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The left-hander also walked one and struck out one in the abbreviated outing. He served up a leadoff homer to Luis Urias to begin the game, then pitched himself out of trouble after allowing two more hits in the frame. He wasn’t as fortunate in the second, where the Brewers utilized four hits and a walk to push three more runs across and chase him from the game. Even with this disaster, he still sports a respectable 3.53 ERA and 1.26 WHIP on the season. He’ll try to pick up the pieces on Thursday in a tough matchup against the Dodgers.

Durbin plated two runs with one of the doubles, so the sac fly with runners on second and third and no outs in the 10th made three RBI on the day. It’s pretty incredible that Durbin has 21 RBI while hitting .210/.294/.303 in 38 games for the Brewers. That’s just three RBI fewer than William Contreras has managed in 53 games. It’s three times as many as Joey Ortiz has in 55 games. Durbin’s status as a regular still might come into jeopardy at some point, but that he’s done so much better work with men on than with the bases empty means he’s thus far been quite a bit more valuable to the Brewers than his 0.1 bWAR or -0.3 fWAR (coming into today) suggests.

Peralta allowed six hits, walked three and struck out six. He was in line for a loss when he left, but the Brewers came back and won the game in 10 innings. Before giving up three runs today, Peralta had a 0.75 ERA (2 ER over 24 IP) in four home starts this season. He’ll make his next start in Cincinnati, probably on Monday.

It’s the fifth straight start in which Bello has pitched between four and 4 2/3 innings. He was clearly unhappy about the exit today, and it probably didn’t help that he likely would have already concluded the fifth if not for a Jarren Duran error. Still, with two on and Christian Yelich coming up, bringing in lefty Brennan Bernadino was probably the right move, and it did work out for Boston. Bello wound up with his fifth no-decision in eight starts. He’s 2-1 with a 3.83 ERA but a thoroughly unimpressive 29/22 K/BB in 40 innings. He’ll face the Angels next.

Slaten, who followed Aroldis Chapman after Chapman worked a scoreless ninth in a tie game, had the pitching part down, getting two grounders and a routine fly after entering with a one-run lead in the 10th. Unfortunately, he was slow to cover first on the first of those grounders, resulting in an infield single. On the second grounder, Kristian Campbell decided to go home instead of trying for a double play and made a horrible throw, scoring the tying run and putting the winning run on third with no outs. That meant the routine fly was enough to end the game. We’re not sure who will take the fall for Boston’s losing streak, but something is going to change during the off day tomorrow.

Raffaela made a baserunning mistake later that will be talked about as a key reason the Red Sox lost this one, but between his offense and defense, he was one of the few reasons they had a shot in the first place. The nice game hopefully concludes a 2-for-26 slump he’d been in the previous nine days.

It’s a rare day off for Bichette, who has played pretty much every game this season in his walk year. The 27-year-old shortstop got off to a sizzling-hot start, but he’s faded recently, batting .246/.301/.405 with four homers, 12 RBI and two steals over his last 30 games. Hopefully the extra break enables him to put the back issue to bed and get back on track at the dish. It’ll be Ernie Clement taking over at shortstop on Wednesday evening in his place.

Kelly is back handling the catching duties and batting fifth following a three-game absence due to illness.

Kowar returns to Seattle’s relief mix ahead of Wednesday’s showdown against the Nationals. The 28-year-old righty has been out since undergoing Tommy John surgery last March.

Evans wasn’t going to have a spot in Seattle’s rotation in a couple days one Bryce Miller (elbow) returned from the injured list. The 23-year-old prospect leaves on a positive note after tossing eight strong frames on Tuesday in a win over the Nationals. He figures to return at some point later this season.

Velázquez was jettisoned from Kansas City’s 40-man roster back in late March and was hitting .202 through 33 games this season at Triple-A Omaha. The 26-year-old former top prospect has hit .212/.286/.433 with 31 homers and seven steals in 194 games in the majors since 2022. There’s presumably another organization out there willing to roll the dice on his talent.