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Sugano was pulled with a 2-1 lead in the fifth before the Rockies were able to blow this one open in the sixth. He allowed just two hits, walked two and struck out four. Sugano’s velocity is up a tad from last year, which might give him a chance of being something close to an average starting pitcher. But since he signed with the Rockies, that really doesn’t matter for fantasy purposes.

It was assumed that 27th man Grant Wolfram would be returned to Triple-A after Sunday’s doubleheader, but he’ll stick around and Suárez will go back on waivers for the third time this season. Suárez pitched four scoreless innings today, giving him a 2.75 ERA in 19 2/3 innings over the course of seven relief appearances.

Griffin allowed three hits and one walk, lowering his ERA to 3.63 on the year. He began the season on an unsustainable pace before allowing 14 earned runs in his past two starts. Then he blanked one of baseball’s best offenses in their own park. Griffin’s ERA is now right in line with his 3.75 xFIP, and he next lines up for a home start versus the Padres.

Pérez struck out two and walked two. His top-prospect days are well behind him at 35 years old, but he’s managed to carve out quite the sustainable career following some early struggles. The soft-tossing southpaw will be a difficult start in Cincinnati next time out.

The theft was his eighth of the season. While Wood’s stolen-base attempt rate is slightly below last year, he’s making up for it with extra times on base. He’s also been more efficient on the base paths. He’s currently 8-for-9 after going 15-for-22 last year. He’s becoming a true fantasy superstar in his age-23 campaign.

Albies has been the team’s everyday cleanup hitter this week following the return of Ronald Acuña Jr. The second baseman has one of the highest wRC+ marks of his career, though he finishes the afternoon just 14% better than league average. It’s still a bounce-back from the past two years. The only flaw in his roto profile this year is that he hasn’t yet stolen a base and has been caught three times.

Peraza was the awkward hero tonight. With runners on first and second and one out in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth, he hit a weak line-drive one-hopper right to the second baseman for what looked like a particularly easy double play. Justin Foscue, though, bobbled the ball while taking it out of his glove after touching second and made a poor throw that Jake Burger couldn’t handle at first. As the ball bounced away from Burger, Jo Adell scored from second, creating a strange end to a fun pitcher’s duel. It went as a forceout and an error on Foscue, though Burger definitely deserved a share of the blame as well.

Jake Burger hit a homer to start the second inning, but aside from that, Detmers retired all 24 batters he faced. He’s the first pitcher this year to retire 21 in a row in a game, and his 14 strikeouts matched the MLB season high for a pitcher, which was established by Seattle’s Emerson Hancock against the Royals on May 2. Detmers previous high for strikeouts was 12, which he’d done four times. It’s the ninth time in his career that he’s pitched at least seven innings and allowed no more than one earned run. Four of those have come against the Rangers. Detmers, currently 1-5 with a 4.57 ERA, will face the Rays next.

On the night, Gore walked two and allowed a single, but unfortunately for him, that happened in a four-batter sequence in the third, with Mike Trout driving in the run. Gore, who left his last start with lat tightness, threw 99 pitches tonight and ended up with seven strikeouts and 17 whiffs. His ERA is back down to 4.42, and he’s slated to make his next start Friday versus the Royals.

Things got even worse late in the game, as Neto got banged up on a diving play at shortstop. He was able to stay in the game, though. Neto came into the night 4-for-7 with two homers in the series against Texas. It was his second four-strikeout game of the year.

McCutchen is 6-for-37 with no RBI over the last month, leaving him at .200/.288/.271 for the year. He also has some of the worst contact and exit velocity numbers of his career at age 39. Unfortunately, it seems like it’s going to be really difficult for the Rangers to stick with him for much longer.