PHOENIX — A day after he was kicked out of his seat at Chase Field, and a few hours after he tried to take an ill-advised media tour, an Arizona Diamondbacks fan who interfered with a ball on Monday night was banned from the ballpark.
The Diamondbacks announced that the fan who reached over the wall in the eighth inning Monday cannot attend another home game this season and has had his season tickets terminated.
The fan can return next season, but only if “he meets certain terms and abides by our Fan Code of Conduct.” Among other things, that Code of Conduct prohibits entering the field of play or interfering.
“This particular fan has been involved in multiple offenses at Chase Field,” the team said in a statement explaining the decision.
After Bob Melvin's challenge, this was ruled a double for Christian Koss due to fan interference 😳 pic.twitter.com/XnCVkz1ZYf
After Monday’s incident, video surfaced of at least three other instances where the same fan reached over the wall. In the eighth inning Monday, he snagged a Christian Koss fly ball that looked headed for the front row or the top of the wall. After a review, the play was ruled a double.
“He should try out for a team,” manager Bob Melvin joked on Tuesday when informed of the news.
The New York Rangers are reportedly working on trading K’Andre Miller to the Carolina Hurricanes.
This comes shortly after the Rangers signed Vladislav Gavrikov to a seven-year, $49 million contract.
The details of the trade have still not been revealed as of right now.
Miller is a restricted free agent and this potential trade stems from the Rangers being unwilling to give the young defenseman a long-term contract extension.
Hitting is as much a guessing game as it is skill at times. Guess right on what’s coming – whether heat or off-speed – and success is usually reached. When that happens, balance is sustained, arms and legs move in unison. Guessing is where arms flail, hips fly open (or don’t open at all) and odd movements are made in order to compensate.
When facing a knuckleball pitcher, like the Phillies did Monday night against San Diego Padres starter Matt Waldron, the wonderment at the plate never ends, even when you know the floater is coming.
And as Bryce Harper made his return to the lineup after missing 22 games with a sore right wrist, there no doubt was some concern as to how the wrist would react to trying to hit a dancing baseball.
It seemed as though the first baseman wasn’t too far off in his return as his four at-bats produced a plethora of results.
There was the eight-pitch AB in the first in which Harper saw seven knuckleballs. He hit three foul balls before working a walk. He grounded out on one pitch – a knuckler – his second time up. After fouling off a knuckler his third appearance, Harper laced a missile down to first base where Padres first baseman Luis Arraez made a diving catch and, while on his belly, reached out with his bare hand and doubled off Kyle Schwarber to end the inning. His final at-bat, off reliever Dave Morgan, had Harper look at five pitches without a swing. The last pitch hit him in the foot.
“You just don’t know what a knuckleballer is going to do,” said Phillies instructor Larry Bowa. “We always had a saying back when I played and you were facing a knuckleball pitcher that ‘When it’s high let it fly when it’s low let it go.’
“That’s a tough guy to go up against in your first game back. I’m sure he’d rather come back in a game where a guy is throwing 97, right?”
That luxury wasn’t afforded to Harper, however, and the results, while not spectacular, were good enough for Bowa.
“I thought his bats were alright,” Bowa said. “He is such a perfectionist and that’s why he’s a great player. He could hit three home runs in his next game. I don’t think he’s that far off at all. I’d say a couple to three games and he should be back where he can be. It won’t take long.”
The rainout on Tuesday afforded Harper an extra day off after his comeback game.
No word on how he was feeling the day after his return as manager Rob Thomson was not made available and Harper wasn’t around in the locker room for the short time media was permitted before the game was called.
There will be a day/night doubleheader on Wednesday with Game 1 beginning at 1:05 p.m. and Game 2 at 6:15 p.m. RHP Mick Abel will start the afternoon game and Cristopher Sanchez the evening.
The 27-year-old played just 25 games with the Montreal Canadiens last season, not registering a single point. In 61 games the year prior with Montreal, Pezzetta scored three goals and nine assists. He’s played 200 career NHL games over four seasons, tallying 15 goals, 23 assists, and 241 penalty minutes in that span.
Pezzetta, born in Toronto, Ontario, will likely join the Maple Leafs in a depth role, replacing Alex Steeves and Nick Abruzzese (both Group 6 UFAs), plus unrestricted free agent Alex Nylander, who signed a one-year, $775,000 deal with Toronto in mid-November.
The Maple Leafs have had a busy last 24 hours, moving a conditional third-round pick to the Utah Mammoth in exchange for Matias Maccelli. Toronto general manager Brad Treliving also locked up Matthew Knies and Steven Lorentz to long-term deals.
Knies' deal came in at six years with a $7.75 million AAV, and Lorentz's contract has a $1.35 million AAV. They also sent Mitch Marner to the Vegas Golden Knights in a sign-and-trade and acquired Nicolas Roy, who has two more years at a $3 million AAV.
MIAMI — The Minnesota Twins reinstated third baseman Royce Lewis from the injured list after a 15-game absence because of a recurrence of the hamstring strain that delayed his season debut.
Lewis joined the Twins for the start of a three-game series at Miami. He hurt his left hamstring while running out a grounder in the ninth inning of a game on June 13, a less severe strain than the one he suffered late in spring training. That injury sidelined him for seven weeks, costing him the first 35 games of the season.
Lewis went 0 for 8 with one walk on a three-game rehab assignment with Triple-A St. Paul.
Lewis has played in only 182 regular-season games since making his major league debut in 2022, and this year has been the first time the interruption seems to have affected his production. Lewis is batting just .202 with a .585 OPS and two home runs in 30 games this season. He had 32 straight hitless at-bats from May 19 to June 3.
Right before his latest setback, though, he had just gotten in a rhythm by going 9 for 20 with a home run and four RBIs in his last six games. The Twins are 18-12 in games Lewis has played in this season, despite his struggle at the plate, and 22-32 without him.
The first overall pick in the 2017 draft was limited to 82 games last season by a severe quadriceps strain he suffered running the bases in the opener and later by a groin injury. The previous two years for Lewis were limited by recoveries from successive ACL surgeries.
Northamptonshire and England cricketer hailed as a fearless batsman who was nicknamed ‘Ned’
It was some time in the 1980s. The details have gone hazy: it could have been any county cricket ground and any captain being asked by the press why they had lost so badly to Northamptonshire: “What went wrong?” The answer was equally terse: “We got Nedded.”
A “Nedding” meant being on the receiving end of a blistering innings from Wayne “Ned” Larkins, who has died in hospital, while awaiting a heart bypass, aged 71. When he was hot, he could be the most thrilling batsman in the country. But demons of insecurity lurked beneath his cheery countenance and his 13 Test matches were a feeble reward for an exceptional talent.
Premier bowler Bumrah could be rested at Edgbaston
Captain Gill says decision will be made on Tuesday night
India chose to let speculation swirl around the potential involvement of Jasprit Bumrah in Wednesday’s second Test, insisting that a decision over whether to play their premier bowler would not be taken until late on Tuesday night.
Their fear is that should Edgbaston produce a pitch which favours batting, a prospect made more likely by the dry conditions in which the ground staff have been working, and the rain that is tentatively forecast for the weekend were to fall, a draw would become the most likely result. Playing the 31-year-old might end up doing little more than draining his reserves of energy ahead of a third Test that starts at Lord’s next Thursday. Shubman Gill, the India captain, would say only that Bumrah is “definitely available”.
The Philadelphia Flyers found their goalie reinforcements, signing free agent netminder Dan Vladar to a two-year deal to kick off the opening of NHL free agency.
Vladar, 27, has signed a two-year deal with the Flyers worth $6.7 million ($3.35 million AAV), making him the only goalie in the organization with pro experience signed beyond the upcoming 2025-26 season.
With Vladar now in the fold, it would appear Philadelphia will platoon him and incumbent Sam Ersson as the new goalie tandem.
It had previously been reported that Ivan Fedotov will start the season in the AHL as the Flyers’ No. 3 goalie.
Vladar has spent the last four seasons with the Calgary Flames, primarily serving as the backup to Jacob Markstrom and, later, Dustin Wolf.
The 6-foot-5 Prague native appeared in 30 games for the Flames this season, posting a 12-11-6 record, a 2.80 GAA, a .898 save percentage, and two shutouts.
By extension, this was also Vladar’s best season as a Flame since his first, when he went 13-6-2 with a 2.75 GAA, a .906 save percentage, and two shutouts back in 2021-22.
Still on the younger side and relatively experienced, the Flyers hope the 27-year-old Vladar (soon to be 28) can establish himself as a reliable rotational piece between the pipes and, presumably, as their backup goalie of the future with a successful stint in Philly.
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It's Tuesday, July 1 and the Reds (44-41) are in Boston to take on the Red Sox (42-44). Brady Singer is slated to take the mound for Cincinnati against Richard Fitts for Boston.
Yesterday, Reds pitcher Chase Burns was barreled and didn't make it out of the first inning in his second pro start. The Reds rookie walked two batters and gave up five earned runs on five hits before he was pulled from the game.
The Red Sox went on to win the game, 13-6.
Let's dive into the matchup and find a sweat or two.
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Moneyline: Reds (-104), Red Sox (-116)
Spread: Red Sox 1.5
Total: 10.0 runs
Probable starting pitchers for Reds at Red Sox
Pitching matchup for July 1, 2025: Brady Singer vs. Richard Fitts
Reds: Brady Singer, (7-6, 4.31 ERA) Last outing (New York Yankees, 6/25): 5.0 Innings Pitched, 4 Earned Runs Allowed, 6 Hits Allowed, 3 Walks, and 9 Strikeouts
Red Sox: Richard Fitts, (0-3, 4.68 ERA) Last outing (Los Angeles Angels, 6/25): 4.0 Innings Pitched, 2 Earned Runs Allowed, 4 Hits Allowed, 1 Walks, and 6 Strikeouts
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The Carolina Hurricanes have reportedly signed KHL netminder Amir Miftakhov to a one-year deal.
The deal is a two-way contract that will pay Miftakhov $775,000 at the NHL level and $100,000 at the AHL level, with a $240,000 guarantee.
The Russian goalie had a 13-11-3 record with Ak Bars Kazan last season with a 0.927 save percentage.
"Amir has put together a number of solid seasons in the KHL and is ready to return to professional hockey in North America," said Carolina general manager Eric Tulsky." It’s important to have goaltending depth, and we look forward to having him in our organization.”
The 25-year-old was drafted in 2020 by the Tampa Bay Lightning and spent just one season in North America before returning to Russia.
Over the last three seasons, Miftakhov has had a 0.927 save percentage, 0.930 and a 0.917.
It provides the Canes with additional goaltending depth, a position that they were severely lacking in.
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The Brock Boeser era is officially back on the table for the Vancouver Canucks, as the forward has signed a seven-year, $7.25M AAV contract with theteam. This comes after a long season of speculation that Boeser would not be remaining with the team after 2024–25, including a trade deadline that nearly saw the decade-long Canuck depart from the team.
Boeser was drafted 23rd overall by the Canucks during the 2015 NHL Draft, meaning his tenure with the organization just hit 10 years. The forward made his NHL debut for the Canucks on March 25, 2017, against his hometown Minnesota Wild. He also scored his first NHL goal this day — one of 204 total that he scored with Vancouver. In his first full NHL season, Boeser scored 29 goals and 26 assists in 62 games played, earning him a Calder Memorial Trophy finalist bid. He was also named to the 2018 NHL All-Star Game and earned the title of MVP.
Initially, many saw Boeser as a 30-goal scorer in the NHL, though he didn’t hit the milestone for the first seven seasons of his career. In 2023–24, Boeser had a breakout year, tallying 40 goals and 33 assists in 81 games — the most he has played in a single season. He kicked that season off with a monster four-goal performance against the Edmonton Oilers.
Boeser's long-term return to the Canucks will keep him within the organization until 2032.
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The Buffalo Sabres have appeared to have budgetary reasons on their mind with their trades leading into free agency on Monday. On the second day of the NHL Draft, they traded a second round pick and defenseman Connor Clifton to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Conor Timmins and minor leaguer Isaac Belliveau, shedding Clifton’s $3.33 million cap hit for next season. On Monday, the Sabres dealt forward Sam Lafferty to the Chicago Blackhawks for a 2026 sixth-round pick.
The 30-year-old was part of a flurry of bottom-six signings made by GM Kevyn Adams on free agent day one year ago, agreeing to a two-year, $4 million contract after a 13-goal season with the Vancouver Canucks, but as with many of those additions, Lafferty’s signing was a disappointment. He scored just seven points (4 goals, 3 assists) in 60 games.
The deal sends Lafferty back to the Hawks, where he played 97 games over two seasons before being dealt to Toronto along with former Sabre Jake McCabe in February, 2023. With the deal, the Sabres save $2 million on the salary cap for next season, giving them nearly $23 million in available cap space.
Buffalo has restricted free agents Ryan McLeod, Tyson Kozak, Conor Timmins, Bowen Byram, and Devon Levi to sign, but there is still an expectation that Adams will deal Byram if he can get a significant return for the 23-year-old. That is something that he may have to wait until the blueline market gets sorted out, as rearguards like Vladislav Gavrikov hit free agency, and veterans like Rasmus Andersson and RFA K’Andre Miller get signed or traded.
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The Boston Red Sox are entering the most important stretch of their 2025 season.
At 42-44, the Red Sox enter July seven games back in the American League East standings and three back in the AL Wild Card race. With the MLB trade deadline just 30 days away, Boston must give chief baseball officer Craig Breslow a good reason to invest in the team for a postseason run rather than part ways with key players.
If Breslow decides to sell, he could trade multiple players whose stocks have surged over the last month. Here’s our Red Sox Stock Up, Stock Down after an eventful June:
Stock Up
Ceddanne Rafaela, OF
From clutch hitting to his usual Platinum Glove-caliber defense, Rafaela has done it all for the Red Sox over the last month. The 24-year-old slashed .283/.327/.543 with a team-leading six homers and 15 RBI in June.
While swing-and-miss remains a big part of Rafaela’s game, the former top prospect has cut his strikeout percentage down from 26.4 last season to 20.1 so far this year. He has made noticeable strides at the plate while making plays like this look routine in center field:
Similar to what we used to say about Jackie Bradley Jr., Rafaela’s defense is so good that anything the Red Sox can get from him at the plate is a bonus. Lately, he has been among the team’s best players in all facets of the game.
Trevor Story, SS
Story has found his groove after enduring perhaps the worst stretch of his career in May. The veteran shortstop was second on the team with five homers and posted a .827 OPS in June.
Giolito has been nothing short of elite over his last four starts, allowing just two runs over 25 innings of work. All four were quality starts, including a gem in Seattle on June 16 when he tallied 10 strikeouts.
The Red Sox desperately needed one of their starters to step up as the No. 2 in the rotation behind Garrett Crochet, and it looks like Giolito has assumed that role. But with the MLB trade deadline looming, it’s fair to wonder how long that will last.
Giolito’s trade value has skyrocketed over the last month, so if Boston’s season continues to spiral, the club could move him to a pitching-needy contender for a decent haul. The soon-to-be 31-year-old is signed through 2025 with a team option for the 2026 campaign. It’s a $14 million team option if Giolito pitches fewer than 140 innings and a $19 million mutual option if he exceeds that number.
Brayan Bello, RHP
Bello has joined Giolito in stepping his game up since the calendar flipped to June. The Dominican right-hander posted a 2.87 ERA with a 1.21 WHIP, 23 strikeouts and 10 walks over five starts (31.1 innings).
DEALING: Brayan Bello strikes out Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger and Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the 6th 🔥 pic.twitter.com/g5WOia6A7E
Like Giolito, Bello has made four consecutive quality starts. That’s exactly what the Red Sox have needed from the 26-year-old, who arrived in the majors as a highly-touted prospect in 2022.
Aroldis Chapman, LHP
Chapman has been virtually unhittable since signing his one-year deal with Boston in the offseason. The 37-year-old southpaw has a 1.32 ERA and 0.79 WHIP over 37 appearances. Most importantly, he has cut his walk rate from 5.7 to 2.6 per nine innings.
Aroldis Chapman fires a 102 MPH fastball by Rafael Devers for the strikeout 😤 pic.twitter.com/ryT6WS6OTi
Contending clubs are usually willing to pay a hefty price for elite bullpen options around the trade deadline, so Chapman is a prime candidate to be moved if the Red Sox’ season continues to spiral.
Abraham Toro and Romy Gonzalez, 1B
Say what you will about the Red Sox’ first base situation, but Toro and Gonzalez have done an admirable job holding down the fort in Triston Casas’ absence.
Toro has greatly outperformed expectations with by far his most productive big-league season at the plate so far. His defensive versatility has also paid off with a solid glove at first and third base.
Gonzalez continues to mash, especially against left-handed pitching. He posted a .926 OPS with three homers in 18 games, including this mammoth blast against Toronto:
The Red Sox could still use a more stable first base option if they buy at the trade deadline, but the Toro/Gonzalez platoon has worked like a charm since Casas went down.
Stock Down
Jarren Duran, OF
It has been a disappointing season for the 2024 All-Star Game MVP. While Duran has shown flashes of his elite potential with an MLB-leading nine triples and 20 doubles, he’s been a league-average hitter who has taken a significant step back defensively in left field.
With the deadline approaching, it’s fair to wonder whether Duran is the odd man out in Boston’s crowded outfield. The 28-year-old still has plenty of value after strong 2023 and 2024 seasons, plus he’s under team control until 2029. Don’t be surprised if this month is Duran’s last in a Red Sox uniform.
Buehler is scheduled to make his next start, but if that one doesn’t go well, he may not last another day in the Red Sox rotation. The veteran right-hander has a 6.45 ERA on the season and an 11.07 ERA in June. He racked up as many walks (17) as strikeouts over the last month.
Considering how Buehler performed in October last year with the Los Angeles Dodgers, clubs may still be willing to give something of value for him around the deadline. That said, his stock has undoubtedly plummeted as of late.
Despite expectations he would, Giannis Antetokounmpo did not request a trade out of Milwaukee this offseason, waiting for his team to make a bold move to get them back in the mix for the top of the East. Now, Milwaukee has made about as daring a move as we have seen in the NBA — and Antetokounmpo is not happy about it.
In a stunning move, the Bucks waived Damian Lillard, stretching the nearly $113 million remaining on his contract over five years to free up cap space. Lillard is expected to miss most, if not all, of next season as he rehabs from a torn Achilles suffered in the playoffs. This is a cold bit of business that will make Lillard a free agent and will result in $22.5 million of dead money on Milwaukee's salary cap for each of the next five years (this is the largest salary cap stretch in league history). Lillard was set to make $51.4 million this coming season (he still gets all that money).
Milwaukee then used the freed-up cap space from that move to sign Myles Turner away from the Pacers with a four-year, $107 million contract, all of this broken by Shams Charania of ESPN.
Turner had been central to Indiana's run to the NBA Finals, and, as a free agent, he had stated that he wanted to return to the Pacers, the only team he had ever played for in his 10-year NBA career. However, Pacers' owner Herb Simon's fear of the luxury tax (especially after the Tyrese Haliburton injury) cost them a key player.
Turner, the longest tenured Pacer, made it known he wished to remain in Indiana. Since the Game 7 exit, Turner’s reps pushed to get a deal done. Ultimately, Indiana’s aversion to the tax, which grew after Tyrese Haliburton’s injury, allowed Bucks to get the new franchise center. https://t.co/lZqZudrUWg
This is a punch to the gut of Pacers fans, who just came off the high of their team's impressive and unifying run to the NBA Finals, only to have Tyrese Haliburton go down with a torn Achilles, and now to have Turner leave because ownership would not spend like a contender, even when they have a Finals team.
If you think adding Turner and pushing the Bucks closer to contention in a down Eastern Conference was going to make Antetokounmpo happy, guess again. He is a man who values relationships.
BREAKING: Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is not pleased with the team’s decision to waive Damian Lillard, league sources tell me. pic.twitter.com/NGqJIWRQeq
All of this leaves a lot more questions, starting with "Is Antetokounmpo unhappy enough to ask for a trade?"
Then there is "How do the Pacers rebuild this roster now by Haliburton's return?" and "Which team is willing to snap up a 34-year-old Damian Lillard coming off a torn Achilles?"
