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The Dodgers play two games at the same time on Sunday. Here is the travel roster for their road contest, against the Chicago Cubs at Sloan Park in Mesa. Hyeseong Kim returns from the World Baseball Classic and leads off at second base. Jack Suwinski, acquired on February 21 and now a non-roster invitee in camp, plays in his first game for the Dodgers, starting in right field.

Lineup

Hyeseong Kim 2B
Alex Call DH
Mookie Betts SS
Dalton Rushing C
Santiago Espinal 3B
Jack Suwinski RF
Zach Ehrhard LF
James Tibbs III 1B
Michael Siani CF

Emmet Sheehan starts on the mound, making his third appearance of the spring.

Other pitchers

Will Klein and Kyle Hurt are expected to pitch in this game, as is non-roster lefty Antoine Kelly.

From the minor league side are Matt Lanzendorfer (wearing number 87), Antonio Knowles (90), Myles Caba (91), Cody Morse (92), Alex Makarewich (93), and Domingo Geronimo (96).

Other position players

Non-roster invitees Ryan Fitzgerald and Seby Zavala are active for the road game.

Up from the minors are Emil Morales (05), Jake Gelof (08), Landyn Vidourek (06), Damon Keith (94), Samuel Muñoz (07), Eduardo Guerrero (88), and catcher Victor Rodrigues (95).

Results be damned, Max Fried was healthy and pitched five-plus frames on Saturday, which is really all we want to see from this team’s current top pitcher. Wrapping up the weekend, the Yankees will play a splt-sqquad doubleheader on Sunday, starting with a matchup against a familiar face on an unfamiliar team. One of the newest Tigers, Framber Valdez, will face the Yankees, defending the colors of a different American League contender.

Detroit took a page right out of the Yankees’ recent playbook, signing an ace-caliber lefty who may not have the gaudy strikeout totals of some of his peers but gets the job done. Much like with Fried and the Yankees—although in his case, maybe just on a temporary basis—Valdez joins as the No. 2, serving behind the great Tarik Skubal, set to hit the open market at the end of this season.

Moving over to the Yankees side, Luis Gil will start the first of these two games against a different club. Perhaps more than nearly every other pitcher, Gil’s K/BB numbers are followed with extreme interest across spring, and so far, they show terrific promise. We all know how much Gil relies on strikeouts to perform at a high level and how a high walk rate has gotten him in trouble in the past. Through his first 11.1 innings of Grapefruit League action, Gil’s 15 strikeouts and 3 walks are right where you’d want them.

Cody Bellinger, Trent Grisham, and Giancarlo Stanton are the standout names on the Yankees lineup that’ll face Valdez; keep an eye on Randal Grichuk, whose skill set against left-handers is the primary reason the Yankees went after him in the first place.

How to watch

Location: George M Steinbrenner Field — Tampa, FL

First pitch: 1:05 pm ET

TV broadcast: YES, Detroit SportsNet

Radio broadcast: WFAN 660 AM (NYY) | WXYT 1270 (DET)

Online stream: Gotham Sports App, MLB.tv

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Is it on TV?

Yes, first pitch at 1:05 PM on NESN.

What’s the lineup?

What should we watch for?

It’s always fun to watch Garrett Crochet, especially as we near the start of the regular season and the pitchers begin to really ramp up. But today will be all about the return of Jarren Duran. Keep an eye on him to see if his scorching hot WBC form can continue.

While the Nationals are 11-6 in Grapefruit League play, the offense has been mostly quiet. The boys will look to change that today in a showdown against the Cardinals. This lineup is pretty close to what I expect the Opening Day lineup to be, so I am excited to see the big guns in action.

The Nats have been trying players at different positions throughout the spring, and today is no different. Dylan Crews is out in left field, a position he has never played at the big league level. Luis Garcia Jr. will get more work at first base, while Daylen Lile DH’s this afternoon. Miles Mikolas will be starting against his old club this afternoon.

The Cardinals are also rolling out a pretty strong lineup. Masyn Winn, JJ Wetherholt, Alec Burleson and Nolan Gorman all feature. Wetherholt is one of the top prospects in the game and looks like he will win a big league job out of camp. He has performed very well this spring. Hard throwing Richard Fitts will be on the mound for the Cardinals. They acquired him from the Red Sox this offseason in the Sonny Gray deal.

Game Info:

Stadium: Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium

Time: 1:05 PM EST

TV: N/A

Radio: 106.7 The Fan

The Nats have dropped their last two games, so they will look to get back on track this afternoon. Hopefully Miles Mikolas can perform well in this revenge game of sorts. I also want to see more life from the offense. Follow along in the comments down below and let’s go Nats!

Opening Day for the Cincinnati Reds is just 11 days away, yet the current number of players they have in camp right now still far exceeds the 26 they’ll carry on their Opening Day roster. That means we’re in for some pretty aggressive rounds of cuts in the coming days, and those began in earnest this weekend.

On Sunday morning, the Reds officially reassigned veteran righty Tejay Antone to minor league camp, as MLB.com’s Mark Sheldon relayed on Bluesky.

Antone, now 32, has thrown just 7.2 IP at the big league level since the start of the 2023 season, and that’s on the heels of missing all of the 2022 season, too. He missed all of 2025 as he recovered from his third Tommy John surgery, yet was in camp this year legitimately competing for a spot in the team’s bullpen.

His velocity hasn’t yet recovered to the 97.1 mph average he sported during his breakout 2021 season, but he did reportedly touch 95 mph while in camp this spring (and his breaking stuff has show considerable life, too). In other words, this seems like as much of an administrative decision as anything as he was in camp as a non-roster invitee who’s not currently on the 40-man roster.

They did reassign him to AAA after all, not release him. That seems to me that they plan on giving him some time and reps at that level to further work his way back to being as close to 100% as possible with an eye on him potentially providing bullpen depth at the highest level at some point later in the season.

This all comes a day after the Reds made a similar call with reliever Lyon Richardson, who was also in camp as a non-roster invitee after clearing waivers earlier in the offseason. He’s another depth arm who, when right, has stuff that’s plenty capable of getting big league hitters out, but a guy on whom the Reds won’t lean until something else goes wrong in front of him.

In a very similar move, Yunior Marte was reassigned to minor league camp on Friday.

The field was halved Friday in the WBC, and once again Saturday, with a pair of impressive games and historic milestones for national baseball in Italy and Venezuela.

Yesterday’s matchups and how the Mariners performed:

Italy 8, Puerto Rico 6

The caffeinated fairy tale continues. Facing the ace of Team Puerto Rico in Royals starter Seth Lugo, Italy bounced back from a leadoff homer by PR star Willi Castro to stake a 4-1 lead after the first. While a bases-loaded HBP cut the score to 4-2 in the 2nd and ensured neither club’s starter recorded more than four outs, Italy’s lead swelled to a seemingly-insurmountable 8-2 in the 4th despite one of the more egregious fan interferences you’re likely to see. The threadbare Puerto Rican roster fought back ferociously, but came up just short against Red Sox reliever Jacob Weissert, who encored his shutdown performance in Italy’s upset of Team USA to cover the final 1.2 frames and send home the plucky Puerto Ricans 8-6.

The lone Mariner to play was Dominic Canzone notching a 1-for-3 night with two walks, two runs. That said, former M’s abounded in this one, with Yacksel Rios and Edwin Diaz working 1.2 combined scoreless frames for PR. Dan Altavilla was sterling in his inning for Italy, but Matt Festa ran into trouble with his command and was instrumental to the comeback effort that the Italians managed to quash. It’s Italy’s first trip to the semifinals in the WBC, while for Puerto Rico an exit earlier than hoped, but more than worthy of pride given the absence of 3-4 of the island’s stars.

Venezuela 8, Japan 5

What. A. Game. Attended by yours truly, I’m pleased to inform you all that this heavyweight bout was just as good as it appeared. The reigning WBC champs put their ace, and World Series MVP, Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the hill against Venezuela’s best hope – new Red Sox southpaw Ranger Suarez. Neither starter shone, with Suarez run after 2.2 thanks to homers from Shohei Ohtani and injury-replacement Shota Morishita, while Yamamoto hung on for four frames but could not go deep due to dangerous innings from the Venezuelans.

The game was a star turn for the left side of Venezuela’s infield, which saw Rockies shortstop Ezequiel Tovar and Royals third baseman Maikel Garcia scorch the ball all night, sparking a comeback made possible by astounding work from the ostensible weakness of the Venezuela club: the pitching staff. Starting with Mariners reliever Eduard Bazardo, who staunched the bleeding for Suarez to conclude the third inning, not a single run crossed the plate in the potent Samurai Japan lineup. A collection of journeymen like Enmanuel De Jesus and Andres Machado, who’d last pitched in MLB in 2023, as well as bullpen arms of decent repute in Jose Butto and Angel Zerpa, afforded Wilyer Abreu the chance to blast the roof off loanDepot Park.

Former Mariner Yusei Kikuchi kept things tight, but Japan could not find the answer for Cubs closer Daniel Palencia, and the raucous Miami crowd got to welcome Venezuela to the semifinals – and a clinched spot alongside Italy, U.S.A., and the Dominican Republic in the Olympics for baseball in 2028.

Venezuela will face Italy on Monday, March 16th at 5 PM PT on FS1, to determine who will play the winner of tonight’s matchup.

Today’s Semifinal Matchup:

United States at Dominican Republic: 5 PM PT, FS1 – loanDepot Park, Miami, FL
Pitching probables: Paul Skenes for USA, Luis Severino for DR

I implore you. Watch this game. Give yourself a gift, as we all have been. Find a bar, or a friend, or a Fubo free trial. This is what this tournament is all about. What baseball is capable of. The most imposing lineup in the world for the Dominican Republic faces the most difficult pitcher to hit in the world in Paul Skenes.

Winner goes to the Championship Game, which will be held on March 17 at 5 PM PT on FOX.

Astros manager Joe Espada was happy with what he saw from SP Ryan Weiss, as well as Isaac Paredes play at 2B:

Yordan Alvarez hit his first HR of spring. He’s been heating up.

Ryan Weiss would prefer to be a starter. He’s certainly pitched well enough to earn a shot.

The Astros may not have fully decided on a 5 or 6 man rotation as yet:

While Hunter Brown, Tatsuya Imai and Mike Burrows have been the stars of spring, there are other Astros pitchers who are opening eyes as well:

Mets Lineup

1. Francisco Lindor – SS
2. Marcus Semien – 2B
3. Bo Bichette – 3B
4. Jorge Polanco – DH
5. Luis Robert – CF
6. Brett Baty – 1B
7. Francisco Alvarez – C
8. Mike Tauchman – RF
9. Tyrone Taylor – LF

Zach Thornton – LHP

Blue Jays Lineup

1. George Springer – DH
2. Daulton Varsho – CF
3. Davis Schneider – 2B
4. Addison Barger – 3B
5. Jesus Sanchez – RF
6. Nathan Lukes – LF
7. Leo Jimenez – SS
8. Brandon Valenzuela – C
9. Charles McAdoo – 1B

Grant Rogers – RHP

Broadcast info

First pitch: 1:10 PM EDT
TV: WPIX
Radio: Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM

Pittsburgh Pirates vs. Tampa Bay Rays, March 15, 2026, 1:05 p.m. ET

Location: Charlotte Sports Park, Port Charlotte, FL

How to Listen: KDKA-FM 93.7

The Pittsburgh Pirates are on the road today against the Tampa Bay Rays looking to grab a win.

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