{"id":764707,"date":"2026-06-27T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764707\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:59:08","slug":"the-opener-misiorowski-meyer-red-sox-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/764707\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opener: Misiorowski, Meyer, Red Sox, Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White Sox laid a 22-1 beatdown on the Royals on Friday, tying the second-highest run total in Chicago\u2019s 126-year history in the majors.\u00a0 Tristan Peters<\/a>\u2018 six-RBI night was fueled by a grand slam in the sixth inning, while Miguel Vargas<\/a> and Jacob Gonzalez<\/a> also collected five RBI apiece.\u00a0 The emphatic victory and the Guardians\u2019 3-1 loss to the Mariners puts the White Sox a game ahead of Cleveland for first place in the AL Central.<\/p>\n

1. Miz keeps throwing the heat<\/p>\n

Speaking of widening leads, the Brewers are now a comfortable 7.5 games ahead of the Cubs in the NL Central race after Milwaukee topped its division rival by a 6-2 score on Friday.\u00a0 Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> tied his season high with four walks, but held the Cubs to one run on two hits over six innings while striking out eight.\u00a0 As usual, Misiorowski hit a velocity-related milestone, as his 105.5mph fastball in the first inning marked a new career best for the phenom.\u00a0 It also tied the third-fastest pitch ever recorded since Statcast was incorporated in 2008.\u00a0 Kyle Harrison<\/a> starts today as the Brewers look for their sixth straight victory, while the newly-acquired<\/a> David Peterson<\/a> is set to make his first start for Chicago.<\/p>\n

2. Meyer, Marlins stay hot<\/p>\n

Max Meyer<\/a>, Michael Petersen<\/a>, and Calvin Faucher<\/a> combined to hold the Cardinals to just three hits in the Marlins\u2019 4-0 shutout victory on Friday.\u00a0 Meyer did a lot of the heavy lifting with seven shutout frames, and right-hander is now 9-0 with a 2.60 ERA, 26.7% strikeout rate, and 9.0% walk rate over 97 innings and 17 starts this season.\u00a0 The secondary metrics (like a 3.70 SIERA) aren\u2019t quite as impressed with Meyer\u2019s work, but he has been rolling lately with a 1.78 ERA in his last 30 1\/3 innings of work.\u00a0 The Marlins are now 17-5 in June, as the club\u2019s strong play has brought them within a game of an NL wild card berth.<\/p>\n

3. Tensions flare in The Rivalry<\/p>\n

The Yankees and Red Sox are at opposite ends of the AL East standings, but Boston has now won the first two games of the four-game set between the two longtime foes.\u00a0 Friday\u2019s 6-1 Sox victory saw the benches empty (just for some jawing and glaring rather than brawling) after Willson Contreras<\/a> wasn\u2019t pleased by a couple of relatively inside pitches from Will Warren<\/a> during a fifth-inning walk.\u00a0 Contreras had homered and hit an RBI single in his previous two plate appearances, and marked his walk with a big bat flip that drew Warren\u2019s attention.\u00a0 Gerrit Cole<\/a> looks to get New York back in the win column in today\u2019s game, as Cole is set to start against Boston rookie Jake Bennett<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White Sox laid a 22-1 beatdown on the Royals on Friday, tying the second-highest run total in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-764707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}