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Nippert probably would have been sent down today regardless of what he did on Saturday night. Still, his poor performance against the Astros didn’t help his chances of returning in a significant role in September.

Burger was practically the only Ranger who came to the park ready to hit on a cold night night in the Bronx. He was solely responsible for two of their three runs and had four batted balls hit harder than 100 mph in total. It’s been a nice stretch for him since returning from his surprise demotion with a hit in eight of nine games.

Seeing this version of deGrom inspires true joy in baseball fans everywhere. He had excellent command of his fastball, slider, and changeup en route to a seven inning gem against the Yankees. He dropped a couple devastating sliders on Jasson Dominguez – this game’s eventual – hero to get out of a jam in the first inning and faced very little trouble after that besides a triple by Anthony Volpe and a home run by Cody Bellinger. Possibly most notably, he crossed the 100 pitch mark for the first time since September 2022 in this start. He’s scheduled for a two-start week against the Blue Jays and Cardinals coming up.

Knizner latches on with San Francisco as extra organizational catching depth just a couple days after being released from his minor league deal with the Nationals. The 30-year-old backstop has appeared in 293 games in the big leagues since 2019.

It’s the fifth homer of the season for Realmuto, and it gave the Phillies a 9-3 lead in the seventh. He drove in another run in the third,, and it gives the 34-year-old backstop 19 RBI in 2025. Realmuto has just a .690 OPS in the month of May, but because he’s behind the plate,, there’s still at least a smidgen of fantasy relevancy in his right-handed bat.

Harper doubled the Phillies’ lead to 4-2 with a solo homer off an ineffective Carson Palmquist. The former MVP has gone deep eight teams in 2025, and the pair of knocks now has him slashing .276/.382/.470 over the first third of the season. Harper has also picked up multiple hits in five-of-six games, and appears to be refinding his stroke after a so-so — at least for him — first month-plus of the year.

Palmquist’s second career start wasn’t any better than the first, and he’s now allowed 11 earned runs over eight innings to begin his career. The 2022 third-round pick would be worth keeping an eye on if he played for a different team, but he doesn’t, so right now, he’s not. The Rockies are now 8-41. Palmquist will face the Cubs next week if he stays on the roster.

Walker’s first start since being placed back in the rotation was an adequate one. Adequate is probably a little kind. He allowed six hits and two walks, and against a better lineup this line probably looks much worse. It’s still a win. Walker will be back on the bump Thursday against Atlanta.

This was vintage Gausman. He artfully mixed his patented splitter and fastball leaving the Padres seemingly clueless as to which of those two pitches were coming next. His command of that fastball was especially good and that helped his splitter generate 13 swings-and-misses, most which came on ugly swings. It’s nice to see the top-end for Gausman is still here while understanding his start-to-start production is a bit more erratic than it was during his heyday. He’s scheduled for a two-start week coming up against the Rangers and Athletics.

Believe it or not, this game was scoreless in the fifth inning before Lukes’ go-ahead home run against Randy Vásquez. Then, the floodgates opened and Toronto put up 12 runs between the seventh and eighth innings. Lukes and Jonatan Clase are in a battle for playing time in the corner outfield while Andrés Giménez is out, Ernie Clement is replacing him at second base, and Addison Barger – who had two hits and five hard-hit balls in this game – filling the void at third. Anthony Santander also left this game early with hip inflammation after missing a handful of games with a shoulder injury. It will be interesting to see how the playing time works out among this group when the Blue Jays are at full health.

Arraez still managed to get his on a night where the Padres were blanked by Kevin Gausman. His average jumped back over .300 for the first time in two weeks and somehow that triple was his third in 18 games. He remains an incredible source of batting average without offering much else.