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Rosenthal adds that Gardner recently declined to pursue an opportunity with the Braves, and if he’s going to play again, it will likely only be for the Yankees. The Pinstripes are off to a phenomenal 23-8 start this season and it seems like they’ve decided to move on from the veteran outfielder after 14 seasons in New York.

Marte was responsible for the only run of the game with a solo blast off Dustin May in the fourth. That’s his seventh homer of the season for the 31-year-old, and he’s slugging .551 with a .387 on-base percentage. He remains one of the most underrated players in the sport outside of the state of Arizona.

The Dodgers were shut out and quite honestly dominated by Corbin Burnes over six innings, but with a pair of runners on, Hernández unloaded on an offering from Burnes to give the Dodgers their 3-1 lead. The 32-year-old has his first homer since returning from the injured list, and his 10th of the season along with 38 RBI. As long as Hernández is healthy, he should be a very strong fantasy option.

Scott was dominant in his inning of work while throwing 12-of-14 pitches for strikes and whiffing two. The 30-year-old southpaw is up to double digits in saves now with 10, and his ERA has dipped to a very solid 2.31 for his trouble.

May gave up a solo homer to Ketel Marte, and he didn’t allow another extra-base hit throughout his six frames. He gave up just five hits in total, and he issued one walk while throwing 59-of-88 pitches for strikes. May has struck out 16 hitters over his last two stars, but this one was much more effective than his previous tilt against the Angels. He’ll try and continue to miss bats against the Guardians on Tuesday.

Burnes was cruising in this one for the first six innings, but the seventh did him in. The three-run homer he allowed to Teoscar Hernández was the only scoring play of the game for the Dodgers, but that was enough to give Burnes his second loss of the season. It’s a bit of a disappointing result, but for the most part, Burnes was as good as he’s been all year while generating 17 swings and misses over 96 pitches. He should have no issue with slicing up the Pirates over the weekend.

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.