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Ogle has yet to reach the majors after being selected by the Pirates in the fourth round of the 2016 MLB Draft. The 25-year-old lefty was traded to the Phillies back in 2021 and posted an underwhelming 5.30 ERA, 1.71 WHIP and 24/21 K/BB ratio across 35 2/3 innings (36 appearances) last season at Triple-A Lehigh Valley. He’ll get another shot with the Pirates to see if he can get to the big leagues.

Rizzo played for the first time in weeks in Game 1 of the ALCS for the Yankees in their victory, and the 35-year-old was able to reach twice. There’s a chance that the veteran won’t be out there against southpaws, but with right-hander Tanner Bibee on the bump, Rizzo will hope to help the Yankees take a 2-0 lead in the series.

Price was only with the Giants for one season, and it was a mixed bag at best for the San Francisco hurlers. The 62-year-old appears to be leaving on his own, however, and could be with another organization for the 2025 season. Andrew Baggarly of The Athletic suggests former San Francisco hurler Ryan Vogelsong as a potential replacement.

Thomson’s season ended in disappointment with a loss to the Mets in the NLDS in four games, but the Phillies were one of the best teams in the sport prior to that. The 61-year-old will also have his entire staff come back for the 2025 campaign.

Salas is already up to four doubles in the AFL. The 18-year-old struggled in the regular season, but he’s been able to register an .895 thus far in the prospect-heavy league. Salas isn’t likely to be an option for San Diego until 2026, but there’s as much upside in his profile as any catching prospect in the sport.

This was maybe Rodón’s best outing as a Yankee, as he finished with zero walks, nine strikeouts and whopping 25 missed swings. The lone run against him came on a homer from Brayan Rocchio in the sixth, and both other hits he surrendered were singles. After wearing down quickly in his lone start against the Royals, he paced himself nicely tonight, and he picked up his first career postseason victory in his third try. Game 2 of the ALCS will come Tuesday, with Tanner Bibee and Gerrit Cole slated to start.

Cobb got threw two scoreless before giving up a homer to Juan Soto to lead off the third. After he followed that with a walk to Aaron Judge, he was visited by the trainer, presumably to see if he was having issues with the troublesome finger that put him on the IL in September. He remained in the game and got to two outs, but he was pulled with the bases loaded. The stunning thing was that Stephen Vogt, instead of going to any of his quality relievers, brought in a starter with control issues in Joey Cantillo. Cantillo wound up throwing two run-scoring wild pitches that inning and two more before being pulled in the fourth. The Guardians were never really in the game after that. It’s understandable that Vogt didn’t want to burn out a pen still weary from the ALDS, but if that was the case, he was certainly better off relying on Cobb in a bases-loaded situation in the third.

Soto’s homer was a missile off Alex Cobb, a pitcher he’d also dominated in limited regular-season action the last few years. It was his first homer of this postseason and seventh in 34 games dating back to his time as a 20-year-old sophomore in 2019.

The slam came in a 2-0 game after the Mets walked Francisco Lindor with first base open and two outs in the second. To be fair, Lindor did homer in the first. That was off opener Ryan Brasier, though, and the Dodgers had Landon Knack in the game at that point. Lindor may have a postseason advantage over Vientos with all of his experience, but the choice was between two guys with very similar regular-season numbers, and all margin for error was gone with the bases loaded, whereas there would have been some with the base open working to Lindor. After the homer, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pretty much gave up on winning this one, saving all of his best relievers for Wednesday’s Game 3. Walker Buehler and Luis Severino are the scheduled starters then.

Manaea pitched four scoreless innings before giving up a Max Muncy solo homer in the fifth. Things went south in the sixth. Manaea walked Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernández to start the inning and then got a potential double-play grounder, only for Jose Iglesias to turn it into no outs. Manaea was replaced by Phil Maton at that point. Maton gave up a two-run single with one out, but he preserved most of the Mets’ lead by getting Enrique Hernández to ground into a double play. Manaea moved to 2-0 with a 2.65 ERA in three postseason starts.

If this had been another five-game series, the Dodgers probably would have tried a true bullpen day today, like they did in Game 4 against the Padres. As is, they didn’t feel comfortable asking that much of the pen with the potential for seven games in nine days. That made Knack the bulk guy, and he just didn’t have it in this one. Things might have worked out better if not for the decision to intentionally walk Francisco Lindor ahead of a Mark Vientos grand slam, but that’s hardly assured. Knack’s 55 pitches produced just three missed swings and five hard-hit balls.