Brady Singer allowed one run over five innings on Tuesday in a win over the Mets.
Singer was staked to a four-run lead by the second inning and was able to breeze through five relatively painless frames to pick up his third win of the year. He finished with five strikeouts, walked three batters and also hit Brett Baty twice. He's allowed three earned runs or fewer in five of his last six starts dating back to May 12. He'll face the division-rival Brewers at home on Monday.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Bobby Witt Jr. went 3-for-4 with a walk, an RBI, a steal, and a run scored in a loss to the Nationals on Tuesday.
All of Witt's hits were singles, but one of them knocked in a run in the fifth inning, and he was also able to swipe a base. The Royals' offensive struggles have hurt his counting stat production, but Witt is having another strong season with a .290/.364/.454 slash line to go along with the 27 steals and 29 RBI.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Eury Perez (leg) will make a minor league rehab start on Thursday for Triple-A Jacksonville.
Perez will make his first rehab start roughly three weeks after hitting the injured list with a right leg strain. The 23-year-old righty is likely to need a couple outings to build up his pitch count and stamina before returning to Miami's rotation. It certainly looks like he'll make it back by late June or early July.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Lane Thomas went 1-for-3 with two walks, a home run, and two runs scored in a loss to the Nationals on Tuesday.
Thomas clubbed a solo home run off Gus Varland in the ninth inning for his fourth home run of the season. It hasn't been a great season for the 30-year-old, but he has been playing more regularly with Vinnie Pasquantino hurt and Jac Caglianone moving to first base. Since June 1st, Thomas has gone 11-for-41 (.268) with three home runs, eight runs scored, and seven RBI. It's not electric production, but he'll lead off against lefties and could be an option in deeper formats for the next month or so.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Spencer Jones homered and worked a bases-loaded walk in the Yankees' 12-2 rout of the White Sox on Tuesday.
Jones also had another walk and a strikeout. He's 7-for-22 with two homers and a 9/4 K/BB since being recalled to the majors after Aaron Judge went down. It'll be fun to see how things work out when it comes to him versus Jasson Dominguez as both get to play fairly regularly until Trent Grisham returns.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Gerrit Cole pitched six innings of two-run ball in an easy victory over the White Sox on Tuesday.
Cole allowed one run on an Andrew Benintendi homer in the first and then got 11 runs of support through the fourth before giving up a second run in the sixth. Cole got up to 90 pitches tonight, seven more than he'd thrown in any of his first four starts. He's 2-1 with a 24/8 K/BB through 28 innings, and he's due to get the Reds next.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Ryan Yarbrough pitched three scoreless innings and struck out three for a save in a 12-2 game against the White Sox on Tuesday.
It's his second three-inning save of the year; he finished off a 15-1 game against the Royals on May 26. Of his 15 appearances this year, five have come with the Yankees up at least five runs and seven have come with the team down by at least three runs. That should help explain why he hasn't factored into any decisions yet.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Davis Martin was torched for nine runs in 3 1/3 innings by the Yankees on Tuesday.
Martin allowed a Spencer Jones solo homer in the second, four runs on three hits and three walks in the third and four more runs on two singles and two homers before being pulled in the fourth. It doubled his total of homers allowed from three to six this season. It's his second poor outing in the last three; he allowed 10 hits and three walks in the start against the Twins 14 days ago and eight hits and three walks in this one. In none of his other 12 starts has he allowed more than seven hits or walked more than two. He's still 9-3 with a 3.31 ERA overall, and while we'd expect that ERA to continue to increase, his 83/20 K/BB in 81 2/3 innings suggests that he could maintain some mixed-league value. He'll look to bounce back against the Tigers on Sunday.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Ben Rice hit his 20th homer and walked twice Tuesday against the White Sox.
Rice and Paul Goldschmidt both homered in the fourth, giving the Yankees a total of 30 homers from what they were looking at as a first base platoon initially. Of course, both are full-timers right now, but it's easy to forget that Rice was on the bench for three of the Yankees' first four games versus lefties during the first couple of weeks. Rice became the eighth player to reach 20 homers this season. He's third in the majors with his 1.006 OPS.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Jacob Gonzalez went 0-for-3 in his fifth straight hitless game Tuesday against the Yankees.
Gonzalez started off 8-for-24 with a homer though eight big-league games, but with this 0-for-15, his OPS has dipped from .887 to .593. He still probably has a couple of weeks to show what he can do, but he'll need to fare pretty well to avoid getting sent down when Munetaka Murakami comes off the IL.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Griffin Conine (hamstring) went 1-for-2 with an RBI on Tuesday in a minor league rehab game for Triple-A Jacksonville.
Conine played seven innings in right field during his first rehab contest since undergoing surgery to repair a tendon in his left hamstring back in mid-April. The 28-year-old is likely to require a handful of additional contests before he's ready to rejoin Miami's corner outfield mix.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Edward Cabrera was removed from Tuesday's start against the Rockies with a right hand cramp.
Cabrera left the contest with one out in the fifth inning. The positive news is that it wasn't a recurrence of the blister issue that sent him to the injured list earlier this season. The 28-year-old was charged with three runs over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out three and also issued two walks. There should be an update on his status following the contest and whether he'll make his next start against the Mets on Monday. It sounds like a relatively minor concern.
(Jun 16 -- NBC Sports)
Guardians Lose by One in Game One
Cleveland Guardians 1 - Milwaukee Brewers 2
(Jun 16 -- Yahoo Sports)