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The 22-year-old infielder will hit waivers as the White Sox plan to add Mike Clevinger to the 40-man roster. Rodríguez appeared in one game for the White Sox during the 2023 season but played a majority of his games at the Double-A level where he slashed .264/.297/.450 across 404 plate appearances.

After four months as one of the league’s worst hitters, Arcia has suddenly homered four times in six games, raising his OPS from .588 to .641. We still wouldn’t rush to pick him up in mixed leagues, but the Braves have to be pretty thrilled.

Schwellenbach struck out 10 for the second straight outing and went without a walk for the third straight outing. Still, the Marlins did enough against him in a couple of brief rallies to deny him a win. Schwellenbach’s ERA stands at 4.04 after 11 starts, but his 70/10 K/BB in 64 2/3 innings is truly impressive. He’s legit.

Iglesias had pitched each of the previous three days. The appearance tonight was Jiménez’s third in four days and he needed 28 pitches to get three outs, so he should be down on Saturday. Fortunately, Iglesias will likely be ready then.

Bellozo had a 5.55 ERA between high-A and Double-A last year and a 4.64 ERA between Double-A and Triple-A this year, but he’s held his own in three major league starts, amassing a 4.20 ERA. That’s fine with the Marlins, though the ERA doesn’t matter as much as him just managing to get through five or maybe even six innings per start.

Faucher appeared to be the first choice for saves in the Miami pen with Tanner Scott gone, though he would have needed to go two innings in order to close out this one. We don’t know if that was actually the plan, but it might have been, considering that the two guys we’d look at as the most likely alternatives in the ninth, Anthony Bender and Andrew Nardi, worked the sixth and seventh, respectively, tonight. That Faucher, who came in with a 2.95 ERA, had a nightmare outing might make it more likely that Bender or Nardi gets the next chance.

Naylor and the Guardians hit and hit and hit off Dean Kremer and Gregory Soto to secure this victory. They opened up an 8-1 lead through six innings with just one extra-base hit, Naylor’s run-scoring double. Always oscillating between hot and cold, Naylor looks to be heating up again with a six-game hitting streak.

Holliday looks worlds more comfortable this time around compared to his cup of coffee with Baltimore in April. His walk came on a low-and-in slider from Carlos Carrasco that missed the plate by an inch and both of his singles were hit at least 100 MPH. This was the first multi-hit game of his young career and a a scorching hot streak from Holliday to end the season would not be surprising in the slightest.

Carrasco was not going to let this Orioles lineup beat him. He nibbled around the edges all night and forced some very impressive takes from rookies Coby Mayo and Jackson Holliday, but just that one run. This is what the 37-year-old Carrasco has been reduced to at this point in his career.

The story is often the same with Kremer: solid secondaries with a subpar fastball. His splitter and cutter combined for seven swings-and-misses while his fastball and sinker didn’t even force one. Even still, the Guardians found a way to hit every pitch hard and it was a short start for Kremer. He’ll take a 4.39 ERA into his next scheduled start against the Blue Jays.

The 34-year-old backstop got the Royals on the board and trimmed their deficit to one run with a monstrous 448-foot (113.0-mph EV) solo shot off of Tarik Skubal on the first pitch of the second inning. He also led off the fourth inning with a single and hustled around to score on an RBI double by Hunter Renfroe. Perez then smacked an RBI double in the seventh inning and scored on a run-scoring single off the bat of Freddy Fermin. With his three-hit attack, Perez is now hitting .282/.339/.476 to go along with 20 homers and 75 RBI.