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The start will instead go to Kyle Kendrick or Joe Blanton. Hamels said Saturday that he hoped to make the start and throw 75-80 even though he’d only be on three days’ rest. The Phillies will likely allow him to pitch in order to stay sharp, but he’s not going to throw that many pitches. Hamels is slated to start Game 3 of the NLDS and will be doing so on six days’ rest if he indeed appears Wednesday.

After making a few tough-luck outs early in this game, Domínguez put an exclamation point on a hard fought, come from behind with a walk-off home run. The Yankees scored one run in each the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings to spoil Jacob deGrom’s gem and leave this one with an unexpected win. Domínguez has put his early season malaise behind him of late with four home runs and an .887 OPS over his last 15 games.

Yarbrough has been a pleasant surprise since joining the Yankees’ rotation and kept the good times rolling in this one. The only run he allowed – and the only time the Rangers had a player in scoring position – was on a Jake Burger solo home run. Otherwise, his cutter-changeup duo was lethal against the right-handed heavy Rangers’ lineup forcing nine combined swings-and-misses. His command of hat changeup was especially strong as he dotted it time after time low and away to those righties. He could be lined up for a two-start week against the Angles and Dodgers if he stays in the rotation during the Yankees’ upcoming west coast trip.

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.