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Alcantara was supposed to start Sunday versus the Braves, but the game was rained out. He’ll take his next turn Friday against the Nationals.

The Guardians matched their run scoring output from their past five games tonight and scored seven runs for the first time since coming up with 11 on June 11. The homer gave Ramírez his first three-RBI day since May 14. He’s halfway to his fourth 30-homer season, though he’ll need to pick up the pace a tad. Otherwise, he might finish with exactly 29 for the third time in his career.

All of the runs came in the fifth on 368- and 373-foot homers from Taylor Trammell and Isaac Paredes. Bibee actually had a no-hitter going through four, though it wasn’t shaping up as a particularly long outing for him anyway. He should bounce back against the White Sox on Saturday.

Clase is off the All-Star team for now, and unless something changes there, he’s streak of appearances will end at three. It’s probably not the worst thing for him, as he could use a break while being on pace to throw 70 innings yet again; he averaged 72 1/3 innings the last four years.

He had the excuse of pitching in Coors Field in a poor first start this month, but Gordon was facing an ice-cold Guardians lineup tonight and struggled again. The loss leaves him 3-2 with a 4.76 ERA, and it doesn’t seem like he’ll start again before the break, which could lead to a demotion to Triple-A.

It’s Trammell’s only hit in 15 at-bats since joining the Astros. He now had 16 career major league homers in 377 plate appearances since debuting with the Mariners in 2021. Unfortunately, those have come with a .163 average and a 36.8% strikeout rate.

Vaughn hit a ball 409 feet to left to make a spectacular first impression for his new team. He also walked and scored a second run before, oddly, being pinch-hit for by Jake Bauers with a righty on the mound in the seventh (oddly because Vaughn got the nod over Bauers against a righty in the first place). The homer was Vaughn’s sixth in 49 major league games this season. He’ll definitely be back in there tomorrow with the Dodgers starting a lefty.

Peralta struck out seven and walked one in what turned out to be a pretty easy outing after the Brewers erupted for seven runs in the bottom of the first. He’s now won five straight starts, which isn’t easy to do these days, and he’s only two off his career high for victories from 2023. The NL All-Star is likely to start again Sunday against the Nationals.

Yamamoto gave up a double and a walk to start the game, but he rebounded to retire the next two batters on soft contact. After that, though, came a three-run homer, a single, a walk, a Mookie Betts throwing error, and a bloop single. Yamamoto was at 41 pitches at this point, so even though there’s a good chance he would have rebounded, the Dodgers opted to take him out. The brief outing probably assures that he will make another start before the break against the Giants on Sunday, which would mean he’d be ineligible to pitch in the All-Star Game.

Brewers manager Pat Murphy told reporters Ashby didn’t suffer any fractures after he was hit by a comebacker during Monday’s series opener against the Dodgers. He might need a couple days off, but it sounds like he’s avoided serious injury.

While Wilyer Abreu and Marcelo Mayer are mostly sitting against lefties, Anthony has been in the lineup all three games as the Red Sox have faced three in a row. He’s 7-for-18 with four RBI in his last four games, and he’s hit .363 in his last 10 games to improve to .250/.353/.398 through 102 plate appearances.