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Wrobleski also issued a pair of walks in the contest while striking out three. He navigated the first inning without any issues, but the White Sox pushed across three runs against him in the second inning and another pair while chasing him in the third. The 25-year-old hurler got eight swings and misses on 68 pitches on the afternoon — five on his fastball — while posting an underwhelming CSW of 19 percent. This outing definitely didn’t help his cause in securing a spot in the Dodgers’ Opening Day rotation. Overall, he sports a 5.40 ERA, 1.08 WHIP and a 7/2 K/BB ratio over 8 1/3 innings on the spring.

Suárez’s homer off Greg Weissert in the sixth was projected at 431 feet. Two innings earlier, he had a 403-foot flyout that Statcast said would have been a homer in seven ballparks. Suárez is going to struggle to hit for average, and he’s already lost some fantasy value by getting dropped from fourth to fifth in the Reds lineup, but there still aren’t many better bets in terms of homers and RBI, especially if Matt McLain and Sal Stewart continue to hit like this.

Lowder gave up just a two-run homer to Wilyer Abreu before exiting with the Reds trailing 2-0. He finished with five strikeouts and a 31% CSW, and he peaked at the end of the outing, throwing his hardest pitch of the afternoon (95.4 mph) while striking out Trevor Story to end the fifth. Lowder probably isn’t quite a mixed-league option at this point, but he figures to be pretty solid in the middle of the Cincinnati rotation. He’ll get the Rangers next weekend.

A day after blowing a one-run lead, Pagán held on to this one. He allowed a double to Andruw Monasterio with one out, but he got flyouts from Ceddanne Rafaela and Trevor Story (with a Roman Anthony intentional walk mixed in) to end the game from there. With Pagán and Tony Santillan both working the last two days, the Reds may have to go to Graham Ashcraft or Pierce Johnson if they have a late lead Monday versus the Pirates. It’d be a third straight day for Johnson, but he’s only thrown 20 pitches the last two, compared to 34 for Pagán and 52 for Santillan.

It was a surprise to see Early, who had thrown five scoreless innings, brought out for the sixth at 88 pitches in 2 -0 game, but the Red Sox felt short-handed in the pen after Saturday’s extra-inning game. Early gave up a single to Matt McLain and then struck out Elly De La Cruz before being lifted. Greg Weissert came in and walked Sal Stewart and then gave up three-run homer to Eugenio Suárez, denying Early a chance at a win. Early ended up allowing five hits, walking two and striking out six. He’s not a bad option in mixed leagues with a home start against the Padres coming up next.

What an incredible first series for Stewart, who went 7-for-10 with four extra-base hits and a 0/3 K/BB against the Red Sox. The rest of the Reds went 14-for-93 with three-extra base hits and a 33/11 K/BB over the course of the three games, two of which turned into wins anyway.

After hitting a game-tying homer in the ninth inning of Boston’s eventual loss Saturday, Abreu again did everything he could to aid the Red Sox offense today. Alas, his homer accounted for the team’s only scores. He might have plated more runs in the eighth if Jarren Duran hadn’t gotten picked off first with one out. Willson Contreras went on to reach and Abreu singled to the gap afterwards, but Caleb Durbin struck out to end the threat.

The Brewers entered the home half of the eighth inning on Sunday trailing 7-3. They went to work though as they loaded the bases with one out and then Brice Turang delivered an RBI single to cut into that deficit. That’s when the White Sox called upon their closer, Seranthony Dominguez. He got William Contreras to pop out for the second out, but Luis Rengifo followed with a two-run single and then Yelich pinch-hit for Gary Sánchez and clobbered a 421-foot (111.1 mph EV) three-run shot that gave the Brewers their first lead of the day. He’s off to an outstanding start to the season, hitting .600 (6-for-10) with a homer, five RBI and a stolen base.

The Brewers were facing a four-run deficit before they came to bat in the first inning, then Sánchez got to work on that immediately, crushing a 387-foot (104.1 mph EV) two-run shot off of Anthony Kay. He also singled and struck out twice in the contest. Look for Sánchez to continue to see starts against left-handed pitching at a minimum — and he could see increased action at first base with Andrew Vaughn sidelined.

No one knew for sure which direction Brewers’ manager Pat Murphy would turn with his first lead to protect in the ninth inning — whether it would be Megill or Abner Uribe — and it took three days to finally get an answer. After the Brewers rallied late to take the lead in this one, it was Megill that was brought on to try to protect it. He made things interesting by allowing a leadoff single to Tristan Peters to bring the tying run to the plate, then rebounded to strike out Chase Meidroth and Munetaka Murakami before getting Miguel Vargas on a fly ball to end it. It’s still possible that Uribe could get the next opportunity, but Megill at least held serve in his first try.

The 25-year-old right-hander also issued four free passes on the afternoon while striking out three. He struggled to keep the ball in the yard in this one, as Colson Montgomery blasted a grand slam in the opening inning, Munetaka Murakami added a solo shot in the second and Everson Pereira did the same in the third inning. Sproat got nine whiffs on 86 pitches on the day, posting an underwhelming CSW of 22 percent. He’ll try to put this one behind him and get back on track when he battles the Royals his next time out in Kansas City on Saturday.