Is it spring training yet? No — but the championship season is upon us, a finer thing still.
THE MORNING HORSEHIDE HERALD
"Every Score Set Down, No Deed Unsung"
~ Being a Faithful Daily Chronicle of the National Pastime ~
Volume I · No. 73 · Saturday, the Nineteenth of September, Two Thousand and Twenty-Six
Reporting 15 contests from the day prior.
The Game of the Day
SIX UNEARNED RUNS SQUANDERED, NINE UNANSWERED RETURNED — DETROIT'S FIVE-RUN EIGHTH TURNS THE EVENING ON ITS HEAD, AND THE CENTRAL'S DEADLOCK BREAKS AGAINST CHICAGO: TIGERS 11, WHITE SOX 8
Hao-Yu Lee, whose fumble at third opened Chicago's six-run first, atones with four hits and the tying homer; McGonigle drives in four, three of them on the triple that sent Peters into a fence-pole; and with Cleveland winning by the lake, the White Sox wake a full game out of first with their wild-card cushion pared to one
The Tigers of Detroit will watch October from their parlors this autumn, which is precisely what makes them dangerous company in September: a club with nothing left to defend and every appetite for mischief. Chicago was taught the lesson by installments. The visitors nicked a run on a wild pitch in the first; the White Sox answered with six in the home half without earning a single one of them — a run home on a wild pitch of Sears' own, the door swung wide by Hao-Yu Lee's fumble at third, Colson Montgomery's three-run double and Vargas's knock among the traffic through nine batters. When Miguel Vargas added his two-and-thirtieth homer in the third, the count stood 8-2 and the evening had every look of a formality.
It was instead a slow confiscation. Kevin McGonigle singled home a run in the third, then emptied the bases in the fifth with a three-run triple to right-center — the drive on which the right fielder Peters, lunging and missing, met a fence-pole at a full run, as the ward below records — and Lee, of all men, set about repaying his error with interest: a run-scoring double in the sixth, then a two-run homer off Newcomb in the eighth that squared the account at eight apiece. Dingler's single put Detroit ahead, and Riley Greene's one-and-twentieth, two runs the richer, closed a five-run frame — nine unanswered runs in all. Sommers threw two perfect innings with five strikeouts for the victory; Jansen sealed his one-and-twentieth save. Lee's final ledger: four hits, a double, the tying homer, three driven in, and one error atoned in full.
Now the morning's arithmetic, which stings the South Side twice over. Cleveland won by the lake — the milestone desk sings the how of it — and so Friday morning's deadlock is Saturday's one-game Cleveland lead, nine-and-seventy wins to Chicago's eight-and-seventy. The tiebreaker remains Chicago's, the season series banked seven games to six, so the Cleveland men must still finish clear rather than level; but the White Sox' own cushion for the American's last wild-card chair is likewise down to a single game over Texas, and these same Tigers return to the South Side this very afternoon at ten past two. "Yeah, it's tough. No way about it," said the manager Venable. "Obviously you have a special first inning there and get the lead. Just weren't able to get any outs." Peters, nursing his bruises, spoke the professional's creed: "The only thing we can control is what we do tomorrow."
News Around the League
THE INFIRMARY WARD: THE CAPTAIN OF THE YANKEES GOES BACK TO THE SHELF — JUDGE'S CALF STRAIN IS NAMED, WITH OCTOBER UNPROMISED; PETERS MEETS A FENCE-POLE; AND SAN FRANCISCO'S WEBB IS DONE FOR THE SEASON BY A BLISTER
The gravest cot belongs to the captain. The stiffness that lifted Aaron Judge from Wednesday's game in Minneapolis — entered in this paper's ward on Thursday — has a name now: a strain of the right calf, found by Thursday's examination in Phoenix, and it sends him to the ten-day invalid list this very day. The club will neither grade the strain's severity nor guess at a date, and the wires note that even the mildest of the kind commonly asks two or three weeks — with barely more than one remaining before October. Asked plainly whether his captain would return for the playoffs, the manager Boone answered: "I don't know. I don't have a timeline on him. I'm not going to predict anything. We'll just obviously treat it and see what transpires." What is certain is the cost in the near term: Judge misses the Phoenix weekend and the four-game engagement with Tampa Bay that opens Tuesday at his own Stadium, with the East itself in the balance. The utility man Schuemann travels to meet the club. "There's no replacing a player who is as great as Aaron Judge," said Boone, "but we have high expectations. Those don't change now." His men made the words good for one night at least, as the card below relates.
The lesser cots: Chicago's Tristan Peters chased McGonigle's fifth-inning drive to right-center, missed it by a lunge, and struck a pole supporting the outfield fence at a full run; he lay on the grass a minute or two before leaving with the trainer, and the verdict — a contusion of the left shoulder and ribs, day to day — reads far kinder than the collision looked. And San Francisco has shelved Logan Webb, gone to the fifteen-day list with a blistered right middle finger, the stint dated back to Tuesday — arithmetic that quietly ends his regular season.
THE MILESTONE DESK: THE THOUSANDTH RUN DRIVEN HOME ARRIVES BY THUNDERCLAP — RAMÍREZ JOINS EARL AVERILL IN CLEVELAND'S OWN BOOK, AND OLSON'S FORTIETH CROWNS A CLINCHING NIGHT
In the sixth inning by the lake, with the Central's lead in the balance, José Ramírez struck a solo home run — the two hundred seven-and-ninetieth of his life, measured a foot past four hundred — and the run it drove home was the thousandth of his career. The house rose to him when the figure flashed upon the videoboard as he took his station at third in the seventh. Only Earl Averill, at one thousand four-and-eighty, has driven home more in all the franchise's annals, and among active players Ramírez — four-and-thirty years old as of Thursday — becomes just the twelfth man to the figure, joining a roll that includes Freeman, Goldschmidt, Arenado, Machado, and Trout. "I like to use those round numbers," said the manager Vogt. "Ten years of 100 RBIs. When you break it down that way, it's incredible what he has accomplished, and he's not even close to being done, right?" The second baseman Bazzana testified to the dugout's view: "We all looked at each other, and everyone's got a smile on their face. He's an incredible, incredible player." The milestone was no ornament, either — Ramírez also singled home the tying run an inning before his thunder, and the victory put Cleveland atop the Central alone, as the lead columns sing.
And at Houston, on the very night Atlanta punched its October ticket, Matt Olson struck a two-run blow in the ninth for his fortieth home run of the year — his second season of forty as a Brave, a company that holds only Hank Aaron with eight, Eddie Mathews with four, and Acuña and Andruw Jones with two apiece. Since 2018, the wires observe, only Schwarber, Judge, and Ohtani have struck more home runs than Olson's three hundred three. His center fielder Harris rendered the scouting report in full: "Yeah, he's pretty good."
THE OCTOBER DESK: ATLANTA PUNCHES AN EIGHTH TICKET IN NINE YEARS, THREE CLUBS SHARE THE NATIONAL'S WILD-CARD ROW TO THE DECIMAL, AND THE WEEKEND STANDS THICK WITH CLINCHINGS-IN-WAITING
The Braves are formally through the gate: Friday's victory at Houston, sung in the card below, clinched Atlanta a postseason berth for the eighth time in nine years. The clinching arm belonged to Tyler Mahle, whose earned-run figure since arriving from San Francisco at the deadline stands at 1.28 — third among all qualified starters since the fourth of August, behind only the Yankee Schlittler and Philadelphia's Luzardo. "It's just exciting to be part of such a good team," said the veteran, bound now for the first playoff start of his life. The East is not yet sewn on: Atlanta leads Philadelphia by five with eight to play, and to clinch the division before leaving Houston on Sunday night the Braves must sweep while the Phillies drop one of two at Flushing.
Beneath them, the National's wild-card row has closed to a dead heat of rare perfection: the Cubs and Phillies both lost, the Padres won an eleventh game in twelve, and all three now stand at five-and-eighty wins against nine-and-sixty defeats — three clubs, three chairs, the order a matter of tiebreakers alone, with San Diego seated third having lost both season series. Arizona, five back after a third straight defeat, is the only pursuer left with a case. And the clinchings queue up behind: Boston can seal its berth as early as this very day at Tampa Bay, other scoreboards consenting; San Diego can seal its own as soon as tomorrow; and crowned Milwaukee's magic number for the National's first-round bye — any combination of Brewer victories and Atlanta defeats — stands at three, with the club one win shy of its own franchise record of seven-and-ninety, set only last season, and two clear of the field for the game's best ledger.
THE CONVALESCENT DESK: GOOD BULLETINS FROM THE CHAMPIONS' WARD — SNELL WILL TAKE THE BALL AGAIN, OHTANI SWINGS AT COACH'S PITCHING, AND DÍAZ RETURNS TO FIGHT FOR A NINTH INNING OF HIS OWN
The Dodgers' invalid list, which has shadowed these columns all week, sent up three encouraging dispatches in a single day. Blake Snell, whose groin ended Wednesday's start after an inning, threw from ninety feet before Friday's game and came away well — no imaging was even ordered. "Happy that we caught it early," said the manager Roberts, who expects the left-hander to make one more regular-season start without limitation; since the eleventh of August his earned-run figure stands at 1.01 across seven turns. Shohei Ohtani took the next step of his own convalescence, hitting coach-pitched batting practice and emerging sound; he builds up strictly as a batsman — the mound is finished for his year — and the earliest the list releases him is Wednesday. Having stayed behind to mend while the flag was clinched at Cincinnati, the great man missed Thursday's champagne altogether; he will have to wait upon a deeper October toast.
And Edwin Díaz is back in uniform, activated from his second shelving of the season with the neck inflammation healed — the corresponding move sending down Landon Knack, the same man who banked four innings in Thursday's clincher, as this paper sang only yesterday; baseball's ledgers keep a cold sort of books. Díaz threw a scoreless ninth in the rout the card records, the fastball averaging 97.6 miles to the hour, a full tick above his season's figure. "The fastball had that life," said Roberts. "And then the slider — once you have that fastball, the slider is pretty lethal." The three-time All-Star, signed last winter to close, now auditions like any September hopeful for a place in the October bullpen. The champions rebuild themselves piece by piece, and the calendar just barely obliges.
THE BUSH-LEAGUE DESK: A SAVE, A STRIKEOUT, AND A PERFECT BACKFLIP — AMARILLO PUNCTUATES ITS PENNANT-CLINCHER IN THE GRAND MANNER
The desk closes among the bushes, where the Double-A Amarillo Sod Poodles — Arizona's outpost in the Texas League — punched their ticket to the league Finals with an 8-7 decision over Frisco on Friday night, one evening after erasing a six-run deficit with their season at the wall. The finishing flourish belonged to the right-hander Alfred Morillo, who recorded the game-ending strikeout to seal the save, ripped off his glove, and executed a perfect backflip in one unbroken motion; his catcher Barriga sprinted to the mound and the whole roster spilled out behind him. The wires reckon the left-hander Jefry Yan the reigning artist of the strikeout celebration, but concede this was something else entirely. Amarillo — whose ranks include Druw Jones, son of the same Andruw enshrined in the milestone desk's forty-homer company above — opens a best-of-three for the title against a Springfield club stocked with Cardinal prospects on Sunday, chasing a third Texas League crown in seven years. If a semifinal merits the backflip, the Herald trembles to imagine the choreography a pennant would loose.
The Rest of the Card
THE OPENER'S GAMBIT MISFIRES AND THE LONG MAN MENDS ALL — CANTILLO'S SIX SPOTLESS INNINGS CARRY THE FOREST CITY NINE TO THE SUMMIT ALONE: FOREST CITY NINE 5, ATHLETICS 3
Gelof greeted the opener Espino with a three-run homer before an out was recorded, and Cleveland spent the rest of the evening un-digging: Joey Cantillo gave six innings of two hits behind him for his tenth victory, Rocchio doubled two home in the fourth, José Ramírez singled the game level and then struck the milestone thunder the desk above enshrines, and Bazzana's fifteenth supplied the lead for good. Smith sealed his eight-and-thirtieth save. Three straight now for the Forest City nine, alone atop the Central by one — though the tiebreaker still wears a Chicago uniform, as the lead columns weigh.
THE THIRD PITCH OF THE EVENING TRAVELS FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT-AND-THIRTY FEET — ANTHONY DRIVES IN THREE, AND THE RAYS' STREAK DIES AT SIX: FENWAY MEN 4, RAYS 2
Roman Anthony tore into the third pitch of the night for a leadoff homer the machines measured at four hundred eight-and-thirty feet, then delivered his first career hit with the bases full — a two-run single an inning later — and Boston never trailed. Suarez carried one run into the sixth, and Miller, working around a bases-loaded ninth in which Simpson grounded out to end it, banked his fifth save. Tampa Bay went without a hit with runners in scoring position all night; the streak of six is dead, and the East's lead over New York is pared to four with the four-game reckoning at the Stadium opening Tuesday. The Fenway men, their bruised catcher still resting, may seal their October berth this very day, other scoreboards consenting.
SIX WALKS UNDO THE STRIKEOUT KING AND A NEW MAN THROWS FOUR SPOTLESS — THE RANGERS DRAW DEAD LEVEL ATOP THE WEST: RANGERS 7, MAPLE LEAF NINE 1
The heavyweight bill this desk commended on Friday came apart inside three innings: Dylan Cease, the American's strikeout sovereign, walked six men in two and two-thirds and was charged four runs — one of them earned, Toronto's three errors underwriting the rest — while Texas drew ten walks in all. Rocker labored through four and a third before Justin Williams threw four spotless innings for the victory; Burger doubled, drove in two, and the West is a dead heat at last, Houston and Texas level at seven-and-seventy wins and losses apiece with the Silver Boot tiebreaker in Houston's keeping. Texas also sits one game from Chicago's wild-card chair; the Maple Leaf nine slip two back with their candle guttering.
MAHLE CARVES SIX QUIET INNINGS AND THREE TWO-RUN THUNDERCLAPS DO THE REST — THE TOMAHAWK NINE SEAL AN EIGHTH OCTOBER IN NINE YEARS: TOMAHAWK NINE 6, ASTROS 2
Harris in the fourth, Acuña in the seventh, Olson in the ninth — each blow worth two runs, the last of them the fortieth the milestone desk celebrates — and Tyler Mahle made them stand with six innings of one run and six strikeouts on clinching night, as the October desk relates. Paredes drove in both Houston runs in a five-hit evening; the Astros have lost six of ten, and Friday's defeat dropped them into the .500 deadlock with Texas that now defines the West. Atlanta's East arithmetic — five up, a sweep-and-help scenario to clinch by Sunday — stands in the desk above.
CHOURIO'S OPENING STATEMENT, ALONSO'S ANSWER, AND A VERDICT DELIVERED IN THE TENTH — WIN SIX-AND-NINETY COMES THE HARD WAY: BREWERS 6, ORIOLES 5, IN TEN INNINGS
Jackson Chourio struck a three-run homer in the second and stole two bases besides — one theft shy now of a third consecutive twenty-twenty season — and Pete Alonso answered with a three-run blow of his own, upheld by the machines, for his eight-and-thirtieth. Milwaukee took the lead back in the ninth on Contreras' double and Yelich's single, watched Baltimore square it with two sacrifice flies off Megill — his first blown save since the fifth of June — and settled the matter in the tenth on Frelick's single, Patrick sealing it. Victory six-and-ninety stands one shy of the franchise record set only last season, and the bye arithmetic reads three, as the October desk counts.
THREE RUNS OFF THE OPENER BEFORE AN OUT WAS BOUGHT, THREE MORE FROM SOTO'S BAT — THE AMAZINS PULL PHILADELPHIA BACK INTO THE PACK: AMAZINS 6, PHILADELPHIAS 3
The opener Mayza surrendered three runs in a third of an inning, and the newly claimed José Urquidy — the waiver prize of Thursday's dealings desk — gave four and two-thirds scoreless with six strikeouts in a debut that deserved better company. Sosa's homer and double clawed Philadelphia within one before Juan Soto turned on Kerkering for a three-run homer, his six-and-twentieth, and Hill's eleventh closed the account. The defeat drops the Philadelphias into the three-way dead heat the October desk describes, five behind Atlanta in the East; the Amazins, long since out of the argument, collected thirteen hits and looked pleased with the spoiler's wages.
SKENES IS REACHED FOR FIVE AND THE SMOKY CITY NINE RALLY ROUND HIM — GRIFFIN'S FOUR HITS AND A THREE-RUN SEVENTH RESTORE THE LEDGER TO .500: SMOKY CITY NINE 8, ROYALS 5
Pasquantino and Massey both took Paul Skenes out of the yard, and the great arm left after six trailing — whereupon his mates paid the debt: Konnor Griffin collected four hits and two runs driven in, Lowe hammered his two-and-thirtieth with a man aboard, and a three-run seventh off Pearson — Horwitz singling home two, Griffin one — turned the evening for good. Ramírez took the decision, Soto sealed his fifteenth save, and Pittsburgh stands at seven-and-seventy wins and defeats alike, a .500 figure worn like a pressed suit in a lost year.
THE ACE IN MID-NEGOTIATION STATES HIS PRICE FROM THE MOUND — FIVE SCORELESS FROM CAVALLI AND SEVEN RUNS IN THREE INNINGS: SENATORS 9, CARDINALS 1
Cade Cavalli, whose contract-extension talks this paper entered only yesterday, argued his side of the table with five scoreless innings and six strikeouts for his thirteenth victory — a well-timed exhibit if ever the wires saw one. Dylan Crews' two-run homer crowned a seven-run burst across the first three innings off Leahy, and Washington cruised behind four doubles besides. St. Louis managed Herrera's late run and little else, a third straight defeat; Burleson went hitless, though his hundred eleven driven in still lead the National's ledger.
FIVE WALKS COME HOME TO ROOST IN A THREE-RUN SIXTH — HOLMES UNRAVELS AT CINCINNATI, AND THE BRUINS ARE PULLED BACK INTO THE DEAD HEAT: CINCINNATIS 6, BRUINS 4
Chicago led by a run behind Suzuki's two-run single and Happ's four-and-twentieth, but Clay Holmes walked five men through five and a third, and the sixth inning collected the arrears: Suárez singled the game level and Trevino lined a two-run knock for the lead, the freshly recalled Aguiar taking the decision and Pagán sealing his four-and-twentieth. The defeat, paired with Philadelphia's and San Diego's evening, closes the National's wild-card row into the three-way deadlock the October desk describes — the Bruins' cushion, a game and a half at Thursday's dawn, now vanished entirely.
A SIX-RUN FIFTH BOUNCES OFF THE MOUND AND INTO THE WESTERN METAL BUILDING — ELEVEN WINS IN TWELVE FOR THE SAN DIEGO NINE: SAN DIEGO NINE 8, GULF STREAM NINE 2
The go-ahead blow was Dustin Harris' single that caromed off the mound itself, and the exclamation was Ty France's towering three-run homer off the Western Metal Building — the heart of a six-run fifth — before Merrill's six-and-twentieth arrived in the eighth with a kiss planted on the barrel of his bat. Pivetta gave five innings of one for the victory. Eleven wins in twelve have carried the San Diego nine dead level with the Cubs and Phillies at the row's head, five clear of Arizona, with a clinch possible as soon as tomorrow; the Gulf Stream nine took their ten hits home for consolation.
FIVE IN THE FIRST WITHOUT THE CAPTAIN, AND COLE PASSES EVERY FIRST PICK BEFORE HIM — THE BRONX BOMBERS GAIN A GAME ON TAMPA BAY: BRONX BOMBERS 9, SNAKES 2
Hours after the calf verdict the ward above records, New York answered in the oldest dialect it knows: five runs in the first off Rodriguez, the fifteen-game winner, with Ben Rice walking one home before adding his team-leading nine-and-thirtieth homer and a triple, and the young George Lombard Jr. driving in three. Gerrit Cole gave six innings of two for the one hundred two-and-sixtieth victory of his career — passing Mike Moore for the most ever gathered by a first-overall draft selection — and the Bombers, winners of eleven in fifteen, drew within four of Tampa Bay before Tuesday's four-game reckoning. Carroll's two-and-twentieth was the whole of Arizona's answer; a third straight defeat leaves the Snakes five from the last chair with eight to play.
FIFTEEN HITS GO FOR NOTHING IN THE MOUNTAIN AIR — MONTES' NINTH-INNING THUNDER STEALS IT FOR THE PUGET SOUND MEN: PUGET SOUND MEN 5, MILE HIGH NINE 4
Seattle's early three — Crawford's homer on the game's first swing of consequence and Naylor's two-run single — were run down by degrees, McCarthy tripling and singling twice among Colorado's fifteen hits, and the Mile High nine led by the sixth. But Canzone's sacrifice fly squared it in the seventh, and in the ninth Lazaro Montes struck his fourth homer for the lead, Muñoz sealing the eight-and-twentieth save. It is a ninety-eighth defeat for Denver's men against a lone victory in their last ten — the arithmetic of a season now measured chiefly in patience.
SEVEN SPOTLESS INNINGS FROM PRIELIPP AND THE BOY JENKINS THUNDERS AGAIN — A WHITEWASH AT ANAHEIM: TWINS 3, ANGELS 0
Connor Prielipp gave the finest account of the evening's pitchers — seven scoreless innings, two hits, eight strikeouts — and Minnesota's three arrived by sacrifice fly, Bell's single, and Walker Jenkins' third home run, the youngster's second thunder in as many nights at the same address, his ninth-inning blow of Thursday having been entered in yesterday's card. Adams closed the four-hitter for his third save. The Angels, blanked, have now dropped five-and-ninety games; the same clubs resume this evening.
TWENTY YEARS TO THE NIGHT OF THE '4+1,' FOUR HOMERS IN A SINGLE INNING — BETTS STRIKES TWICE AND THE BOYS IN BLUE ROUT THE ORANGE AND BLACK: BOYS IN BLUE 8, ORANGE AND BLACK 2
Friday marked twenty years to the day since the '4+1' game of 2006, when four consecutive ninth-inning homers and Garciaparra's tenth-inning blow beat San Diego — and the champions honored the anniversary in kind, striking four home runs in the eighth inning alone: Muncy, Tucker, Mookie Betts with his second of the night, and Smith, in an evening begun with Betts' first-inning blow. Tyler Glasnow fanned ten across six innings for the victory, Díaz closed it in the return the convalescent desk sings, and all of it came without Ohtani. Lee's tenth homer and Cox's single made San Francisco's account, its shelved Webb entered in the ward above; the Boys in Blue hold four clear of Atlanta for the National's second seed, two behind Milwaukee.
The Saturday tables, then — with Atlanta's ticket punched and the captain of the Yankees on the shelf. In the American: clinched Tampa Bay holds the East by four over clinched New York, Boston nine and a half astern; the Central is Cleveland's by one over Chicago, the tiebreaker still Chicago's, as the lead columns relate; and the West is a dead heat at last, Houston and Texas level at seven-and-seventy wins and losses apiece, the Silver Boot tiebreaker in Houston's keeping. The wild-card row: New York and Boston seated in comfort, the last chair Chicago's by one over Texas, with Toronto two back and Baltimore three. In the National: Atlanta, berth in pocket, leads Philadelphia by five; crowned Milwaukee by eleven over Chicago; the crowned champions by nine over San Diego. And the wild-card ledger is the morning's marvel: Cubs, Phillies, and Padres level to the game at five-and-eighty wins and nine-and-sixty defeats — three clubs, three chairs, the order a matter of tiebreakers alone, San Diego seated third — with Arizona five back and eight to play. Today's bill is the full board of fifteen, verified against the schedule, and the desk commends: at 2:10 daylight baseball on the South Side, where Detroit and Chicago resume their argument, Jobe opposing Burke; at 4:10 Boston tries for the formal seating at Tampa Bay, where a berth may be sealed by evening, other scoreboards consenting; at 7:05 Soriano carries Toronto's thinning case against Quantrill at Arlington; at 8:10 Schlittler — fourteen victories and the American's best earned-run figure at 1.95 — takes the Yankee cause into Phoenix without the captain; and at 9:10 Skubal opposes the Orange and Black at Chavez Ravine. Eight mornings remain to the season's final page on the seven-and-twentieth; the Wild Card rounds open on the nine-and-twentieth. Until the morrow's dispatch, keep your scorecards near and your enthusiasms nearer.
~ THE HERALD ~
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