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Ariel Miranda reached double-digit strikeouts for the third time this season Thursday, striking out 11 Eagles while allowing three runs on six hits and a walk over eight innings as the Bears earned a 10-3 victory, with Kun Woo Park (fatigue) returning to the lineup and grabbing a pair of hits. Elsewhere, the Heroes scored an even more convincing win over the Giants, emerging 13-1 victors thanks to Woo Hyun Song s five-RBI day and Jake Brigham s seven strikeouts in seven innings. Closer contests were available as well, including most notably the Lions 8-7 win over the Landers in which Sang Su Kim s 10th-inning solo shot, his first homer of the year, proved to be the decisive hit.
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For the third time in his six-year Major League career, Aaron Judge has been elected as an All-Star Game starter.
After earning 13 percent of the vote among American League outfielders in Phase 2 of fan balloting, the 29-year-old right fielder will be the Yankees’ sole representative in the starting lineup at the 2021 Midsummer Classic, which is set to take place on Tuesday, July 13, at Coors Field in Denver.
As announced Thursday night on ESPN during the 2021 Google MLB All-Star Starters Reveal, Judge finished behind the Angels’ Mike Trout, who received 19 percent of the vote, and slightly ahead of the Blue Jays’ Teoscar Hernández, who obtained 12 percent of it and snuck past the Twins’ Byron Buxton in a tight race for the final two AL outfield spots.
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A Miami Marlins pitcher is struck out by Major League Baseball s Commissioner.
Paul Campbell has been suspended for 80 games without pay for testing positive for a performance enhancing substance.
In a statement Campbell says he never knowingly, willingly or intentionally ingested this substance in any form, and he ll attempt to clear his name.
Marlins General Manager General Manager Kim Ng says she is disappointed about the news.
But on a positive note, pitcher Trevor Rogers has earned National League Rookie of the Month honors. He becomes the first Marlins player to receive the award since Justin Bour in September 2015.