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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
High fastballs haunting Diamondbacks' Christian Walker in latest slump — On multiple occasions on Sunday afternoon, the Atlanta Braves attacked an area of the strike zone that is becoming increasingly popular against Diamondbacks slugger Christian Walker. — Armed with fastballs in the mid-90s …
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Richard Morin / Arizona Republic:
Torey Lovullo says he purposely kept Zack Godley in the dark about ‘opening’ start — Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said he deliberately did not tell right-hander Zack Godley that he would be making an abbreviated start on Sunday against the Atlanta Braves.
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MLB Baseball News … and AZ Snake Pit
Nick Piecoro / Associated Press:
Diamondbacks' offense explodes to hammer Pirates — Eduardo Escobar homered, tripled and drove in three runs, Christian Walker also went deep and Arizona cruised past Pittsburgh. — Robbie Ray (3-1) allowed one earned run and six hits over five innings. He recorded his 800th career strikeout …
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Escobar, Diamondbacks batter Pirates — Eduardo Escobar drove in three runs with a homer and a triple, Robbie Ray reached a strikeout milestone, and the Arizona Diamondbacks cruised past the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-3 on Monday night in Phoenix. — Escobar tripled into the right field corner …
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AZ Snake Pit and Bucs Dugout
ESPN:
Boone: Andujar likely headed back to 10-day IL — New York Yankees third baseman Miguel Andujar is likely headed back to the 10-day injured list so that the team can “get a better handle” on his nagging right shoulder injury, according to manager Aaron Boone.
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MLB Trade Rumors
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Associated Press:
RHP Loaisiga 17th Yankee to hit IL this year — NEW YORK — Right-hander Jonathan Loaisiga has a strained pitching shoulder and became the New York Yankees' 17th player to go on the injured list this season. — New York announced the roster move Monday before starting a homestand against Baltimore and made it retroactive to Friday.
Phil Rosenthal / Baltimore Sun:
Hey, ESPN, ‘Sunday Night Baseball’ viewers actually want to watch the game — so focus on that — Photos from the Cubs' 4-1 win over the Brewers on May 12, 2019, at Wrigley Field. — Chicago Tribune — When baseball fans tune in to ESPN's “Sunday Night Baseball” coverage of the Cubs …
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Chicago Tribune
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Teddy Greenstein / Chicago Tribune:
Since April 10, the Cubs are winning at a 77.8 percent rate. Here are 5 ways they're pulling it off. — Photos from the Cubs' 4-1 win over the Brewers on May 12, 2019, at Wrigley Field. — How hot are the Cubs running? — Forget for a second about Kris Bryant hitting five home runs …
Mike DiGiovanna / Baltimore Sun:
Watch Cody Bellinger throw out Stephen Strasburg at first — The Dodgers' Cody Bellinger robbed Washington's Stephen Strasburg of a sixth-inning single Sunday at Dodger Stadium. (Getty Images) — When Gerardo Parra's eighth-inning drive one-hopped the wall in left-center field for a double …
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Daniel Starkand / Dodger Blue:
Dodgers News: Hyun-Jin Ryu Named National League Player Of The Week For May 6-12
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True Blue LA
Rick Hummel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Flaherty trying to straighten ‘crooked numbers’ — ATLANTA — With all his weapons, including an arsenal of well above-average pitches and a competitive ferocity, young Cardinals righthander Jack Flaherty is only 11-14 in his major-league career. And the Cardinals are but 18-23 …
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ESPN:
Boston's Pedroia has setback during rehab stint — The road back for Boston's Dustin Pedroia hit another obstacle Monday, with the Red Sox announcing that the second baseman has returned from his rehab assignment because of left knee soreness. — The team had been hoping Pedroia …
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MLB Baseball News …
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David Schoenfield / ESPN:
Real or Not? This Astros offense could be the best in MLB history — There is something remarkable going on in the early weeks of 2019. Here is a list of best offenses in the past 100 years, ranked by the weighted runs created formula at FanGraphs (wRC+ adjusts for the league run environment and home park with 100 being average):
ESPN:
Jays' Thornton gets another shot at first win vs. Giants — The Toronto Blue Jays, swept by the Giants in a two-game interleague series three weeks ago, get a rematch with a two-game series that starts Tuesday in San Francisco. — The Giants made center fielder Kevin Pillar's return …
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Tommy Birch / Des Moines Register:
'He's going to be a big-league player in Chicago for a long time': Why there are still high hopes for Ian Happ — The hope is that although Ian Happ is in the minors, he can get back on track at the plate and return to the major leagues. — He needs to become the player the Chicago Cubs have always hoped he could be.
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Tommy Birch / Des Moines Register:
Winner, winner: The Iowa Cubs are in first place
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Bleed Cubbie Blue
Matthew Florjancic / WKYC-TV:
Indians minor-leaguer Bobby Bradley named to MLB Pipeline's Prospect Team of the Week — Cleveland Indians minor-league first baseman Bobby Bradley was named to MLB Pipeline's Prospect Team of the Week Monday. — CLEVELAND — Cleveland Indians minor-league first baseman Bobby Bradley …
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Jim Callis / Red Sox News:
MLB Pipeline's Prospect Team of the Week
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NESN.com and MLB Baseball News …
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Hernandez, Phillies rally past Brewers — Cesar Hernandez homered and had two hits, two RBIs and three runs scored to lift the host Philadelphia Phillies past the Milwaukee Brewers 7-4 on Monday. — Andrew McCutchen, J.T. Realmuto and Maikel Franco each added two hits for the Phillies, who won their third in a row.
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Phillies Nation and The Good Phight
Buster Olney / ESPN:
Running in place, Giants need to start tearing down — If the San Francisco Giants had slogged along to the All-Star break with a record around .500, not really in contention but not really out of it, then Farhan Zaidi, the team's new head of baseball operations, would have faced difficult decisions.
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NBC Bay Area, MLB Baseball News … and NBCSports.com
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Jesse Yomtov / Cincinnati.com:
MLB power rankings: Led by George Springer, red-hot Astros take back the No. 1 spot — Having won eight of their last nine games, the Houston Astros are firing on all cylinders and are primed to run away with the American League West again. — The Astros will be without Jose Altuve …
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The Crawfish Boxes, MLB Baseball News … and USA Today
