Jackson Chourio went 4-for-5 in Queens with homers 18 and 19, one off Manaea and one off Curry, scoring four times in an 8-2 Brewers win. Every ball he put in play left the bat at 95 mph or harder. Hitter of the Day.
#ThisIsMyCrew
Chris Sale went the distance in Atlanta: nine scoreless, five hits, no walks, 11 strikeouts at age 37. The slider missed bats on 53% of swings, and the game's last five Ks split between it and a 97 mph fastball. An 88 Game Score, his best in five starts. Pitcher of the Day.
#BravesCountry
@carsonevanss Max EV identical to 2024, 111.8 both years. The power never moved. What moved: chase from 29.9 to 34.5, walks from 7.5 to 5.7, sweet-spot down three straight years. He’s hitting it as hard as ever at worse pitches and worse angles
The usage shift is the visible part. The plots hide two more changes. The fourth pitch in the Yankees chart is gone entirely in Pittsburgh, and the remaining three clusters are noticeably tighter, less scatter in the movement on every pitch. That’s not a mix tweak. They simplified him to three shapes and he’s repeating each one better
Kevin Gausman blanked Arizona across seven on three hits, basically on two pitches: 62 fastballs and 27 splitters, five of anything else. Six strikeouts, one walk, and his best Game Score in five starts. Pitcher of the Day.
#Cubs
Cal Raleigh went deep three times against Philadelphia: 378 feet off a Wheeler fastball in the 1st, 397 off his cutter in the 5th, 351 off Shugart in the 7th. A perfect night, 3-for-3 with a walk, homers 15 through 17. Hitter of the Day.
#Mariners
4 for 5, 2 hr, 4 rbi, and his hardest ball of the night was an out.
Tatis lined out at 115.1 mph in the first. The two homers left at 105.8 and 107.7, one off Ober in the third, one leading off the eighth against Rogers. padres 8-1, sweep.
31 sinkers, 30.8% whiff rate. League average on the pitch is 12%.
Nick Martinez in Baltimore: 6 ip, 1 h, 0 bb, 4 k. 86 pitches, 60 strikes, game score 74. Three of the four strikeouts ended on the sinker.
Cal Quantrill threw 13 innings last week and did not allow a run. 11 strikeouts, zero walks. Four other starters also finished at 0.00, three of them Angels. Tomoyuki Sugano ran a 12.38 over the same seven days.
Pete Crow-Armstrong ran a 1.566 OPS last week. .375, 5 HR, 8 RBI, and a 1.083 slugging that led everyone. Nick Sogard finished four points back at 1.562. Julio Rodríguez posted a .151 over the same seven days.
Jacob Misiorowski beat Chris Sale 2-1. Misiorowski is 13-5 with a 1.68 ERA, Sale is 12-9 with a 2.20. Misiorowski threw 32 pitches at 100 or better tonight, topping out at 103.1.
The Rafael Devers drop-off is one split.
vs RHP: .912 OPS (career mark .918)
vs LHP: .553 OPS (career mark .724)
It isn't Oracle Park. He's at .791 at home and .788 on the road, with 14 of his 25 homers in San Francisco.