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Tovar put the Rockies on the board in the first inning with a solo homer off Paul Blackburn. The 23-year-old shortstop is up to 19 homers on the season while hitting .281/.304/.478 with 61 runs scored, 54 RBI, and four steals across 496 plate appearances.

Devers has been limited by his right shoulder for weeks, and it looks like he’s finally calling it with the Red Sox essentially done. Boston could finish out the season with Nick Sogard and Romy Gonzalez at third and give Vaughn Grissom a brief look at second.

Witt Jr. accounted for 60 percent of the hits for the Royals on Friday in a game where the Giants pitching held Kansas City to five knocks and just one run. The three-hit game sees the 24-year-old star increase his average to .334, and he’s swinging the bat much better after a shaky beginning to the month of September.

Ramos finished a homer short of the cycle in this one. His RBI was an infield single to score Mike Yastrzemski in the first, and he’s now plated 70 batters in his first full year as a starter. Ramos is going to have some lulls as long as he continues to have contact issues — and there’s no reason to think he won’t going forward — but the strides he’s taken in 2024 shouldn’t be discredited.

Doval walked two in the outing and gave up a sac fly to Garrett Hampson, but because the Giants came into the ninth with a 2-0 lead, he was able to get the save; his 23rd of the season. It also saw his ERA raise to 5.24, so outside of those saves, there hasn’t been much to praise for the 27-year-old.