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Rodríguez has declared free agency. He had a 5.93 ERA in 14 relief appearances for Boston this season.

Megill faced the minimum of three batters on Friday and struck out Royce Lewis to end the game. Megill’s save comes two days after Abner Uribe notched his ninth save of the season, with Uribe making an appearance in the eighth inning of this one. While we don’t quite know the reason manager Pat Murphy elected to flip the roles for his relievers in this one, we’ll assume Uribe is still the preferred option to close out games.

Lewis drove home Luke Keaschall in the bottom of the seventh inning for his 13th RBI on the season. The veteran third baseman continues to struggle at the dish this month, going 3-for-31 on the month while slashing .097/.194/.129. Lewis can continue to be left on waiver wires until he turns a corner.

Montgomery’s 12th homer of the season came in the second inning off of Cubs starter Edward Cabrera, who hung a changeup over the middle of the plate, which Montgomery deposited into right-center field. Montgomery has now homered in back-to-back games and three times in his last five.

Not often you go 4-for-5 and get outshined by a teammate, but here we are. With the Phillies staked to an early 6-0 hole, Harper plinked three singles into the shallow outfield before unleashing a 388-foot ‘single’ off the top of the right-center field wall off Gregory Soto that tied the game in the top of the ninth. The 33-year-old superstar is now hitting .282/.372/.534 in his first 34 games of the year, with 10 homers and two stolen bases.

Kelly continues to swing a hot bat for the Cubs, and is now slashing .281/.324/.313 on the month. The veteran catcher drove in his first run of the night in the fourth inning when he singled home Ian Happy, and later drove in Alex Bregman from third on another RBI single in the seventh inning. In a four-run eighth inning for the Cubs, Kelly doubled with the bases loaded to drive home both Bregman and Seiya Suzuki, to put the finishing touches on one of his best nights at the dish. Kelly has had a decent month, but has yet to homer and has only one extra-base hit to show for his efforts over that span.

After retiring the White Sox in order in the first inning, Cabrera would be touched up for a 403-foot solo homer by Colson Montgomery in the second inning to tie the game at 1-1. He would bounce back to allow only one base runner over the next two innings, but in the fifth inning, Cabrera would walk the first two batters he faced, with both eventually coming around to score to cut the Cubs’ lead to 4-3. Cabrera would not escape the inning, as he was pulled following a two-out walk to Sam Antonacci to give him his shortest outing of the season. Cabrera has now allowed three earned runs or more in each of his last seven starts, and has slowly seen his ERA balloon to 4.06 after finishing April with a 3.06 ERA.

After retiring the first two batters he faced to start the game, Burke allowed back-to-back singles to Alex Bregman and Ian Happ, with Happ’s single driving home the Cubs’ first run of the night. Burke would pitch back-to-back scoreless innings in the second and third innings, but allowed three of the first four batters he faced in the fourth to reach base, with Carson Kelly driving in the Cubs’ second run of the night on a single to bring in Ian Happ. Burke would exit with one out in the fifth inning after allowing back-to-back hits to start the frame, with Michael Busch and Seiya Suzuki both doubling home runs. Burke has now struggled in back-to-back outings, allowing 10 earned runs over 8 2/3 innings pitched while letting a combined 17 runners reach base. Prior to his struggles, Burke had allowed four or more earned runs in just one of his seven starts. He’ll look to right the ship in his next outing, which is scheduled for Wednesday at the Mariners.

His first was a lined shot just over PNC’s right-field wall to put the Pirates up 4-0 early against Aaron Nola, then added a no-doubted to right-center off Tim Mayza that still hasn’t landed. (It went 422 feet.) Lowe had only garnered hits in two of his last six games entering this one, but he immediately brought his line back up to .250/.352/.591 on the season with 12 homers and 31 RBI. He’s certainly been a solid find for fantasy mangers picking outside of the top tier of second basemen.

To say that Schwarber is on a tear is putting it mildly: He’s got a 1.133 slugging percentage over his last seven games and has hit nine homers in his last eight games to take the major league lead. His first homer sailed just above the second railing in right-center in PNC Park off a 98 mph Braxton Ashcraft fastball, and then hit a lined shot opposite field against Mason Montgomery that just kept carrying, landing 408 feet away in left-center. The second homer surprised even the Phillies announcers with how it just kept carrying. Schwarber’s only hitting .237. Oh well. Enjoy the ride, fantasy managers.

Foscue laced a one-out single into left field in the eighth inning to break up Spencer Arrighetti’s no-hitter. His hit would be the only one of the night for the Rangers, who struggled to get anything going despite only striking out six times as a team. It was just the third hit of the season for Foscue, who was recalled from Triple-A Round Rock earlier this month.