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White Sox at Rays prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for July 22

Its Tuesday, July 22 and the White Sox (36-65) look to extend their winning streak to a season-high five games tonight in Tampa against the Rays (52-49).

Davis Martin is slated to take the mound for Chicago against Drew Rasmussen for Tampa Bay.

The Sox jumped on Shane Baz early scoring three in the second inning and three more in the third. Brooks Baldwin went yard in the second to start the fireworks. Six pitchers limited the Rays to five hits on the night as Chicago equaled their season-high with a fourth consecutive win.

Lets dive into Game 2 of the series and find a sweat or two.

We’ve got all the info and analysis you need to know ahead of the game, including the latest info on the how to catch tipoff, odds, recent team performance, player stats, and of course, our predictions, picks & best bets for the game from our modeling tools and staff of experts.

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Game details & how to watch White Sox at Rays

  • Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2025
  • Time: 7:35PM EST
  • Site: George M. Steinbrenner Field
  • City: Tampa, FL
  • Network/Streaming: CHSN, FDSNSUN

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Odds for the White Sox at the Rays

The latest odds as of Tuesday:

  • Moneyline: White Sox (+188), Rays (-228)
  • Spread:  Rays -1.5
  • Total: 8.0 runs

Probable starting pitchers for White Sox at Rays

  • Pitching matchup for July 22, 2025: Davis Martin vs. Drew Rasmussen
    • White Sox: Davis Martin (2-7, 3.79 ERA)
      Last outing: June 12 at Houston - 6IP, 4ER, 7H, 2BB, 5Ks
    • Rays: Drew Rasmussen (7-5, 2.86 ERA)
      Last outing: July 11 at Boston - 2IP, 1ER, 3H, 1BB, 1K

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Top betting trends & insights to know ahead of White Sox at Rays

  • The Rays have won 26 of 49 games following a defeat
  • The Under is 33-27-2 in the White Sox's games against American League teams this season
  • The White Sox have covered in 4 of their last 5 road games and they are profiting 1.63 units in those 5
  • Miguel Vargas has homered in back-to-back games and is now 5-13 over his last 3 games
  • Andrew Benintendi has at least 1 hit in 4 of his last 5 games (8-18) including 1 HR and 3 RBI

If you’re looking for more key trends and stats around the spread, moneyline and total for every single game on the schedule today, check out our MLB Top Trends tool on NBC Sports!

Expert picks & predictions for tonight’s game between the White Sox and the Rays

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Our model calculates projections around each moneyline, spread and over/under bet for every game on the MLB calendar based on data points like past performance, player matchups, ballpark information and weather forecasts.

Once the model is finished running, we put its projection next to the latest betting lines for the game to arrive at a relative confidence level for each wager.

Here are the best bets our model is projecting for Tuesday's game between the White Sox and the Rays:

  • Moneyline: NBC Sports Bet is recommending a play on the Tampa Bay Rays on the Moneyline.
  • Spread: NBC Sports Bet is leaning towards a play ATS on the Chicago White Sox at +1.5.
  • Total: NBC Sports Bet is leaning towards a play on the over on the Game Total of 8.0.

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Canadiens’ Broadcast Ranked 10th In The League By The Athletic

The Athletic published its ranking of the various NHL broadcasts on Monday, as voted by fans. Team’s fans were asked to rate their favourite team’s broadcast on a scale from one to five and to vote on as many national broadcasts as they wanted. Then, the values were computed, and the rankings were born.

The Boston Bruins come in last at number 32, with the Pittsburgh Penguins coming in at 31, and the Toronto Maple Leafs wrapping up the bottom three. At the other end of the spectrum, the Detroit Red Wings took first place, followed by the Seattle Kraken and the Utah Mammoth. As for the Montreal Canadiens, they came in at number 10.

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As can be expected, the Canadiens are a unique market in this regard, as they offer both French and English broadcasts, which are further split into National and Local games.

In English, TSN provides local coverage, while Sportsnet offers national coverage. In French, TVA Sports receives the national broadcast, while RDS receives the local one. RDS’ duo of Pierre Houde to run the play-by-play and Marc Denis provides the colour commentary.

For years, French-speaking fans have said that the Houde-Denis duo is the best in the business, and they voted accordingly. It seems to be a valid opinion since Houde was honored with the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame this past season.

In his first post-induction game, Houde was celebrated in the Jacques Beauchamp media room with presents and speeches from Chantal Machabee, who was one of his colleagues for years, and France Margaret Belander. He was given a number 50 jersey (representing the number of years in the field), autographed by the players, an autographed Guy Lafleur Gin bottle, and scotch glasses.

Members of the media were also all given a special Molson Beer featuring the play-by-play experts. The unanimous praise for their broadcast boosted the Canadiens' ratings here.

Photo credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images

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Frondell & Eklund Withdraw From World Junior Summer Showcase; 16 Drafted Players Still On Swedish Roster

Anton Frondell and Victor Eklund will not play for Sweden at the upcoming World Junior Summer Showcase, the Swedish Ice Hockey Association tweeted on Monday.

According to HockeyNews.se, both players have a busy summer with NHL development camps and Djurgården’s professional summer training camp. The pair of 18-year-olds were part of the team that helped Djurgården ascend from the second-tier HockeyAllsvenskan to the top-tier SHL, and the move up is seen as a big step in their development.

Frondell was drafted third overall by the Chicago Blackhawks and Eklund went 16th to the New York Islanders. Both have already signed entry-level NHL contracts and both have been loaned back to Djurgården for the upcoming season.

That leaves 16 drafted players on the 25-man roster – scroll down for the complete list.

Report: Anton Frondell Will Sign With Blackhawks This Week; Won’t Attend Training CampReport: Anton Frondell Will Sign With Blackhawks This Week; Won’t Attend Training Camp Swedish center Anton Frondell will sign an entry-level contract this upcoming week with the Chicago Blackhawks, the team that took him third overall at this year’s NHL Entry Draft, according to Swedish journalist Gunnar Nordström.

The roster includes a pair of 17-year-olds who are consensus top-10 picks in the 2026 NHL Entry Draft: Ivar Stenberg, a late-2007-born player, and 2008-born Viggo Björck. Due to his birth year, Björck is still U-18 eligible but his inclusion on this roster likely means he will not play for Sweden at this year’s Hlinka Gretzky Cup. That would be consistent with how the Swedes have prioritized the U-20 Showcase over the U-18 summer tournament in the past.

The World Junior Summer Showcase runs from July 27 to Aug. 2 in Minneapolis, Minn. It features the junior national teams of Sweden and Finland and two teams each of Canadian and U.S. players. It is generally used as an evaluation tournament for the IIHF World Junior Championship, which this year will also be in the state of Minnesota from Dec. 26, 2025, to Jan. 5, 2026.

Islanders Sign Victor Eklund But He’s Probably Returning To Sweden TooIslanders Sign Victor Eklund But He’s Probably Returning To Sweden Too Swedish winger Victor Eklund, 18, has signed a three-year entry-level contract with the New York Islanders, the team that drafted him 16th overall at the recent NHL Entry Draft, the club announced on Monday.

Goaltenders: Herman Liv, Örebro HK; Carl Axelsson, Sioux Falls Stampede USHL; Love Härenstam, Skellefteå AIK – St. Louis Blues.

Defensemen: Felix Öhrqvist, Linköping HC; Leo Sahlin Wallenius, Växjö Lakers – San Jose Sharks; Sascha Boumedienne, Boston University NCAA – Winnipeg Jets; Victor Johansson, Leksands IF – Toronto Maple Leafs; Alfons Freij, IF Björklöven – Winnipeg Jets; Carl-Otto Magnusson, Frölunda HC; Viggo Gustafsson, HV71 – Nashville Predators; Gabriel Eliasson, Barrie Colts OHL – Ottawa Senators.

Forwards: Lucas Pettersson, MoDo Hockey – Anaheim Ducks; Melvin Fernström, Örebro HK – Pittsburgh Penguins; Linus Eriksson, Timrå IK – Florida Panthers; Ivar Stenberg, Frölunda HC; Viggo Nordlund, Skellefteå AIK – Carolina Hurricanes; Eric Nilson, Djurgårdens IF – Anaheim Ducks; Jack Berglund, Färjestad BK – Philadelphia Flyers; Wilson Björck, Djurgårdens IF – Vancouver Canucks; Valter Lindberg, Skellefteå AIK; Liam Danielsson, Örebro HK; Alexander Zetterberg, Minnesota State University NCAA; Viggo Björck, Djurgårdens IF; Filip Ekberg, Ottawa 67’s OHL – Carolina Hurricanes; Eddie Genborg, Linköping HC – Detroit Red Wings.

Photo © David Reginek-Imagn Images: Coach Magnus Hävelid oversees the Swedish bench at last year's World Junior Summer Showcase.

Helenius & Hemming Highlight Finnish U-20 Roster In Home TournamentHelenius & Hemming Highlight Finnish U-20 Roster In Home Tournament Ahead of next week’s World Junior Summer Challenge in Minnesota, a series of games involving four U-20 teams is taking place in Vierumäki, Finland on Sunday and Monday. Two teams from Finland – essentially an A-team and a B-team – will host the Czech and Swiss national junior teams once each.
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Tour de France 2025: Valentin Paret-Peintre conquers Mont Ventoux to win stage 16 – as it happened

The first French stage win of Le Tour came on the legendary peak as Tadej Pogacar stayed in full race control

165km to go: Lenny Martinez is up the front, and will fancy another breakaway to land his polka points. The breaks aren’t snagging just yet. Montpellier is left behind as the Med coast appears in view. It looks ridiculously beautiful.

Huw Morgan gets in touch: “Work web filtering means I’m on the live updates only. My colleague Libby has wisely chosen to WFH so she can watch it. I’m not so lucky with a board meeting to attend at 3pm. I’ve been following cycling for 3 years now and I’ve never seen a stage like this. Flat, flat, flat, BANG. Absolutely buzzing to watch it with my wife when I get home from work! We’re Pogacar super fans but hoping for a real tussle on Ventoux with Pog losing some time.”

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Phillies claim another wild, walk-off win on catcher's interference with bases loaded in 10th

PHILADELPHIA — Edmundo Sosa’s teammates on the Philadelphia Phillies mobbed him beyond first base after a 3-2, walk-off win over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.

In the moment, it didn’t matter to him that he’d gotten there thanks to a call of catcher’s interference.

“To be honest, this feels exactly like a home run,” Sosa said through a translator. “The most important thing about it is that we end up winning the game, and that’s what we went out to do.”

Sosa won the game when, with the bases loaded and no out in the 10th inning, his check swing on a 2-2 pitch struck the glove of catcher Carlos Narvaez. The Phillies dugout called for a review, which showed the contact, allowing Sosa to take first and automatic runner Brandon Marsh to score the winning run.

“I felt my barrel was a little late on the pitch,” said Sosa, who entered as a pinch-hitter in the eighth and singled. “And as I go through my swing path, I feel like I hit the catcher’s glove. And I told the ump that I think I felt something, and I started signaling in the dugout.”

It’s the first instance of a walk-off catcher’s interference in a major league game since Aug. 1, 1971, when the Los Angeles Dodgers won on a call against Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench. Willie Crawford was the batter, Joe Gibbon the pitcher.

The play went down as an error for Narvaez, his sixth of the season, second-most among catchers in the majors. Narvaez also had a passed ball, his fifth, in the fourth inning that moved Nick Castellanos into scoring position after he drove in the Phillies’ first run. Castellanos scored on J.T. Realmuto’s single.

“I don’t feel I was that close to the hitter,” Narvaez said. “Everything went so quick. Really tough for that to happen in that moment to cost us the game. I take accountability. I’ve got to be better. That cannot happen.”

It’s the Phillies’ third walk-off win of the season. The first, against Washington on April 29, came on a wild pitch that allowed Bryson Stott to score. A walk-off on June 6 over the Chicago Cubs came via a Marsh single in the 11th.

The Phillies lost a game in San Francisco on July 8 when Patrick Bailey hit a three-run, walk-off, inside-the-park home run.

“There’s two things this year that I’ve never seen before in 40 years,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. “One is a walk-off inside-the-park home run, and one is a walk-off catcher’s interference.”

The Phillies won without putting a ball in play in the 10th. Marsh started the inning at second base. Otto Kemp, trying to bunt him to third, was walked by Boston reliever Jordan Hicks.

Hicks’ first delivery to Max Kepler was a wild pitch that moved the runners to second and third. The Red Sox intentionally walked Kepler. Sosa went down 0-2, fouled a pitch off, then offered at an 86 mph slider, hitting only the thumb of Narvaez’s glove to decide the game.

“It’s strange,” Phillies starting pitcher Zack Wheeler said. “People always say, I’ve never seen that before on a baseball field. It’s just another one. I’m wondering how many more times you can say that.”

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Giants option Hayden Birdsong to Triple-A, recall Carson Seymour, Sean Hjelle

Giants option Hayden Birdsong to Triple-A, recall Carson Seymour, Sean Hjelle originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

The Giants finally decided it’s time for some fresh arms.

Hours removed from another rough outing in San Francisco’s 9-5 loss to the Atlanta Braves on Monday night, the team announced Tuesday morning that Hayden Birdsong was optioned to Triple-A Sacramento.

Birdsong threw just six strikes in his first 25 pitches in the opening inning, and he now has 17 walks in his last 13 innings. It was the first time in 37 career appearances that the young righty didn’t record an out.

Over his last seven starts, he has a whopping 8.13 ERA.

Additionally, Tristan Beck was optioned.

In corresponding moves, the Giants recalled Carson Seymour and Sean Hjelle from Triple-A Sacramento.

The Giants dropped their sixth consecutive game Monday night as they continue to seek their first win of the second half of the season.

Change was needed for San Francisco, and it hopes its latest roster moves can provide a spark for at least the second and third games of the series against Atlanta.

After that, Buster Posey and Co. might have to think longer term.

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Dodgers' reliever Tanner Scott exits game with arm pain, MRI scheduled

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott left the game in the ninth inning Monday night after feeling pain in his left pitching arm.

It occurred when Scott was pitching to Minnesota’s Ryan Jeffers with one out.

“He said it felt like a sting,” manager Dave Roberts said, adding that an X-ray and manual testing didn't reveal any issues. Scott will have an MRI on Tuesday.

However, Roberts said it's likely Scott will need to go on the injured list.

“Hopefully it’s something that’s more of a scare and then we can kind of put him on ice for a little bit and get him back,” he said.

Scott is 1-2 with a 4.14 ERA and a team-leading 19 saves this season. He gave up a run and walked two on 22 pitches in two-thirds of an inning before leaving the game.

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Would Ben Simmons actually make sense for Celtics? Forsberg and Robb debate

Would Ben Simmons actually make sense for Celtics? Forsberg and Robb debate originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

Want to get a rise out of Boston Celtics fans? Just mention the name Ben Simmons.

The former Philadelphia 76ers star and NBA Rookie of the Year battled the Celtics for four season as part of the Celtics-Sixers rivalry. But he’s fallen off a cliff since then while dealing with physical and mental health issues and currently is a free agent after finishing the 2024-25 season with the Los Angeles Clippers.

Sounds like someone the Celtics would want no business with, right? Well, apparently not: According to longtime NBA reporter Marc Stein, Boston is among the teams with interest in Simmons in free agency.

While C’s fans may balk at the idea of signing a player who scored four total points in five playoff games for the Clippers and literally can’t shoot 3-pointers, Simmons’ size (6-foot-10, 240 pounds) and unique skill set as a passer, defender and rebounder at least warrant some further discussion.

So, Celtics Insider Chris Forsberg and MassLive.com’s Brian Robb decided to dive into the Simmons debate on the latest episode of the Celtics Talk Podcast.

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“I think you look at it two different ways,” Robb told Forsberg. “One, you look at what they’ve done this offseason of being like ‘OK, we need to find the next diamond in the rough. We got (Luka) Garza. We got (Josh) Minott. (Hugo) Gonzalez had a solid Summer League. But there’s still just a big void for where (Jayson) Tatum’s minutes would have been this year.’

“And Simmons does a lot — obviously doesn’t do anything nearly as well as Tatum does — but (he) does some of it. He at least has size and can rebound and can pass.”

To Robb’s point, the Celtics are entering a “reset” season with Tatum sidelined due to a ruptured Achilles. And while Simmons is a virtual non-factor in the scoring column, he did average 4.7 rebounds and 5.6 assists per game last season in relatively limited minutes (22 per game) and would provide some defensive versatility.

So, while Simmons wouldn’t be an ideal fit for several reasons — he’s extremely injury-prone and hasn’t played more than 51 games in a season since 2020-21 — Boston needs to explore all of its options while trying to build a roster on a limited budget.

“Every time I just want to dismiss it and be like, ‘This makes no sense,’ the other part of me says, ‘This is why the Celtics have to take random swings,'” Forsberg said. “This is why you make the call on Damian Lillard. This is why you maybe make the call on Ben Simmons. Beggars can’t be choosers.

“It goes back to what I keep saying: If you think that the Celtics are still at least in the mix with Jaylen Brown, Derrick White and Payton Pritchard in that core … then every piece you can add gives you at least a little bit better chance.

 “… I don’t hate the idea of trying to find a couple of those guys that you’re just like, ‘Hey, there’s opportunity. Do you want it?'”

The question, of course, is whether Simmons would seize that opportunity after failing to stick with both Brooklyn and Los Angeles — and whether the Celtics are better off giving that opportunity to someone else.

“I just don’t know if you’re ever going to fully tap into it,” Forsberg added of Simmons. “I think the one thing that you always worry about is just, how much is his head into it? It just hasn’t happened at any of these stops.

“But you see this across the league: Everyone thinks they can turn the guy around a little bit, and maybe the Celtics are just like, ‘In a year that’s going to get a little weird, maybe you take some weird swings.”

Also in this episode:

  • Chris and Brian react to Marcus Smart signing with the Lakers.
  • Brian shares his Summer League overreactions, including: Baylor Scheierman’s defense and ball-handling and Hugo Gonzalez’s all-around effort.
  • When does the next shoe drop for Boston?
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The Breakdown | If Lions complete Australia rout, clamour for tour of France will grow

It may open the Lions to accusations of parochialism, but there is a compelling case for staying in Europe

It may be too early to start asking existential questions about the British & Irish Lions but, sitting in Melbourne’s Southbank, slap bang in the middle of Aussie rules territory, where union makes barely a ripple, you begin to wonder. The sea of red will roll in at the weekend but, for now, Melbourne is pretty much oblivious. “Some kind of carnival on I think,” was one taxi driver’s assessment.

None of this is to criticise Australia. It is a wonderful country, sports mad and as the loosehead prop James Slipper says of the locals: “They’re still Australian, so they’ll be there. I know they’ll be there. It’s one thing about this country, regardless of the sport, they’ll get behind the national colours.”

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Shohei Ohtani and Will Smith help restore some life to Dodgers' offense in win

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani throws against the Minnesota Twins.
Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani delivers against the Minnesota Twins during the third inning of the Dodgers' 5-2 win on Monday night. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Associated Press)

It was quality over quantity for the Dodgers on Monday night. A bunch of empty at-bats, salvaged by a few emphatic drives that left the ballpark.

In six innings against struggling Minnesota Twins starter David Festa, the Dodgers’ slumping offense managed only four hits — doing little to quell the offensive concerns that have mounted during a puzzling month of poor all-around production.

Three of the knocks, however, went over the fence, with a two-run blast from Shohei Ohtani in the first inning and a pair of solo homers from Will Smith in the fourth and sixth lifting the team to a 5-2 win at Dodger Stadium.

Read more:From a day off to the leadoff spot, Dodgers try unraveling mystery of Mookie Betts' slump

A course correction, this was not for the Dodgers’ supposed powerhouse offense.

Entering the night, the team had the third-lowest team batting average in the majors this month. As even president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman acknowledged during pregame batting practice, “we've had more than half of our lineup really scuffle” for the last six weeks running.

“The offense scuffling the way it has,” Friedman added, “was something that I didn’t expect over this kind of protracted period of time.”

On Monday, though, the Dodgers did rectify at least one issue plaguing their recent offensive struggles. After hitting only 19 total home runs in their first 15 games in July, they went deep four times against the Twins (48-52), with Andy Pages adding an insurance shot in the seventh inning against reliever Cole Sands. It marked only the fifth time this season they hit at least four homers in a single contest.

Ohtani provided the night’s first big swing, immediately erasing the leadoff blast he gave up to Byron Buxton in the top of the first while making his sixth pitching start of the season.

In his second game occupying the second spot in the batting order, the two-way star wasn’t forced to rush between the mound and the plate (something manager Dave Roberts hoped would be a side benefit of replacing him with Mookie Betts as the team’s leadoff hitter). He was able to go through his normal routine of on-deck swings while watching Betts draw a five-pitch walk.

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Then, for the first time in his six games as a pitcher this season, Ohtani not only got a hit, but clobbered a hanging changeup in a 2-and-1 count, launching his 35th home run of the season 441 feet to straightaway center.

From there, the Dodgers (59-42) kept playing long ball.

Festa, a second-year right-hander who entered the night with a 5.25 earned-run average, retired the next nine batters he faced before Smith came up to lead off the fourth.

Festa got ahead 1-and-2 in the count, before throwing a changeup that Smith fought off and missing wide with a slider. Festa’s next pitch was a fastball left over middle. Smith, the one Dodgers hitter who has been swinging a hot bat of late, didn’t miss it, going the other way to make the score 3-1.

Festa was still in the game when Smith came back up in the sixth. Once again, the pitcher made a mistake, hanging a slider over the heart of the plate. Once again, Smith was all over it, sending a souvenir into the left-field pavilion for his 14th home run, and first multi-homer game since last July.

Will Smith hits his second solo home run of the game in the sixth inning for the Dodgers against the Twins.
Will Smith hits his second solo home run of the game in the sixth inning for the Dodgers against the Twins on Monday night. (Jayne Kamin-Oncea / Associated Press)

With the two blasts, Smith raised his National League-leading batting average to .327. Since the start of July, he is 15 for 40 with a 1.163 OPS.

By the time Pages added to the lead in the seventh, whacking his 18th of the season deep to left, the game was already in hand.

Despite giving up plenty of hard contact and lacking the pinpoint command he’d flashed in his previous starts, Ohtani kept the Twins off the board over the rest of his three-inning outing, collecting three strikeouts over a season-high 46 pitches to finish the night with a 1.50 ERA.

After that, converted starter Dustin May followed with a productive bulk outing from the bullpen, scattering five hits over 4 ⅔ scoreless innings.

Read more:Pitching injuries continue to be an issue in MLB. How it's impacting pitchers at all levels

The Dodgers did not get out of Monday unscathed. In the top of the ninth, closer Tanner Scott left the game alongside a trainer after walking one batter, hitting another and then spiking a slider that left him grimacing.

As he left the field, he appeared to be flexing his left throwing arm — a potentially troubling sign for a Dodgers team that was already in need of bullpen reinforcements ahead of next week’s trade deadline.

But on Monday, at least, the team survived, with James Outman denying Carlos Correa a potential tying three-run homer off Scott’s replacement, Kirby Yates, with a leaping catch at the center-field wall for the night’s final out.

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Brandon Woodruff’s gem propels Brewers to 11th straight win, 6-0 over Mariners

SEATTLE (AP) — Brandon Woodruff tossed six innings of two-hit ball and the Milwaukee Brewers won their 11th straight, 6-0 over the Seattle Mariners on Monday night.

Woodruff (2-0) needed just 62 pitches to make it through his third start of the season, giving up two singles and walking none. The right-hander missed all of the 2024 season because of surgery on his pitching shoulder, and has been brought along slowly by the Brewers since his debut on July 6.

George Kirby dueled with Woodruff early, carrying a no-hitter into the sixth inning. But the Brewers tagged Kirby (4-5) for four runs in the sixth while sending eight men to the plate.

The Brewers scored twice in the eighth off Mariners left-hander Brandyn Garcia, who made his major league debut after being recalled from Triple-A Tacoma earlier in the day. Milwaukee (60-40) joined Detroit as the only teams to reach 60 wins so far this season.

Key moment

Joey Ortiz’s one-out single in the sixth broke up Kirby’s no-hit bid and started a huge rally for the Brewers. William Contreras drove home the game’s first run with a sacrifice fly, which was followed by RBI singles from Christian Yelich and Isaac Collins, and an RBI double by Jackson Chourio.

Key stat

The Brewers are two victories away from tying Minnesota for the longest win streak in the majors this season. The Twins won 13 straight from May 3-19.

Up next

Brewers All-Star rookie Jacob Misiorowski (4-1, 2.81) will start the second game of the series against the Mariners’ Logan Gilbert (2-3, 3.39).