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Nick Piecoro / Arizona Republic:
Historic futility: Diamondbacks set MLB record for consecutive road losses — The Diamondbacks established a modern-era major league record on Thursday afternoon with their 23rd consecutive road loss. — In losing, 10-3, to the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, the Diamondbacks moved past …
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Arizona Diamondbacks fall to San Francisco Giants, set modern-era record with 23rd straight road loss — SAN FRANCISCO — Occasionally, the Arizona Diamondbacks' players glanced up at the Oracle Park scoreboard in center field. It told a most familiar, gloomy story.
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USA Today:
Arizona Diamondbacks match MLB record with 22nd straight road loss — It did not seem to be a question of whether the Arizona Diamondbacks would etch their names into the record book on Wednesday night. It was how they would do it. — Would they lose in excruciating fashion, blowing a late lead like they did the night before?
Jeff Passan / ESPN:
Why MLB's sticky-stuff crackdown plan is causing a major rift across baseball — INSIDE THE DUGOUT of a National League team this week, a passive-aggressive internecine squabble broke out. When two veteran hitters returned to the dugout after striking out, each said, loud enough for everyone around them to hear, “Sticky stuff.”
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MLB.com:
New guidance on foreign substances announced
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Gabe Lacques / USA Today:
Unlike past MLB scandals, players face instant scrutiny in crackdown on foreign substances
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Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
Tampa Bay Rays' Tyler Glasnow blames MLB crackdown on foreign substances for his UCL injury
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MLB Trade Rumors, Deadspin, Lookout Landing, The Athletic and baseballmusings.com
Jesse Rogers / ESPN:
New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom exits with shoulder soreness, ‘confident that this is nothing’ — New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom will get an MRI on his right shoulder on Thursday after leaving Wednesday's start against the visiting Chicago Cubs because of soreness.
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Defector, Amazin' Avenue and New York Post
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Associated Press:
MLB relaxes COVID protocol restrictions for all vaccinated players and staff — NEW YORK — All fully vaccinated players and staff can stop wearing masks in dugouts, bullpens and clubhouses under the latest change to Major League Baseball's coronavirus protocols.
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Royals Review and The Good Phight
Deesha Thosar / New York Daily News:
Jacob deGrom exits start after three perfect innings with right shoulder soreness before Mets beat Cubs — The good vibes at Citi Field tangibly turned to dread. — Jacob deGrom exited his start with right shoulder soreness, the Mets announced, after three perfect innings in the Amazin's 6-3 win over the Cubs on Wednesday night.
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Shams Charania / The Athletic:
Suns' Chris Paul enters NBA's COVID-19 health and safety protocols: Sources — Phoenix Suns guard Chris Paul has entered the NBA's health and safety protocols and is sidelined for an indefinite period of time, sources tell The Athletic. — Paul's status is up in the air for the start …
Chris McCosky / Detroit News:
Schoop's offensive surge could raise profile at MLB trade deadline — It's hard to be jokey and light during Zoom interviews. No matter how you try to soften things, the player is sitting in front of a screen, staring into a camera with a bunch of reporters asking questions — it always feels like an interrogation.
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Kiley McDaniel / ESPN:
Kiley McDaniel's 2021 MLB Mock Draft 2.0 - A new No. 1? Who gets Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker? — We're now about three weeks from the 2021 MLB draft, which begins on Sunday, July 11, and while there's more buzz about specific team preferences, sources think information on this front …
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Lone Star Ball
ESPN:
Yankees turn a triple play you've never seen before — The New York Yankees have had their issues this season, but they've got at least one thing down — turning triple plays. — In Thursday night's game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Buffalo, the Yankees turned their second triple play of the season, a first in franchise history.
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New York Post and baseballmusings.com
Mike Petriello / MLB.com:
The biggest trade needs for contenders to fill — If it seems like the baseball season just started, we have some news for you: It's almost Trade Deadline season. We're 40% of the way through the schedule. We're two weeks from July, and there's less than a month until the All-Star Game.
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Kings of Kauffman and Bleacher Nation
