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Sauer, who finished the season in the minors, will get a World Series ring for posting a 6.37 ERA in 29 2/3 innings for the Dodgers last season. He seems like a prime candidate to give Japan or Korea a try.

Webb walked one batter and struck out two in this one while throwing 66 percent of his pitches for strikes. Shockingly, he had just three total whiffs and a three percent swinging strike rate. Yes, three percent. Webb has just a 10 percent swinging strike rate on the season and has notched more than five strikeouts in a game once since June 14th. You’re getting plenty of ratio help with Webb, but the lack of strikeouts dampens some of his fantasy value.

Wetherholt hasn’t had a ton of chances to drive in runs from the leadoff spot, but including Wednesday’s in a 3-1 win over the Yankees, he’s come up with a pair of big two-run doubles in the last five days. The Rookie of the Year candidate is batting .249/.353/.387 with 16 homers and 45 RBI on the season. It’s quite possible we’ll end the year with Wetherholt and Sal Stewart as the NL ROY favorites and Wetherholt potentially doubling Stewart’s WAR and Stewart doubling Wetherholt’s RBI total.

It was his best day as an Oriole to date. Alonso went 3-for-3 with two walks and scored three runs. He slammed a two-run homer off Kumar Rocker in the second inning and added a two-run shot off Jordan Montgomery in the fourth. It was his first multi-homer game as a member of Baltimore, which says a lot about the sort of year it’s been for him. Still, he’s now up to 25 homers on the year, putting him on pace for his sixth-straight 30-homer campaign.

This was looking like a quality start and a win for McGreevy until Willi Castro doubled and Brett Sullivan homered with two outs in the sixth. McGreevy was lifted then with a 4-3 lead that ended up being blown in the eighth. McGreevy has now gone four outings with a quality start and five without a win, keeping him 4-9 with a 3.64 ERA. He’ll face the Cubs next week.

O’Brien got a 100-mph lineout to left, a 103-mph groundout and then an 88-mph liner to left that required an excellent diving catch from Everson Pereira. It’s his seventh straight scoreless appearance, and he’s now tied with Mason Miller for the NL lead in saves.

He allowed eight hits, walked three and struck out one in his latest no-decision. Lorenzen went 2-9 in his first 17 starts, but he’s lost just one of the last eight, even though he hasn’t exactly excelled with a 6.25 ERA and a 16/20 K/BB in 36 innings during the span. He’ll face the Giants next weekend.

Herrera’s day started with a popup to short that dropped in and included three more singles afterwards. It was actually his hardest hit ball of the day, a 105-mph grounder, that produced his only out. Herrera went 8-for-14 with a homer and two doubles in the series against the Rockies, raising his OPS from .728 to .752.

It was his shortest outing since May 2. Rocker gave up two runs in the first inning, a result of him failing to cover first base after Jake Burger made a diving play. It would get worse in the second inning, as he served up homers to Colton Cowser and Pete Alonso. Rocker was pulled after issuing a leadoff walk in the fourth inning. The loss dropped him to 4-9 on the year while his ERA shot back up to 4.46. That’s the highest it’s been since mid-May. Rocker will try to get back on track against the injury-riddled A’s in his next start, but it’s a tough assignment in Sacramento.

Montgomery underwent Tommy John surgery in March of 2025 and made his way back after several rehab starts in the minors. While he received a lot of love from the fans in his return to the Rangers, the Orioles hitters greeted him rudely, including a two-run homer from Pete Alonso in the fourth and a two-run shot from Tyler O’Neill in the sixth. The veteran southpaw gave up six hits in all while walking one and striking out a pair. He’ll continue to pitch out of the bullpen for now, and there’s no fantasy relevance at this stage.

Cowser sent one for blast-off in the second inning, as it traveled 441 feet to the batter’s eye in center field. It was first homer since way back on June 21. He was later credited with an RBI on a bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning, but it was his fifth-inning single off Jordan Montgomery which was more intriguing. He entered Sunday’s action just 5-for-32 (.156) against southpaws this season.