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The Phillies designated Dahl for assignment earlier in July and now they can stash him at Triple-A for depth without him taking up a spot on the 40-man roster. Dahl hit .207 with three home runs and eight RBI in 19 games with the Phillies this year.

Cruz’s homers were projected to 442 and 427 feet, with the former leaving his bat at a whopping 117.9 mph. The second homer tied the game off Abner Uribe in the bottom of the ninth. The Pirates went on to win in 10, but not before a little controversy, as Alexander Canario was called out at home plate for the second out of the inning, apparently because he went a little too far past the plate while (successfully) trying to avoid a tag. It proved moot when the Pirates scored anyway on a wild pitch.

The Pirates were up 2-0 after five. The Brewers should have tied the game on an Oneil Cruz error in the sixth, but Christian Yelich declined to risk it as the throw skipped past the third baseman, allowing Skenes to finish his outing with a 2-1 lead. Of course, it didn’t even last the seventh. Skenes has an 0-3 record to go along with a 2.03 ERA in five starts this month. The Pirates probably need to go ahead and fire their manager again.

Bednar struck out Jackson Chourio to start the ninth before giving up a homer to William Contreras and walking two in a row. Just 11 of his 24 pitches were strikes, with two producing whiffs. It’s a definite setback as he tries to reestablish himself in the closer’s role. Dennis Santana previously pitched a scoreless inning tonight, though he allowed two inherited runners to score.

Peralta definitely scuffled some tonight, and he needed 101 pitches to get 13 outs with his velocity down about one mph from his season average. Hopefully, it’s not any sort of sign of things to come. Peralta has been excellent in going 5-3 with a 2.55 ERA, and he’s due to face the Phillies next.

We thought Uribe might get a save chance on Thursday, but the Brewers instead decided to run Trevor Megill out there for fourth time in five days. Megill was definitely unavailable tonight, so Uribe got the chance in the ninth, only to blow a one-run lead then. Brought back out for the 10th, he again blew a one-run lead and then took the loss on a wild pitch. Uribe entered with a 1.19 ERA and no losses or blown saves, so one bad day isn’t going to hurt his standing.

There goes any slim chance of Frazier being cut when Nick Gonzales comes off the IL. He raises his average from .223 to .239 and his OBP from .292 to 314 tonight.

Burke barely allowed any damage against him here. The Rangers barely scratched across any base runners until the sixth inning when they turned their lineup over for the third time. Fortunately for Burke, that rally ended with Josh Jung being thrown out at home plate. Otherwise, his slider was impressive working as his primary pitch against right-handed batters and keeping them off balance all night. He’s scheduled to face the Mets next time out.

With this save going to Wilson, the White Sox have now had four different relievers get their last four saves as a team. Wilson is a sweeper-heavy right-handed pitcher whose fastball sits around 94 mph, so not exactly closer stuff there. Regardless, this team won’t win enough games for any of their relievers to have any fantasy value as long as they keep spreading their saves around like this.

The White Sox managed to win this game without a single extra-base hit due to grinding out at-bat after at-bat against Tyle Mahle. Robert Jr. helped to sustain their big rally in the third inning with a run-scoring single and later scored the final run of this game in the bottom of the sixth just after the Rangers’ pushed their only run across. His batting average is a despicable .180, but his fantasy value has been somewhat saved by 18 stolen bases, which is tied for the league lead.

On a night where the rest of the Rangers’ lineup was utterly lost, the White Sox were never able to retire Jung. However, he tried to score from first on Jake Burger’s sixth inning double and was thrown out to end their only sustained rally of the contest. This was the first time this season where Jung drew multiple walks in a game and the first time in his career he’s ever drawn three.