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Morillo, in his first appearance since he was recalled from Triple-A on Monday, took the mound in the bottom of the ninth to close out the game after the Diamondbacks took a one-run lead in the top of the inning. He tossed a clean frame, inducing a line out and two ground outs to convert his first save of the season. Expect Arizona to utilize a committee for save chances. Still, Morillo could be in that mix going forward.

We’d have thought the Giants might be the least likely of the other 29 MLB teams to put in a claim on Doval, but here we are. Doval has collected 107 of his 109 career saves for the Giants and went to an All-Star Game in 2023 before being sent to the Yankees prior to the 2025 trade deadline. He returns to San Francisco having posted a 4.30 ERA and a 62/32 K/BB in 58 2/3 innings this season. The Giants will be able to keep him in 2027, but it’ll likely mean paying him $6 million-$7 million. That’s not a terrible roll of the dice, since his stuff is still just fine. However, he’s at -0.6 bWAR and 0.8 fWAR over the last three years combined.

Tidwell is probably going to have surgery on his damaged UCL, costing him all of next year.

It seems the hamstring issue that knocked him out of Wednesday’s game really must have been a cramp. Rafaela is hitting sixth tonight in his second game back from a quad strain.

Castillo’s velocity issues suggest he’s been dealing with this for a spell, but it probably didn’t help decided to suddenly turn him into a reliever and use him on one day of a rest Tuesday. He still could potentially see some postseason time, but he ends the regular season 4-11 with a 5.85 ERA in 130 2/3 innings. He’s owed $22.75 million next year in the final season of a five-year contract.

Davis was sent down just nine days ago, but now he’ll apparently get to finish the year in the White Sox pen. He has a 3.52 ERA in 29 appearances this season.

Gabriel Moreno is getting a half day off as a DH, so there’s no room for Sánchez today. Sánchez is just 2-for-15 for his new team. One imagines he’ll spend the weekend on the bench in favor of Jordan Lawlar and Ryan Waldschmidt if the D-backs are officially eliminated from contention.

Mauricio has gotten zero starts in four games against lefties since being recalled, but he did start the lone previous game against a righty, going 0-for-2 with a walk and an RBI on Saturday. The Mets are finally facing another righty today, but they picked Nick Marabito to start over Mauricio, with Juan Soto DHing for a second straight day. Mauricio will be out of options next spring, but given how the Mets have handled him this year, he might not even be on the roster at that point.

“I’ll probably be in the training room all day, just trying to get some inflammation down, get the range of motion going and kind of see where we’re at,” Gausman said. “The next two days are pretty important, to be honest, trying to get back to a little bit of normalcy.” Gausman is expected to start in next week’s Wild Card series if healthy.

Weird but ok. Alcantara, who picked up his second save last night, is still going to wind up leading the league in innings pitched in his first year back from Tommy John. He’s 13-11 with a 3.89 ERA and a 152/59 K/BB in 213 innings. The Marlins didn’t say who would start in his place, but Dax Fulton and Bradley Blalock could be available to go multiple innings.

Falvey was previously the Twins’ president of baseball operations, and the Twins reached the postseason four times under his leadership, earning a wild-card spot in 2017 and winning the division in 2019, 2020 and 2023. He will work closely with David Stearns, who he previously worked with in Cleveland in 2011-12. Additionally, Kris Gross, who was in charge of the Mets’ last three drafts (selecting Nolan McLean, Carson Benge, etc.), has been promoted to assistant general manager of scouting.