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The Phillies wanted Duran to work tonight after activating him earlier in the day, and that meant having him pitch the ninth ahead by nine. Duran wasn’t sharp, but that’s no harm done. However, since it did take him 27 pitches to get through the frame, it’ll be interesting to see if the Phillies are willing to use him on Wednesday.

Aranda extended his on-base streak to eight games with another solid showing. Ironically, he had two of the four hardest hits in a game which his Rays lost 11-2. Those are the breaks sometimes. On the season, he has a .286 batting average, .860 OPS, nine home runs, and 41 RBI in a tremendous encore to his breakout last season.

Matz had nothing in this one. The first six Orioles he faced all reached base and five of them came around to score in the first inning. Gunnar Henderson had the big blow with a two-run homer on a changeup that may as well have been on a tee. Past that, Matz didn’t have any type of command of that changeup or his sinker and turned in his worst start of the season. He’ll take a 4.67 ERA and 35:17 strikeout to walk ratio over 44 1/3 innings into his next scheduled start against the Tigers.

Elder kept the Red Sox off the board for the first three innings despite allowing six runners to reach base over that span. In the fourth, things caught up with him a bit after he allowed a leadoff single to Masataka Yoshida to start the inning and followed that up with a walk to Mickey Gasper. Yoshida would come around to score on a fielding error, which was followed by an RBI single by Isiah Kiner-Falefa to give the Red Sox a 2-0 lead. Elder would allow two more batters to reach base and runs to score before being pulled. This was easily the worst outing of the season for Elder, who hadn’t allowed more than three earned runs in any of his previous nine starts. He’ll draw another tough matchup in his next start, which is scheduled for Tuesday against the Blue Jays.

Torkelson went deep off of José Soriano in the second inning to push the Tigers’ lead to 2-0. It was the eighth homer of the season for Torkelson, who also doubled twice in his powerful display at the dish. It was a much-needed big night for Torkelson, who entered the day with a .198 average and a .373 slugging percentage. He’s now hit safely in five of his last six games, so hopefully this is a sign of good things to come for him at the plate.

Not great. Jansen was lifted from the ninth inning of a save situation after issuing a two-out walk to Mike Trout. There should be an update on his status shortly. Brenan Hanifee came on to record the final out following his departure.

Cano loaded the bases in the eighth inning before coming out of the contest. It certainly sounds like a potential injured list situation.

The Tigers jumped all over Soriano early in this one, leading off the bottom of the first with three-straight singles. Dillon Dingler’s single would score Colt Keith from third to give the Tigers their first run of the game, but he would get thrown out trying to take an extra base. Soriano retired the next two batters of the inning to escape further damage, but gave up a leadoff homer to Spencer Torkelson in the second inning to put his team in a 2-0 deficit early. He would make it through the third and fourth innings without any issue, but ran into a jam in the fifth inning. After retiring the first two batters of the frame, Soriano would walk Kevin McGonigle and Dingler, with McGonigle coming around to score on an RBI single by Riley Greene. He would then walk Zach McKinstry to load the bases before striking out Torkelson to end the threat. Soriano struggled with his command, allowing 11 hitters to reach base while also giving up two extra-base hits. He’s come back down to earth after a hot April, but has allowed three or fewer runs in three of his last five starts. He’s scheduled to take the mound next on Monday at home against the Rockies.

It was more of the same for Priester as he averaged just 91.8 mph on his sinker and threw just 18 of 38 pitches for strikes while failing to complete the first inning. The 25-year-old has been working his way back from thoracic outlet syndrome and the results have been utterly abysmal through a handful of rehab outings. There’s zero reason for the Brewers to expedite his return to the majors given how he’s looked so far.

It sounds like Mize’s early departure was precautionary in nature, but he’ll undergo further evaluation, and possibly imaging, to determine the severity of the issue. The 29-year-old missed two weeks with groin tightness earlier this month. He left the contest with a trainer after reeling off four shutout innings with six strikeouts against the Angels. He’s obviously in jeopardy of missing his next scheduled start against the Rays on Monday. There should be an update on his status at some point later this week.

Pump the brakes. There was rampant social media speculation that Made, the consensus top-overall prospect in baseball, was heading to Triple-A Nashville, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. The 19-year-old prodigy has put together a remarkable campaign, slashing .277/.353/.452 with six homers and 18 steals in 201 plate appearances over 42 games for Double-A Biloxi as the youngest hitter in the entire Southern League. He’s checked every conceivable box since making his stateside debut last year and his rapid trajectory towards Milwaukee puts him on pace to potentially reach the majors by the end of the year.