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Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Diamondbacks announcer Bob Brenly mocks Marcus Stroman's durag during broadcast — Arizona Diamondbacks announcer Bob Brenly mocked the durag of New York Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman during Tuesday night's game, a comment that drew attention from Stroman for what he called “racist undertones.”
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Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, New York Daily News, ESPN, MLB Baseball News … and Amazin' Avenue
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Dennis Young / New York Daily News:
Diamondbacks announcer Bob Brenly makes pointless crack about Marcus Stroman's durag — Bob Brenly, speaking in the exact cadence of a deeply unfunny uncle repeating a bit for the third time, went way out of his way to make a joke (?) about Marcus Stroman on Tuesday night.
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USA Today, MLB Baseball News … and The Athletic
Tim Healey / Newsday:
Marcus Stroman, bullpen can't hold down D-backs after dust-up — PHOENIX — Edwin Diaz and Trevor May blew saves in consecutive innings Tuesday night as the Mets lost to the Diamondbacks, 6-5, to end their five-game winning streak. — Josh Reddick hit a walk-off, two-run double against May in the 10th inning.
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New York Daily News
ESPN:
MLB bans 4 minor league pitchers for using foreign substances to doctor baseballs — Four minor league pitchers have been suspended this season by Major League Baseball after being caught using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs, signaling a stronger crackdown in the game's feeder system …
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AZ Snake Pit and Beyond the Box Score
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Bobby Nightengale / USA Today:
Nick Castellanos: MLB 'doesn't care' about pitchers using foreign substances — ST. LOUIS - With offense down across the league this season, attention is turning to the illegal foreign substances that many pitchers are believed to use. — After St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Genesis Cabrera …
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MLB Baseball News …
Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's 2021 MLB draft rankings 3.0: Two shortstops lead race to be next month's top pick — We're five weeks out from the 2021 MLB draft with college regionals starting Friday and high school seasons winding down or already wrapped up, so some consensus is building.
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NBCSports.com, Lone Star Ball and MLB Baseball News …
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Pete Alonso helps power Mets over Diamondbacks in 9th — PHOENIX — The Mets have received help from an eclectic, and largely unknown, group of heroes over their first two months of the 2021 season. Wednesday's late-game clutch base hit, however, came off the bat of a familiar name.
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Newsday and NorthJersey.com
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Alden Gonzalez / ESPN:
Athletics call food served to minor leaguers ‘totally unacceptable,’ say they cut ties with vendor weeks ago — A photo depicting food provided to some Oakland Athletics minor leaguers went viral on Tuesday, sparking references to the infamous Fyre Festival that allegedly once offered sandwich bread with sliced cheese for dinner.
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SFGATE, NBCSports.com, Deadspin, New York Post, Mercury News and Awesemo.com
Jabari Young / CNBC:
MLB launches into NFT space with help from Lou Gehrig and new company led by Fanatics — Candy Digital agreed to a licensing deal with MLB to create its NFT digital collectibles. — The company will release an exclusive Lou Gehrig nonfungible token during the Fourth of July weekend.
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CNN, ESPN, Deadspin, Sports Illustrated and NBCSports.com
Matthew Roberson / New York Daily News:
Aaron Boone not quite ready to panic as Yankees' offensive slump deepens — It has been ten days since the Yankees scored more than five runs in a game. Since that day, a 7- win over the White Sox on May 22, the team has gone 2-6, including a three-game sweep by the last-place Tigers …
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Pinstripe Alley and Lookout Landing
David K. Li / NBC News:
Pro-business group files lawsuit against MLB for pulling All-Star Game from Atlanta — A pro-business group filed a federal lawsuit on Monday against Major League Baseball, claiming it had no right to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta in protest of Georgia's restrictive voting law.
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ProFootballTalk, Sportico, Denver Post and AZ Snake Pit
ESPN:
Atlanta Braves' Marcell Ozuna posts $20,000 bond on domestic violence charges, released from jail — ATLANTA — Marcell Ozuna of the Atlanta Braves was released from jail after posting $20,000 bond Monday on charges of aggravated assault by strangulation and battery against his wife.
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WSB-TV and Talking Chop
