Isaac Paredes went 1-for-3 with a home run and a walk on Friday against the Padres.
Paredes put the first run of the game on the board with a lead off homer off Yu Darvish to start the second inning. It was his fifth home run of the month and 12th on the season while hitting .259/.346/.486 with 47 RBI across 240 plate appearances.
Rich Hill struggled with his command in Friday night's loss to the Brewers, issuing six walks over his five innings of work.
Those free passes helped to lead to four runs (three earned) on three hits against the 43-year-old southpaw. Hill punched out five on the evening. The Brewers scratched out three runs against him in the opening inning, then added on a single run in the fourth. Hill got 10 swinging strikes on 98 pitches in the ballgame, posting a CSW of 34 percent. He'll try to improve upon his 4.31 ERA and 1.40 WHIP when he takes on the Cubs on Wednesday.
Devin Williams escaped danger in the ninth inning on Friday night, preserving a one-run lead to earn his 11th save of the season.
Coming on with a one-run lead to protect, Williams issued a one-out walk to Jack Suwinski and then a double to Josh Palacios to put the tying run at third base with only one out. He battled back to strike out Ke'Bryan Hayes, but then issued a walk to Ji-Hwan Bae to load the bases. He rallied though to strike out Jason Delay to end the ballgame and put it in the win column for the Brewers. On the season, the right-hander now boasts a 1.99 ERA, 1.10 WHIP and a 32/13 K/BB ratio over 22 2/3 innings on the season.
Blake Perkins went 2-for-3 and drove in a pair of runs on Friday night as the Brewers eked out a one-run victory over the Pirates.
Perkins smacked a two-run single off of Rich Hill in the opening inning to extend the Brewers' early lead to 3-0. He also drew a walk in the contest, reaching base safely in three of his four plate appearances. With the two-hit attack, he's now slashing .242/.306/.364 with one homer, nine RBI and one swipe in 58 plate appearances on the season.
Carlos Santana homered for the second consecutive game on Friday night as the Pirates fell to the Brewers in Milwaukee.
Santana got the Bucs on the board in this one with his 386-foot solo shot off of Julio Teheran in the second inning. He also singled in the ballgame, finishing the night 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored. On the season, the 36-year-old is now slashing .229/.316/.377 to go with six long balls and 34 RBI on the season.
Joey Wiemer blasted a solo home run on Friday night, powering the Brewers to a 5-4 victory over the Pirates.
Wiemer tagged Carmen Mlodzinski for a 390-foot (102.4 mph EV) solo shot in the sixth inning that extended the Brewers' lead to 5-2. It would wind up standing as the different in the ballgame. It was his only hit in four at-bats on the night. On the season, the 24-year-old outfielder is now hitting .214/.285/.403 with nine homers, 24 RBI and 10 stolen bases.
JP Sears allowed four runs with seven strikeouts across seven innings on Friday in a loss against the Phillies.
Sears was hurt by the home run ball on Friday. Kyle Schwarber got to him first with a solo homer to start the game. J.T. Realmuto sent one over the wall in the second inning. Then Alec Bohm added two runs with blast in the fourth. Sears settled in for three more innings to give the A's seven frames of work, collecting seven strikeouts. The 27-year-old right-hander will take a 4.24 ERA, 1.06 WHIP, and a 72/16 K/BB into his next start against the Guardians in Cleveland next week.
Danny Jansen homered to supply both Blue Jays runs in Friday's win over the Rangers.
Maybe no one else in the league runs quite as hot and cold as Jansen, who two homers on Thursday. Hopefully, he'll be able to keep it going for a week or two at least. He's raised his OPS from .655 to .746 the last two days.
Martín Pérez allowed two runs and three hits over six innings Friday in a loss to the Blue Jays.
Pérez did his part tonight after giving up seven runs last time out, but the Rangers offense wasn't up to the task against Kevin Gausman and company. As a result, Pérez took his second straight defeat, leaving him 6-3 with a 4.54 ERA. He'll face the White Sox next.
Jordan Romano got four outs, three via the strikeout, in a save against the Rangers on Friday.
Romano had some extra juice on his slider tonight, averaging a season-high 88.6 mph with it. That's more like how he threw it in 2022 before taking a little off it and adding some movement this year. The change worked out tonight; he threw nine and got four missed swings and no balls in play.
Kevin Gausman limited the Rangers to one run in six innings as the Blue Jays prevailed 2-1 on Friday.
Gausman was credited with the victory, moving him to 6-3 with a 3.01 ERA. He wasn't at his most dominant in finishing with four strikeouts for the second straight start, but the Rangers settled for four hits, with only a long homer from Leody Taveras doing any damage.
Tyler Stephenson went 2-for-4 and homered against the Astros on Friday.
Stephenson has hit three of his five homers this month, though it hasn't made much of an impact on his OPS. There's a good case for the Reds to call up Christian Encarnacion-Strand to DH and simply hold Stephenson out of the lineup when he's not catching. Still, it doesn't seem as though they'll go that route.
J.P. France took a tough loss Friday after allowing two runs in 6 2/3 innings against the Reds.
France took a shutout into the seventh, when he gave up a 357-foot homer and then a walk and an RBI double. Prior to that, he had allowed only two singles and no walks in six innings. Although France has had just one bad start in eight outings since being called up, his record stands at 2-2.
Alexis Díaz moved to 18-for-18 in save chances despite allowing a run in the ninth Friday against the Astros.
It's just the fourth time in 30 appearances this year that Díaz has allowed a run. Yainer Diaz and Corey Julks both had bids for hits to the outfield that could have resulted in his first blown save, but they turned into outs.
Andrew Abbott shut out the Astros for six innings Friday to go to 3-0 in the Reds' 2-1 win.
The 24-year-old Abbott is the first pitcher ever to pitch scoreless ball over his first three MLB starts (min. five innings apiece), said Elias. Abbott gave up 411- and 407-foot flies to center that would have been homers in a lot of parks, but they were outs in Houston. Abbott wound up with two strikeouts and just four missed swings on 83 pitches, so it was far from a dominant outing. Still, one can't not help but like the way he's getting the job done. He has a tasty matchup at home against the Rockies next week.
Alex Kirilloff went 1-for-4 and clubbed a solo home run on Friday night, accounting for the Twins' lone tally in a losing effort against the Tigers.
Kirilloff took right-hander Mason Englert deep for a 382-foot (99.6 mph EV) solo shot to lead off the second inning. That would wind up being the extent of the Twins' offense in the game though. On the season, he's slashing a terrific .272/.394/.439 with four homers and 12 RBI through his first 36 games on the season.
Tyler Holton did a terrific job out of the Tigers' bullpen on Friday night, firing 2 2/3 innings of scoreless baseball against the Braves.
The Tigers' bullpen as a whole handled Friday's bullpen game splendidly, allowing just one run over nine frames against their division rival. Holton came on to start the fourth inning, and allowed just two hits and a walk while recording his eight outs. Holton recorded one strikeout in the ballgame, throwing 22 of his 36 pitches for strikes. On the season, he now boasts a stellar 1.96 ERA and 0.98 WHIP across his 36 2/3 innings of work.
Kerry Carpenter went 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI on Friday night as the Tigers defeated the Twins.
Carpenter drove in a run with a sacrifice fly as part of a five-run rally off of Joe Ryan in the third inning. He also doubled in the eighth inning, but the Tigers were unable to cash him in. He's now hitting a respectable .268/.314/.464 to go with four homers and nine RBI in 28 games on the season.
Javier Báez went 1-for-3 and walloped a three-run homer on Friday night, helping to propel the Tigers past the Twins.
Báez capped off a five-run uprising in the third inning with his 384-foot (105.3 mph EV) three-run shot off of Joe Ryan. That would be his only hit on the night. It has been an underwhelming season overall for the free-swinging 30-year-old, as he's slashing just .233/.273/.341 with five homers, 34 RBI and five stolen bases.
Masataka Yoshida went 4-for-4 with two doubles and three RBI versus the Yankees on Friday.
The slumping Yoshida sat out three of the previous four games before coming through with his first four-hit game in the U.S. He's hitting an excellent .309/.383/.479.