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It's Wednesday, June 25 and the Nationals (33-47) are in San Diego to take on the Padres (43-36). MacKenzie Gore is slated to take the mound for Washington against Nick Pivetta for San Diego.

Jose Iglesias' ground-out led to Gavin Sheets' go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth. The Padres went on to win 4-3.

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Game details & how to watch Nationals at Padres

• Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Time: 4:10PM EST
• Site: Petco Park
• City: San Diego, CA
• Network/Streaming: Padres Television Network, MASN 2

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Odds for the Nationals at the Padres

The latest odds as of Wednesday:

• Moneyline: Nationals (+122), Padres (-146)
• Spread:  Padres -1.5
• Total: 8.0 runs

Probable starting pitchers for Nationals at Padres

• Pitching matchup for June 25, 2025: MacKenzie Gore vs. Nick Pivetta
  
  • Nationals: MacKenzie Gore, (3-7, 3.19 ERA)
    Last outing (MacKenzie Gore, 6/20): 5.2 Innings Pitched, 5 Earned Runs Allowed, 7 Hits Allowed, 4 Walks, and 4 Strikeouts
  • Padres: Nick Pivetta, (7-2, 3.64 ERA)
    Last outing (Kansas City, 6/20): 4.2 Innings Pitched, 4 Earned Runs Allowed, 6 Hits Allowed, 2 Walks, and 3 Strikeouts

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• The Padres have won 4 of their last 5 home games against teams with losing records
• The Under is 22-15-1 in the Padres' home games this season
• The Nationals have covered in 4 of their last 5 games showing a profit of 2.45 units

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MILWAUKEE — There’s going to be plenty of hard throwing in the first pitching matchup between Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes and Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski.

Just don’t expect too much hard contact.

Skenes, the 2024 NL rookie of the year, didn’t allow a hit the last time he pitched in Milwaukee. Misiorowski doesn’t have Skenes’ track record, but he has given up just one hit over 11 innings in his first two career starts.

The 23-year-old flamethrowing right-handers meet as opposing starters for the first time in Milwaukee.

“I think it’s going to be really entertaining to watch,” Misiorowski said. “Two really good prospects – I mean, he’s not a prospect anymore, I guess. Two guys that are at the top of their game right now. So I think it’s cool. It’s going to be fun.”

Statcast says Skenes has an average four-seam fastball velocity of 98.1 mph that ranks him behind only Cincinnati’s Hunter Greene (99.3) among starters who have thrown enough pitches to qualify. In his first two starts, Misiorowski had an average four-seam fastball velocity of 99.7 mph.

According to Sportradar, this would be the second-highest combined average velocities by two starters entering a game in which they faced each other since at least 2009. Jacob deGrom had an average fastball velocity of 99.7 and Spencer Strider’s was at 98.2 heading into an Aug. 7, 2022, matchup that deGrom’s New York Mets won 5-2 over Strider’s Atlanta Braves.

While Misiorowski and Skenes have similar velocities, Brewers manager Pat Murphy said it’s far too soon to start grouping them together.

“(Skenes is) one of the best in the game,” Murphy said. “Miz is in his third start. It’s unfair to compare them, for sure. Unfair to Skenes, you know what I mean? It should be exciting. Miz is going on four days rest for the first time.”

But this showcase should give Misiorowski a chance to measure himself against the game’s best.

Skenes indeed has long since graduated from prospect status to solidify himself as one of the game’s top pitchers. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 draft finished third in the NL Cy Young Award voting last year and has gone 15-9 with a 1.91 ERA and 276 strikeouts over 235 innings in his young career.

“It’s like everything just flows off his back,” Pirates manager Don Kelly said. “He never lets anything affect him too much, the way that he’s able to adjust and adapt not just start to start, from inning to inning, batter to batter, understanding his stuff, what’s working and what’s not.”

In his two previous appearances against the Brewers, Skenes has struck out 19 while allowing only four hits and one run over 13 innings. The last time he pitched at Milwaukee, Skenes pitched seven innings of no-hit ball before departing as the Pirates limited the Brewers to one total hit in a 1-0 victory last July.

Misiorowski has been equally effective in a significantly smaller sample size.

He made his major league debut June 12 and held St. Louis hitless for five innings before departing the Brewers’ 6-0 victory with cramping and his right calf and quadriceps. He threw 14 pitches at least 100 mph and reached a top speed of 102.2 that night.

Misiorowski came back and had a perfect game going until he walked Byron Buxton and allowed a homer to Matt Wallner in the seventh inning of a 17-6 triumph at Minnesota.

Both teams are eager to see what happens as Misiorowski gets to measure himself against one of the game’s most dominant pitchers in Skenes.

“Good luck to the hitters,” Brewers pitcher Brandon Woodruff said. “It’s 100 mph every pitch. It’s kind of crazy in terms of how the game has changed that way. It seems like everybody throws 100 now. It’s cool. It’s good for the game. It’s two young guys who are obviously really good.”

Although the two pitchers hadn’t met before the series, Misiorowski nearly preceded Skenes at LSU. Misiorowski committed to LSU, but decided to start his pro career after the Brewers selected him out of Crowder College in Neosho, Missouri, in the second round of the 2022 draft.

One year later, Skenes led LSU to a College World Series title in his lone season with the Tigers. Skenes transferred to LSU after spending two seasons at Air Force.

Now, they’re finally in a ballpark together, only as opponents rather than teammates.

“We know what Paul can do,” Kelly said. “I’m excited to see their guy out there. It’s going to be a good pitching matchup. Just really looking forward to that one.”

It's Wednesday, June 25 and the Mariners (41-37) are in Minneapolis to take on the Twins (37-42). George Kirby is slated to take the mound for Seattle against Joe Ryan for Minnesota.

The Mariners won a thrilling 6-5 game where despite there being 11 runs, there was only one home run in the game. Kody Clemens went 1-1 with a home run and had two runs.

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Game details & how to watch Mariners at Twins

• Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Time: 7:40PM EST
• Site: Target Field
• City: Minneapolis, MN
• Network/Streaming: Twins.TV, ROOTNW

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Odds for the Mariners at the Twins

The latest odds as of Wednesday:

• Moneyline: Mariners (+106), Twins (-126)
• Spread:  Twins -1.5
• Total: 8.0 runs

Probable starting pitchers for Mariners at Twins

• Pitching matchup for June 25, 2025: George Kirby vs. Joe Ryan
  
  • Mariners: George Kirby, (1-3, 6.16 ERA)
    Last outing (Chicago Cubs, 6/20): 5.0 Innings Pitched, 4 Earned Runs Allowed, 7 Hits Allowed, 1 Walks, and 3 Strikeouts
  • Twins: Joe Ryan, (7-3, 3.06 ERA)
    Last outing (Milwaukee Brewers, 6/20): 5.1 Innings Pitched, 3 Earned Runs Allowed, 3 Hits Allowed, 3 Walks, and 7 Strikeouts

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• The Mariners have won 3 straight games against the Twins
• Each of the Mariners' last 4 games at the Twins have gone over the Total
• The Twins have failed to cover the Run Line in 5 of their last 6 games

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Christian Moore made it to the big leagues less than 11 months after the Los Angeles Angels drafted him.

A mere 10 days after he got that call, Moore felt he truly arrived when he hit two clutch homers to beat the Red Sox.

Moore hit a tying solo homer in the eighth inning and a two-run shot in the 10th inning of the Angels’ 3-2 victory over Boston. The walk-off homer capped a remarkable moment for the energetic No. 8 overall pick who could be a fixture in the Halos’ lineup for years to come.

Moore’s new teammates celebrated his second blast by tearing the jersey off his back at home plate before dousing the Brooklyn native with two ice-cold coolers of sports drinks during his postgame interview.

“It means the world to me to be here in this situation,” said Moore, the Angels’ top prospect. “It’s a full, complete circle, obviously. The Angels saw something in me at last year’s draft, and they continue to see something in me, and I’m going to continue to go out there and try to win games.”

One year to the day after Moore’s Tennessee Volunteers won the College World Series, the second baseman had the biggest game of his promising professional career. The Angels already are sold on Moore’s ability to thrive in the majors.

“He’s going to be here for long time,” Angels shortstop Zach Neto said. “For him to be able to do that in the eighth inning with that swing, and have the confidence to be able to do it again in the 10th, just shows who he is. We drafted him for a reason, and he’s here for a reason.”

Moore’s big game didn’t start out superbly, with fellow ex-Vol Garrett Crochet striking him out twice. But Moore learned from the challenges of facing one of the majors’ best pitchers, and he came through with a pair of clutch homers off the Boston bullpen.

“Those were two really special (at-bats),” Angels acting manager Ray Montgomery said. “To do that here is really fun for him. ... He has that youthful sort of exuberance that’s refreshing, because there’s just so much energy.”

Moore first connected on a high fastball from Greg Weissert in the eighth, wiping out Boston’s 1-0 lead that Crochet nursed through seven innings.

After Marcelo Mayer led off the 10th with an RBI single for Boston, Moore ended it in the bottom half with a one-out homer off Justin Wilson.

The drive hit the elevated wall in right field at Angel Stadium just barely above the yellow line signifying a homer, and Moore thought he only had a triple until he was waved home.

“I didn’t believe it,” Moore said with a grin. “I was kind of scared to get off the base, but the umpire made it pretty serious that it was a home run, so I was like, ‘All right, I’m going to take your word for it and go celebrate with my boys. That’s cool with me.’”

The Angels aggressively have promoted their top prospects under general manager Perry Minasian, calling up Neto and first baseman Nolan Schanuel well before the industry norms. While Neto rounded into an elite player quickly, Schanuel needed a couple of years before he began contributing at an above-average level this season.

Los Angeles is hoping Moore can quickly master the challenges of the majors after just 305 at-bats in the minors. Moore figures this big game will provide a boost to his confidence and competitiveness.

“It was definitely huge,” Moore said. “If you look at (my offensive) numbers before today, it wasn’t too good. I think that’s just part of it, being young and trying to figure it out in this league. I think there’s just a lot of good arms. Facing Garrett Crochet, he’s definitely tough. I think it’s (the same) for a lot of guys that are young. We’re finding our way for sure, and we’re going to keep doing it.”

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shortstop Zach Neto will have tests on his surgically repaired right shoulder after he made an error and abruptly left the Los Angeles Angels’ game against the Boston Red Sox in the ninth inning.

Neto bobbled Romy Gonzalez’s grounder to short before firing his throw over the head of first baseman LaMonte Wade Jr. The Angels’ rising star quickly bent over in pain, and he left the game after consulting with the training staff.

After the Angels won 3-2 on Christian Moore’s 10th-inning homer, Neto said he jammed his right shoulder while sliding headfirst into second on a failed stolen base attempt in the eighth inning.

“I wasn’t feeling good (and) probably should have taken myself out of the game,” Neto said. “But being the competitor that I am, I wanted to try to gut it out. There’s a time and place to be a hero, and there’s a time and place to get out of the game, and that was probably the time to get out of the game. ... It’s feeling good (now). I mean, it’s not feeling great, but we’re going to see how I feel tomorrow morning, and hopefully I come feeling great.”

Neto believes he will have an MRI exam.

“When he made that throw, we just didn’t like the way it looked, so we took him out for cautionary (reasons),” Angels acting manager Ray Montgomery said. “We weren’t going to let him go back out there after that.”

Neto injured his right shoulder last September and underwent surgery that forced him to miss the first three weeks of the season. He has been one of the Angels’ best players for the second straight year, batting .278 with 12 homers, 29 RBIs and an .820 OPS.

“There’s always a concern with it being the shoulder I just had my surgery on, but I’m going to be hopeful,” Neto said.

Los Angeles closer Kenley Jansen escaped the jam created by Neto’s error, keeping the game tied 1-1. Marcelo Mayer drove in a run for Boston in the 10th, but Moore walked it off with his second homer in three innings.

It's Wednesday, June 25 and the Red Sox (40-41) are in Anaheim to take on the Angels (39-40). Richard Fitts is slated to take the mound for Boston against Yusei Kikuchi for Los Angeles.

The Angles have now taken down the first two games of the series with a 3-2 extra-innings win yesterday. Christian Moore's two-run home run in the bottom of the 10th sealed the victory for the Angels.

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Game details & how to watch Red Sox at Angels

• Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Time: 4:07PM EST
• Site: Angel Stadium
• City: Anaheim, CA
• Network/Streaming: FanDuel Sports Network West, NESN

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Odds for the Red Sox at the Angels

The latest odds as of Wednesday:

• Moneyline: Red Sox (+104), Angels (-124)
• Spread:  Angels -1.5
• Total: 9.0 runs

Probable starting pitchers for Red Sox at Angels

• Pitching matchup for June 25, 2025: Richard Fitts vs. Yusei Kikuchi
  
  • Red Sox: Richard Fitts, (0-3, 4.71 ERA)
    Last outing (Los Angeles Angels, 6/2): 1.0 Innings Pitched, 5 Earned Runs Allowed, 4 Hits Allowed, 1 Walks, and 0 Strikeouts
  • Angels: Yusei Kikuchi, (2-6, 3.01 ERA)
    Last outing (Houston Astros, 6/20): 7.0 Innings Pitched, 2 Earned Runs Allowed, 6 Hits Allowed, 0 Walks, and 9 Strikeouts

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• The Red Sox have won 4 of their last 5 series
• The Over is 12-8 in the Angels' last 10 home games and the Red Sox's last 10 on the road combined
• The Angels have covered the Run Line in 5 straight home games

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CINCINNATI — Yankees third baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected for the second time this season for arguing a called strike.

Chisholm was ejected before the bottom of the ninth inning of at 5-4, 11-inning loss to the Cincinnati Reds by plate umpire Mark Wegner after a pitch from Lyon Richardson that Chisholm thought was low in the zone on a 2-0 count was called a strike in the top half.

Chisholm struck out and continued arguing after leaving the batter’s box. Yankees captain Aaron Judge walked out together as Chisholm went to third base for the bottom of the ninth.

Chisholm was still talking — he said it was to himself. Wegner held a hand up, as if to say enough, then ejected Chisholm.

“I looked at him and I said, ‘Why are you looking at me?’ And that’s when I got tossed,” Chisholm said. “I didn’t get tossed for saying nothing crazy. I didn’t get tossed saying, ‘Oh, that was a bad pitch,’ I got tossed for saying, ‘Why are you looking at me?’ I don’t think that’s a good reason to toss anybody.”

Chisholm was ejected from the a 6-3 victory over Tampa Bay on April 17 for arguing a called third strike by John Bacon. The following day, Chisholm was suspended for one game and fined by Major League Baseball, which cited his conduct and violation of MLB’s social media policy when he posted in-game criticism online. The suspension was later dropped.

Chisholm said he needed to do a better job of controlling his emotions.

“That’s why I’m upset because I wasn’t talking to you (the umpire). I didn’t even have nothing to say to you because I know if I had something to say you I was going to get tossed,” he said.

Manager Aaron Boone came out to try and held Chisholm back from Wegner.

“Obviously Jazz didn’t like the 2-0 call, some words at home played within the at-bat, and then Jazz went out and says he wasn’t saying anything to Mark Wegner. And Mark was looking down at him and ends up running them. Not a great situation,” Boone said.

The ejection meant Oswald Peraza moved to third base and DJ LeMahieu came in to play second base.

The Yankees have dropped the first two games of the series against the Reds and lost for the ninth time in 12 games. New York (45-34) has seen its lead in the AL East over Tampa Bay cut to one game.

“We have to play better. We have a lot of winners in the clubhouse. You guys asked the same question last year. We have to figure it out,” Judge said.

It's Wednesday, June 25 and the Marlins (32-45) are in San Francisco to take on the Giants (44-35). Edward Cabrera is slated to take the mound for Miami against Logan Webb for San Francisco.

The Marlins picked up the win in the first game of the series making it back-to-back wins and three of their last four.

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• Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
• Time: 9:45PM EST
• Site: Oracle Park
• City: San Francisco, CA
• Network/Streaming: NBCS BA, FanDuel Sports Network Florida

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The latest odds as of Wednesday:

• Moneyline: Marlins (+183), Giants (-222)
• Spread:  Giants -1.5
• Total: 7.0 runs

Probable starting pitchers for Marlins at Giants

• Pitching matchup for June 25, 2025: Edward Cabrera vs. Logan Webb
  
  • Marlins: Edward Cabrera, (2-2, 3.81 ERA)
    Last outing (Philadelphia Phillies, 6/19): 6.1 Innings Pitched, 1 Earned Runs Allowed, 2 Hits Allowed, 3 Walks, and 5 Strikeouts
  • Giants: Logan Webb, (7-5, 2.49 ERA)
    Last outing (Cleveland Guardians, 6/19): 7.0 Innings Pitched, 1 Earned Runs Allowed, 7 Hits Allowed, 0 Walks, and 9 Strikeouts

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• The Giants have won 3 straight games with Logan Webb starting
• The Giants' last 3 home games with Logan Webb as their starting pitcher have gone under the Total
• The Marlins have covered in 4 of their last 5 games for a profit of 2.00 units

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CINCINNATI — Major league debuts are a milestone for any player.

Chase Burns had one for the record books.

The Cincinnati Reds rookie became the first starting pitcher in the expansion era to strike out the first five batters against the New York Yankees.

The 22-year old Burns, the second overall pick in last July’s amateur draft, gave up three runs in five innings, but his teammates made sure that the night ended on a positive note as the Reds rallied for a 5-4 victory in 11 innings.

“I feel like after the first batter, I kind of settled in there, but I was amped up, so it was fun,” Burns said. “It was everything I could ask for. I mean, to walk it off like that, to be in the dugout and see that, there’s nothing better than that.”

The right-hander struck out his first five batters before Jazz Chisholm Jr’s single. He gave up six hits and struck out eight, the seventh Cincinnati starter to have at least that many in his first career start.

According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Burns also joined the Yankees’ Al Leiter (vs. Brewers in 1987) and Tampa Bay’s Wade Davis (vs. Tigers in 2009) as the only pitchers since 1961 whose first six outs in their debuts were strikeouts. Both gave up a run during the first two innings.

The Dodgers’ Pete Richert struck out the first six batters he faced in relief against the Reds in 1962, but the third batter reached on a third strike passed ball.

“That was pretty cool,” Reds manager Terry Francona said. “He didn’t get too excited, I think he enjoyed the competition. There’s a lot to like. His slider is really good.”

Burns struck out seven of his first 10 hitters and allowed only one hit until Ben Rice led off the fourth by connecting on a hanging slider that went 413 feet and two-thirds of the way into the right field sun deck at Great American Ball Park.

Aaron Judge followed with a base hit. Burns retired the next two hitters, Chisholm got aboard with a single and Anthony Volpe hit a two-run triple when center fielder TJ Friedl made an ill-advised dive and the ball got by him.

Catcher Tyler Stephenson noticed though that the three-run fourth did not faze Burns too much.

“I think the maturity shows when they score a couple runs and then he goes right back out the next inning and goes out and attacks,” he said.

Burns averaged 98.1 mph with 48 fastballs, topping out with a pair at 100.1 mph in the first inning. He threw 24 sliders, eight changeups and one curveball. New York was 1 for 9 with six strikeouts in his first time through the order and 5 for 9 with a triple and home run the second time through.

Burns threw 53 of 81 pitches for strikes. His first big league pitch was a 98.4 mph fastball to Trent Grisham that just caught the inside corner of the plate. He got Judge to chase a 91.1 mph slider for the third out in the first inning.

“Big arm. Excited for his future. He’s running it up there at 100 miles per hour and has a good feel for all the breaking pitches,” Judge said. “It was impressive to see him out there doing his thing. You see guys like that kind of amped up and throwing it all over the place, but he did a good job of attacking the zone.”

Burns also fell behind 3-0 on three of the first 10 batters before ending up with strikeouts.

Burns started 11 of 21 batters with strikes and induced 12 swing and misses. He is the fifth first-round selection from last year’s draft to reach the majors, joining Athletics first baseman Nick Kurtz, Royals outfielder Jac Caglianone, Angels second baseman Christian Moore and Astros outfielder Cam Smith, who was selected by the Cubs before going to Houston in the Kyle Tucker trade last December.

“Everyone has kept telling me to do what I’ve been doing and not change anything,” Burns said.