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Kyle Schwarber homered in the first inning and the Washington Nationals immediately erased an early three-run deficit, beating the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Trea Turner had two hits for the Nationals, and his fourth-inning sacrifice fly broke a 4-all tie. Alex Avila doubled twice and scored the go-ahead run.
Patrick Corbin (3-3) labored through 5 2/3 innings for the win, allowing four runs and 11 hits. The left-hander gave up three runs in the first and then watched as Washington (20-23) scored four in the bottom half, including a two-run shot by Schwarber.
MLB Trade Rumors
The Braves announced Tuesday that they’ve claimed right-handed reliever
Jay Flaa off waivers from the Orioles, who’d designated him for assignment over the weekend. The move fills Atlanta’s 40-man roster.
Flaa, who’ll turn 29 in a month, was selected to the big league roster for the first time in his career last month. The Orioles’ sixth-round pick in 2016, he made his MLB debut on April 27, tossing 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief with a pair of walks and a strikeout.
That was Flaa’s lone appearance before the Orioles designated him for assignment in order to open a roster spot for waiver claim
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A year in which almost anything that could go wrong has gone wrong for the Twins is now, unfortunately, extending to their minor league system as well.
The Saints will make their St. Paul home debut as the Class AAA affiliate of the Twins on Tuesday, just as the big league club opens an important early three-game series at the White Sox. A sweep either way in that series would be the difference between the Twins pulling within four games or falling 10 back. That feels pretty significant.
But as Patrick Reusse and I talked about on Monday s Daily Delivery podcast, the sense that this just isn t the Twins year has already extended, at least so far, to St. Paul. The Saints went 2-4 on their season-opening road trip and on Sunday injuries and other factors made it so that they had just eight position players available by the end of a doubleheader.
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DETROIT – From the day Trevor Larnach first signed with the Twins, he knew he was ready to play in the big leagues.
But the 2018 first-round draft pick (20th overall) out of Oregon State bided his time until the Twins came to that same conclusion. He was just waiting for us to call his name and bring him up, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said before Saturday s game against the Tigers. He s a guy who has a ton of confidence, and he s out there determined. You can see it in his face, in the way he plays the game.
The Twins saw that firsthand at Comerica Park, when Larnach made his debut vs. the Tigers batting fifth and manning left field. Called up Friday, the outfielder took the place of Byron Buxton, who went on the 10-day injury list because of a right hip sprain. This MLB moment has been emotional for the 24-year-old, who went from crying tears of joy upon learning of his call-up to remembering the fire that fuels him on the field.