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Caminero sends Tampa Bay to the postseason One inning left, one run to get. Junior Caminero wiped out both with one swing under the lights in St. Petersburg. The Dominican launched a 97 mph fastball from Bryan Abreu 417 feet into left-center field. Walk-off, 3-1 over Houston, and the Tampa Bay Rays become the first…

A .171 average, and now an intercostal strain Forty days in Atlanta, one home run to show for it, and now ten days on the shelf. The Braves placed outfielder Lane Thomas on the 10-day injured list Friday with a strained left intercostal muscle, the move backdated to Tuesday. The warning came a day earlier.…

Pittsburgh allowed two hits all night and swept Chicago 2-0. Oneil Cruz supplied both runs and the hardest-hit home run of the season.

Jhoan Duran left one splitter over the plate. Cam Smith sent it 421 feet and Houston walked out of Philadelphia with the series.

Two hits in 26 at-bats, and the Dodgers finally blinked A .077 average over seven games. That is what Shohei Ohtani had been carrying into the Dodgers clubhouse before Los Angeles decided enough was enough. Dave Roberts confirmed the injured list move on Thursday, minutes after his team had buried Cincinnati 14-1. Left knee, right…

Seattle’s season is all but gone, but their 22-year-old left-hander picked a good night to collect a first major league win.

Jazz Chisholm Jr. is heading to the injured list with a sprained thumb. Anthony Volpe, hitting .295 with ten homers since being demoted, is the man waiting.

Six runs in one inning, and a single swing at the centre of it. Kyle Schwarber’s grand slam took him to 44 home runs and finished Houston off in Philadelphia.

Seven in a row, and two stars watched from the dugout Shohei Ohtani did not play. Freddie Freeman did not play. Los Angeles still hung 14 runs on Cincinnati and walked off with a seventh consecutive win, their longest run of the year, to move to 89-57. The sweep was the whole point. Three games,…