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The 34-year-old slugger has been working out with the Yankees and is drawing very close to a return. The Yankees are insistent that he won’t require a minor league rehab assignment, so the hope is that after facing live pitching over the weekend that he’ll be ready to rock on Monday.

Civale did allow seven hits, but the only run that came across came on solo Brandon Marsh homer in the fifth. The 29-year-old issued one walk and struck out six in a solid outing versus a tough Philadelphia lineup. Civale has not been great nor anything close with Milwaukee, but he’s done just enough to keep his spot in the rotation. He’ll take a 4.48 ERA into a start Saturday versus the Diamondbacks.

Suárez gave up a two-run double in the third, and another run in the fourth. He had some issues with free passes as he gave up three walks in the contest, and needed 104 pitches — 62 of those strikes — to get his 15 outs. It’s far from a disaster, but it’s back-to-back so-so starts from the 29-year-old southpaw. Suárez will still take a solid 3.13 ERA into his scheduled start against the Mets on Saturday.

Manaea gave up four hits, walked one and struck out six. The lone run off Manaea came on a Jose Tena RBI single in the fourth inning. He’s allowed three runs or less in 10 of his last 11 starts. Manaea has a 2.58 ERA and 80 strikeouts in 69 2/3 innings in that time. He’s 11-5 with a 3.26 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and 177 strikeouts in 171 innings on the year. The 32-year-old left-hander is set to face the Phillies at home this weekend.

Paredes opened the scoring in the first with an RBI single, and closed it in the fourth with a run-scoring knock. The 25-year-old has driven in a solid 76 runs in 2024, and 10 of those have come in the month of September. He’s hit .302 in that month, but still hasn’t hit a homer since August 26.

Amaya had been in a 2-for-27 funk coming into this game, and he broke out in a big way. It’s somehow the second triple of the year from the not-so-speedy backstop, and he added a pair of run-scoring singles for good measure.

Rooker just continues to demolish pitching in 2024. He’s now just two homers away from 40 — that’s 38, if you needed that help, which is ok — and he also upped his average to .302 with that homer and a single. Rooker was being underrated in fantasy drafts coming into the year, but no one could have seen him being this good.

Swanson belted his homer with a couple runners on in the second inning to give the Cubs a 6-0 lead. He drove in his fourth run and 62nd of the season with a single an inning later. It’s a nice game but a little too late in terms of making fantasy managers happy with Swanson, as there just haven’t been enough of them in 2024. September has been nice, however, as he now has an .830 OPS for the month.