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Mets Lineup

1. Carson Benge – RF
2. Bo Bichette – 3B
3. Juan Soto – LF
4. Jared Young – DH
5. Mark Vientos – 1B
6. A.J. Ewing – CF
7. Marcus Semien – 2B
8. Vidal Brujan – SS
9. Hayden Senger – C

SP: Christian Scott -RHP

Marlins Lineup

1. Xavier Edwards – 2B
2. Liam Hicks – 1B
3. Otto Lopez – SS
4. Kyle Stowers – LF
5. Jakob Marsee – CF
6. Leo Jimenez – DH
7. Owen Caissie – RF
8. Christopher Morel – 3B
9. Joe Mack – C

SP: Tyler Phillips – RHP

Broadcast Info

First pitch: 4:10 PM ET
TV: SNY
Radio: Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM, Audacy App, 92.3 HD2

The Jays are .500, coming into today’s game, and they hold the final Wild Card spot, which seems hard to believe. It would be nice to be a game above .500 after today’s game.

The Jays have a new member of the constantly evolving bullpen. Hayden Juenger is the latest contestant.

Today’s lineup. No Lips today. He’s in a bit of a slump, with 2 hits in his last 16 at bats and his average has dropped from .313 to .277 in his last six games. Slumps happen. I’m sure he’ll pull out of it soon.

Go Jays Go.

Go Rays!

I don’t really know what to put here anymore. I mean, sure, I can preview the pitching matchup and offer some thoughts about the lineup. And I will. But I also like to contextualize the play of the team and the importance of the game. And… there’s just no context worth offering, and there is no importance to the game. The Royals are now 11 games back of first place after they were a mere half game back just three weeks ago. I guess we’ll spend a lot of the next few weeks wondering where it all went wrong for a team that even PECOTA thought could win the AL Central. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t seem reasonable to blame injuries.

So about that pitching matchup. Seth Lugo will pitch for KC. He’s had kind of an up-and-down year that has resulted in a perfectly cromulent 3.74 ERA. Remarkably, that ties him for 11th most valuable SP in MLB by fWAR and 58th most valuable by bWAR. Both are pretty good! He had a rough patch of three pretty bad starts out of four, but he’s now on a stretch of two straight quality starts. It could have been two straight starts of 6 innings and 2 runs or less, but he tried to push into the seventh of his last start against the Mariners and ended up giving up two more runs, though the Royals did go on to win that game.

He faced the Rangers in both series last year. In the first, while he was still looking like the Lugo the Royals had had for most of his tenure, he pitched 6 innings and allowed 1 run on 9 strikeouts. In the second, in the middle of his injury-aided collapse down the stretch, he still went 6.1 innings and allowed only 2 runs. Both were Royals victories. They could use more of that tonight. Against an offense that, in the past week, had been struck out 18 times in 8 innings by Reid Detmers, and suffered a combined no-hitter by the Astros before exploding against Stephen Kolek and the Royals bullpen.

The Rangers will counter with Kumar Rocker. Rocker was once a first-round draft pick by the Mets before a physical revealed a potential injury concern. He was drafted in the first round again the following year by the Rangers, and made most top-100 prospect lists before his debut. But he has yet to live up to the hype. He has struggled to fully command his pitches or generate whiffs. The slider was once graded as an 80 by FanGraphs on the 20-80 scouting scale, but has been rated and performed just around average at the big league level. None of his other pitches has risen to the level necessary to give him a true put-away pitch, either.

Lineups

OK! Now we’re finally serious about mixing up the lineup! It only took us about a month after it had become whatever the level above obvious is that it needed to happen! Listen, I don’t know if this is going to work, but I appreciate seeing the team actually try something.

The Nats had chances to win last night, but they came up short. Some of the weaknesses at the back end of their roster showed up, and they lost 7-5 in a bullpen battle. Now they will look to bounce back at home against a tough Padres team.

Blake Butera has made some peculiar changes to the lineup. Clearly, he wants to go lefty heavy. The struggling Jorbit Vivas will start over Curtis Mead. Jose Tena will also be starting at DH. That means James Wood will go to right field and Dylan Crews will slide to center. Drew Millas will also be back behind the plate. Foster Griffin will be on the bump.

The Padres have a very similar lineup to last night. Rodolfo Duran will replace Freddy Fermin behind the plate. Otherwise, it is the same personnel. We saw Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis start to wake up, so hopefully that does not continue. Blake Butera’s college teammate, Michael King, will be on the mound.

Game Info:

Stadium: Nationals Park

Time: 4:05 PM EST

TV: Nationals.TV

Radio: 106.7 The Fan

The Nats will look to avoid going under .500 in this one. Michael King will be a good test, but this lineup has been resilient. Hopefully Foster Griffin can build on his strong outing against the Braves. If they don’t win today, those narratives about the poor home record will re-appear. Follow along in the comments down below and let’s go Nats!

Don’t look now, but the Orioles might be bad again. Or maybe they never stopped. After starting the series with a chance to build upon the momentum of their three-game sweep of the Rays, the O’s instead have sputtered, dropping two straight one-run losses to the Blue Jays. Both were eminently winnable games that the Orioles let slip away, and now they’ll have to win two in a row just to earn a split of the series.

Brandon Young will look to sustain the recent stretch of success of the Orioles’ starting rotation, Trevor Rogers’ seventh-inning collapse last night notwithstanding. Young has allowed three or fewer runs in each of his last four starts, with the O’s winning all four. The only other time he’s faced the Blue Jays, last July 29, he delivered six strong innings and two runs, one of just two quality starts for him in all of 2025.

But the O’s offense will have to contend with Jays rookie Trey Yesavage, who last year had a meteoric rise all the way from Low-A to the majors and ended up making five postseason starts in the Jays’ run to a near-championship. Yesavage started this year on the IL but has made six starts and hit the ground running, posting a 2.25 ERA and 1.063 WHIP. No current O’s batter has ever faced him, which could put them at a disadvantage.

The Orioles are mostly using their regular starters today, with the exception of right field, where Jeremiah Jackson is making his first outfield appearance of the season. So if you thought the whole infielders-in-the-outfield experiment was over, think again.

Orioles lineup:

LF Taylor Ward
SS Gunnar Henderson
C Adley Rutschman
1B Pete Alonso
DH Samuel Basallo
3B Coby Mayo
CF Leody Taveras
2B Jackson Holliday
RF Jeremiah Jackson

RHP Brandon Young

Blue Jays lineup:

DH George Springer
LF Nathan Lukes
1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
CF Daulton Varsho
3B Kazuma Okamoto
RF Jesús Sánchez
2B Ernie Clement
SS Andrés Giménez
C Tyler Heineman

RHP Trey Yesavage

There are 122 pitchers who have thrown at least 40 innings so far in 2026, and only five of them have a higher ERA than Cincinnati Reds starter Brady Singer. Two of those are members of the Colorado Rockies, though, so we’re going to go with just three.

Singer sports a 6.52 FIP throgh his 46.0 IP, and only Jameson Taillon and Jacob Lopez have higher marks. Only Taillon (2.83) owns a higher HR/9 than Singer’s 2.74. Singer has served up a trio of dingers in each of his most recent two starts.

Singer sports just a 15.7% K%, a mark that ranks 11th worst in the game among those 122 pitchers. Interestingly enough, each of Chris Paddack (13th) and Andrew Abbott (9th) rank down there, too, as does former Reds pitching stalwart Nick Martinez (now of Tampa). Is that a pattern, or a fluke?

Hitters own a .328 average off Singer’s offerings so far this year. Only Michael Lorenzen (again, of Colorado) and Simeon Woods Richardson of Minnesota have yielded higher averages.

This is not an exercise to bash. This is an exercise in identifying what we’ve seen so far this season from the guy in the heart of the rotation that was supposed to provide steady, boring, average ball once every fifth day as a stabilizer amid a rotation that had lots and lots of questions (and injuries) around him. The Reds need the Singer they knew last year, and they’ve gotten nothing close to that so far in 2026.

Singer will start for the Reds on Saturday night in GABP as they try to stave off an Atlanta Braves club that’s rolling at the moment. They ripped through Cincinnati’s patchwork staff on Friday to take the series opener, and they can claim the series victory if Singer can’t put a stop to them tonight.

First pitch is set for 7:15 PM ET as it’s going to be carried nationally on FOX. Here’s how the Reds will line up to begin this one against veteran southpaw Martin Perez, with a righty-heavy lineup on the docket:

Here’s to Singer miraculously finding it before this one crumbles quickly.

TODAY’S GAME: The Houston Astros (26-33), who are 7-3 in their last 10 games, will play the second game of their 10-day, nine-game homestand today against the NL Central division leading Milwaukee Brewers (34-20).

RHP Peter Lambert (3-4, 3.79 ERA), a free agent signing this offseason, will start for the Astros opposite the Brewers and RHP Brandon Sproat (1-3, 5.84 ERA).

DRIVING THE LAMBO: Today’s Astros starter RHP Peter Lambert has been solid in his seven starts for the Astros, going 3-4 with a 3.79 ERA (17ER/40.1IP) with 40 strikeouts and a .200 opponent average.

Lambert pitched last year for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the NPB, posting a 3.98 ERA (55ER/124.1IP) with 111 strikeouts in 23 appearances in Japan.

He began this season at Triple A Sugar Land (1.84 ERA in three appearances) before being called up to join the rotation on April 17.

FOR STARTERS: Astros starters have a combined ERA of 3.33 (30ER/81IP) over the last 14 games (since May 15) with a 1.04 WHIP. In that span, they have allowed just 47 hits in 81.0 innings for a Major League-best .168 opponent average, while also ranking second in the AL in WHIP and fourth in ERA. Astros starters have allowed one-or-fewer runs seven times in the last 14 games.

HOMER HAPPY: The Astros have slugged 17 homers in their last eight games. Houston now ranks second in the AL in homers with 77, trailing only the Yankees (86) in that category.

THE LINEUP: The Astros have yet to repeat a lineup this season, using 59 different lineups in their first 59 games. DH Yordan Alvarez has the most starts at any spot in the lineup among Astros, as he’s hit second 47 times this season.

EVERYDAY OKERT:LHP Steven Okert worked 2.0 scoreless innings last night and has now pitched in each of the last two games, giving him 28 appearances this season, which ranks tied for fourth in the Majors. The lefty has had a strong month of May, posting a 2.25 ERA (3ER/12IP) in 12 games.

ON THE MEND: RHP Hunter Brown, who’s recovering from a right shoulder sprain, made his second rehab start last night, working 3.0 innings of one run ball for Triple A Sugar Land. Brown tossed 44 pitches in the outing (33 strikes), recording five strikeouts, while allowing just one hit, a solo homer, among the 10 batters he faced.

PITCHER OF THE MONTH?: RHP Spencer Arrighetti has made a strong case for the AL Pitcher of the Month award, going 4-1 with a 0.93 ERA (3ER/29IP) and a .165 opponent average (16×97) in five starts in May. During the month, he has the lowest ERA among AL starters, while ranking tied for first in wins and second in opponent average.

ON THE LEADER BOARD: DH Yordan Alvarez currently leads the Majors in OPS (1.056) and total bases (134).

In the AL, he ranks tied for first in extra-base hits (31), tied for first in HR (20), second in SLG (.641), second in OBP (.415), tied for fourth in hits (63), tied for fourth in RBI (39), fifth in batting avg. (.301), tied for sixth in walks (38), and tied for seventh in runs (38).

HISTORIC HOMERS:DH Yordan Alvarez is off to one of the most prolific starts in franchise history. His 20 homers through the club’s first 59 games of the season match the franchise record, also reached by 1B Jeff Bagwell in the 1999 season.

WALKER, TEXAS HAMMER: 1B Christian Walker has four homers and nine RBI in his last six games.

For the season, he ranks third in the AL in RBI (40), tied for fifth in extra-base hits (25), sixth in HR (15), seventh in total bases (109), and ninth in SLG (.512).

Walker also has not committed an error in his 58 games played.

HEATING UP:RF Cam Smith has recorded a hit in eight of his last nine games, batting .333 (11×33) with two doubles, two HR, four RBI, three walks and a 1.010 OPS in that span.

OF Taylor Trammell is riding a career-high, eight-game hitting streak, batting .407 (11×27) with two doubles, one triple, two RBI and a .984 OPS within the streak.

HIT PAREDES:3B Isaac Paredes has 498 career hits and is looking to become just the 10th Mexican-born player in MLB history to reach 500 career hits. Two of those eight played portions of their careers with the Astros in 3B Vinny Castilla (1,884 hits) and C Alex Treviño (604 hits).

TODAY IN ASTROS HISTORY: 1976 – In the second game of a doubleheader at Fulton County Stadium vs. the Braves, the Astros set a franchise record with 23 singles and set the then-club record with 25 hits in a 16-5 win. Cliff Johnson leads the attack with four hits and five RBI. Enos Cabell adds three hits and three runs scored. The win completes a doubleheader sweep for Houston. Since this date, the Astros have reached 25 hits on four other occasions, but have not posted 23 singles in a game.

Game Info

Game Date/Time: Saturday, May 30, 3:10 p.m. CT

Location: Daikin Park, Houston, TX

TV: Space City Home Network

Streaming: SCHN+

Radio: KBME 790 AM & 94.5 FM HD2; TUDN 102.9 FM HD2 (Spanish)

Last night, the Brewers opened their series against the Astros with a win they had to grind out in extra innings. Today, they will go for their fifth straight win as the series continues this afternoon.

Brandon Sproat is on the mound for his ninth start (and 11th appearance) of the season. He is coming off of a four-inning start against the Dodgers where he allowed three runs in four innings. Sproat’s strikeout numbers have been good—he’s averaging 9.7 strikeouts per nine innings—but otherwise he’s still been developing. This will be his first appearance against the Astros.

For the Astros, Peter Lambert gets the start. His last start was against the Cubs, where he allowed three runs in five innings. Lambert has spent most of his career in Colorado before signing with Houston in the offseason. He has improved with the Astros, with his ERA dropping from 5.72 to 3.79 and his FIP dropping from 4.54 to 3.36. This is his third career appearance against the Brewers, with a 5.63 ERA in his previous two.

After using the same lineup for the last three games, the Brewers are switching it up a little. The top five in the lineup remain the same, though Jake Bauers will man right field instead of first base. That allows Andrew Vaughn to get a start at first base today. Garrett Mitchell slides down to seventh, and Joey Ortiz gets a start at shortstop as David Hamilton covers third for the day. Both Sal Frelick and Luis Rengifo are getting the day off.

First pitch is at 3:10 p.m. It will be on Brewers.TV and the Brewers Radio Network.