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Brooks gets the call to fortify Oakland’s bullpen ahead of Sunday’s game against the Twins with Dany Jiménez heading to the injured list. The 34-year-old journeyman righty made four starts earlier this season for the Athletics before being jettisoned from the club’s 40-man roster. He’s likely to operate as a swingman or multi-inning low-leverage option.

How many Rangers fans wanted Duran DFA’d at some point during 2024 or 2025? Or for just the entirety of those two years? Duran has four homers and 32 RBI in 184 plate appearances this season after totaling three homers and 34 RBI in 504 plate appearances the previous two years. He’s been the Rangers’ regular shortstop with Corey Seager out, but he can simply move to second after Seager comes off the IL.

It’s his 100th career victory to go along with 69 losses. The key for deGrom this year is taking on NL teams, apparently. He’s faced four and gone 4-0, allowing just two runs in 23 2/3 innings. He’s 0-4 with four no-decisions and a 5.05 ERA against AL clubs. Unfortunately (not really), deGrom’s next start will come Sunday at home against Cleveland.

Latz, now sporting a 2.00 ERA in 27 innings, has needed only 21 pitches to get two saves the last two days. Still, he’ll probably be down on Tuesday after this. Jakob Junis might close then.

While it’s a third straight loss for McGreevy, this was a better performance than the other two, even if he did notch just one strikeout. Aided by two double plays, he got his 18 outs on 84 pitches. McGreevy is now 3-5 with a 2.98 ERA. He’ll take on the Reds on Sunday.

Gorman has eight plate appearances in his last three games and has struck out in seven of them. He’s 2-for-33 with no extra-base hits, runs or RBI and 19 strikeouts in his last 11 games. He also had a misplay in the ninth tonight that went as a single and a throwing error, though most third basemen would have handled the chance without incident. Maybe the Cardinals will give Blaze Jordan a shot at third, but it seems notable that he’s played first base or DH’d in four straight games now after starting at third base in 26 of his first 44 starts for Triple-A Memphis. If the Cardinals don’t trust Jordan at third, Thomas Saggese still could be an upgrade from Gorman.

After getting a rare day off on Sunday, Chourio came through with his first three-RBI game of the year. It’s also a rare multi-walk game. He had six of those as a rookie but only three last year and this is his first of 2026. Chourio is hitting .276/.336/.418 in 107 plate appearances since returning from a fractured hand.

The runs came on a Matt Chapman homer that was nearly taken away by Jackson Chourio in center. It was a homer in just eight of the 30 ballparks. Since he was pulled at 68 pitches after spending the last five weeks in the pen, he didn’t get a win in the rout. That instead went to Chad Patrick after a scoreless fifth. Drohan will probably make another start Saturday in Colorado, but he might return to the pen after that.

Roupp was dealing with back tightness during the outing, though he kept it hidden from Tony Vitello and crew until after he departed. His velocity was fine initially, but his average sinker went from 94.2 mph in the first to 91.8 mph in the fourth. The loss makes Roupp 5-6 with a 4.22 ERA. If the back tightness goes away, he’d be in line to start Saturday against the Cubs.

After a stellar April, Turang came in at .231/.355/.363 with three homers and two steals last month. Tonight might be an indication that his June will be better. His triple was hit 396 feet to center and took a long carom off the wall. He had busted it out of the box, there’s a chance he could have had an inside-the-parker.

Rengifo scored three runs in a game for the first time since 2024 and fifth time in his career. It’s as many runs as he scored during the entire month of May. He hit .217/.280/.217 in 75 plate appearances last month, and he came into tonight with just a .520 OPS for the year.