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With the deal, he was added to the 40-man roster and immediately optioned to Triple-A Nashville. Pratt’s contract is worth a reported $51 million. He might get a chance to take over at shortstop this summer if Joey Ortiz struggles offensively. Still, it’ll be interesting to see how this works out in the long run with two superior shortstop prospects behind him in 18-year-old Jesús Made and 19-year-old Luis Peña. It would seem to ensure that is current Triple-A teammate, Jett Williams, is going to wind up at third or in center field.

Not great. Yesavage appeared to injure his left knee while landing on a warmup pitch prior to the third inning and made an immediate exit from the contest with a trainer. He departed after firing a pair of scoreless innings. The 23-year-old’s absence would be a crushing blow in the middle of an already dismal season for the Blue Jays. He’ll undergo further evaluation and imaging to determine the severity of the issue. It certainly seems like a potential injured list situation. There should be additional clarity on his status later this week.

Chisholm blistered a solo homer off Hunter Dobbins to give the Yankees a 1-0 lead. The 28-year-old has his first homer of the month of August after hitting four of them in July, and he’s now up to 17 on the campaign.

Lombard Jr. becomes the latest member of an exclusive club of players who have homered in their MLB debuts. He also drew a walk and helped turn a couple of double plays and cement a shutout victory. Lombard will likely have some ups and downs over these first two months of his career, but there’s never been a question of talent, and he’s absolutely worth a look for fantasy managers who need middle-infield help down the stretch.

Bednar came in to clean up a mess in the eighth, and while he did issue a walk to load the bases, he was able to escape. This makes back-to-back four-out saves for the right-hander, and he’s up to 25 saves on the campaign.

Dobbins allowed just four hits in the contest, and he struck out four against three walks. Unfortunately, two of those hits were solo homers — including the first MLB home run for George Lombard Jr. — and the Cardinals gave Dobbins a literal zero in run support. Dobbins has basically alternated quality outings with less-than-spectacular outings as of late, and he’ll try and break that trend — and get some help from his teammates — when he faces the Phillies next week.

This makes back-to-back starts where Weathers hasn’t allowed a run, and he’s given up just one over his last three over 18 2/3 innings. That’ll work. In this outing, Weathers struck out six while issuing just one walk, and he scattered four hits in a very impressive outing for the 26-year-old that lowers his ERA to 3.79. If there’s no change to the rotation order, Weathers will face Seattle in New York on Tuesday.

The only run Gusto allowed was a solo homer to Ozzie Albies in the second inning. Outside of that blemish the 27-year-old pitched well with five strikeouts, one walk and just five hits allowed through the contest. He still has a 4.80 ERA on the season, but Gusto has looked better than that number suggests for much of the campaign. He has a friendly matchup coming up on paper Sunday in a scheduled bout against the Angels.