We’re into the middle of June, which means the “winter” sports are getting ready for wrap things up and there will be a window before football season where it’s all baseball among the major professional men’s American sports. In our world, it’s simply grind season. We know this is a 162-game marathon with ebbs and flows.
What did this weekend bring us? Let’s take a look.
Highlight of the Weekend
Let’s see those moves, Randy Arozarena:
Pretty impressive stuff there and great call from the MLB social media person with the reference to Twister. Do people still play that? Hmm…
Anyway, the Rays would end up prevailing on Sunday in Minnesota to salvage one of three before a big series coming up this next week (we’ll get to that in a bit).
Giants finish sweep of Dodgers
It has been tough sledding for the Dodgers the last two weeks or so, and they have to hope this weekend against the Giants was rock bottom. The Dodgers were swept in three games — San Francisco won the finale 2-0 on Sunday — and also lost ace Walker Buehler to an elbow injury. He’s going to miss significant time.
Los Angeles went 2 for 24 with runners in scoring position in the three games, prompting manager Dave Roberts to say his offense lacked a team-first “mindset.” Austin Slater and Mike Yastrzemski hit solo home runs off Julio Urías in the first inning Sunday, and Carlos Rodón and the Giants bullpen made the two runs stand up to complete the sweep.
The Dodgers are 37-23 and have lost nine of their last 13 games. They still lead the NL West, though their lead is down to a half-game over the Padres. The Giants, meanwhile, are 33-26 and 3 1/2 games out in the division.
José is a run-producing machine
Guardians third baseman José Ramírez has been one of the best players in baseball for a while and he might well be having a career year. At least as far as run production, he is. It was on display Sunday. The A’s got a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but Ramírez’s two-RBI double in the bottom half put Cleveland up for good. Ramírez homered Thursday and Friday and then drove in three runs on Sunday for a five-RBI series as the Guardians took three of four. They’ve won 10 of 13 and have moved to within striking distance of the Twins in the AL Central.
Ramírez now has 59 RBI in 56 Guardians’ games. No player has driven home more runs than his team played games in a full schedule…
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