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Kazuma Okamoto had not gone deep in 16 games. He picked St. Petersburg to end that, and took a 24-year-old Toronto record with him.

No team had done it since at least 1920. Two Mets rookie outfielders cut down three Padres at home inside two innings, and it decided the game.

A complete night A single, a double, a home run. Three RBIs, four runs scored. Bobby Witt Jr. checked every box Monday night in Kansas City as the Royals took the opener of a four-game series 9-5 against the Athletics. The shortstop went deep in the second inning for the second game running, pushing it…

Carlos Rodon returns from the injured list Tuesday in Baltimore, seven weeks after his last big-league pitch. The Yankees need him. The Orioles, sitting in a three-way tie for the last wild card, need something too.

Three of the four run producers were kids Kevin McGonigle’s two-run shot in the second was his 13th of the year. He is one of the young bats Detroit has been leaning on all season, and so were two of the other three Tigers who drove in runs at PNC Park last night, in an…

Elly De La Cruz has been Cincinnati’s headline act for three seasons without ever finishing a game himself. That changed overnight at Great American Ball Park.

A walk-off to end the Chicago derby Pete Crow-Armstrong opened the game with a home run. He finished it the same way. Under the lights at Wrigley Field, the center fielder led off the 10th inning with a two-run blast that handed the Chicago Cubs a 7-5 win over the White Sox. The ball came…

Pete Crow-Armstrong homered on the first pitch of the game and again to end it in the 10th. No hitter had put those two together since 2010.

Three starts, three months of rehab Blake Snell has thrown in exactly two big league games this season. Monday night in Denver makes three. The Dodgers left-hander opens a three-game set against Colorado carrying a 0-1 record and a 5.00 ERA, numbers that mean almost nothing given the sample. Elbow surgery cost him three months.…