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Read our story on the balloting format, which includes two phases of fan voting to determine the All-Star starters. With the 95th MLB All-Star Game just over three weeks away, it’s time again to check in on how the balloting for the Midsummer Classic is shaping up as we near
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Below are the complete standings for Phase 1 of fan voting for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard as of the second ballot update on June 23.
By Will Leitch
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The rest of the NL West was starting to sneak up on the Dodgers over the last couple of weeks, but even with their usual batch of pitcher injuries, they’re starting to look like themselves again -- as you can tell from Shohei Ohtani’s back-to-the-halcyon-days-of-Anaheim double-duty game on Sunday. Can
By Matt Monagan
June 22, 2025
Yandy Díaz is, in a word, strong. His workout routines have been featured in muscle magazines, he crushes broken-bat home runs and when you sit in front of him and, very carefully, ask him questions about how he's gotten so huge ... his answers are hardly surprising. "I try to
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By Sonja Chen @sonjamchen
June 22, 2025
LOS ANGELES -- Sunday's starting pitcher for the Dodgers walked off the mound after a scoreless first inning. A couple of minutes later, he was standing in the batter's box to lead off the bottom half of the frame. That's just the beginning of what amazes the Dodgers about Shohei
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NEW YORK -- The Mets on Monday added another patch to their bullpen, agreeing to terms with left-handed reliever Richard Lovelady on a Major League deal, a source told MLB.com. Lovelady is expected to join the team Monday or Tuesday.
By Daniel Kramer
June 22, 2025
CHICAGO -- Cal Raleigh cannot be stopped. The Mariners’ catcher crushed another massive home run in Sunday afternoon’s 14-6 win at Wrigley Field, ambushing the first pitch he saw and sending it 414 feet to straightaway center field for a two-run blast in the top of the first inning.
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This story was excerpted from Jordan Bastian's Cubs Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. ST. LOUIS -- Cubs manager Craig Counsell is not one to announce a decision multiple days before it is necessary or required. There are
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By Bryan Hoch
June 22, 2025
NEW YORK -- Churning around third base, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was slipping and sliding inside his left cleat, the perspiration from a summer Bronx afternoon already having soaked through his Yankees-issued socks by the second inning. When the laces came loose, there was no time to turn back. His shoe
By Paul Casella @paul_casellaMLB
June 22, 2025
PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies knew the National League East wasn't going to be won or lost in one June series against the Mets. They do, after all, still have more than half of the season left to play.
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By Brian Murphy @Spokes_Murphy
June 22, 2025
The LSU Tigers are once again the kings of Division I college baseball. The sixth-seeded Tigers used a four-run fourth inning and a solid performance from starting pitcher Anthony Eyanson (MLB Pipeline's No. 66 Draft prospect) to defeat 13th-seeded Coastal Carolina on Saturday, 5-3, and secure the program's second College
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By Andrés Soto
June 22, 2025
SAN DIEGO -- Jac Caglianone didn’t feel the ball hit his glove. Jackson Merrill crushed a hanging changeup from Royals reliever Lucas Erceg. As the bail sailed over right field, it looked destined to clear the fence for a two-run homer that would have broken the deadlock that the Royals
By Scott Chiusano
June 22, 2025
Had Royals outfielder Drew Waters pulled this off, it would have been one of the great plays at the plate in recent memory. With Kansas City and San Diego tied at two in the ninth on Sunday afternoon, Freddy Fermin knocked a base hit into the right-center-field gap, and Waters
Baltimore drops Bronx series when bats go quiet after productive 1st inning
By Jake Rill
June 22, 2025
NEW YORK -- A wild collision at the plate on Sunday afternoon resulted in an early departure for Orioles catcher Maverick Handley at Yankee Stadium. Handley exited the O’s 4-2 loss in the series finale against the Yankees in the bottom of the second inning after he was hit hard
By Brian Murphy @Spokes_Murphy
June 22, 2025
At some point this week, every MLB team is scheduled to play its 81st game of the year. Yep, we are already halfway through this season. During this first full week of summer, we'll be treated to a matchup between two red-hot teams in first place as well as two
By Jared Greenspan
June 22, 2025
When MLB.com senior club reporter Jason Beck outlined five questions facing the Tigers ahead of the offseason, he led with the most-pressing one: Where can Detroit upgrade its offense? The story of the 2024 Tigers was one of “pitching chaos,” with Tarik Skubal and a cavalry of relief arms steering
By Anthony DiComo
June 22, 2025
PHILADELPHIA -- Francisco Alvarez, the talented, affable 23-year-old catcher who once rated as the No. 1 prospect in baseball, is going to work out his issues in the Minors. Before their 7-1 loss to the Phillies on Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, the Mets optioned Alvarez to Triple-A Syracuse and
By AJ Cassavell
June 22, 2025
SAN DIEGO -- The Padres signed Jose Iglesias precisely for a day like this. The veteran infielder played only three innings on Sunday afternoon. But did he ever make those three innings count?