Will Warren strikes out four in no-decision

Cantillo’s night spun out early, but not necessarily to any fault of his own. With two outs, one run home, and the bases loaded in the second inning, Guardians’ shortstop Angel Genao made a throwing error that brought two runs home. Two pitches later, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. launched a three-run homer and suddenly there were five unearned runs on Cantillo’s ledger. Past that, he pushed the usage of his fastball up and it was crushed for six hard-hit balls as he missed letter-high with it too often. Regardless, we know we can count on a very odd game whenever Cantillo toes the rubber. He’s scheduled for a two-start week coming up against the Orioles and Twins.

Devers’ homer tonight was hit 415 feet to center. He has eight RBI in his last four games, greatly improving his chances of getting to 100 for the fifth time in his career. He’s 16 away with 22 games left.

Roupp allowed just two hits and two walks in the game. Unfortunately for him, they all came in the fourth, with the second walk forcing in a run. Still, he cruised otherwise — he allowed only one hard-hit ball on the night — and the Pirates had to be feeling good to see him get lifted after just 75 pitches. The quick hook suggests the Giants are going to be watching his workload the rest of the way. Because of injuries, he had never thrown more than last year’s 109 2/3 innings coming into this season. He’s at 144 2/3 right now. Roupp is due to face the Cardinals next time out. It should be a two-start week, with a second home outing versus the Padres to follow, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see the Giants decide to give him some additional time between starts.

The Giants gave him two runs to work with tonight. Smith surrendered an RBI single to Nick Gonzales to start his inning, but he then retired three in a row, striking out two. Smith blew his previous save chance last Wednesday, but he still seems like the favorite for saves in San Francisco.

Rafael Devers homered in the first. The other two runs came in the fifth in a rally that started with a double to right center that really ought to have been caught and then a Devers popup that dropped in shallow right for a single. So, that wasn’t much Chandler’s fault. Still, it was rather disturbing that Chandler got just one swing and miss all night. 88 pitches, 40 swings and one miss. He’ll take a 4.30 ERA into his next start against the White Sox.

Mlodzinski was great in holding the Giants scoreless from the seventh through the ninth and would have gotten a win if Jacob Gonzalez hadn’t come up about a foot short of a walkoff homer in the ninth. Instead, the Pirates lost in 10, and now they’ll be without Mlodzinski’s services Thursday. It was assumed the Pirates would again go with the Lake Bachar-Mlodzinski pairing that they used twice last week. Bachar is still expected to start, but the Pirates will need to look elsewhere when he departs after two or three innings.

Miller struck out three and walked one, lowering his ERA to 4.01. It wasn’t the most efficient effort, but it was a step in the right direction after allowing five earned runs or more in three consecutive starts. Miller was phenomenal in his initial return from injury this season, but he entered Wednesday with a 7.18 ERA in the second half. He was going to be sent to the bullpen recently, but Emerson Hancock’s injury reopened a rotation spot. He’ll draw the Rangers at home next time out.

Sandoval struck out two, needing 80 pitches to record 12 outs. The left-hander was making his 10th start since returning from elbow surgery, and he’s up to a 4.41 ERA. A seven-run debacle against the Pirates in mid-August is doing a lot of the damage. Still, Sandoval doesn’t have much fantasy upside next time out against his former team, the Angels.

Bello gave up two walks and didn’t strike anyone out. He threw 94 pitches on Saturday, so the turnaround might’ve been a little quick. Until recently, he had one of the best ERAs among all relievers, but he’s now been hit hard twice in a row. He wasn’t that efficient in the outing before those either. Bello won’t pitch again until Sunday at the earliest, but fantasy managers might not want to rely on streaming him for ratios.

Naylor entered last season with 25 career steals, and he surprisingly swiped 30 in his age-28 campaign. That led to plenty of offseason discussion about whether the aggressiveness could continue with another year in Seattle. He’s up to 26 thefts with three and a half weeks to play, but he’s been caught seven times after just twice last season. Naylor’s batting average and counting stats have also declined from a season ago, tying his fantasy value to an unusual source of speed at first base.