There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to handle themselves.
That’s why we’re here to help, though, by sifting through the previous days’ games, and figuring out what you missed, but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:
PCA joined some elite company
Pete Crow-Armstrong hit just 10 home runs in 2024, but something has unlocked for him in his second full season in the bigs. After a dual-dinger Thursday against the Twins, the Cubs’ outfielder now has 25 home runs on the season.
That 25th put PCA in some rarefied air, historically, as he became just the third player in MLB history to put up 25 homers and 25 stolen bases before the All-Star break — Crow-Armstrong already had 27 steals in 31 attempts — joining Bobby Bonds (1973) and Eric Davis (1987).
Now, Crow-Armstrong is the third to pull this off before the break, but he’s the fourth-fastest player to the achievement in MLB history. This was his 92nd game of the season: Bonds achieved the feat in 91, and Davis in just 69 games. The other? Alfonso Soriano, who also pulled it off in 91 games in 2002, but after the All-Star break. In ‘02, Soriano didn’t suit up for his 91st game of the season until July 18, in part because the All-Star Game was on July 9 and the season didn’t begin until April.
What’s next for Pete Crow-Armstrong? He’s got a fantastic shot at 30/30, of course — just 47 players have ever managed that much, and he’s just five homers and three steals shy — and given he’s a little more than halfway through the season, 40/40 is a distinct possibility, as well. There have been far fewer of those: Jose Canseco in 1988, Barry Bonds in 1996, Alex Rodriguez in 1998, Alfonso Soriano in 2006, Ronald Acuña Jr. in 2023 — when he hit 41 homers with an MLB-leading 73 steals — and Shohei Ohtani’s 2024, which was actually the first (and only) 50/50 season. Either way, Crow-Armstrong can enter into an elite club, but just how elite depends on how many dingers and steals he’s got left in him.
Orioles sweep doubleheader against Mets
Tough day at work for the Mets on Thursday, but a great one for the Orioles: they took both games of their doubleheader against New York, 7-3 and 3-1. The first of those was a bit less dramatic as the 7-3 score implies, with the O’s answering the Mets’ two-run first-inning with a three-run second and then never looking back. The game originally scheduled for Thursday, though? That one had the Orioles down 1-0 in the eighth inning. Then pinch-hitter Gunnar Henderson stepped to the plate against Ryne Stanek.
The Orioles would add on another on a Ramón Laureano sac fly, and the Mets never responded. While the NL East-leading Phillies didn’t play on Thursday, the Mets still lost a full game in the standings by virtue of dropping both contests against the Orioles, and now sit 1.5 back.
Yankees battle back from no-hitter to walk-off win
The Yankees’ bats were quiet through the first seven innings of Thursday’s game against the Mariners, as Bryan Woo carried a no-hitter into the bottom of the eighth inning, while his team had given him five runs of support to that point.
In the eighth, though, Jazz Chisholm Jr., the first batter of the inning, knocked a single in the gap between the first and second baseman.
That kick-started a rally, with catcher Austin Wells eventually knocking in Chisholm on a sacrifice fly. Two batters later, Giancarlo Stanton pinch-hit for Jorbit Vivas, and jacked an opposite-field two-run home run, putting the Yankees within striking distance.
In the bottom of the ninth, Wells came up big again with a two-out single that scored Cody Bellinger and Ben Rice to tie the game up, 5-5, and send it to extras. In the bottom of the 10th, a pair of walks loaded the bases for Aaron Judge, who could have met the moment and hit his 350th career home run on a walk-off grand slam. Instead, he went a bit more lo-fi than that with a sac fly to center field that gave Anthony Volpe just enough time to dive around Mariners’ catch Cal Raleigh’s tag, and the Yankees the 6-5, come-from-behind victory.
Padres homer their way to 50th win
As part of a big night for some teams on the wild card bubble, the Padres finally reached their 50th win of the season. They did so thanks to the power of Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr., who both managed to go deep. Tatis’ shot was pretty clearly gone off the bat, a no-doubt blast to center:
Machado’s wasn’t a towering blast, no, but it was even more obviously gone, as he ripped a laser into the second deck video board that took about three-and-a-half seconds to hit the stands.
Tatis actually almost went deep twice in the game, but he hit this one with a little bit less oomph to a slightly deeper part of center field, giving Jake McCarthy a chance to reel it in. Which he did:
The Padres still won 4-3, however, and with the Giants having a day off, gained half-a-game on them in the wild card standings: San Diego is still half-a-game back, entering their weekend series with the Phillies.
Red Sox win 7th straight, 50th of 2025
The Red Sox have the longest current win streak in MLB, and just bumped it up another game by completing a sweep of the Rays on Thursday. While the Sox are still in fourth place in the AL East, they’re now just half-a-game back of Tampa Bay, owing to having one more game in the loss column and the same number of wins.
The difference for Boston was rookie Marcelo Mayer, and his plate appearance in the seventh inning. It would end with a double that drove in Trevor Story and cut the Rays’ lead to 3-2, but despite not being a hit that tied things up or put the Sox ahead, manager Alex Cora called it Mayer’s “Probably [his] أفضل ما في هذا الموسم“من أجل الصبر الذي عرضه في انتظار الملعب الذي يمكن أن يقوده كما انتهى به الأمر.
لقد انتهى الأمر بكونه ضربة مفتاح لأسباب أخرى أيضًا: Ceddanne Rafaela سوف يقود في كليهما رومي غونزاليس و Mayer مع فردي منفردة إلى الوسط في وقت لاحق في هذا الشوط ، مع إعطاء Sox ما أثبت أنه المدى الحائز على اللعبة.
Red Sox في حوزة بطاقة Al Wild Third ، وبعد يوم الخميس يجلس لعبة واحدة فقط على Mariners – دفعت Yankees Sextle إلى أسفل في تلك الترتيب ، وسمحت لمنافسيها في بوسطن. لا يوجد وقت للقلق بشأن هذا النوع من الأشياء التي تحدث عندما تكون مشغولاً في مطاردة بلو جايز لقيادة الشرق ، بالطبع.
ميلر يلقي 104 ميل في الساعة
هذا واحد يبدو جميلة التوضيح. ال ألعاب القوى‘ ميسون ميلر ألقى 104 ميل في الساعة يوم الخميس. مائة وأربعة أميال في الساعة. سريع جدا!
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