The reigning American League Cy Young Award winner owns a 3.41 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, and 219/38 K/BB ratio in 200 1/3 innings (28 starts) this season for Cleveland.
Scary scene in Miami on Sunday afternoon when Bryce Harper went down in a heap after colliding with Derek Dietrich of the Marlins at second base on a soft grounder from Jayson Werth.
Tulowitzki has hit just .232/.314/.368 in 39 games since the Blue Jays acquired him from the Rockies, but it’ll be a tough blow if the star shortstop is not able to make it back by early October.
It’s been difficult for the Rangers to find consistent offensive production from left field this season, so they’ll try something a little crazy on Sunday afternoon in Arlington.
Injured starters Anibal Sanchez and Daniel Norris are on very similar recovery timetables, so the out-of-contention Tigers have decided to just go ahead and bring them back together.
Fernandez has been on the disabled list since August 8 with a right biceps strain and he missed 13 months before that following Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery.
Ortiz is two away from 500 career home runs and seven away from passing Eddie Murray for sole possession of 26th place on the all-time home run leaderboard.
Twins closer Glen Perkins hasn’t made an appearance since the first of September due to discomfort in his back and his return to action is not exactly imminent.
Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy was hit on the mask by a foul tip Tuesday night in Miami and he is out of the starting lineup for Wednesday’s series finale at Marlins Park due to concussion-like symptoms.
Mets general manager Sandy Alderson ran through the tentative rest-of-season plan for Matt Harvey in a chat with the media ahead of Wednesday night’s series finale against the Nationals.
The 22-year-old is well above his previous career high in innings pitched and showing definite signs of fatigue, so the Nats pretty much have to lighten his workload despite their desperate position in the National League East.
Tuesday night started off terribly for the Mets, with Matt Harvey carrying the haze of his ongoing public innings-limit controversy into what became one of the worst starts of his major league career.
Alex Rodriguez accomplished a couple of different feats when he slugged a solo shot off Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman on Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.
