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White heads back to the minors to make room for Jack Leiter to come up and take the ball on Tuesday evening against Cleveland. The 24-year-old righty has made a pair of relief appearances this season for the Rangers.

Clement put his Blue Jays first up 3-0 in the first inning with a two-run double and then 5-2 in the third a run-scoring hit. He’s found himself in the middle of more than a few rallies of late as he’s on a bit of a heater with hits in seven of his last eight games. He also has multiple hits in four of those eight and is becoming a strong yet sneaky source of both batting average and RBI.

Green looked downright dominant against his former team, striking out both Juan Soto and Aaron Judge en route to his seventh save of the season. With the dust from the trade deadline settling, Green is seemingly locked in to closer duties for the Blue Jays.

Down big early, Volpe helped the Yankees close the gap with a two-run homer in the fifth inning to cut the Blue Jays’ lead to just three. It wouldn’t be enough to spur a comeback, but Volpe is blazing hot right now. This was his first game with multiple extra-base hits since April 1st and he’s hit in seven straight games with four home runs in his last 10. That’s 40% of his homers all season.

Stroman had nothing working in this one. The Blue Jays put nearly everything in play and found hole after hole. More troubling, Stroman’s velocity was down about a tick across the board and his sinker and fastball just barely sat 90 MPH. Stroman has made a habit of falling apart in the second half for the last few years and there is some concern the shape of this season could match those of the past.

It’s starting to feel like the Gausman we’d grown used to the last few seasons is truly gone. Ahead 7-2 in the third inning, he let the Yankees right back in this game with a fifth inning rally that knocked him out of this game just one out shy of qualifying for the win. His fastball is incredibly ordinary when it sits around 94 MPH and hitters don’t chase his splitter like they once did. With that and never truly developing a third pitch, this is who Gausman is now.

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.