San Francisco lefty Matt Moore lost his no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth inning on a soft, clean single by Corey Seager, and the Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0 Thursday night.
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A day after Alex Rodriguez played his final game for the Yankees, the team called up top prospect Aaron Judge, who will make his major league debut Saturday afternoon against the Rays.
The Yankees officially released Rodriguez on Saturday afternoon, ending his 12 years in pinstripes and perhaps his big league career after 22 seasons.
Prospect Tyler Austin was also called up from Triple-A and will make his MLB debut. Austin will hit seventh and play first base.
Austin and Judge launched their Yankees careers with back-to-back home runs in their first major league at-bats Saturday, hitting solo shots off Matt Andriese in the second inning.
On Thursday night, it was Pokemon hunting with his new teammates. On Friday night, Yasiel Puig delivered three hits, including a home run and four RBIs, for Triple-A Oklahoma City.
The extra-curricular activities are nice, but ultimately, it is all about on-field production that will matter for the recently demoted Dodgers outfielder.
"I think I have to be out there more, I have to get involved with my teammates, I have to talk to them and I have to be nice and be out there with them," Puig told reporters through an interpreter during his introductory news conference.
Alex Rodriguez's Yankees career ended the way it began a dozen years ago, with a game against the Rays in which he went 1-for-4 with a double.
The evening began with a thunderstorm that descended upon the Bronx just as a ceremony commemorating A-Rod's years was about to begin. The storm forced the participants, who included Reggie Jackson, Mariano Rivera and Hal Steinbrenner, to scramble for cover from the lightning and torrential rains barely five minutes after it had begun.
Friday night's 6-3 Yankees win ended with the most unlikely sight: Rodriguez heading out for the ninth inning with a fielder's glove on his left hand, sent out to play one final inning at third base, a position he had not started at in a game since April 27, 2015.
Brandon Crawford became the first major leaguer in 41 years to get seven hits in a game, finally putting the Giants ahead to stay with an RBI single in the 14th inning of an 8-7 victory over the Marlins on Monday night.
Crawford tripled, doubled and had five singles in eight at-bats, tying an NL record. The previous player to get seven hits in a game was Pirates infielder Rennie Stennett on Sept. 16, 1975, at the Cubs.
Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has become the 30th player in Major League Baseball history -- and the first from Japan -- to join the 3,000-hit club.
The 42-year-old reached the milestone Sunday with a triple off the wall against reliever Chris Rusin in the seventh inning at Colorado.
Suzuki joined Paul Molitor as the only players to get their 3,000th hits with triples.