Here are the lineups. For the Phillies:

For the Reds:

Let’s talk about it.

Texas Rangers lineup for May 19, 2026, against the Colorado Rockies: starting pitchers are Tyler Alexander for the Rangers and Sammy Peralta for the Rockies.

The Rangers and the Rockies face off again, with each team using a lefthanded opener to start things off. Kumar Rocker is the scheduled starter for Texas, but given his first inning struggles this year, they are apparently wanting to go with the opener strategy and let Rocker face the lower part of the lineup rather than the top of the lineup when he first takes the mound. Justin Foscue is hitting second, while Evan Carter is in the ninth spot — most likely so the Rangers can avoid him facing the lefty Peralta. Peralta has not pitched in the majors this year, and has not thrown more than 2 innings in a game in the minors this year.

The lineup:

McCutchen — DH

Foscue — 2B

Nimmo — RF

Jung — 3B

Duran — SS

Burger — 1B

Osuna — LF

Jansen — C

Carter — CF

7:40 p.m. Central start time. The game is a pick ‘em.

discuss below

The Toronto Blue Jays (21-26) take on the New York Yankees (29-19) in the second game of their series. The Yankees rallied to win 7-6 on Monday night. Scheduled starting pitchers are Dylan Cease for Toronto, with a 2.41 ERA, and Will Warren for New York, with a 3.42 ERA.

How to watch Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees

• Date: Tuesday, May 19

• Time: 7:05 p.m. ET / 4:05 p.m. PT

• Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY

• TV Channels: TBS, YES, Sportsnet ONE

• Live Stream:ESPN+, MLB.TV | Follow on Yahoo Sports

Team records

• Toronto Blue Jays: 21-26 (No. 3 in AL East)

• New York Yankees: 29-19 (No. 2 in AL East)

Odds

• Spread: New York Yankees -1.5

• Moneyline: New York Yankees -138 (55.6%) / Toronto Blue Jays +116 (44.4%)

• Over/Under: 9.0

Starting pitchers

Toronto Blue Jays: Dylan Cease (3-1, ERA: 2.41, K: 75, WHIP: 1.18)
New York Yankees: Will Warren (5-1, ERA: 3.42, K: 59, WHIP: 1.16)

Weather: 90°F at first pitch

Ballpark: Capacity: 47,309 | Roof: Open | Surface: Grass

The Brewers picked up a nice win over the Cubs yesterday in the first of a three-game series on Chicago’s north side. Today, they’ll look to take the series, and to catch up to (and pass!) the Cubs in the standings.

Yesterday, the Brewers jumped out to a sizable early lead, Brandon Sproat did enough to keep Chicago at bay despite some shakiness, and Shane Drohan did the rest. (Drohan is good.) Tonight in the second game of the series, the Brewers would figure to have a pitching advantage in a matchup between Jacob Misiorowski and Chicago’s Ben Brown.

Brown, who is a 26-year-old right-hander, did not start the year in the Cubs’ rotation. His first 12 appearances this year all came out of the bullpen, but with the injuries that the rotation is dealing with, he moved back into a starting role on May 8th. Since then, he’s made two starts, and he’s done everything the Cubs could ask. Both starts went four innings, and in those eight combined innings he’s struck out ten, walked two, and allowed just one hit and no runs. The Cubs won both games, a 7-1 victory over the Rangers on May 8 and a 2-0 win over the Braves on the 14th. For the season, Brown has a sterling 1.60 ERA and 2.45 FIP in 33 2/3 innings, but it’s worth noting that last season, Brown had a 5.92 ERA in over 100 innings, so some regression is probably expected at some point or another.

Misiorowski, of course, has planted himself firmly within the NL Cy Young race, and he’s riding some serious momentum, having made two of the best starts of his young career his last two times out. Miz hasn’t allowed a run since April 25, and he’s currently riding an 18-inning scoreless streak. He’s also leading baseball in strikeouts with 80; Cristopher Sánchez matched him with his stellar 13-strikeout shutout on Saturday, but he’s made one more start than Misiorowski, and Miz will jump back into the sole lead tonight, assuming he strikes out at least one batter.

The Brewers will operate with a Jackson Chourio – Garrett Mitchell – Sal Frelick outfield from left to right tonight with Christian Yelich as the designated hitter. Jake Bauers is the first baseman, so Andrew Vaughn will be a bench weapon tonight. William Contreras is doing the catching, and David Hamilton and Luis Rengifo will man the left side of the infield. In game number 46, this is the 46th unique lineup that the Brewers have used this season.

First pitch this evening is at 6:40 p.m. on Brewers TV and the Brewers Radio Network.

Mets lineup

Carson Benge – RF
Bo Bichette – SS
Juan Soto – DH
Mark Vientos – 1B
Marcus Semien – 2B
Tyrone Taylor – CF
Nick Morabito – LF
Brett Baty – 3B
Luis Torrens – C

SP: Nolan McLean – RHP

Nationals lineup

James Wood – RF
Luis Garcia – 1B
Jose Tena – DH
CJ Abrams – SS
Daylen Lile – LF
Dylan Crews – CF
Jorbit Vivas – 3B
Drew Millas – C
Nasim Nunez – 2B

SP: Foster Griffin – LHP

Broadcast info

First pitch: 6:45 PM ET
TV: SNY
Radio: Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM, Audacy App, 92.3 HD2

The San Diego Padres kept the good times rolling, winning their fourth straight and besting their rivals in a true pitcher’s duel.

Michael King and Yoshinobu Yamamoto both dealt, each pitching seven brilliant innings. But King won out, shutting out the Los Angeles Dodgers’ lineup while Yamamoto made only one mistake that ended up being the difference maker. He threw a splitter that didn’t quite split and Miguel Andujar launched it into left-center field.

That was the only run the Friars would need, with the bullpen working around some tough jams. They’ll need to hope for a little more offense if they want to take the series tonight.

Taking the mound

Emmet Sheehan (LAD) v. Griffin Canning (SD)

Sheehan had a breakthrough season in 2025 with the Dodgers. In 12 starts he pitched to a career-best 2.82 ERA while limiting opponents to a .185 batting average.

He’s come back down a bit this season, owning a 4.54 ERA in a back-end role with L.A. His last two starts were solid, surrendering only three runs between his outings versus the Atlanta Braves and the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers will hope he can do the same against the Friars’ offense tonight.

Similarly, Canning had a breakout season with the New York Mets before falling to injury midway through the season. He looked fantastic in his return from injury, but has since struggled immensely. Across his last two starts Canning’s surrendered 12 runs.

The first six of those were mostly bad luck, with the St. Louis Cardinals scoring four on a costly error by Fernando Tatis Jr. But, since then, it’s been Canning’s inability to miss bats that has been the source of struggle. He’ll either need to rediscover that ability or get some help from the offense if San Diego is to win.

Batter up!

The Dodgers actually outhit the Padres, 5-4, in yesterday’s contest. But the only hit that mattered was Andujar’s homer in the first inning.

The Friars have been using Tatis at second base a ton lately. That’s been in order to give Miguel Andujar Nick Castellanos more regular time in the starting lineup. It worked out well this weekend in Seattle but didn’t as much last night. They’ll likely do the same tonight in hopes of slugging against Sheehan.

1. Fernando Tatis Jr., 2B
2. Miguel Andujar, DH
3. Gavin Sheets, 1B
4. Manny Machado, 3B
5. Xander Bogaerts, SS
6. Jackson Merrill, CF
7. Ramón Laureano, LF
8. Nick Castellanos, RF
9. Freddy Fermin, C

The lineup doesn’t have much history against Sheehan, so they’ll have to learn on the fly a bit. Sheets has swung a hot bat lately but didn’t reach base in last night’s game. He’ll hope to return to the overpowering slugger that just won him National League Player of the Week.

Relief corps

With King pitching the masterpiece that was his seven innings against L.A., the Friars only needed to use two of their relievers to get the job done. They made it scarier than it should have been.

Jason Adam worked around a two-out jam. He gave up a walk to Hyeseong Kim to flip the order over to Shohei Ohtani who promptly singled to put runners on the corners. Thankfully, Mookie Betts grounded into a harmless force out to end the trouble.

Mason Miller closed out the ninth for his MLB-leading 15th save. He worked around even more tense conditions, issuing back-to-back walks. With runners on first and second and no outs, Miller had thrown 10 pitches, only one of which was a strike. He threw a pitch that barely caught plate and would have been a ball had it not been challenged and overturned for strike one. After that, he was back to himself.

He got ahead, 1-2, on Will Smith before getting the backstop to fly out harmlessly. Miller then struck out Max Muncy on three pitches for the second out before grounding out Andy Pages to end any worries of a Los Angeles comeback.

That leaves plenty of relievers available for what may be a San Diego bullpen game, if Canning can’t deliver. Jeremiah Estrada, Ron Marinaccio, Yuki Matsui, Adrian Morejon, Wandy Peralta and Bradgley Rodriguez are all readily available, though Matsui and Rodriguez combined for four innings on Sunday so the others will likely be leaned on first.

With a need in their starting rotation following Clay Holmes’ broken leg against the Yankees on Friday night, the Mets decided to call up left-handed pitcher Zach Thornton to pitch on Wednesday.

Thornton, who was only promoted from Double-A to Triple-A a couple of weeks ago, met with the media for the first time before Tuesday’s game against the Washington Nationals and expressed his emotions about his rapid ascent.

“I’m super surprised. I mean, after only two Triple-A starts, I thought I had a little bit more work to do up there,” Thornton said. “But try to win some games here now.”

Thornton, 24, pitched well in those two starts for Syracuse, owning a 2.25 ERA (0.92 WHIP) in 12 innings. In seven starts overall this season, the left-hander has a 3.16 ERA and 40 strikeouts to 12 walks in 37 IP.

With a reputation for not being afraid while pitching, Thornton spoke about his control and attitude on the mound.

“I treat every game the same: I want to go out and compete,” he said. “I’m the ultimate competitor, I’m a strike thrower, so I’m gonna do my best to just compete here.”

“I’m not the biggest guy in the world, so I need to have something good about me, so that’s where my brain comes into play,” Thornton added, referring to his fearlessness.

To go along with his lack of fear, Thornton says he takes a bit of a mathematical approach to pitching – playing the percentages, as he put it. As long as he throws the ball in the zone, he’ll take his chances with whatever happens next as hitters “aren’t hitting .700 these days.”

“I’ll take the .250 percentages,” he said.

It’s safe to say Thornton will be pounding the strike zone in his debut on Wednesday. The left-hander has a 1.11 WHIP in 41 games (33 starts) in his minor league career and mentioned he’s “always hated walking people.”

“I hate giving up free bases, hit by pitches. I hate walking people,” he said. “Same with Carson [Benge] striking out, I hate walking people.”

Today’s roster move: Here

Tuesday notes…

• 10 STRAIGHT WINS. THE NEXT 10, NOT SO MUCH: Tonight’s game will be the Cubs’ 10th since the last of their 10 straight wins on May 8 at Texas. They are 2-7 since then. A loss tonight would tie for their worst record in the 10 games following any of their 22 previous double-digit winning streaks in which they played 10 subsequent games. They were 2-8 after winning 11 in a row in 1944. They have gone 3-7 following five double-digit streaks: in 1917 (after 10 wins), 1927 (12), 1953 (10), 1970 (11) and 1998 (10). Following their earlier 10-game streak this season, the Cubs went 7-3 in their next 10 games, tying for their third-best such record. They were 9-1 twice in 1906. They had been 7-3 four times since then, but not since 1945, after 11 wins. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
• CUBS vs. BREWERS: The Cubs are 36-35 in second games of series at home vs. the Brewers. They are 18-13 after having lost first games. In all games, the Cubs are 119-111. (Courtesy BCB’s JohnW53)
• THE BUSCH LEAGUE: Michael Busch, 17 games in May: .339/.493/.607 (19-for-56) with seven doubles, a triple, two home runs, 17 walks and 16 RBI.
• TODAY IN CUBS HISTORY: Kerry Wood threw six solid innings and the Cubs defeated the Diamondbacks 6-2 at Wrigley Field. It was the first win of what would become a 12-game winning streak, the team’s longest since a 14-game streak in 1936. It happened 25 years ago today, Saturday, May 19, 2001.

Cubs lineup:

Brewers lineup:

Ben Brown, RHP vs. Jacob Misiorowski, RHP

Ben Brown has stepped up after being asked to slot into the rotation when Matthew Boyd was injured.

In two starts: eight innings, one hit, two walks, 10 strikeouts.

That’s really good! Brown also has thrown well in long relief this year. After throwing 65 pitches in his last start against the Braves, Brown is likely going to be asked to go 75-80 pitches and hopefully six innings, as the bullpen has been a bit overworked lately (and not good).

Historically, he’s done very well vs. the Brewers: three starts, 18 innings, 1.00 ERA, 0.778 WHIP, 19 strikeouts. Current Brewers are 8-for-53 (.151) against Ben with 18 strikeouts.

Brown will need to be on his best game tonight because Jacob Misiorowski has been striking out pretty much everyone in sight this year. He has faced 202 batters and struck out 80 (MLB leader). That’s a 39.6 percent strikeout rate which is just ridiculous. He’s also thrown more 100 mile per hour pitches (233) than all other starters in MLB combined (144).

He made two starts against the Cubs last year and allowed six runs (five earned) in eight innings, largely because he issued five walks. He’s cut down on the walks this year, so this will not be an easy game. At all.

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Until last night’s win over the White Sox featuring Colt Emerson’s first MLB hit and home run, the vibes were pretty bad in Mariners-ville. And that was before Cal Raleigh hit the Injured List. As Cal himself and many others have said, “Obliques are tricky.” What should the Mariners do while Cal is out? Mitch Garver and Jhonny Peredia, with all due respect, do not inspire a great amount of confidence. Peredia is clearly a great defensive catcher, but has yet to hit much. GarvField is the ABS Challenge guru and is good for one dinger per fiscal quarter, but other than that it’s pretty rough. So I asked THE FEED for some alternative ideas and the FEED responded with some pretty good ideas and takes. Once again, here’s my patented and very scientific Mariners Hot Take Ranking System:

Let’s get into it.

Poster BeHappy1 says, “Is Harry Ford available?

This was a fairly common response/joke around Mariners-ville and honestly…..kinda tempting? (/looks at Ford’s AAA stats so far this season) Okay, well, maybe not. This take is deceptive. It seems inflammatory, BRASH even, but the more you pull it apart, you realize you’ve been BEAVAN’d.

Poster RidiculousNonsense says, “Dan was a catcher! It’s like riding a bike, right? Bring Dan back!”

Obviously a joke take, but a pretty good one just for the mental image alone. Giving this one a BOSIO. Has there ever been a player-manager who was the catcher? Could be the move….

Poster and Staff Writer Connor Donovan says, “I, for one, would love to find a way to grab Bo Naylor from the Guardians.”

Ding ding ding! This is what I want. I don’t care what prospect capital it takes to make this happen, we deserve it. Two Naylors, too furious. We’ve been treated to 26 years of highlights from Griffey Sr. and Jr. played together, right? Think of the brotherly teammates content the Mariners could create with this move! So much potential. Plus, they’ve already been teammates in Cleveland, so it’d be a reunion in more than one way. Give this one a BRASH ranking.

That’s all for this week. Hopefully the Mariners can keep the good vibes going and, I dunno, win some more games? Would be cool, to be quite honest.