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  • CLE Center Fielder #8
    Lane Thomas homered to plate Cleveland’s only two runs Saturday against the Dodgers.
    Thomas has started against most righties of late, not because he’s done well against them but because the Guardians’ alternatives have failed to step up. His homer tonight did come against a righty in Michael Grove. Thomas is batting .198/.274/.317 with a ridiculous 41 strikeouts in 101 plate appearances for the Guardians.
  • SD Right Fielder #23
    Fernando Tatis Jr. went 3-for-3 with a walk and a run scored Wednesday as the Padres held off the Braves 5-4 to finish off a Wild Card sweep.
    Michael Harris II’s two-run homer in the eighth made things interesting, but the Braves couldn’t overcome a five-run second inning that produced all of San Diego’s runs. Tatis went 4-for-6 with a homer in the brief series, and he is now 11-for-28 with four homers and a 7/7 K/BB ratio in the postseason during his career. The Padres will move on to face the Dodgers in the NLDS.
  • SD Catcher #20
    Kyle Higashioka homered in a second straight game Wednesday against the Braves.
    Higashioka started both games of the Wild Card series over Elias Díaz, and the Padres seem fully committed to him as their regular at this point. He’s 7-for-31 with three homers over four different postseasons, having previously split time with Gary Sánchez and Jose Trevino with the Yankees.
  • ATL Center Fielder #23
    Michael Harris II went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and a double in Game 2 against the Padres on Wednesday.
    Harris hit a two-run homer off Jason Adam in the eighth to bring the Braves within one run, but that was the end of the scoring on the night. It’s obviously not the outcome Harris wanted, but it had to be a bit of a confidence builder personally, considering that he went 1-for-14 and 0-for-13 in his previous two postseasons. He was 5-for-8 this time around.
  • NYM Starting Pitcher #62
    The Mets will have Jose Quintana start Thursday’s Game 3 against the Brewers.
    David Peterson will be ready to contribute behind him, if needed. Quintana is 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA in four starts and one relief appearance in the postseason in his career.
  • SD Starting Pitcher #44
    Joe Musgrove left Wednesday’s Game 2 with right elbow tightness.
    He was pulled with a 5-1 lead in the fourth inning tonight. Assuming that Musgrove misses additional time, Yu Darvish and Martín Pérez will round out the Padres’ four-man rotation going forward. It’s definitely a big loss, but with the way Pérez has thrown, it might not be a fatal one.
  • MIL Left Fielder #5
    In his first at-bat off the bench, Garrett Mitchell delivered a tiebreaking two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth as the Brewers bested the Mets on Wednesday to send their Wild Card series to a decisive Game 3.
    Mitchell hit the go-ahead shot off Phil Maton after Jackson Chourio tied the game with a homer earlier in the frame. It was Mitchell’s first career postseason homer after he was left off the Wild Card roster in 2023. He had previously entered the game as a pinch-runner, only to be caught stealing on a great throw from Francisco Alvarez. Milwaukee’s win means there will be at least one game on Thursday. Tobias Myers is expected to get the ball for Milwaukee, while the Mets will likely rely on Jose Quintana.
  • MIL Starting Pitcher #47
    Frankie Montas surrendered three runs — one earned — in 3 2/3 innings Wednesday in his Game 2 start against the Mets.
    Montas’s own error led to the unearned runs, as an easy toss bounced off his glove as he was going to cover first in the second. Montas minimized the damage otherwise, giving up just the one earned run despite allowing six hits. Things looked rather bleak when Montas exited, but the Brewers pen pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in the comeback victory.
  • NYM Starting Pitcher #59
    Sean Manaea pitched five innings of two-run ball Wednesday in Game 2 against the Brewers.
    Manaea struck out four and walked none before leaving with a one-run lead. It was definitely his best postseason outing to date, even if it didn’t result in a win. He came in having gone 0-3 with a 15.26 ERA in two starts and one relief appearance lifetime in October. The first two of those were with the A’s, while the last came with the Padres in 2022.
  • MIL Right Fielder #11
    Jackson Chourio hit a pair of solo homers Wednesday against the Mets.
    Chourio homered off Sean Manaea to lead off the bottom of the first and later tied the game against Phil Maton in the eighth. Both were opposite field shots, with the first traveling 376 feet and the second going 398 feet. At 20, Chourio became the second youngest player ever with two homers in a postseason game. Andruw Jones had two in Game 1 of the 1996 World Series while still 19 years old.
  • ATL Starting Pitcher #54
    Braves manager Brian Snitker said Max Fried was troubled by the spot he got hit on a line drive in the first inning Wednesday, which factored in him to being pulled after the second in Game 2 against the Padres.
    That he gave up five runs also factored in, but these two things were probably connected, and while the Braves might have given Fried a chance to bounce back under other circumstances, they opted to go to Dylan Lee to begin the third tonight. Fried was drilled in the hip area by a Fernando Tatis Jr. comebacker in the first. He went on to escape a jam that inning, only to give up five runs in the next frame.