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Scheiner has yet to reach the majors, but launched 30 homers across 124 contests last season for Triple-A Tacoma. The 28-year-old infielder was a fourth-round pick of the Phillies back in 2017.

It’s the first save for Morris since May 20th. The righty took the mound in Friday’s back-and-forth affair to secure the win for the Twins after manager Derek Shelton opted to go with Anthony Banda in the eighth inning in hopes of limiting further damage after the Cardinals took an 8-7 lead on an RBI single by José Fermín. Morris needed only nine pitches to get through the inning and induced a ground ball out to all three batters he faced.

Walker stepped to the plate with the bases loaded in the seventh inning and laced a double to left center to bring in all three runs and put the Cardinals up 7-4. The 24-year-old righty continues to enjoy a career year and extended his hitting streak to nine games with his one-hit outing on Friday. Walker is slashing a blistering .348/.348/.587 on the month with seven extra-base hits and 12 RBI.

With two outs in the seventh inning and the Twins trailing 7-4, Clemens stepped to the plate with two men on and made the most of his moment when he blasted a three-run homer off reliever Ryne Stanek to tie the game at 7-7. It was the 10th homer of the season for Clemens, who has now homered four times in June and is slashing .303/.324/.667 on the month.

Emerson took a high Zack Littell fastball and deposited it in the right-center field stands, 407 feet away, to make it 5-0 Mariners early. The power has played so far for the rookie as he’s hitting .232/.312/.551 with five homers in his first 69 at-bats. The Mariners look smarter everyday for locking him up to an extension this offseason, though he probably won’t be a full fantasy force until he hits his way further up the order.

Ryan continues to display pinpoint command while keeping his team in position to win games. In a game that went back-and-forth all evening, Ryan held the Cardinals to just six hits on the night and exited the game with a 4-3 lead, but the Cardinals jumped all over the Twins bullpen after Ryan’s departure. He’ll look to pick up his fifth win of the season in his next start, which is scheduled for Thursday against the Rangers.

Canzone had a two-run triple off the top of the center field wall that bounced back over Jacob Young’s head on the ricochet, then added a solo shot just over the right-center field fence in the eighth inning to make it 9-1. Canzone has been a pretty great strong side of a platoon this year, hitting .282/.345/.564 overall, and is already just one homer from 2025’s career high of 11. Teams will probably stop pitching to him quite as much as they have early on this year, but the Baseball Savant page is tomato red and none of this looks especially fluky.

Leahy gave up a solo homer to Byron Buxton with one out in the first inning, and would allow three more runs to score over his final two innings of work. Leahy attempted to make it through the Twins’ order a third time, but after alowing the first three runners he faced to reach base he was pulled in favor of George Soriano. It was business as usual for Leahy, who was again limited to five innings but did a good job of controlling the strike zone. His next start is scheduled for Wednesday at home against the Padres.

Crews has hit two homers this month, but that’s about all he’s done while getting regular playing time. He’s hitting .189/.241/.324 in 20 games so far. It should be noted that his expected batting average is .258, but those metrics are a little noisy in this small of a sample size. Given how poorly he’s done at the bigs so far in his career, a contending team probably wouldn’t wait this out. The Nationals might be willing to humor it for a while longer though.

After three line outs in the first inning, Littell allowed five of the next seven batters to reach -- the two that didn’t were a sacrifice fly and another lineout -- before Nats manager Drew Butera had seen enough. The Nationals will keep starting Littell hoping to get innings, but you certainly aren’t encouraged to do the same in fantasy baseball. Assuming he stays in the rotation, he’ll draw the Royals next week.

He allowed just two other hits in addition to the dingers. The Nationals didn’t swing and miss much against his four-seamer, whiffing on only 3-of-22 swings, but they also let it pass by seven additional times for strikes and could only turn it into two hard-hit balls. Miller has started five games and has a 1.54 ERA. Seems alright. He’s currently slated to face the Orioles next week in what will remain another must-start.