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The 31-year-old slugger spent time between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Oakland Athletics organizations this year. Davidson slashed .310/.414/.644 with 32 homers in the hitter-friend Pacific Coast League but only played in 13 games in the majors. He will look to sign with another team this offseason, most likely on a minor league deal.

This guy can really do it all. After being held out of the lineup for the last two games with a fractured pinky toe, manager Carlos Mendoza called on him with two on and two out in the eighth inning for the most important at-bat of the game. Lindor answered the call by smoking a double down the line to bring both Juan Soto and Pete Alonso home and give the Mets a late lead that they wouldn’t relinquish. Usually a slow starter, Lindor already has 14 home runs, 11 stolen bases, and an .852 OPS this season. He should be well on his way to an All-Star campaign if this broken toe doesn’t hold him out much longer.

Coming off his first blown save of the season last time out against the Dodgers, Díaz slammed the door shut on the Rockies here. He’s now allowed just one earned run across 14 1/3 innings since the beginning of May and has been one of the most dominant relief pitchers in baseball after a shaky stretch to begin the season.

Usually, when a pitcher only gives up one run over six innings in Coors Field, that’s good enough to win the game. However, the Mets offense didn’t wake up until the seventh inning so Senga had to settle for a no-decision despite another tremendous outing. He leaned on his renowned ghost-fork, throwing it nearly twice as much as any other offering. Its 47% usage rate is the most he’s ever thrown it during a single start in his career. It still forced 14 swings-and-misses as Senga used it to work out of trouble on more than a few occasions. His next start is scheduled to come at home against the Nationals.

Moniak’s solo home run in the third inning stood as the only run in this game until the seventh when Pete Alonso split the gap to give the Mets the lead. Then, Moniak promptly laced a single to tie this game back up for the Rockies. That single in the seventh was their only hit in seven tries with a runner in scoring position as they squandered plenty of opportunities to win this game. While a mostly overlooked player, Moniak has a .771 OPS in home games this season.

Senzatela followed opener Ryan Rolison in this game and was effective enough to shut the Mets out despite them putting at least one runner on base in three of his four innings. Alas, perhaps the Rockies are somewhat modernizing – relatively, of course – by using an opener ahead of Senzatela who’s struggled this season with a 6.68 ERA.

Everyone should be paying attention to Barger right now. This home run was his fifth in his last seven games as he now sports an .842 OPS in 42 games this season. Along with that longball, three of his four balls in play were hit at least 105.5 mph and he’s earned some of the best underlying power metrics in the league. While Andrés Giménez has returned to the lineup, Barger has kept his every day role and steadily hit in the top third of the Blue Jays’ lineup. He may be on his way to being a pivotal player to this fantasy baseball season.

Hoffman put Byron Buxton on base as the tying run with a tough fought, two-out walk, but managed to punch out Trevor Larnach to close this game out. This now marks his longest consecutive outing stretch without allowing an earned run since the beginning of May at three.

Lewis has not had a good go of it so far this season. He’s just a few games off a disastrous 0-for-28 spell and still has just a .171 batting average after this three-hit performance. Yet, we’ve seen just how hot he can get when he’s going right. So, hopefully a game like this where he doesn’t record an out and notches his hardest hit ball of the young season at 109.6 mph can light a fire.

At first, Ober was cruising. It took him just 37 pitches to get through his first three innings and it felt like he was on his way to a gem. Yet, Addison Barger and the heart of the Blue Jays’ lineup had other ideas as they tagged him for seven hard-hit balls between the third and sixth innings. They had 12 hard-hit balls in total and it should be noted that Ober’s fastball velocity was down a little more than a full tick. He’ll try to right the ship next time out against the Rangers.

He struck out five. The eight hits amounted to just 10 total bases, and Gray didn’t give the Dodgers any free runners with walks or HBPs. It’s the fifth time this season that Gray has gone without allowing a run over at least six innings. Tarik Skubal is the only other pitcher who can say the same. Gray will take a 7-1 record and a 3.35 ERA into his next start, which could come either Wednesday against the Jays or Thursday versus the Brewers.