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On a night where a freshman was the star of the show, two of the most grizzled veterans to wear scarlet and cream combined to complete the comeback and send the cold and wet fans home happy. Usually when these two teams get together, one team seems to blow the other out. Tonight was the rare back and forth affair between the old foes.

Nebraska wasted little time in getting things going. Kansas State went with their Friday night starter James Guyette, coming off his worst outing of the season, and tonight was more of the same. Back to back singles by Mac Moyer and Jeter Worthley started the night. Case Sanderson moved the runners over with a groundout to first.

Guyette then lost a fastball that went behind Dylan Carey, letting Moyer scamper home for the first run. Another fastball tailed too far inside, nearly hitting Carey again, and the Cather couldn’t come up with it, allowing Worthley to jog home. Carey walked and then the inning appeared to be over with a Jett Buck fly ball to right, but the outfielder dropped the ball on a rainy night. Always the hustler, Carey made it home easy to put Nebraska up 3-0 after 1 inning.

The second inning was fairly uneventful, with the exception of Husker starting pitcher, Tucker Timmerman making an incredible play covering first on a play hit to Sanderson. Sanderson bobbled the ball, picked it up, and threw it into the dirt behind Timmerman. “Tuck” happens to be maybe the best all around athlete on the team, and not only caught the ball, but upon replay drug his toe across the base just in front of the runner. You have to watch it to believe it.

The teams traded runs in the 3rd, Timmerman gave up a leadoff double, then back to back outs brought the runner home. On the Nebraska side, Worthley singled up the middle, part of the freshman backstop’s 5 for 5 night. A double from Sanderson down the left field line put runners on second and third for Carey. Carey drove a sac fly to deep right, and Worthley put the Huskers up 4-1 after 3.

Kansas State took the lead in the middle innings, by way of the long ball. A 2 run home run in the 4th off of Timmerman, and a 2 run home run off Husker reliever Kevin Mannell in the 5th gave the Wildcats a 5-4 lead, and put all the momentum in the visitor’s dugout. Jaylen Worthley gave up a leadoff double of home run in the 6th, on his first batter the Wildcats’ dugout went wild.

Nebraska loaded the bases in both the 4th and fifth innings, but couldn’t finish the job. Coach Will Bolt felt like the offense was putting together good swings, just happened to line out to some well placed infielders by Kansas State. “When you set up as many innings as we do, and you don’t knock ‘em down, you give the other team momentum,” stated Bolt post-game.

As this team has done countless times this season, the Huskers battled back. With 1 out in the 7th, Drew Grego wore the first pitch of his at bat on the shoulder. As seems to happen a lot this season after a hit-by-pitch, Grego stole second base. With 2 outs, Mac Moyer drove a ball up the middle, just past the diving second baseman, scoring Grego, and cutting the lead to 6-5.

That brought up Worthley, already sitting on a 4-4 stat line. He drove a low and inside fastball deep into center field. The center fielder wouldn’t have made the play, but slipped after taking a step in, then trying to turn and run to the wall. Moyer scored all the way from first, tying the game, and Worthley punctuated his big night with a stand up triple, urging the third base dugout to get pumped up, not that they needed any encouragement at that moment.

Following a shutout inning by Ty Horn in the 7th, J’Shawn Unger came out and with the help of a double play, sat the Wildcats down quickly in the 8th. Unger surrendered a 1 out walk in the 9th. The runner then stole second to get into scoring position. Inexplicably, the runner took off for 3rd, and was thrown out so easily that he didn’t even attempt to slide. Unger struck the batter out to end the inning, and take us to the bottom of the ninth.

Josh Overbeek led things off for Nebraska in the 9th. After quickly going down 0-2, he battled back and sent a 2-2 deep to the left field gap. The left fielder made a good play to cut the ball off from getting to the wall, theoretically holding “Beek” to a single. Only Overbeek had zero intention of stopping at first and barreled into second base will little regard for his or the second baseman’s life. He was going so fast and sliding headfirst so hard that he barely stopped in time to stick on the base.

Drew Grego has been a clutch player late in games, and hit a sharp ground ball right down the left field line, but the 3rd baseman was playing right on the line, and threw him out. That brought up Rhett Stokes, who was 0-4 on the night. Stokes pulled a hard grounder in almost the same place as Grego, only the third baseman was playing well off the line this time. Overbeek rounded third, held his hand up in the air, and scored a 4th straight walk-off win for the Huskers at home.

It’s RPI watch season as the calendar is soon turning to May. The Huskers move up in the RPI with the win to 11th in the country. If they win their final 3 weekend series of the season, they should be solidly in the 2nd seed in the Big Ten Tournament and in line to host in the NCAA.

The Huskers travel to Columbus this weekend to take on Ohio State, with first of the series scheduled for Friday at 5pm. Stay tuned to Corn Nation for our weekend preview coming up later in the week.

Josh Naylor, Julio Rodríguez and Cole Young each collected three hits in the Mariners 7-1 win over the Twins Tuesday. The Mariners’ lineup picked up 12 hits in total, including five for extra bases, in what wound up being a comfortable win.

But the game wasn’t so comfortable early. Joe Ryan started for the Twins and was good as always, pounding the zone, getting ahead, and keeping the Mariners off balance through the first five innings. He got 13 called strikes on his fastballs, and five whiffs against the splitter and curve. I wouldn’t even say it was a bad performance by the Mariners against a pitcher like Ryan, who finished the day top 10 in the majors by WAR, but they were often caught in between and guessing wrong. This is what the first five innings looked like:

Things changed when the middle of the order stepped to the plate for the third time. With two outs, Julio got a hanging curveball and laced a grounder down the left field line, hustling into second for a double. Naylor followed by, flicking a single the other way to make the game 1-1.

The Mariners couldn’t get any more runs in the sixth, but they made Ryan work. After a leadoff double from Randy Arozarena in the top of the seventh, Ryan’s day was done. The Twins were forced to turn to a far less intimidating bullpen, and Young eventually plopped a single the other way to give the Mariners a 2-1 lead. 

J.P. Crawford drew a leadoff walk in the eighth. Julio then hit a screaming double past the outstretched arm for Austin Martin in right field to put runners on second and third. That brought Naylor to the plate to face Cole Sands, who threw a top-rail cutter that bled back over the plate. Naylor turned on it and crushed it way out to right, taking a few steps back to admire the shot before proceeding around the bases.

The Mariners weren’t quite done. Young lead off the ninth with another single, Leo Rivas took a hit by pitch, and Julio doubled them both home with a sharp line drive to left, to finish off the score at 7-1.

It was another great day for the offense. The Mariners are up to a 105 wRC+ despite their early struggles and entered the day with a 126 wRC+ since April 10 (when they began the four-game rout of the Astros). It’s largely coming from the middle of the order, too, with Julio, Cal, Arozarena and Naylor each beginning Tuesday’s games with a wRC+ between 138 and 143 over that stretch. If they keep scoring five runs per game on average, the wins will eventually follow.

Logan Gilbert got the start for the Mariners, and it went the way it always does. He showed off a deep arsenal, got some whiffs and strikeouts, and ultimately struggled before exiting after five innings.

It was the fourth that got him, even if it wasn’t quite his fault. Josh Bell lead off the inning with a sharp grounder right down the line at first. The ball was so down the line, in fact, that it hit the bag, popped 15 (or 20? ) feet in the air over Josh Naylor’s head, and landed in right field for a single. Kody Clemens followed with what looked like a double play ball, but Cole Young forgot that he’s a good defender now, and dropped the ball on the transfer, putting runners on first and second. Gilbert later walked Luke Keaschall to load the bases. After battling to get two outs, Gilbert got Royce Lewis to hit a sharp grounder to Leo Rivas at third base, who raced to the bag and got the lead runner with a dive.

Gilbert got into more trouble in the fifth, this time on his own. Byron Buxton stepped to the plate to lead off the inning. Gilbert threw him a first-pitch fastball up — a pretty decent pitch — but Buxton seemed to be sitting on it and yanked it to left for a solo homer. It was somewhat amusing that ROOT was in the middle of presenting a graphic showing Buxton as the top home run hitting center fielder in the majors. “Did we do that?” Aaron Goldsmith asked, following a brief silence as the ball flew through the air.

The very next pitch, Gilbert hung a changeup middle-middle to Trevor Larnach, who launched it off the top of the high wall in right field for a double. Gilbert would eventually escape the inning with the game still 1-0, but by the time he did, the pitch count read 93 and his day was done.

Again, it was the standard five-and-dive outing that has been the standard for Gilbert throughout his career. (For a refresher, Zach Mason dug into this over the offseason). Outings like Tuesdays technically make him a top 25 starting pitcher in the majors, and they often help the Mariners win, but that in-game longevity continues to stand in the way of reaching the next level.

Still, Gilbert did his job, got the ball to the bullpen with just one run on the board, and the lineup eventually found some runs. The Mariners go for their first back-to-back series wins of 2026 on Wednesday at 10:40 a.m.

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The Brewers’ offense is still weathering the storm as they wait for some of their top batters to return from the injured list. On Tuesday night, they didn’t need their power hitters, as a barrage of singles and walks gave them a decisive 13-2 win over the Diamondbacks.

Chad Patrick started the game for the Brewers with a scoreless first inning, working around a leadoff work as he struck out two. Meanwhile, the Brewers put the pressure on Merrill Kelly right away. Garrett Mitchell led off for the Brewers with a leadoff walk. He tried to get the Brewers into scoring position right away, but was caught stealing second for the first out. That ended up being a big out after William Contreras drew a walk and Brice Turang singled. Tyler Black moved them both up with a groundout, then Kelly walked Jake Bauers. The strategy worked as Kelly struck out Brandon Lockridge to end the inning.

At the start of the second inning, there was a scary moment for Patrick. He was having trouble seeing and needed assistance on the field. He remained in the game and retired the side in order, partially thanks to a double play that erased a leadoff walk. After the game, Patrick talked about how he couldn’t see for 15-20 seconds and what he was feeling.

Back on offense, the Brewers gave Patrick some run support. The first run came from Sal Frelick, who hit a leadoff home run into the Diamondbacks’ bullpen for a 1-0 lead. It was the Brewers’ first home run since April 18th against Miami, and just their second home run in the last 14 days.

Both starters traded scoreless third innings, and Patrick added a scoreless fourth as well. As for the Brewers, they added on in the fourth. Back-to-back walks from Lockridge and Frelick gave the Brewers two baserunners, and David Hamilton moved them up on a groundout. Joey Ortiz brought them in with a single into shallow center field, scoring both. Ortiz would end up getting caught stealing second — catcher James McCann’s second caught stealing of the night —but the Brewers increased their lead to 3-0.

Patrick entered the fifth inning with a modest no-hit bid going, but he struggled hard in the inning. He walked the first three batters he saw that inning. The Diamondbacks were threatening as Alek Thomas hit a hard line drive between first and second, but Turang was positioned in the right spot and made a jump to rob Thomas of a hit.

It ended up only delaying the Diamondbacks by a batter, though. The next batter, McCann, hit a ground ball between second and third and into left field. That scored two runs and closed the gap to 3-2. A sacrifice bunt from Ildemaro Vargas moved runners up to second and third, but Patrick got a ground ball from Ketel Marte to escape the inning.

Patrick finished his night with five innings pitched and two runs allowed. He allowed just the one hit, but it was a two-run RBI single that momentarily got the Diamondbacks back in the game. While he did strike out five batters, he also walked five. Of his 98 pitches, he threw 60 for strikes.

That stumble in the fifth wouldn’t deter the Brewers offense. Contreras and Turang hit a single and double with one out to put runners in scoring position again. This time, they would not be stranded as Black singled to center, scoring them both and giving the Brewers their three-run lead back.

The Brewers were not done. In the sixth, the Diamondbacks went into their bullpen and brought in Andrew Hoffman. The Brewers pecked away at him. Here’s a rundown of what the Brewers did against Hoffman:

• Frelick single
• Hamilton single
• Ortiz single
• Mitchell RBI single (6-2)
• Contreras two-RBI single (8-2)
• Turang walk
• Black broken-bat bloop RBI single (9-2)
• Bauers two-RBI single (11-2)
• Lockridge pop out
• Frelick reaches on catcher’s interference (challenged and upheld)
• Hamilton ground-rule double (13-2)

Hoffman threw 38 pitches and only recorded one out in his appearance. After Hamilton’s ground-rule double — which likely clears the bases if it stays in play — the Diamondbacks brought in Ryan Thompson to finish the inning. He quieted the Brewers’ bats with a strikeout of Ortiz and pop out from Mitchell to end the inning.

From there, the Brewers brought in the reserves and filed this one away quietly. After a clean sixth for Shane Drohan, Jake Woodford recorded a three-inning save to finish out the game. Drohan had a strikeout, while Woodford allowed just two hits and struck out two.

The Brewers recorded 15 hits as a team, their second-most in the season. With their six walks, their 21 baserunners is also their second-most as a team this season. Black led the offense with a three-hit day. Contreras, Turang, Frelick, Hamilton, and Ortiz all had two-hit days. Lockridge was the only starter that did not record a hit, but still reached base once with a walk. As a team, the Brewers went 8-for-15 with runners in scoring position. Of their fifteen hits, just three went for extra bases: Frelick’s home run and doubles from Turang and Hamilton.

Following that burst of offense, game two of the series will take place tomorrow evening. Brandon Sproat gets the start against Eduardo Rodriguez of the Diamondbacks. First pitch is at 6:40 p.m.

Davis Martin and the White Sox (13-17) picked up a sound win over the Los Angeles (12-19), earning Martin his fourth win of the season and the team finally taking a series win at home. The bullpen was nearly spotless, the offense mashed two home runs off one of the game’s best pitchers, and Drew Romo had himself a night with his first two career homers — one from each side of the plate.

Prior to tonight’s game, righthander José Soriano had only given up one run in his six starts (37 2/3 innings), and the Chicago White Sox did what seemingly no other team could do: score more than one tally against him. In fact, the Good Guys scored three onsixhits, two of which were home runs — a solo shot from Colson Montgomery and a two-run bomb from Romo, this one from the left side.

Soriano came into Tuesday’s game, surrendering just one extra-base hit (a double), and left with two South Side deep balls to sour his start. He tossed a clean first inning, but Montgomery clearly didn’t care about the Cy Young hype, as Colson smoked one over the right field fence in the bottom of the second to give the White Sox a one-run lead, and hand Soriano his second earned run of the season.

For the White Sox, Martin was his usual self: consistent and efficient. Tonight, he was more effective than the best pitcher in baseball, allowing one run on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings, walking one batter to maintain his low walk rate, and striking out seven. The one run that the Angels scored off of Martin came in the top of the fourth after Nolan Schanuel ripped a one-out double to put himself into scoring position, and was subsequently driven in on a single from Jo Adell to tie the game up at one.

Thankfully, Martin would be back on the hook for the win as the Good Guys stole the lead back in the bottom of the fourth when Romo smashed a two-run, line-drive bomb out to right for the first home run of his major league career, 3-1. Soriano left after the fifth inning and ultimately took the loss. His ERA is still sitting below 1.00, but it shot up to 0.84 after beginning the game at 0.24. Sure, the Sox might not be good this season, but they just might be that thorn in teams’ sides with their recent offensive trends.

This game was officially trademarked as the Drew Romo Game when the switch-hitting catcher launched his second homer of the night on his next at-bat, this time from the right side of the plate, making it 4-1. As Steve Stone and John Schriffen called out on the broadcast, he is the first catcher in White Sox history to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in the same game.

Davis came back out for the sixth and got through the first two outs before giving up a base hit and ending his day there at 98 pitches, leaving it in the South Side bullpen’s inconsistent hands. Thankfully, as a whole, they were solid, and outside of one run given up in the eighth, the Angels mustered just two hits against the White Sox arm barn, who combined for six strikeouts.

For 1 1/3 innings following Martin, lefthander Sean Newcomb earned the hold and racked up three Ks while allowing just two base runners: a base hit and a walk. Things got dicey for the eighth solely because Jordan Leasure came in to pitch, and if you’re like me and over the Leasure Experiment, you already anticipated the home run that he gave up tonight to Josh Lowe. The good news is that it was just a solo homer, so the South Siders still had a three-run lead.

The bad news is that in seven of 13 appearances this season, he has given up at least one run, and four of the last five of his outings have been full of chaos, with seven runs allowed in 3 1/3 innings. On top of that, he ranks sixth-worst in all of baseball with 3.00 home runs allowed per nine innings (HR/9), but Leasure was able to clean up his own mess this time after forcing a ground out and two strikeouts to get out of the inning before anything got out of hand.

Ranking just six slots below Leasure in HR/9 is righthander Seranthony Domínguez, who came out to close the ninth inning and earned the save while securing the win for Davis Martin. Recently, Domínguez’s outings have had a similar feel to Leasure’s, but much more spotty. At least tonight, we got the elite version of Seranthony for his seventh save of the season, forcing a double play to end the inning while confirming the series win for the Good Guys a day early.

Now 6-4 in their last 10, the White Sox have actually been hanging in games and have players that are exciting to watch and easy to root for. Despite a 1-for-5 night with four strikeouts, Munetaka Murakami has still been something special, while 24-year-old Colson Montgomery continues to flash his power with a homer in five of his last 10 games.

In a wild turn of events, as of the Sox game ending, every team in the AL Central has lost or is losing, with the Guardians, Twins, and Tigers all dropping their matches Tuesday, and the Royals losing to the Athletics in the fifth inning. Might the Good Guys pick up a game on the entire division? This can’t be the same team that The Athletic ranked as the worst in the entire league, can it?

Erick Fedde will take the mound in the series finale tomorrow, making his fourth start of the season. It’s a bit of an earlier start on Wednesday, with first pitch taking place at 12:10 p.m. CT before the Sox head back out to the West Coast.

The 15-15 Guardians hosted the Rays last evening, and they took things very easy on their guests.

Tanner Bibee was on the top of his game, but broke one of the Guardians Pitching Commandments when he allowed one (1) single run. Big mistake; that’ll drop you to 0-4, sir. Perfect game or bust.

On the offensive side, Travis Bazzana debuted and walked twice. There are no other nice things to say. We don’t have to watch Juan Brito for a little while. Does that count?

Around baseball

• The Tigers also lost and lead the vision at 15-15

• The Chicago White Sox are 2 games out of first place. Yes, you read that correctly. Yes, they are 13-17.

• Preston Mattingly is the GM of the Phillies; his father is now manager of the Phillies. Rob Thomson was fired yesterday, and the recently available Alex Cora obviously turned down the job since he is getting paid a fortune to not manage.

• Jon India’s season is over.

• We have some #DougNews.

Heading into Tuesday's game against the Washington Nationals, the Mets had scored five runs in an inning just twice all season. And both of those times came before the team's 12-game losing streak, in which the offense disappeared. 

Following their disappointing sweep to the Colorado Rockies over the weekend, it was time for the team to find a way to score and get a win in a big way. Bo Bichette stepped up and got it going early with a leadoff home run, but no one else was able to follow with a hit. That is, until the fourth inning.

That's when New York was finally able to flip the switch, breaking out for seven runs in the fourth for their biggest inning of the season. Two runs scored on a hard hit grounder by Marcus Semien that got by Jorbit Vivas (and was ruled an error), another two on Carson Benge's single, one more on Bichette's sac-fly, and then Juan Soto delivered the blow with a two-run home run. 

The Mets held on to the 8-0 win as the scoring outburst was exactly what they needed amid their rough stretch. After the game, Soto said he hopes the huge fourth inning will serve as a confidence boost for the team going forward.

"Win a game, actually," Soto said. "Just give a little confidence to the lineup and remember what we are capable of."

Starting pitcher Clay Holmes agreed, saying it was nice to see the offense have that type of inning after all they've been through.

"It's huge," Holmes said. "I think, it's hard to not in those times when it feels like everything's not going your way, to just have something go your way. When you feel that, you know it's a matter of time and it's nice to see. 

"A lot of confidence in those guys. To see that type of inning and know that it's there, it's just fun to be a part of."

Soto didn't think the team felt a sense of relief after Vivas' error allowed them to score, but instead helped them turn it on and take advantage, even if they got a little bit of luck. He added that it was "cool to see" everyone stringing good at-bats together and appreciated everyone's effort.

"No, not relief," Soto said. "Things got to come together to come through. After the error, we just capitalized... Sometimes you just need a lucky rock in the middle of the field and it gets you going."

While the team will look to keep the momentum going on Wednesday, Holmes acknowledged the team's position (10-19) and discussed how performances like Tuesday's win can help them slowly begin to turn the season around.

"I think it'd be crazy to say you don't really know the situation as a player," Holmes said. "You know we haven't been playing well. You know the expectations here in New York. You're aware of it. Sometimes, the hard part is trying to do too much in situations of pressing and maybe trying to do things you don't need to.

"It's really just, you got to have a relaxed focus of who you are and what you can do and show up every day and do it. If you try to climb out of a hole in one day, it rarely ever works. So I think just in the setting, you're aware where you're at, but it should focus you in on who you are and what you need to do to help the team win.