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Major League Baseball’s All-Star break has already delivered fireworks, with Vladimir Guerrero Jr. winning the Home Run Derby, 16 years after his dad had achieved the same feat.
The Dodgers ended the first half of the season with a bang. All-Star Mookie Betts hit his 10th leadoff homer — tying the most in the first half in major league history — and Los Angeles homered five times for the second straight game to beat the slumping Angels 10-5 on Saturday night. “I think Mookie might be the only guy that wants to play through the break,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.
The Dodgers are inching closer to shipping Miguel Vargas to triple-A Oklahoma City as the second baseman continues to struggle at the plate.
Pittsburgh third baseman Ke'Bryan Hayes was activated from the 10-day injured list Thursday and hit leadoff against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hayes had been sidelined since June 24 by lower back inflammation. He entered hitting .
Nicky Lopez remembers the halcyon days of the Kansas City Royals in 2014 and 2015, when the small-market club won back-to-back American League pennants and its first World Series title in three decades. It's precisely the formula they used to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday. Brady Singer threw seven effective innings, Lopez matched a career high with four RBIs, Maikel Garcia and Bobby Witt Jr. drove in two runs apiece and the Royals beat the Dodgers 9-1 to claim their first series victory