The Padres tied the Dodgers in the NL West<\/p>\n
Things have been going well for the Padres<\/a> of late. They picked up a bunch of players like Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/a>, Ramon Laureano<\/a> and Freddy Fermin<\/a> at the trade deadline to help fill holes and add depth to their roster, while also adding flame-throwing closer Mason Miller<\/a> to the bullpen. The result has been an 8-3 record in August so far, and that last win, recorded on Tuesday night against the Giants<\/a>, pushed the Padres into a tie for first place in the NL West.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n One other deadline addition, Nestor Cortes<\/a>, started the game and threw 4.2 innings of 1-run ball before he was lifted. The aforementioned Laureano started in left, went 2-for-3 with a walk, and was driven in twice on the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n The bullpen held San Francisco scoreless the rest of the way, and San Diego would win, 5-1. Great news for the Padres, of course \u2014 especially since the Dodgers<\/a> would lose on Tuesday \u2014 but pretty terrible for the Giants. They\u2019re now 59-61, nine games back in the NL West and 5.5 back of a wild card spot, and have lost four in a row. They\u2019ll try to avoid a series sweep on Wednesday with Kai-Wei Teng<\/a> on the mound against Nick Pivetta<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Mathematically, it\u2019s not a must-win game, but with the way the Giants have been playing of late \u2014 they\u2019re 14-21 since the start of July, and haven\u2019t posted a winning record in a month since April \u2014 they all are at this point.<\/p>\n And the Mariners tied the Astros, too<\/p>\n The Padres weren\u2019t the only team to move into first place on Tuesday, as the Mariners<\/a> managed the feat, as well. Their win was much more of a nail biter, as they ended up scoring just one run against the Orioles<\/a>, but one was all they needed thanks to one George Kirby<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Kirby started and threw seven scoreless innings, scattering three hits while striking out seven O\u2019s. Josh Naylor<\/a> continued to come up huge for the Mariners since they picked him up from the Diamondbacks<\/a> well before last month\u2019s trade deadline, as he drove in a run with a single in the top of the first inning. Naylor is batting .286\/.355\/.554 with four homers, eight RBIs and 11 (!) steals in 16 games since the deal. It\u2019s more than making up for Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a>\u2019s slow start since his own trade from Arizona, that\u2019s for sure, and you can tell because Seattle has now won eight games in a row.<\/p>\n With the Astros<\/a> getting crushed by the Red Sox<\/a>, 14-1, the Mariners moved into a tie for first place in the AL West. Even as we approach mid-August, there\u2019s still a ton of season left, with both clubs having 42 games remaining on their schedule. Still. What an exciting development! Seattle was a season-worst seven games back just over one month ago, and now they\u2019ve tied things up.<\/p>\n The Dodgers (apparently) can’t beat the Angels<\/p>\n The Dodgers didn\u2019t win, no, but it certainly wasn\u2019t for lack of effort or opportunity. Maybe they just aren\u2019t allowed to defeat the Angels<\/a> anymore, as part of some cosmic deal that allowed them to sign Shohei Ohtani<\/a>. It\u2019s probably going to be worth it in the end, if so, but in the moments where they\u2019re holding up their end of the bargain, well. Painful.<\/p>\n How else can you explain this triple play coming off the bat of Ohtani, anyway? Sure, Zach Neto<\/a> is one of the best shortstops in the game, fair.<\/p>\n Bang bang bang. What a play! Great positioning, great reaction time, an excellent heads-up move to run to second for the tag, too. And then being able to catch the runner going back to first, too? Neto knew exactly what he was about from the second he started running toward that liner, and the result was a beautiful triple play.<\/p>\n Ohtani would get his revenge later by hitting a ball where no one but a fan could catch it, and it also served as the go-ahead run for the Dodgers in the ninth.<\/p>\n That was Ohtani\u2019s 43rd homer of the season, which puts him in a tie for fifth-most on the single-season Dodgers list, and also gave him sole possession of the NL home run lead. Oh, and it was his fourth-straight game with a dinger, too.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t enough, however. With two on in the ninth, already tied once more 6-6, Jo Adell<\/a> came to the plate, and he hit a ball right into the dirt that bounced so far and so high that it cleared the left side of the infield.\u00a0 See? Cosmic deal. The Angels are now 5-0 against the Dodgers in 2025 after splitting the season series 2-2 in 2024.<\/p>\n Alonso makes Mets history (then makes it again)<\/p>\n Pete Alonso<\/a> is the Mets<\/a>\u2019 new all-time home run leader, after bashing career dinger No. 253 against the Braves<\/a> on Tuesday. He passed Darryl Strawberry with that third-inning homer, but don\u2019t worry, Straw, you\u2019re still ahead in iconic appearances on “The Simpsons”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Alonso wasted no time in extending his record, either, as 254 was smashed in the sixth, putting the Mets up, 11-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was a big homer night for New York, with the Mets crushing a half-dozen of them in what ended up being a 13-5 victory. That was just their second win in August \u2014 they\u2019re 2-8 in the month \u2014 but there\u2019s still plenty of it left for the Mets, who are five games back of the Phillies<\/a> in the NL East but do hold a wild card, to fix that crooked number.<\/p>\n Not a triple play, but<\/p>\n This was still a wild defensive play from the Mets that nabbed two Braves.<\/p>\n The communication on both sides is good fun to watch, even if it didn\u2019t pay off for Atlanta at all.<\/p>\n Bo and Vlad, Vlad and Bo<\/p>\n Bo Bichette<\/a> and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. <\/a>combined to make a spectacular defensive play to end the fourth inning for the Blue Jays<\/a>, and you just have to see it. Bichette ranges, goes off-balance a bit but recovers to make a strong throw to first. It\u2019s a bit off-target, though, which means Guerrero needs to stretch\u2026 and then stretch some more.<\/p>\n Dude can pick it.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t forget about the Guardians<\/p>\n While the Cleveland Guardians<\/a> didn\u2019t move into a postseason spot with their W on Tuesday, they at least managed to keep pace with the Yankees<\/a> for the last wild card spot, and sit just one game back of them. They can thank the performance of star third baseman Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez<\/a> for that, as he hit home run number 24 of the season in the first inning to give the Guardians a 1-0 lead over the Marlins<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n \u2026and then hit another solo shot in the eighth, with the score tied up 3-3, to give Cleveland the lead. That would prove to be the game-winner, too.<\/p>\n Ram\u00edrez is now just five dingers shy of a 30 homer, 30 steals season \u2014 it would be the third such campaign of his career \u2014 while the Guardians find themselves 8-2 in August, and 22-8 over their last 30 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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