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Reyes has been outrighted before, so he can become a free agent if he’d like. He had a 4.50 ERA in three appearances for the A’s before being DFA’d on Wednesday.

Another young starting pitcher is continuing a dominant start to the 2026 season. Yesavage was slowed by a right shoulder impingement in spring training and didn’t make his season debut until April 28. Wednesday was his best start to date, and it marked the second consecutive outing in which he completed six frames. He’ll carry a 1.07 ERA into a juicy home matchup versus the Marlins next time out.

Varland allowed a run on two hits while striking out two and walking none. He stranded the game-tying run on second base while fanning Amed Rosario to end it. Meanwhile, Jeff Hoffman worked in the seventh inning on Wednesday, further cementing Varland’s closer role in Toronto. Manager John Schneider isn’t afraid to use Varland outside of save chances if the moment calls for it, but he’s been going to him in the ninth inning lately. All six of Varland’s saves have come since Hoffman last picked one up.

Schlittler struck out seven and allowed two free passes, one of which was a grueling 11-pitch at-bat against Andrés Giménez that put him over 100 pitches. He loaded the bases to open the seventh before walking a runner in. That made it 1-0 and ended his night before an inherited runner scored. The 25-year-old righty has been sensational this season, and some minor regression is to be expected. He’ll carry a 1.50 ERA into a road matchup in Kansas City next time out.

Myles Straw replaced him against the Yankees. The Jays would miss Sánchez if he lands on the IL, but they do have Nathan Lukes nearly ready to return.

It’s his shortest start of the year, as he completed six innings each of his first seven times out. Tonight, though, he needed 88 pitches to get his 15 outs. It’s the fourth time this season that he’s gone without allowing a run, and his ERA now stands at 0.73 in 49 innings. Ohtani also had a nice night offensively while both pitching and DHing for the first time since Apr. 22. Along with the leadoff homer in the first, he walked and scored a second run. He’s 13-for-27 with two homers, four doubles, 10 RBI and seven walks in his last seven games. Ohtani’s next mound outing will probably come next Wednesday against the Rockies.

Vásquez gave up a leadoff homer to Shohei Ohtani in the first tonight and didn’t strike out a single one of the 21 batters he faced. It’s actually kind of impressive that he did so little damage to his 2.96 ERA while giving up six hits and walking three. He still seems like a decent play next week at home against the Phillies.

Pages, the lone Dodgers starter to finish hitless tonight, has finally hit a rough patch, going 4-for-37 in his last 10 games. Still, that comes with seven RBI and only eight strikeouts. He’s at .288/.337/.493 with 10 homers and six steals for the season, and he’s tied for the major league lead with 42 RBI.

It’s happening for Griffin. He ignited rallies in the fourth, sixth, and eighth innings by starting each with a single and scored a run in all three. Plus that, he had the hardest hit ball in this game at 111.2 mph on his second inning single. Again, it feels like it’s all coming together for the 20-year-old Griffin. He now has a hit in 18 of his last 20 games and raised his .213 batting average and .573 at the start of this stretch to a .278 BA and .738 OPS after this game. We’re still waiting on the power with just three home runs through 43 games played, but he looks like the budding star we expected to see.

Mlodzinski continues to be effective with his splitter heavy repertoire. That was his primary pitch here against the Cardinals’ left-handed heavy lineup and while his command of it wasn’t necessarily great, they still chased a solid chunk of them and never squared one up. Besides that, he spotted his fastball well and wasn’t afraid to work hitters inside with it. All in all, it was a fine start and pushed him down to a 3.96 ERA on the season to go along with 44 strikeouts and 17 walks across 50 innings. He’s scheduled for a two-start week coming up against the Cubs and Twins.

Early struck out five and walked one to earn the quality start. The young southpaw gave up multiple free passes in each of his first five starts of 2026 but has done so just once over his past five. He’ll carry a 3.33 ERA into a dangerous matchup next time out, at home against the Braves.