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• Cardinals series preview: I-70 Series redux

SetNumber: X32249 TK6 F8 The past is fun, but the future might be exciting for both teams. This marks the 40th anniversary of the Royals defeating the cross-state rivals, the Cardinals, in the 1985 World Series. Many members of that club are in town to be honored, as well as members of the 2015 team celebrating their 10th anniversary. For most of the 40 years since the Show-Me Showdown, th...2025
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• Table Setters
Lars Nootbaar of the Cardinals reached base with three hits in four at bats in the 5-0 win over the Pirates Wednesday afternoon. That raised his OBP for the season to .374. He is one of a number of lead-off hitters this season posting great OBPs. Oneil Cruz of the Pirates might be the most […]...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 6

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers fall behind Reds in our edition of the power rankings as true competition in NL Central becomes clearer Welcome to the sixth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% ac...2025
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• Brewers lead from start to finish, rout Cardinals 7-1

Jeff Curry-Imagn Images A balanced day by the offense backs another solid Jose Quintana start Box Score With the Brewers facing the potential of being swept, they needed a good game on Sunday to avoid it and break a four-game losing streak. They got it, putting up three runs in the first and never falling behind. In the first, the Brewers got Cardinals’ starter Erick Fedde to work through...2025
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• Brewers walked off by Cardinals in 6-5 loss

Brewers first baseman Rhys Hoskins | Photo by Jeff Le/Getty Images Offense comes back late, Murphy gets heated, and Arenado walk-off secures the loss Box Score The Brewers took another brutal loss in Saturday’s matchup against the Cardinals. The Brewers’ fell into an early deficit but came back in the ninth inning on Chourio’s game-tying home run, only to take the loss when Nolan Arenado h...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 5

Kelley L Cox-Imagn Images Cubs have another hot week, the rest of the division ... not so much Welcome to the fifth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado, let’s rank s...2025
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• Brewers can’t complete comeback in 3-2 loss to Cardinals

Brewers pitcher Chad Patrick | Photo by Jeff Le/Getty Images Patrick impressive again, but it’s not enough as offense stalls Box Score The Milwaukee Brewers lost a game that provided them several chances at a comeback. But each time, their offensive run was quenched, and the breakthrough never came as they fell 3-2 to the St. Louis Cardinals. It started with another impressive game from Ch...2025
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ St. Louis Cardinals

Benny Sieu-Imagn Images Brewers head to St. Louis to take on the Cardinals for first time this year The Milwaukee Brewers are set to head to St. Louis for the first time this year, as they’ll take on the struggling St. Louis Cardinals. The Brewers dropped three of four in San Francisco to the Giants in what was an unconventionally sloppy week for the Crew’s defense. On the other side, St. ...2025
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• Braves bullpen bends and breaks in loss to Cardinals

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images This was another one of those games for the Braves where it was all good, right up until it wasn’t! Atlanta’s bullpen was called upon to get the Braves through this game after Spencer Strider suffered a hamstring injury in extremely unfortunate fashion. The bullpen bent all night but it eventually broke later on, as the Atlanta Braves ended up suffering a...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 4

Jovanny Hernandez / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The Cubs continue to set the bar for the rest of the division, but the gap is closing Welcome to the fourth week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 1...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 3

Matt Kartozian-Imagn Images With another strong week, the Brewers now sit in a tie for first in the division Welcome to the third week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without further ado...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?

Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Dodgers look like the cream of the crop but there are several teams that could challenge for their crown. Every Major League Baseball team begins a brand new baseball season with hope. In the spring of 1993, as a fresh-faced 16-year-old Phillies fan living in suburban bliss, I had no right to believe that summer was going to be anythin...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-March 8, 2025
Around the League Colson Montgomery-White Sox-SS The White Sox are projected to be one of the worst lineups in baseball in 2025. On a macro level this is not ideal for fantasy production but what it does offer is playing time for young players. The White Sox are going to give SS Colson Montgomery every opportunity to figure it out at the major league level. He hit .214 with 18 HR, 66 R, 63 R...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 24th, 2025
Sandy Alcantara (SP - MIA) - Alcantara returned to the mound for the first time since 9/23 on Sunday, touching 99 mph repeatedly during his 1 scoreless inning against the Mets. By all accounts, the Marlins ace looked like his typical self during the outing, and if that's the case, his current ADP of SP #50 in round 14 seems drastically lower than I would value him. I'd be happy with Alcantara as m...2025
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• Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep-February 22, 2025
Around the League Mets Starting Rotation Tylor Megill is reportedly ahead of other Mets pitchers. He is scheduled for three innings of live batting practice. The Mets are going with a six-man rotation to start the year. They have competition in camp for the rotation even with recently signed Frankie Montas on the shelf for 6-8 weeks. The final spot will come down to Griffin Canning, Paul Black...2025
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"com, they won their hearing against utilityman Brendan Donovan but lost their hearing against outfielder Lars Nootbaar."

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"In any case, Pham wound up on third, where he scored on a sacrifice fly by Lars Nootbaar."

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"He then walked pinch-hitter Lars Nootbaar to load the bases."

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"The Cardinals made hard contact several times, but generally right at Cubs fielders, until Lars Nootbaar hit a one-out homer in the fifth."

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"Outfielder Lars Nootbaar has been recalled from Triple-A Memphis to take his spot on the active roster."

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• Braves vs. Cardinals series preview: Atlanta looks to keep wins rolling against Cardinals

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The Braves have a little run going. The Cardinals have a little skid going. This weekend, the Braves turned things around a bit, sweeping the Twins without the offensive inconsistency or pitching blow-ups that have marred their attempts to go on a run earlier this season. Now, they’ll host the Cardinals for a three-game set where they’ll hope they can keep rackin...2025
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 1

Brad Penner-Imagn Images We’re kicking off our own power rankings of the NL Central, because who doesn’t love arbitrary lists? Welcome to our first edition of NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Wi...2025
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Preseason Prep - February 21, 2025
Isaac Paredes, 3B, Astros Isaac Paredes was traded from the Cubs to the Astros as part of the Kyle Tucker trade, and it's going to do wonders for his fantasy value. Paredes may not look like much on paper with an 85 mph average exit velocity (3rd percentile) and a .337 xSLG (11th percentile), but his expected stats are deceiving. This is because expected stats don't take into account the direction...2025
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• A recap of post-arbitration deadline contracts

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images What came of the 17 players who swapped numbers with their teams? Back in January, teams and players who did not agree to deals in arbitration passed the deadline for exchanging figures in advance of potential arbitration hearings. This year, 17 players didn’t come to agreements with their teams by that deadline, but sides could still negotiate after that—the Brew...2025
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• A recap of post-arbitration deadline contracts

Rick Scuteri-Imagn Images What came of the 17 players who swapped numbers with their teams? Back in January, teams and players who did not agree to deals in arbitration passed the deadline for exchanging figures in advance of potential arbitration hearings. This year, 17 players didn’t come to agreements with their teams by that deadline, but sides could still negotiate after that—the Brew...2025
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• Sean Murphy returns to the lineup hitting seventh

Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Jarred Kelenic hits eighth Another day, another Braves lineup: Schwelly with the start!#BravesCountry pic.twitter.com/ivRjXYIJHj— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) April 21, 2025 Sean Murphy returns after a breather yesterday and is hitting seventh. He hit eighth in his return from the Injured List for some reason, but has hit somewhere between fourt...2025
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• Braves vs. Cardinals series preview: Atlanta looks to keep wins rolling against Cardinals
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• MLB Power Rankings: Which teams can challenge the Dodgers?
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• Brewers walked off by Cardinals in 6-5 loss
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• Brewers can’t complete comeback in 3-2 loss to Cardinals
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• Braves storm back late, then weather Cardinals’ outburst in 7-6 win

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves outlasted Erick Fedde, hung some runs on Phil Maton, and then survived a poor showing from Raisel Iglesias Sometimes, a sequential recounting of events makes sense for a recap. This is one of those times. Spencer Schwellenbach took the hill on Monday night in the series opener against the Cardinals looking to bounce back from one of the worst s...2025
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• Three things the Royals need to do this offseason

Ha-Seong Kim #7 of the San Diego Padres singles in the third inning against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field on August 18, 2024 in Denver, Colorado. | Photo by Dustin Bradford/Getty Images The offseason blueprint For a dozen years, Royals Review hosted the annual SB Nation MLB Offseason Simulation, where 30 writers from the 30 team sites would get together digitally over the course of a...2024
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• Bullpen shines, offense sputters in second straight extra-innings loss

Jeff Hanisch-Imagn Images A dramatic late comeback was undone by a failure to score in extra innings Box Score Having split their games on Monday and Tuesday, the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals needed to decide a series winner tonight at American Family Field. After Brewers starter Colin Rea got off to a shaky start, it looked like it might be a high-scoring affair, but after th...2024
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• Brewers put on a fireworks show in Labor Day rout of Cardinals

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images Three home runs account for all of the runs scored. Box Score It may have been a day game in Milwaukee, but the fireworks came out anyway. The Brewers scored nine runs, all off of three home runs. The end result was a 9-3 rout of the Cardinals. All it took was five batters for the Brewers to take the lead. After Jackson Chourio and Jake Bauers drew walks, ...2024
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• BCB After Dark: St. Louis wishes it was boring

Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks how the Cardlnals are going to do this season. It’s another Monday evening at BCB After Dark: the coolest club for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. So glad you could stop in this evening. Come on in. There’s no cover charge. There are still a few tables available. Bring your ...2024
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• Brewers take series opener over Cardinals, 7-1

Jeff Hanisch-USA TODAY Sports Milwaukee gets to Sonny Gray early with three homers Box Score The Brewers took their series opener against the Cardinals Thursday night, as Milwaukee homered three times and totaled six runs off starter Sonny Gray in a 7-1 victory. After Brice Turang was robbed by Lars Nootbaar to open things up in the first, Milwaukee got on the board quickly as William Cont...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Cardinals 4, White Sox 3 (10 innings)
Boy do these teams stink. Once again we are here for a Sunday rubber match. And boy, it turns out to be a weird one It’s Lucas Giolito Day, as the White Sox attempt to win another series before the All-Star break. Let’s tweet about it! Lucas starts off with a strike out of Lars Nootbaar. Every time I hear that guy’s name I think of this tweet. https://t.co/7QTQk7UiMQ— Not Larry, White...2023
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• Ronald Acuña Jr. homers twice as Braves beat Cardinals

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images The Braves homered five times to snap a three-game skid. The Atlanta Braves flexed their muscles Thursday night snapping a three-game skid with an 8-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Braves didn’t waste any time getting going Thursday as Ronald Acuña Jr. jumped on the first pitch he saw from Adam Wainwright and drove it over the wall in center for...2023
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• Cubs 8, Cardinals 6: A long day’s journey into... victory!
Photo by Jamie Sabau/Getty Images It rained, then rained again, but the Cubs came from behind multiple times to defeat their arch-rivals. You guys are fortunate, because before the Cubs came back and won this game 8-6, I had a whole rant ready about how they outsmarted themselves with the “opener” strategy with Michael Fulmer and Drew Smyly, because not starting Smyly led the Cardinals to ...2023
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• Cubs 4, Cardinals 3: Is the Cubs’ season saved?
Photo by Quinn Harris/Getty Images The Cubs put runs on the board early and held on to win. This game might have saved the Cubs’ season. All right, maybe I’m being a bit overdramatic about the Cubs’ pulsating 4-3 win over the Cardinals on a gorgeous afternoon at Wrigley Field, but I’m pretty sure of this: Had they blown a 4-1 seventh-inning lead and lost this game, that probably would have...2023
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• Cubs 7, Cardinals 1: The complaint department is closed
Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Cubs got solid pitching efforts and timely hitting and defeated their arch-rivals. One day after the Cubs put together one of their biggest stinkers of 2023 in the doubleheader Game 2 loss to the Cardinals, they posted one of their best efforts of the season against the NL Central leaders. They got a solid effort in a spot start by Luke Farrell, shu...2022
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• Cardinals Place Lars Nootbaar On Injured List
The Cardinals have placed outfielder Lars Nootbaar on the 10-day injured list. The placement, which is retroactive to March 31, is due to a left thumb contusion. Outfielder/designated hitter Juan Yepez has been recalled from Triple-A Memphis to take the vacant active roster spot. Nootbaar suffered the injury diving into a base on Opening Day. He’d been…...2023
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• Royals send off Wainwright in a farewell full of fireworks, win 12-8

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Wainwright’s last start in Kansas City was a good one...for the Royals Adam Wainwright started his 404th game as a big league pitcher tonight, and likely his last in Kauffman Stadium. The Royals gave him the shortest start of his career. He went 1+ innings, but never recorded an out in the second leaving after giving up 8 runs, all earned. The Royals lineup...2023
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• Cardinals outfielder drove the ball right into his own nuts

Two balls, one strike. It was a rough night for Lars Nootbaar and Cardinals. Not only did St. Louis lose to the hapless A’s, but in the bottom of the fifth ball met balls in the worst way. Ouch pic.twitter.com/TVmsPt6zg4— A's on NBCS (@NBCSAthletics) August 17, 2023 You know it’s bad when you’ve been hit in the nuts so hard that you do that weird circular Three Stooges walk around home plat...2023
• Cardinals 3, Cubs 0: All good things...
Photo by Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images The Cubs’ eight-game winning streak came to an end. You knew the Cubs’ winning streak was going to end eventually, no long winning streak lasts forever. Steven Matz was the reason. The Cubs haven’t been able to solve Matz all year. With this game, a 3-0 loss that snapped their eight-game winning streak, that gave Matz 15⅓ scoreless innings against the ...2023
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• Outside The Confines: No Rays of sunshine

Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images Things are going wrong fast for the Rays. Also the Angels, who bet big on one last year with Shohei Ohtani. And other news from around MLB Just a few months ago, the Tampa Bay Rays were the biggest story in the game for the best start to a season since the 1984 Tigers. Now, they’re the biggest story in the game for not-as-pleasant reasons. The Tampa Bay Ray...2023
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• Buy A Nootbaar Next IKEA Run
(NOTE: THIS POST WAS RELEASED EARLY THIS WEEK ON OUR PATREON. IT’S $10/MONTH) "The best part of any candy bar is the stuff inside the chocolate, so I want a candy bar where the nougat, cookie wafer, crushed peanuts are on the outside of the chocolate. Mouth feel matters too, so the crunchy bits on the outside need to have a soft, chewy texture. Swiss and dutch chocolate are for losers. This candy...2022
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• Sean Manaea, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
Let's start here: Sean Manaea's 9Ks. ? pic.twitter.com/nQCTtvidNx — Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) September 9, 2021 Not sure why it's so visually pleasing to watch a pitcher strikeout guys, but, mah gawd, I could watch that all day and twice on Muesday, the magical day that Narnia's itself between Monday and Tuesday. So, Sean Manaea, the real-life Girl Scout cookie--*intern whispers in ear*...n...2022
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• Wain You’re Wright, You’re Right
"When you come through Ellis Island with a whole boatload of Nootbaars, do you go to immigration or declare them with VAT?" That's me talking to myself while watching Lars Nootbaar with a game-saving catch for Alex Reyes and the Cards, and securing the win for Adam Wainwright (8 IP, 0 ER, 2 hits, zero walks, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.10). Adam Wainwright has a 3.10-ish ERA across the past two seasons. Sudden...2021
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• Brewers lead from start to finish, rout Cardinals 7-1
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• Braves bullpen bends and breaks in loss to Cardinals
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 4
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• 2025 NL Central Power Rankings: Week 2

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images Brewers bounce back with four straight wins but remain second in NL Central rankings Welcome to the second week of our NL Central Power Rankings! We’ll release these rankings each week to grade all five teams and place them one through five. As everyone knows with power rankings, these should be taken as gospel and they’re obviously 100% accurate. Without furth...2025
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• Milwaukee bullpen can’t hold lead as Cardinals win in extras

Jeff Curry-USA TODAY Sports Arenado’s walk-off grand slam puts exclamation point on back-and-forth game Box Score In a lengthy, back-and-forth game, the St. Louis Cardinals ultimately pulled out a come-from-behind victory in extra innings tonight over a Milwaukee Brewers team that ran out of gas at the back end of their bullpen. All three of the big stars of that bullpen—Bryan Hudson, Devi...2024
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• Braves News: Charlie Culberson released, 2024 season preview, and more

Photo by Kevin D. Liles/Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Atlanta Braves news and notes from Friday. The Atlanta Braves have made another move as Opening Day quickly approaches. Fan favorite utilityman Charlie Culberson was released by the club on Friday. The #Braves have released Charlie Culberson. The soon-to-be 35 y/o former utilityman came to Spring Training attempting to become a pitche...2024
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• 2024 NL Central Preview: A division where it is truly anyone’s game

Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports From Chicago to even Pittsburgh, the NL Central is truly up for grabs in this upcoming season. Let's not beat around the bush, here: The National League representative for this season's World Series very likely won't come out of the Central Division. While it's certainly true that we do live in a baseball world where anything is possible as long as you make t...2024
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• Bird App Recap: Cardinals 4, White Sox 3 (10 innings)
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• Sean Manaea, 2022 Fantasy Baseball Sleeper
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