MLB Player News
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Trea Turner SS | PHI
Phillies' Trea Turner: Continues collecting hits
Turner went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored in Saturday's 5-1 win over the Reds.
The 32-year-old star shortstop tallied multiple hits for the third time in his past four games, also extending his hitting streak to five outings. Turner was batting just .245 and slugging .316 as of April 26, but he's found a groove over the past two months or so. Across his last 62 contests, Turner is hitting .322 (84-for-261) with 10 home runs, 14 doubles, two triples, 47 runs scored and 16 stolen bases while working as Philadelphia's everyday leadoff man.
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Xander Bogaerts SS | SD
Padres' Xander Bogaerts: In Saturday's lineup
Bogaerts (hamstring) will start at shortstop and bat fifth Saturday against the Rangers.
Bogaerts suffered a hamstring injury toward the end of Friday's contest, but it won't be enough to prevent him from playing Saturday. The 32-year-old infielder has been heating up at the plate recently, going 9-for-23 (.391) with a homer and three runs scored over his last six games.
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C.J. Abrams SS | WAS
Nationals' CJ Abrams: Swipes another bag Friday
Abrams went 1-for-3 with a walk, a run scored and a stolen base in Friday's loss to the Red Sox.
The shortstop continues to surge toward a breakout campaign. Abrams has hit safely in seven straight games and 13 of his last 14, a stretch in which he's slashing .339/.397/.565 with three long balls, four steals, eight RBI and 14 runs as the Nationals' leadoff hitter. He needs one more stolen base to become the eighth player in the majors with 10-plus homers and 20-plus steals on the season.
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Otto Lopez SS | MIA
Marlins' Otto Lopez: Slugs ninth homer
Lopez went 1-for-4 with a walk, a home run and three RBI in Friday's 6-5 loss to the Brewers.
An RBI groundout in the first inning preceded a two-run homer off Quinn Priester in the fifth, which tied the game at 5-5. Lopez has been a run-producing machine of late, hitting safely in 12 of his last 14 games and slashing .339/.413/.536 with three of his nine homers on the season, plus a whopping 19 of his 44 RBI.
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Xander Bogaerts SS | SD
Padres' Xander Bogaerts: Leaves with hamstring injury
Bogaerts was removed from Friday's game against the Rangers with an apparent hamstring injury, AJ Cassavell of MLB.com reports.
Bogaerts injured himself on a swing during the 10th inning of Friday's contest, and he had to leave the game before finishing his at-bat. The severity of his injury is still unknown, but the Padres will likely have more information on his status once they run some tests on him.
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Dansby Swanson SS | CHC
Cubs' Dansby Swanson: Homers in win
Swanson went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and an additional run scored in Friday's 11-3 win over the Cardinals.
Swanson singled and scored in the third inning before crushing a 423-foot homer in the seventh. The shortstop has hit safely in nine of his past 10 games, recording five multi-hit efforts, three RBI and seven runs scored in that span. For the season, he's slashing .254/.304/.436 with 15 home runs, 42 RBI, 50 runs scored and seven steals across 366 plate appearances.
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Mookie Betts RF | LAD
Dodgers' Mookie Betts: Knocks 10th homer
Betts went 1-for-4 with a solo home run and a second run scored in Thursday's 6-2 win over the White Sox.
Betts tacked on an insurance run with his seventh-inning blast, which was his 10th homer of the season. He had gone 0-for-12 over his previous three games, and the 32-year-old hadn't hit a homer since June 8 in St. Louis. For the season, Betts has struggled far more than usual with a .246/.321/.383 slash line while adding 43 RBI, 53 runs scored, six stolen bases, 11 doubles and one triple across 80 contests. His plate discipline remains excellent, so it looks like Betts is just working through a slump in the middle of the season.
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Willy Adames SS | SF
Giants' Willy Adames: Gets aboard four times Thursday
Adames went 3-for-4 with two doubles, one walk, one RBI and three runs scored in Thursday's 7-2 win over the Diamondbacks.
Adames has hit safely in the last four games, though this was his first multi-hit effort since June 26. The shortstop contributed an RBI double in the third inning as well. He hasn't always hit consistently this season, but Adames has posted an 11.3 percent walk rate, which includes a 6:11 BB:K over his last 10 games. He's up to a .218/.305/.358 slash line with 10 home runs, 38 RBI, 49 runs scored, 13 doubles, one triple and four stolen bases through 87 contests.
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Dansby Swanson SS | CHC
Cubs' Dansby Swanson: Another multi-hit effort in win
Swanson went 2-for-4 in Thursday's 1-0 extra-inning win over the Guardians.
Swanson recorded his 23rd multi-hit effort of the season and his fourth in the last eight games. The veteran shortstop got off to a sluggish start at the dish -- he was batting .181 as of April 27 -- but he's experienced quite a turnaround in the past two months. Across his last 236 plate appearances, Swanson is slashing .288/.339/.470 with 10 home runs, seven doubles, 25 RBI, 31 runs scored and three stolen bases.
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Ryan Ritter SS | COL
Rockies' Ryan Ritter: Knocks in two-run single
Ritter went 1-for-3 with a two-run single in Thursday's 7-6 win over the Astros.
Ritter gave the Rockies a two-run lead in the fourth inning, when his bloop single to left field brought home Brenton Doyle and Orlando Arcia. Ritter has been getting more work at shorstop with Ezequiel Tovar (oblique) on the injured list since early June. Ritter has reached base safely in seven consecutive games, and over that span he has gone 7-for-22 (.318) with three runs scored, two doubles and three RBI.