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• Brewers 9, Dodgers 1: Yamamoto with the shortest start of career, offense continues to be offensive
Coming off a rough sweep, the Dodgers immediately had to head out on the road to Milwaukee, and things got worse. In the context of the season, Yoshinobu Yamamoto turned in the worst start of his career, not making it through the 1st inning. Obviously the Dodgers didn’t do shit on offense, which is basically …...2025
• Vaughn’s debut homer is the big hit in Brewers’ 9-1 romp over Dodgers

Michael McLoone-Imagn Images The Brewers chase All-Star Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the first inning Box Score The Brewers got one of their best wins of the season tonight in what was billed as a big-time pitching matchup between two National League All-Stars. But the Brewers jumped on the Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who didn’t make it out of the first inning, and broke through with a two-out, ...2025
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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Exits Start vs Brewers in First Inning in Shocking Development After Struggles

Los Angeles Dodgers All-Star starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto didn’t get out of the first inning on Monday in the series opener against the Milwaukee Brewers. Yamamoto only recorded two outs, giving up five runs (three of them earned) in a nightmarish start to the road trip for the Dodgers. More news: Dodgers Place Kiké Hernandez …...2025
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• Game Thread #91: Milwaukee Brewers (50-40) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (56-35)

Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images Brewers host star-studded Dodgers in matchup of All-Star pitchers Next week, Freddy Peralta and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will be teammates on the National League All-Star Team. Tonight, they’ll face off as the star-laden Los Angeles Dodgers, owners of the National League’s best record, visit Milwaukee for the first of six games they’ll play in the next 13 days. Ya...2025
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• Dodgers Lineup vs Brewers: Teoscar Hernandez Out Again, Hyeseong Kim and James Outman Starting

The Los Angeles Dodgers are in Milwaukee for a three-game set against the Brewers, looking to quickly shake off their weekend sweep at the hands of the Houston Astros. It will be a battle of aces on Monday night, as right-handed pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8-6, 2.51 ERA) is facing off against right-handed pitcher Freddy Peralta …...2025
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• Dodgers vs. Brewers predictions, odds, props, best bets: Free 2025 MLB picks for Monday, July 7

SportsLine's proven model has simulated Los Angeles vs. Milwaukee 10,000 times and released its MLB best bets for Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs. Freddy Peralta on Monday...2025
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• Game Thread #91: Milwaukee Brewers (50-40) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (56-35)
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Los Angeles Dodgers

Mark Hoffman / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Crew returns to American Family Field for final homestand of first half The Milwaukee Brewers are set to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers for three games in Milwaukee beginning Monday evening. The series marks the start of the last homestand in the first half for the Crew, as they’ll wrap up the week with the Nat...2025
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• Brandon Woodruff earns first win in nearly two years as Brewers take series finale in Miami, 3-1

Jim Rassol-Imagn Images Jackson Chourio’s three RBIs, Woodruff’s strong start carry Milwaukee to series win Box Score Brandon Woodruff earned the win for the Brewers today with a shutdown performance in his first start since late 2023. Marlins starter Edward Cabrera hit Sal Frelick to start the game, but got three consecutive groundouts against William Contreras, Christian Yelich, and Jac...2025
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• Nationals News: Shinnosuke Ogasawara making his MLB debut

Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The Washington Nationals will call up their first Japanese player since 2005 Since Tomo Ohka in 2005, the Washington Nationals have not had a Japanese player on the MLB club. Well, that is until today because the Nats are calling up Japanese southpaw Shinnosuke Ogasawara. saddle UP pic.twitter.com/8OggwVO7Ko— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 6, 2025 ...2025
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• Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers Host Free-Falling Nationals

Washington Nationals outfielder James Wood (29) celebrates with Nationals shortstop CJ Abrams (5) after hitting a two run home run against the Colorado Rockies during the fourth inning at Nationals Park. | Geoff Burke-Imagn Images Winners of 10 of their last 12, Los Angeles welcomes a slumping Nationals squad desperate to stop the skid, but slowing down Ohtani and company won’t be easy. W...2025
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• What Does Dodgers Rotation Look Like Following Tony Gonsolin Injury?

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost yet another starter over the weekend as the team placed right-handed pitcher Tony Gonsolin on the injured list with right elbow discomfort. Read more: Dodgers Place Tony Gonsolin on Injured List With Elbow Injury Now, a depleted Dodgers rotation is left with three starting pitchers in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Clayton Kershaw, …...2025
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• Which Braves have a chance to make the All-Star team?

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Not as many as we’d hoped, that’s for sure. It’s probably fair to say that 2025 is the most anticipated All-Star Game for Atlanta Braves fans since the year 2000, when the game was hosted at Turner Field and Chipper Jones started at 3B for a National League team that was managed by Bobby Cox. Entering this year, there was plenty of excitement about Trui...2025
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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Has ‘Little Hip Issue’ After Great Defensive Play

The last thing the Los Angeles Dodgers need is an injury to another starting pitcher — let alone the team’s ace, Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Yamamoto has been sublime thus far in the early going of the year. He has the second-lowest ERA in the National League (1.97) trailing only New York Mets pitcher Kodai Senga. Yamamoto is …...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: Concerning Injury Update, Mets Pitcher Disrespects Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto MVP?

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cleveland Guardians, 9-5, on Tuesday evening as L.A. improved to 34-21 on the year. In other Dodgers news, manager Dave Roberts recently provided a “concerning” injury update regarding relief pitcher Evan Phillips. Last season’s saves leader started his injured list stint on May 7 with elbow inflammation. Additionally, a …...2025
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• ‘It Just Didn’t Seem as Fine’: Dodgers Manager Revealed Injury Concern Behind Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Early Exit vs. Guardians
Yoshinobu Yamamoto has emerged as the Dodgers’ ace and a Cy Young contender, carrying an injury-riddled rotation while leading the team....2025
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• The best organization in baseball just won another World Series title

The Dodgers have been the cream of the crop in baseball for a long while, now. There’s no sign of that changing anytime soon, either. For the second time in five seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. For the first time since 1988, they’ll actually get to have the full treatment that comes with being World Series — meaning, the team and their fans will actually get to enjoy t...2024
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"The Dodgers have added Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki to a rotation already expected to return Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow."

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"In the aftermath of the offseason’s top free agent pitcher, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signing with the Dodgers late last month, the market for #2 pitching free agent Blake Snell has begun to pick up."

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"Star Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto has agreed to join the Dodgers on a 12-year, $325 million contract, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Thursday."

• Shane Smith shaken for six runs as Dodgers defeat the White Sox, 6-1

There was plenty of Smith-on-Smith crime tonight as Will Smith went 1-for-1 with two walks against Shane Smith. | Harry How/Getty Images Walks got the best of the righthander, and the South Side offense was completely flat once again, outside of Lenyn Sosa with two hits and an RBI The White Sox (28-57) offense must have missed the flight to Los Angeles, because they only mustered three hit...2025
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• Dodgers Notes: All-Star Trade Ideas, Joe Kelly Punched in Face, Ex-Dodger Cut By Padres

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies, 8-1, on Wednesday evening. They cruised to 50-31 on the year behind another strong performance from Yoshinobu Yamamoto before the rain delay, and a second Max Muncy grand slam in three games. Additionally, with the MLB trade deadline about a month away, the Dodgers have been linked …...2025
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• Shohei Ohtani Melts Hearts With Adorable Tribute to Yoshinobu Yamamoto After 7 Scoreless vs. D-backs
As Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto continues to dominate, 2024 NL MVP Shohei Ohtani offers his praise....2025
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto Dominates NL Cy Young Talks But MLB’s Snub of Mets Star Sparks Outrage
There are many worthy candidates for the NL Cy Young Award to begin the season, but one Mets pitcher has been snubbed....2025
• Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s early season success is simultaneously puzzling and expected
When Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed the longest and largest contract for a pitcher in MLB history — 12 years, $325 million — in late 2023, some were skeptical he’d be worth it. While he’s just 130 innings into his career (not counting the postseason), he’s showing exactly why the Dodgers awarded him such a contract. A …...2025
• Can Atlanta roll over the Reds?

Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images Cincinnati is bringing a formidable rotation to Atlanta, and the Braves will have no choice but to try to figure them out over the next four days. The current homestand for the Atlanta Braves rolls on, as they’re going straight from a three-game series against the Dodgers into a four-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. While the quality of competiti...2025
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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Feels Like He’s Close to Pitching Like He Did in Japan

Last offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Yoshinobu Yamamoto to the richest contract a pitcher had ever seen in MLB. The baseball world wasn’t just baffled by the $325 million price tag, but the fact that the right-hander had never professionally thrown a pitch in North America was further reason for calamity among doubters. The …...2025
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• Kiké Hernández Drops 3-Word Verdict on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s No-Hitter Outing Amid Dodgers’ IL-Riddled Rotation
Kiké Hernández offered his reaction on social media as Yoshinobu Yamamoto carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning on Friday night....2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month

Photo by Suzanna Mitchell/San Francisco Giants/Getty Images Jung Hoo Lee, Tyler Mahle highlight baseball’s biggest surprises. There’s nothing like the start of a new baseball season. The soothing, familiar sounds of the crack of the bat and a fastball burying itself in a catcher’s mitt. The contagious optimism found in all 30 clubhouses, from the defending champions to the last-place club ...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Dodgers

Kyle Teel has posted a 1.043 OPS in the last two weeks, and holds the highest batting average (.319) on the team this season. | Photo by Mark Blinch/Getty Images Shane Smith and the South Siders will take on Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the defending World Champions in a three-game set Coming off a series win, the White Sox (28-56) are heading to the City of Angels to take on the defending Worl...2025
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• Washington Nationals MacKenzie Gore is the best 3-8 pitcher in baseball

Denis Poroy-Imagn Images MacKenzie Gore has pitched like an ace for the Washington Nationals, but the team is not winning much when he pitches After years of anticipation, MacKenzie Gore has finally turned into the ace Nationals fans knew he had the talent to become. He is second in baseball in strikeouts, top 10 in innings pitched and has a sparkling 3.09 ERA in 17 starts. However, Gore’s...2025
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images The Braves are done with the Dodgers and considering how this season’s series went, not a moment sooner! The Atlanta Braves were riding high heading into this series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were on a run of having won four straight series and had just returned home from a productive road trip out West against the Diamondbac...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?

Photo by Katelyn Mulcahy/Getty Images The Braves have a chance to get back at one of their tormentors from earlier this season. It’s easier said than done! Earlier this month, the Atlanta Braves visited Los Angeles looking for any type of way to get their season going in a positive direction after they had gone 0-for-4 in San Diego to kick off the season. As we all know, that ended up not ...2025
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• MLB’s biggest surprises from the season’s first month
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• Should I go for three?

So I grabbed a blaster of 2025 Heritage when I was at Dave and Adam's last week. I know they're not called "blasters" anymore but it's still the word I use when I want people to know what I am talking about. Buying Heritage is instinct at this point. We're at the designs during my first years of collecting. While I could pick-and-choose whether I was going to collect Heritage 10-15 year...2025
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• Dodgers 3, Cubs 0: Tommy Edman ruins Matthew Boyd’s night

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Boyd was throwing a real nice game until Edman interrupted it with a three-run homer. Tommy Edman has been a Cubs nemesis dating back to his days with the Cardinals. He entered Friday night’s game batting .280/.320/.500 with 13 home runs in 68 career games against the Cubs — by far his most homers against any team (next most: seven against the Pirates ...2025
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• 2025 Cubs Heroes and Goats: Game 15

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images It was a bummer of a day as the Cubs lose 6-2. The start to this season has been so exceptional that this game is a weird feeling. The Cubs did show a brief sign of life in the fourth inning and the game was tied after four. This game was all Rangers, though. Shōta Imanaga had an uncharacteristically bad day. He allowed a couple of homers and...2025
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• Rangers 6, Cubs 2: Sometimes it’s just not your day

Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images The Cubs offense got shut down on a very cold afternoon. Dire weather forecasts of all-day rain made it seem very unlikely, early this morning, that this game would be played. But the rain fell mostly south of the city — it just sprinkled a couple of times at the ol’ ballyard — and so the Cubs and Rangers were able to complete their three-game series...2025
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• Vaughn’s debut homer is the big hit in Brewers’ 9-1 romp over Dodgers
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• Brandon Woodruff earns first win in nearly two years as Brewers take series finale in Miami, 3-1
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• Shane Smith shaken for six runs as Dodgers defeat the White Sox, 6-1
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• Colorado Rockies game no. 80 thread: Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs. Chase Dollander

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images The Rockies have some momentum coming into tonight’s game. Can they win this time? The Colorado Rockies fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers 9-7 last night mostly due to six unearned runs in the fourth inning, but they clawed their way back in the later innings to put themselves with two runs of the kings of the NL West. Unfortunately, they were not able to pull th...2025
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• Which Braves have a chance to make the All-Star team?
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• Can Atlanta roll over the Reds?
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• Braves complete salvage job against Dodgers
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto dominates as Braves drop 2-1 pitchers’ duel

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Grant Holmes was great but Yoshinobu Yamamoto was even better. Grant Holmes had one of the best nights of his career as a starter so far. Unfortunately, this coincided with Yoshinobu Yamamoto continuing to dominate on the mound and as such, the Atlanta Braves ended up dropping this one in a tight, low-scoring and rain-delayed 2-1 defeat. Grant Holmes made...2025
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• Will a different venue provide a different result for Braves against Dodgers?
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• Outside The Confines: One month down

Geoff Burke-Imagn Images A look at the successes and failures over the first month of the season. The Pirates are an utter failure starting at the top. And other news from around MLB. Good morning. Alex Kirschner writes about the toxic rot from the ownership of the Pittsburgh Pirates and how it has poisoned the relationship between the fans and the team. Also, the team is wasting a gener...2025
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• Sources: Yamamoto joins Dodgers on $325M deal

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• Rangers Interested In Reunion With Jordan Montgomery
Left-hander Jordan Montgomery figures to be among the most sought-after free agents on the starting pitching market this offseason. With righty Aaron Nola having already returned to the Phillies on a seven-year deal earlier this week, only recently-posted right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto and reigning NL Cy Young award winner Blake Snell compare rank ahead of Montgomery…...2023
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• Yoshinobu Yamamoto to sign with Dodgers for $325M over 12 years: 25-year-old NPB ace joins Shohei Ohtani in LA

Yamamoto was posted to MLB after seven brilliant years in NPB...2023
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• Blue Jays Have Reportedly “Taken The Lead” In Yariel Rodriguez Sweepstakes
After missing out on top free agents Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto earlier this month, the Blue Jays have ramped up activity at the lower levels of the market of late by re-signing center fielder Kevin Kiermaier to a one-year pact and landing utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa on a two-year deal in recent days. It…...2023
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• Report: Giants Out Of Bidding For Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The Giants have been informed they’re out of the running for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, reports Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area (X link). While there’s no indication that Yamamoto has made his final decision, Pavlovic adds that the Giants expect he’ll sign with the Dodgers or one of the New York clubs. Andy Martino of SNY…...2023
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• Angels, Giants Among Teams Pursuing Blake Snell
The Angels have lost Shohei Ohtani to the Dodgers and never appeared to be a finalist for NPB star Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but they’re pursuing the biggest fish remaining on the free agent market, per Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, who reports that the Halos have made reigning NL Cy Young winner Blake Snell…...2023
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• Phillies Have Made Offer To Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The Phillies have put forth a formal contract offer to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, writes Matt Gelb of the Athletic. While terms are unreported, Alex Coffey of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote earlier in the week the club was planning to be aggressive in its pursuit of the NPB star. It’s notable, if unsurprising, that the Phillies have put…...2023
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• Braves reportedly willing to pay for free agent starter

Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports No Braves player currently makes more than $22 million annually, but the team is reportedly willing to go above that for the right free agent starter. MLB Free Agency is off to a slow start, but that shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Unlike the NBA and the NFL, Major League Baseball’s offseason is a more deliberate affair and the free agent market won’t like...2023
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• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
Julio Rodriguez Julio had a down year in 2024, as he slashed only .273/.325/.409 compared to his line of .275/.333/.485 in 2023. He homered 32 times in 2023 and only 20 times in 2024, which is why the slugging percentage was cut by nearly 80 points. Luckily, there are plenty of reasons ot be optimistic about Julio in 2025, and the basis for that is that his underlying markers were barely changed b...2025
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• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
Fantasy Relevance for the Dodgers deeper rotation options? Baseball fans know that the Dodgers loaded up on starting pitching in the offseason adding 2-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, Phenom Roki Sasaki and re-signing the legendary Clayton Kershaw. With Shohei Ohtani expected to take the mound this year and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow returning it's an electric top 5. That being ...2025
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• Vaughn’s debut homer is the big hit in Brewers’ 9-1 romp over Dodgers
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• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Exits Start vs Brewers in First Inning in Shocking Development After Struggles
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• Game Thread #91: Milwaukee Brewers (50-40) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (56-35)
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• Dodgers vs. Brewers predictions, odds, props, best bets: Free 2025 MLB picks for Monday, July 7
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• Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
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• Brandon Woodruff earns first win in nearly two years as Brewers take series finale in Miami, 3-1
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• Nationals News: Shinnosuke Ogasawara making his MLB debut
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• Shane Smith shaken for six runs as Dodgers defeat the White Sox, 6-1
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Dodgers
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• Free MLB player props, odds for July 1: Use Nolan Arenado, Matt Olson, Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Tuesday prop bets

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• Shane Smith shaken for six runs as Dodgers defeat the White Sox, 6-1
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• Dodgers 6, White Sox 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto takes advantage of finally getting run support with 7 strong frames
In a truly shocking turn of events, Yoshinobu Yamamoto got run support early and often tonight, and he rewarded them by cruising through seven mostly uneventful innings to lock down a 6-1 win to start the series against the White Sox. The Dodgers have now won seven of their last eight games, and are riding …...2025
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• Game Thread: White Sox at Dodgers
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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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• SB Nation Reacts: Who’s going to sign Roki Sasaki?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images A fair number of respondents to the survey chose the Cubs. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Now that the MLB non-tender deadline has passed, thoughts ...2024
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• Braves provide tl;dr of 2024 season with 9-0 loss to Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Look, I’m just sayin’ — the Braves out-xBAed the Dodgers by .070 and had the only four barrels in the game, and lost 9-0 The Braves played a baseball game on Monday night, which they lost 9-0, to once again drop them out of a playoff spot (for the time being?). The flow of the game itself is, at this point, largely irrelevant. I’ll be...2024
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• Dodgers come to town as Braves fight for their playoff lives

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images If the Braves are going to get back on the Postseason track, they’ll have to do it Shohei Ohtani and the rest of this star-studded squad. The Atlanta Braves are coming off of a stretch of games where they faced the Rockies, Blue Jays, the Reds for one game and the Nationals for two games. They went 5-4 in that span and are currently back on the outside...2024
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• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Rejoice, baseball fans, we now have an idea of when the Manfred era will end. If we’re being honest, the role of MLB Commissioner is not an enviable one. The job, by its very nature, is inclined to create ire among fans, as the person in charge is trying to appease fans, players, but mostly owners, and the goals of those three groups rarely...2024
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• Latest On Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Market
There’s been ample speculation about the eventual price tag of a Yoshinobu Yamamoto contract, but until early this week, the right-hander hadn’t discussed specific years and dollars with clubs, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Teams eyeing the NPB ace’s services were asked to submit a “preliminary” bid early in the process to gauge the seriousness of…...2023
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