win on Saturday, allowing just three hits in an 8-0 win over Harrisburg.

Kenny Serwa got the start but not the win, coming up just one out shy of the minimum required to qualify. Still, he was excellent, giving up just one hit and three walks while striking out four. The knuckleballer drew a game-high eight whiffs before turning the ball over to Tanner Kohlhepp.

Justice Bigbie started the scoring early, driving in Seth Stephenson and Peyton Graham with a double in the first. He hit a good 400 feet, but there’s a tall wall 405 feet in center field. Andrew Jenkins made it a 3-0 game later in the inning with a groundout RBI. Jenkins did the groundout thing for a run again in the third.

Brett Callahan was hit in the head before Bigbie’s double. He shook it off pretty well, but left the game as a precaution.

Kohlhepp pitched through the sixth, striking out a pair and working around one hit. Johan Simon took over for him in the seventh, but not before Izaac Pacheco launched a ball out of the park for Erie’s fifth run.

Simon went two frames, striking out two and giving up just one hit, and Yoniel Curet closed out the game in the ninth.

Before all was said and done, Toledo scored three more runs in the eighth. Stephenson doubled in Bennett Lee and scored on a Thayron Liranzo sac fly, and Jenkins drove in another — this time on a base hit.

Liranzo: 0-3, RBI, BB

Bigbie: 1-3, 2B (13), 2 RBI, 2 BB, K

Jenkins: 1-5, 3 RBI, 2 K

Pacheco: 1-4, HR (11), R, RBI, BB, 2 K

Stephenson: 2-6, 2B (12), 2 R, RBI, K, SB (33)

Serwa: 4.2 IP, H, 0 R, 3 BB, 4 K

Coming Up Next: It’s a 1 p.m. ET start on Sunday. Erie leads the series, 3-2.

West Michigan Whitecaps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 3 (box)

Despite being outhit by Lansing, West Michigan came away with a 7-5 victory on Saturday.

Jake Miller went four innings in his fourth rehab assignment start. This was his first with West Michigan, and he gave up his first run in 11 2/3 innings. Lansing got to him for six hits — four of which came in the first — but no walks and three strikeouts are encouraging.

Garrett Pennington homered in the bottom half of the first, keeping it a tie game through Miller’s outing. Neither offense really got much going after that, at least until the seventh. Carlos Lequerica went 1-2-3 in the fifth, with a pair of strikeouts, Duque Hebbert worked around a two-out single in the sixth and Luke Stofel retired the Lugnuts in order in the seventh.

With the game still knotted at one run apiece, Andrew Sojka sparked a rally with a one-out double in the seventh. Luke Shliger poked one through the left side to bring Sojka home, moved to second on a Samuel Gil single and stole third base. A throwing error brought him home and put Gil on third.

Lansing intentionally walked the bases loaded to face Bryce Rainer, and the former first-round pick made them pay with a two-run single through the right side. It wasn’t hit particularly hard, but Lansing was in double-play depth and the second baseman couldn’t get there. Pennington added another RBI to his box score with a line-drive single to center field. 6-1, West Michigan.

CJ Weins had a little trouble in the eighth, giving up two runs on four hits. He was the only Whitecaps arm to struggle today, and the offense got one of those runs back in the bottom half of the inning on a wild pitch. Jalen Evans closed things out, working around a two-out single to secure the win.

Rainer: 1-3, 2 RBI, 2 BB

Pennington: 2-5, HR (14), R, 2 RBI

Sojka: 2-4, 2B (7), 2 R, K

Gil: 3-4, R

Miller: 4.0 IP, 6 H, R, ER, 0 BB, 3 K

Coming Up Next: It’s a 2 p.m. ET start on Sunday. West Michigan goes for the five-game sweep.

Dunedin Blue Jays 8, Lakeland Flying Tigers 6 (box)

Lakeland had control of the game for seven innings on Saturday, but a late collapse led to an 8-6 loss for the Flying Tigers.

Hunter Dobbins gave Lakeland an early lead with a two-run home run in the second, his fourth of the year. Caleb Leys couldn’t hold the 2-0 lead for long, giving up a run in the top of the third and two more in the fourth. Four of the five hits he allowed went for extra bases, and a pair of one-out walks in the fifth ended his day. Not great, but he still left the game with a lead.

The Flying Tigers got to Dunedin’s first bullpen arm right away in the fourth. Zach McDonald walked and stole second base. He moved up to third on a bad throw from the catcher. Jude Warwick also walked, and Javier Osorio doubled in MacDonald. The ball was catchable, but a missed diving catch led to two bases and a run.

Jesus Pinto homered right after that, giving Lakeland a 6-3 lead.

Win Scott bailed out Leys in the bottom of the fifth, inducing a double play to end the inning. He worked through three innings, navigating his way around a hit and a walk. Scott actually came back out for the eighth, but a pair of errors led to a run and ended his night. After getting the first out, Jan Caraballo took over and immediately gave up a triple to put the tying run 90 feet from home.

Caraballo gave up a game-tying single, walked a batter and balked to put two in scoring position. Another single put Dunedin out in front before Caraballo finally got out of the inning. He came back out for the ninth and gave up another run on a leadoff single and triple.

Andrew Pogue took over after two outs, but the implosion was already complete. Lakeland’s offense didn’t do anything in the final two frames besides a two-out walk in the ninth. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory isn’t fun.

Yost: 2-5

Pinto: 3-5, HR (3), R, 3 RBI, K

Dobbins: 1-4, HR (4), R, 2 RBI, 2 K

Leys: 4.1 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 3 BB, 6 K

Coming Up Next: It’s a noon ET start on Sunday. Dunedin leads the series, 3-2.

FCL Tigers 11, FCL Phillies 5 (box)

Owen Hall got ripped for a homer and a triple in the first inning, but it only resulted in one run. Hall bounced back with two clean innings, but he gave up a two-run homer in the fourth after a leadoff walk. There’s some hard contact being made off him, but it could have gone worse.

Fortunately, the Tigers came to hit, too. Angel De Los Santos led off the first with a triple, and a wild pitch brought him home after the Phillies starter walked the bases loaded. Cristian Perez doubled in both runners on base, and a throwing error scored him.

Ronald Ramirez had a three-run homer in the second, giving Hall a six-run cushion to work with. The Phillies chipped away to make it a two-run game in the fifth. Leonardo Leon had some command issues and was replaced by Jatnk Diaz after three batters. An error from Michael Oliveto, Detroit’s supplemental round pick (34th overall) last year, threw the ball away for one of those runs.

De Los Santos hit his second triple of the game to get two runs back in the bottom of the fifth. Perez and Enderson Delgado went back-to-back for the final two runs. Diaz retired the final seven batters he faced for the save.

De Los Santos: 3-4, 2 3B (3), 2 R, 2 RBI

Ramirez: 2-4, HR (3), R, 3 RBI, K

Perez: 2-4, HR (7), 2B (7), 2 R, 3 RBI, K

Diaz (S, 1): 2.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, K

Hall: 4.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, 2 HR

DSL Tigers (1) 7, DSL Tigers (2) 6 (box)

There’s something weird about playing a team in your own organization because anything that’s good is bad and vice versa.

Ten of the 13 runs scored in this game came in the second inning, so it was a rough day for both starters. The bullpens were decent, though, with Omar Gonzalez delivering the best line of the day with 2.1 innings of no-hit ball. Of course, it’s the guy with a 10-plus ERA.

Despite the score, there weren’t many standout hitters. Eduardo Tusen went 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles. Thirteen combined walks contributed to the run total.

The DSL Tigers 2 almost came back in the seventh, but Tusen was stranded on second after making it a one-run game with one out left.

Tusen: 2-3, 2 2B (5), R, 2 RBI, BB

Gonzales (W, 1-0): 2.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 3 K

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The Los Angeles Dodgers will look to get a series win at home as they host the Baltimore Orioles in the rubber game of their series today.

Emmet Sheehan has the stuff to quiet Baltimore’s bats, and I’m taking Los Angeles to cover the run line in my Orioles vs. Dodgers predictions.

Read on for more analysis of this game and get my free MLB picks for Sunday, June 21.

Who will win Orioles vs Dodgers today: Dodgers -1.5 (-104)

Los Angeles Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan has an inflated ERA (4.76), but his underlying numbers are positive.

He has outstanding strikeout (26.8%) and walk (6.3%) rates, and gets batters to chase 35.4% of the time. He also has an elite slider that holds opponents to a .267 wOBA.

Sheehan will benefit from the Dodgers offense, which leads the majors with a .783 OPS. Los Angeles has a hard-hit percentage of 41.6% and will get to Baltimore Orioles starter Brandon Young, who allows a hard-hit rate of 41.3%.

I like the Dodgers to cover the run line at -120 or better.

COVERS INTEL: Sheehan has an excellent whiff rate of 30.3%, which will frustrate an Orioles team that whiffs on 26% of its swings.

Orioles vs Dodgers Over/Under pick: Under 9.5 (-122)

The Dodgers' lineup will get to Young, but he has some weapons that will stop them from making this a complete slaughter.

Young’s combination of four-seam fastballs and splitters, which make up 60% of his pitches, should frustrate Los Angeles, which only pulls those pitches in the air 16.5% of the time against righties.

I’m expecting Sheehan to take care of Baltimore’s offense by missing a lot of bats with his 30.3% whiff rate. That should leave us with a reasonably low-scoring game compared to this inflated total.

I love the Under here at 9 runs or more.

Orioles vs Dodgers weather

The wind is blowing out to left center at 8 mph on a 75F day at Dodger Stadium.

Orioles vs Dodgers odds

• Moneyline: Orioles +213 | Dodgers -223
• Run line: Orioles +1.5 | Dodgers -1.5
• Over/Under: Over 9.5 | Under 9.5

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Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there.

I took yesterday off from all things Blue Jays related. My sister was in town, she’s a big Bonnie Raitt, so we went to the concert last night.

There was a bunch of news yesterday:

• The team traded for Luis Urias from the Diamondbacks for cash. He’s an infielder. He is a 28-year-old right-handed hitting infielder, who has played eight seasons in the MLB, hitting .231/.329/.378 with 60 home runs in 2080 games. This year he’s been playing in Triple-A for Reno in the PCL, hitting .361/.393/.546 with 33 home runs in 27 games. They are still looking for a right-handed hitting platoon infielder who can hit is weight.
• And they made a bunch of roster moves. Daulton Varsho and Lazaro Estrada were activated from the IL. Brendon Little and Charles McAdoo were optioned to the Bisons.
• Shane Bieber will be starting Monday’s game. He threw 80 pitches in his last rehab start for the Bisons. We’ll ignore the part that he gave up 5 runs on 7 hits and 4 walks. I don’t generally read much into stats of a rehab start. The pitch is mostly just trying to make his pitches and getting his work in.

Today’s lineups:

16 Father’s Days ago, John McDonald hit a home run. It was just a few days after the death of his father. His dad told John to hit a home run for him and he did. Up until then, he had just 14 career home runs and would finish with 28 in his career. It was an amazing moment.

The Yankees officially welcomed back catcher Austin Wells on Sunday, activating the catcher from the 10-day IL. 

Wells landed on the IL due to cervical headaches, but he’s been ramping up his baseball activities and manager Aaron Boone said he is headache-free. 

Wells is back in the starting lineup on Sunday against Cincinnati, batting eighth. 

It’s been a tough season for the former first-round pick, as he comes into play on Sunday hitting .166 with four home runs and 7 RBI in 145 at-bats.

Meanwhile, catcher J.C. Escarra was optioned to Triple-A on Saturday night, but Boone said he will likely be back with the club in the very near future, as catcher Ali Sanchez is expected to go on the paternity list soon. 

Did the Cincinnati Reds catch a break when the New York Yankees opted to shuffle their starting rotation for the series finale? We’ll find out this afternoon!

The Reds were initially slated to face six-time All Star and former Cy Young Award winner Gerrit Cole in Sunday’s series finale, but manager Aaron Boone made the call to bump their rotation all back one day instead. The Yankees are in the middle of playing 16 games in 16 days, and that was enough to prompt the 1st place Yanks to ease the strain on the arms they’ll depend on as they make their playoff push later this year.

Instead, New York will roll out rookie Elmer Rodriguez, who’s made a trio of starts at the big league level and pitched well enough (4.15 ERA) in that time. MLB Pipeline ranked him the #2 prospect in the Yankee system in their most recent update (and #59 overall) on the back of a fastball he can throw up to 99 mph, so the Reds won’t be up against some nobody on the day – they just won’t be up against Gerrit Cole.

The Yankees, meanwhile, will be up against Chase Burns.

Burns has already accrued 3.9 bWAR so far in less than half the 2026 season, his mix of fastball/slider simply devastating to teams he faces. He’ll toe the rubber knowing a victory today would give the Reds a series victory on the road in the Bronx, and he seems like precisely the kind of guy you’d want your team to have on the mound knowing that’s what’s at stake today.

First pitch is set for 1:35 PM ET. Here’s how both clubs will line up to start:

The Atlanta Braves are running it back for the sweep against the Milwaukee Brewers on this Father’s Day Sunday.

The only batter on the Braves’ side who’s had experience against the Brewers’ Robert Gasser is Joey Bart, who’ll be batting seventh in the lineup. For the Brewers, Brice Turang has had his fair share of field days against Bryce Elder. In his 10 different appearances, he averaged .400 and a 1.100 OPS. He’s also the only one in the lineup that’s had a homerun against Elder.

Though the Braves have clinched wins in clutch performances in the other two games in the series, both teams were slower on offensive production, resulting in low-scoring games. Elder, who had a disappointing start last week, is looking to bounce back and hold the Brewers off the scoreboard, in hopes that the offense carries its weight early on.

It’s all happening at 1:35 p.m. EDT today at Truist Park.

1901
Already 29-20 and tied for first in the American League’s first season as a major league, the White Sox began a run of 10 straight wins with a shutout of the Philadelphia A’s, 4-0. Clark Griffith got the complete-game victory, his 10th win of the season.

By the end of the streak, the White Sox were three games up in the AL. From there, the White Sox were only tied or a half-game out of first for six game days the rest of the season, cruising to the first MLB AL pennant.

The 10 straight wins remain tied for the seventh-longest winning streak in team history, along with streaks in 1919, 1937, 1957, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1976 and 1981.

1942
White Sox pitcher and future Hall-of-Famer Ted Lyons won his 250th career game, beating the Red Sox, 6-5. (And a week later, Lyons would knock off the Yankees and Red Ruffing to tie Ruffing with 251 career wins.)

That season, Lyons only pitched on Sundays, and posted this incredible statistic: In his 20 starts that year he completed all 20 games! He went 14-6 with a league-leading 2.10 ERA.

At the end of the season, at age 42, Lyons joined the Marines and served for four years during World War II.

1956
It was either a case of great pitching, or terrible hitting, as it was dual one-hitters as the White Sox beat the Orioles, 1-0, in a game that took just 2:12 in front of a mere 4,581 at Comiskey Park. Baltimore starter Connie Johnson, a former White Sox pitcher, threw seven innings of one-hit ball, relieved by George Zuverink and his clean eighth inning. Meanwhile Jack Harshman of the White Sox went all nine innings and allowed only one hit.

The White Sox scored their run in the first inning, when Jim Rivera walked, stole second and scored on a double by Nellie Fox. Baltimore’s only hit came in the seventh inning, a double off the bat of Gus Triandos. 

1961
The White Sox had a heckuva doubleheader sweep to run their winning streak to six games, walloping Cleveland. In the opener, Roy Sievers had a pinch-hit grand slam and an additional homer, giving him 16 round-trippers on the year. His seven RBIs fueled a 15-3 White Sox win. In the 11-1 nightcap, it was Al Smith’s turn to club two homers, also giving him 16 on the season.

Interestingly, the White Sox began action that day at 30-34, 9 ½ games worse than third-place Cleveland. This blistering June stretch — including a streak of seven straight and this current one, which would extend to 12 straight wins and be separated by a single loss, giving the White Sox 19 wins in 20 games — took the club from last place into fourth, their high-water mark for the season.

Two seasons later, Sievers would club a pinch-hit home run while playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, making him the first player ever with pinch-hit grand slams in both leagues.

1964
The White Sox dropped their ninth straight game on the season to the Yankees, 2-1, in 17 innings. It allowed New York to sweep a twin bill where the Sox scored only one run on the day (over 26 innings), having lost the opener, 2-0. The nightcap loss really hurt, because New York got the winning run home thanks to an error by infielder Al Weis. 

The Sox would lose another one to the Yanks the next day (running the streak to 10 in a row), and the Yankees would sweep the four-game series, giving up just one run over 41 total innings. In fact, this was part of a run that saw the White Sox lose nine games to the Yankees over 11 days. Chicago finally won again vs. the Yankees … in August.

Strangely, the White Sox were 6-12 vs. New York in 1964, but the dozen head-to-head losses were very costly, because the Sox ended the season with nine straight victories but still finished one game behind the Yankees.

1973
White Sox pitcher Stan Bahnsen, a 21-game winner in 1972, threw one of the strangest shutouts in baseball history. Bahnsen beat the A’s, 2-0, at Comiskey Park. He allowed 12 hits and a walk in the process. The A’s left 10 men on base. It was two hits allowed short of the record for most allowed in a shutout.

1974
Hendersons were wild in an 11-7 win at Minnesota, as Ken Henderson clouted two homers and Joe Henderson earned his first major league victory. The Sox jumped out to a 7-0 lead after their second at-bats, and when “opener” Ken Tatum could not parlay a gift blowout from his offense into the five-inning minimum, handing a win to Joe. Joe went 4 1⁄3 innings in a bulk relief role, striking out seven, walking six and being charged with two runs that came in after he left the game. Interestingly, manager Chuck Tanner chose to forego his DH with Joe, choosing to keep the pitcher in the game and bat for himself rather than go to the pen; thus Henderson (fielder’s choice grounder to second base) and fellow reliever Cy Acosta (strikeout) both got rare ABs in the DH era in this contest.

The White Sox totaled 21 hits and raised their record to 30-31 (the club in fact hovered from May-on around .500, finishing right at 80-80-3. Carlos May went 5-for-5 with three RBIs and Ken went 3-for-4 with six driven in. Jorge Orta and Bill Sharp also had three-hit days.

2016
On the first pitch of the game Tim Anderson launched his first career home run, over the Green Monster in Boston, providing the GWRBI in a 3-1 White Sox win. It was TA’s 11th career game, and the first of his 98 MLB home runs.

The Brewers are looking to avoid the sweep on Father’s Day afternoon in Atlanta, as the team has dropped a pair of low-scoring affairs in heartbreaking fashion. After Jackson Chourio was cut down at the plate as the tying run in the ninth inning on Friday evening, Ozzie Albies played hero for the Braves Saturday afternoon, hitting his second homer of the game just over the wall in right field for a walk-off win.

To avoid the sweep, the Brewers will send out lefty Robert Gasser. Gasser, 27, hasn’t quite been able to replicate the success of his 2024 rookie season across five starts this year, but he is coming off his best outing of the year. While he’s 0-3 with a 4.88 ERA and 24 strikeouts over 24 innings this year, he tossed 5 2/3 scoreless frames against the Guardians on Tuesday night, allowing a pair of hits and a pair of walks while striking out five in a no-decision.

Opposite Gasser is right-hander Bryce Elder. Elder, also 27 (actually exactly 12 days older than Gasser), is in his fifth MLB season, all with the Braves. He looked great in his first two seasons, pitching to a 3.17 ERA over 54 innings in 2022 and earning an All-Star selection with a 3.81 ERA and 128 strikeouts over 174 2/3 innings in 2023. He’s coming off a pair of rough seasons — he totaled -1.2 bWAR across 38 starts in 2024 and 2025 — but he’s looked much more like the Elder of early seasons this year, with a 3.15 ERA, 3.76 FIP, and 73 strikeouts over 88 2/3 innings. He got roughed up in his last outing, though, allowing six runs on 10 hits and two walks while striking out two over four-plus frames.

Christian Yelich bats leadoff as the DH, followed by Jackson Chourio, Brice Turang, and William Contreras. Jake Bauers, Garrett Mitchell, and Sal Frelick follow, with Cooper Pratt and David Hamilton rounding things out behind Gasser.

First pitch is at 12:35 p.m. on Brewers.TV and the Brewers Radio Network.