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Machado swatted his 16th homer of the season with a solo blast off Eduardo Rodriguez. He also doubled and singled and is now up to 2,004 hits in his impressive career. Machado remains one of the best third baseman in the sport, and should be able to remain at that level for the foreseeable future.

García ripped a two-run homer in the eighth inning to cement a blowout victory by making it an 11-3 game. The 32-year-old also singled in a run to bump his RBI total to 53 on the season. García is the subject of trade rumors, and while he hasn’t been a great option the last year and a half, there’s no question the talent is there for him to provide fantasy fireworks.

Soderstrom got the party started with a three-run homer off Spencer Strider in the first inning. He punctuated the scoring by hitting a walk-off single in the 11th for his fourth RBI and to give the A’s the victory. Soderstrom has put together a solid season with a .263/.342/.451 slash with 16 homers and 53 RBI.

Strider’s 11 whiffs are the second most he’s picked up this year behind the 13 against the Rockies in June. The 26-year-old gave up a three-run homer in the first inning to Tyler Soderstrom, and from that point on, he was dominant while generating an obscene 21 swings-and-misses. Strider offers injury risk and will occasionally struggle with his command, but his swing-and-miss stuff is as good — if not better — than any hurler in the sport.

It’s probably the victory of the year for the Yankees, who were being no-hit by Bryan Woo while down 5-0 after seven. Stanton hit the homer after Matt Brash entered the game in the eighth, and the Yankees scored twice off All-Star Andrés Muñoz to tie things up in the ninth. They won in the 10th on an Aaron Judge sac fly. Anthony Volpe looked like he’d be out at home on a great throw from Julio Rodríguez, but Cal Raleigh missed the tag, ending the game. Stanton was a career .104/.228/.146 hitter in 57 plate appearances as a pinch-hitter before taking Brash deep tonight.

The 23-year-old was the Astros’ first-round selection (28th overall) from the 2023 draft class. He has been brilliant at Triple-A Sugar Land this season, slashing .283/.400/.476 with 10 homers, 39 RBI and 25 stolen bases in 325 plate appearances. A shortstop by trade, he has played mostly second base in the minor leagues this season. He could cover shortstop while Jeremy Peña recovers from his rib injury before shifting over to second base. He could wind up being an impact addition in deeper mixed leagues based on his stolen base upside combined with his strong bat-to-ball skills and power potential.

Westburg gave the Orioles their first lead of the game with a two-out, 413-foot two-run blast off of Brandon Waddell that made it a 3-2 ballgame in the third inning. The 26-year-old infielder also plated a run with a fielder’s choice in the sixth inning and came around to score on a ground ball off the bat of Ramon Laureano. He finished the afternoon 1-for-5 and is now hitting .248/.306/.484 with 10 homers, 20 RBI and one stolen base through his first 170 plate appearances on the season.

The 27-year-old southpaw struck out four batters on the day and didn’t allow a base on balls. The only time that the Marlins put a runner in scoring position against him came as Xavier Edwards reached on a two-out bunt single in the third inning and swiped second base before being stranded there. Lodolo generated 10 swings and misses on 91 pitches in the ballgame, posting a CSW of 25 percent. He has been a major asset for fantasy managers in the first half of the season, going 6-6 with a 3.38 ERA, 1.11 WHIP and a 97/22 K/BB ratio over 102 2/3 innings in 19 starts.

Crow-Armstrong, who went 0-for-8 in the first two games of the series, had a 414-foot homer off Chris Paddack in the third and a 425-foot homer of Anthony Misiewicz in the seventh. It’s his sixth two-homer game, five of which have come this year. He’s up to 25 homers overall, which is tied with teammate Seiya Suzuki for sixth in the majors, and he’s the only player in the league with 20 homers and 20 steals (27, in his case).

The Yankees will also give Paul Goldschmidt a day of rest for the finale against Seattle and Bryan Woo, and Aaron Judge will be the designated hitter for a mini-rest day. Ben Rice will start at first base for the first time in the series, and Trent Grisham is also in the lineup after missing the previous two games.