MLB Player News
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Carlos Correa SS | HOU
Astros' Carlos Correa: Opens scoring Sunday
Correa went 1-for-4 with a two-run home run in Sunday's 10-4 win over the Angels.
Correa's second-inning homer, his seventh, answered the Angels' run in the bottom of the first. It also extended his hitting streak to 15 games, during which he's slashing .306/.343/.629 with five homers, five doubles, 13 RBI and nine runs scored. The career .278-hitter is up to .291 over 117 at-bats.
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Xander Bogaerts SS | SD
Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts: Belts another homer
Bogaerts went 1-for-5 with a grand slam Sunday against the White Sox.
Bogaerts' lone hit of the day was a big one, as he extended the lead to five in the eighth inning with a grand slam to left field. The 26-year-old has now homered in back-to-back games, giving him six home runs and 22 RBI through 33 contests.
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Chris Owings SS | LAD
Royals' Chris Owings: Losing out on playing time
Owings is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Tigers, Jeffrey Flanagan of MLB.com reports.
Owings finds himself on the bench for a second straight day and may be on the outs for a full-time role in the wake of Kelvin Gutierrez's emergence. With the hot-hitting Gutierrez drawing his ninth straight start at third base, Hunter Dozier has settled in at designated hitter while Jorge Soler shifts to right field, leaving no room in the lineup for Owings.
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Xander Bogaerts SS | SD
Red Sox's Xander Bogaerts: Hits two-run blast
Bogaerts went 1-for-5 with a two-run homer and walk in a 15-2 victory over the White Sox on Saturday.
With the Red Sox scoring 15 runs, it's a little disappointing Bogaerts didn't have more than one hit, but he did go deep during a nine-run third inning. Bogaerts is just 5-for-25 in his last six games, but three of those hits went for extra bases. Overall, he is batting .267 with five home runs, 18 RBI and 21 runs in 120 at-bats this season.
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Adalberto Mondesi SS | BOS
Royals' Adalberto Mondesi: Back on track
Mondesi went 2-for-4 with a double, a triple, three runs scored, three RBI and two walks in Saturday's 15-2 win over the Tigers.
Mondesi went 0-for-8 with five strikeouts over the last two contests but got back on track as he reached base four times Saturday. The 23-year-old is slashing .284/.320/.522 with four home runs and 10 stolen bases over 33 games.
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Willy Adames SS | SF
Rays' Willy Adames: Reaches thrice in win
Adames went 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs in a win over the Orioles on Friday.
Adames continued to make noise out of the bottom of the order, extending his hot start to the new month in the process. Adames is 5-for-11 with a double, two RBI, a walk and three runs over the first three games of May, raising his season average 28 points over that stretch.
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Dee Strange-Gordon SS | WAS
Mariners' Dee Gordon: Productive in low-scoring loss
Gordon went 2-for-4 with a stolen base in a loss to the Indians on Friday.
Gordon led off and produced one of only two multi-hit efforts for the Mariners. The speedy keeper of the keystone is now slashing .304/.331/.400 over 126 plate appearances following his third multi-hit tally in four games, and he's logged an impressive 90.0 percent success rate on his 10 stolen-base attempts thus far.
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Aledmys Diaz 1B | HOU
Astros' Aledmys Diaz: Makes third straight start
Diaz started at third base and went 2-for-4 in Thursday's 8-2 loss to the Twins.
The start was Diaz's third straight, following a start at first base and his first-career start in left field. Manager AJ Hinch has had difficulty trying to find him regular at-bats, so this may be a concerted effort to get Diaz's bat going. The 28-year-old utility player has hit groundballs on 53.7 percent of his batted balls, 13 points higher than his rate as a regular with the Blue Jays last season and nearly 10 points higher than his career rate. Unless Houston has to deal with a starter's injury, Diaz will need to be content playing 2-to-3 times per week.
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Carlos Correa SS | HOU
Astros' Carlos Correa: Resting in series finale
Correa is out of the lineup for Thursday's game against the Twins, Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle reports.
The star shortstop will pick up a scheduled rest day with the Astros concluding their series in Minnesota with a day game after a night contest. Alex Bregman will shift over from third base to cover Correa's usual spot in the field, opening up a spot in the lineup for Aledmys Diaz.
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Aledmys Diaz 1B | HOU
Astros' Aledmys Diaz: Makes first career start in OF
Diaz started in left field and went 1-for-4 with an RBI in Wednesday's 6-2 loss to the Twins.
Manager AJ Hinch wanted to rest Michael Brantley and Josh Reddick, a pair of left-handed hitters, so the right-handed hitting Diaz was part of an all-righty lineup against Minnesota southpaw Martin Perez. It was the second straight day that Diaz has been in the starting lineup, his first back-to-back starts since the first two games of the season. The Astros' original plan was to have Diaz get ample time in the outfield, though the idea was scuttled during spring training, per Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle.