Gavin Sheets sits against southpaw on Thursday

Boy, did Grisham need this one. The 29-year-old hit .165/.242/.306 in 85 at-bats in July. He has posted great batted ball data for much of this season and was playing great baseball before a hamstring injury sidelined him in the middle of June. Maybe this will be the game that gets him going again.

Garcia Jr. is going to like hitting in Yankee Stadium. The 26-year-old has had a breakout season, in part, because he’s pulling the ball in the air more often. That’s going to work well in his new home park. Garcia Jr. now has 24 home runs and 78 RBI on the season.

McGreevy walked one and struck out five, but threw just 58 percent of his pitches for strikes. He posted a 10 percent swinging strike rate, which was above his season average, but had just 14 percent called strikes in a game where his command really struggled. He’ll take a 3.59 ERA into a meeting against the Phillies next week.

It was Schlittler’s shortest start of the season. In fact, two of the right-hander’s three shortest outings of the season have been in his last four starts. He may be tiring a little bit since he’s on track to easily outpace his career high in innings, but it’s far more likely that he just had an off day. His velocity looked good, but he threw just 61 percent of his pitches for strikes, far below his season average. We’d expect him to bounce back this weekend against the Braves.

Duran struck out two and didn’t allow a baserunner in securing his 25th save of the season. He remains one of the most consistent closers in baseball.

Harper crushed his 24th home run of the season 433 feet deep in the eighth inning to give the Phillies a three-run cushion. This may be Harper’s last game playing first base for a while since he’ll move back out to right field to accommodate Luis Arraez’s arrival in Philadelphia. We don’t expect that to change anything with Harper’s offensive success.

Ortiz was recalled from Triple-A on Monday to be the starting first baseman with Luis Garcia now in New York, and he wasted no time in acclimating himself, hitting a first-inning home run off Aaron Nola. Ortiz will sit against left-handed pitchers, and may even be lifted in the middle of the game, as he was today, but he had 18 home runs in Triple-A this season and has clear power. Ortiz is a solid add in fantasy formats right now.

This is the first time all season that Alvarez has completed six innings, and it came in one of his toughest matchups. The left-hander walked three and struck out five while throwing 59 percent of his pitches for strikes and posting a 12 percent swinging strike rate. The command remains an issue for Alvarez, but he should get a long look in the rotation with Foster Griffin now in Cleveland.

Horwitz snapped a scoreless stalemate by ripping a bases-clearing double down the right-field line against Brewers starter Brandon Sproat in the third inning. The 28-year-old first baseman has gone 1-for-8 at the dish in a pair of games since returning from the injured list over the weekend.

Montgomery got the call to guard a one-run advantage after Camilo Doval tossed a scoreless eighth inning. He managed to work around a one-out single from Joey Ortiz by striking out Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio to extinguish the threat. He’s likely going to take a back seat to newly acquired high-leverage veteran Luke Weaver, but could wind up vulturing the occasional save chance against lefty-heavy lineups.