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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.…

A 3-0 swing that Weiss is still talking about Most hitters take the pitch there. Matt Olson did not. Up 3-0 in the count on Sunday, he drove one to the deepest part of the ballpark, and the Braves turned a 2-2 game into a 5-3 win over Arizona with a three-run seventh. Walt Weiss…

Six homers in 14 games Alec Burleson is in the best form of his career. The Cardinals first baseman has hit .340/.441/.780 over 50 at-bats in 14 games this month. Six homers, 19 RBIs, 13 runs. Sunday was more of the same. Three hits in five trips against the Cubs, a homer, a double, four…

Down 5-0? So what On Sunday in Minneapolis, the Phillies looked done. Five runs down. A team that had stumbled to a 10-15 record since the All-Star Game they hosted back home. Alec Bohm drove in four runs on his own. Bryan De La Cruz delivered the go-ahead hit in the eighth inning. 7-5 the…

Six home runs and a .780 slugging mark in August. Alec Burleson carries the hottest bat in St. Louis into a doubleheader at Cincinnati today.

Wyatt Langford turned on the first pitch he saw in the sixth and sent it 421 feet. Texas snapped a four-game skid and climbed back into the last American League wild-card spot.

Twenty-one starts, and not one win at home Reid Detmers had not won in front of his own crowd in 21 starts. He picked a good night to fix that, blanking Kansas City over eight innings in Anaheim. The Angels won 1-0. The number deserves a second look. Detmers had been sharing the American League…