Caught Stealing Fantasy Baseball Show: MLB Trades - Winners & Losers
Published: Jul 31, 2024
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Juan Soto went 4-for-5 with two homers and four RBI to lead the Mets past the Phillies 11-4 on Saturday.
The top three hitters in the Mets order — Francisco Lindor, Brandon Nimmo and Soto — homered consecutively in the third inning and finished the game 8-for-13 with five homers and nine RBI between them. It’s Soto’s second two-homer game as a Met and 26th overall. He’s hit .327 with eight homers, 16 RBI and 21 walks in his last 21 games.
Griffin Canning recorded a victory Saturday after allowing four runs — three earned — in five innings against the Phillies.
It wasn’t a banner night for Canning, and it seemed like he might be in for an early exit after allowing two runs in the first and one in the second and then walking two in the third. Instead, he got better as the game went on and hung around long enough to improve to 7-3. With Kodai Senga and Tylor Megill landing on the IL to open up spots for Frankie Montas and soon Sean Manaea, questions about Canning’s rotation status are gone for now, and he’ll face the Braves on Thursday.
Mick Abel surrendered four solo homers over three innings before being lifted Saturday against the Mets.
Three of those came consecutively in the third inning. It figured that walks would get Abel into trouble in the majors, but he’s been stunningly good there, having issued just four in his five starts and none tonight. Instead, it’s been the home-run ball. He’s given up seven in 23 1/3 innings, making it pretty remarkable that he’s allowed only nine runs in total. He’s due to make his next start in Atlanta against the Braves.
Brandon Nimmo hit his 14th and 15th homers Saturday in the rout of the Phillies.
Francisco Lindor, Nimmo and Juan Soto not only homered consecutively in the third inning, but it was the 15th homer of the year for all three. Soto went and hit his 16th later on. Nimmo got a scare tonight when Jeff McNeil nearly instigated a collision with him in left-center, but he saw it coming just quickly enough to get out of the way. The two-homer game was his second this month and ninth all-time.
Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a three-run homer and walked Saturday to power the Padres past the Royals 5-1.
In taking Taylor Clarke deep in the seventh, Tatis finally snapped a home run drought that had lingered since May 27. Until this week, he’d been hitting pretty well aside from the lack of homers, but he entered tonight on a four-game hitless streak. He has 14 homers in 74 games on the whole, keeping him on a similar pace to where he was the last two years (25 in 141 games in 2023, 21 in 102 games last season).
Dylan Cease allowed just one run over 6 2/3 innings to defeat the Royals on Saturday.
Oddly, Cease had 19 whiffs but just four strikeouts tonight. On average this year, pitchers with exactly 19 whiffs had struck out eight batters. Just two had finished with six or fewer strikeouts; Luis Castillo had five on June 1 and Cease had six on Apr. 26. The lack of strikeouts didn’t matter tonight, as Cease gave up just three hits. It’s only his third win of the season. He’s failed to receive a victory in any of the 10 starts in which he’s allowed two or three runs. Cease will face the Reds next.