“The Cubs have been playing really good baseball”, Chapman said through a translator before he left Houston to travel to Chicago. J.B. Shuck led off with a line drive single to center. He would exit with two outs in the frame.
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The White Sox have won three games in two days on their last at-bat, after doing the double against Detroit on Sunday. Manager Joe Maddon said Fowler likely will return to center field on Tuesday…. “These guys are resilient”.
The Cubs not only looked at their roster and saw late-inning vulnerability, but also at the rosters of who they perceived could be their main challengers for the NL title – the Giants and Nationals – and saw the same shortcoming. They had runners on first and second with two out when Jennings struck out Jason Heyward to escape the threat.
MILWAUKEE – Martin Maldonado hit a three-run homer and the Milwaukee Brewers went deep four times Monday night, spoiling the major league debut of Arizona pitching prospect Braden Shipley in a 7-2 victory over the Diamondbacks. Most teams in this situation would still sell their veteran players and rebuild for next season, but not the Yankees.
“I think that when the right buy-or-sell circumstance presents itself, then this department will be making recommendations to ownership and then they will direct me on what they want”, Cashman said.
The other oft-given defense for acquiring Chapman (aside from the vile “Women make this stuff up all the time; he wasn’t even charged.”) is that sports don’t have to be about morals, that being a fan is about rooting for guys on the field, not off of it. I strongly disagree.
The Cubs made the headlines off the field, but it was the White Sox who took the plaudits on it when Tyler Saladino came up with the game-ending hit to complete a 5-4 victory in the all-Chicago interleague clash on Monday.
I believe Cashman either get will exactly what he is asking for, or he will try to win with Miller now and re-visit trading him in the offseason. Chase Anderson went five innings to beat his former team for his first win since June 8. “Absolutely not”, Sale said. He’s also had run-ins with the GM and manager, most recently the jersey saga that earned him a five-game suspension.
As one executive who spoke with the Cubs said, “You are not getting Schwarber”.
With the bullpen in need of a huge lift after throwing 19 1/3 innings in the previous four games, Shields delivered.
According to ESPN and multiple reports, Sale expressed displeasure over having to wear the White Sox’s 1976 navy-blue collared throwbacks, and the matter escalated from there, culminating in a confrontation with a member of Chicago’s front office.
A large video screen announces that Monday’s baseball game between the New York Mets and the St. Louis Cardinals has been postponed due to rainning, Monday, July 25, 2016, in New York. This is a memo that someone has to relay to Chicago White Sox GM Rick Hahn amid a winning series versus the crosstown-rival Cubs before his hellish week inside the organization leads to an absolute tearing down of this team (in his words) that is “mired in mediocrity”.
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Mariners (50-48) at Pirates (51-47), 7:05 p.m. ET: Looking to stay in the wild-card hunt, the Mariners send Felix Hernandez (4-4, 3.23 ERA) to the mound hoping for a rebound performance.
