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The Dodgers cleaned house at Chavez Ravine. Their fiercest chasers—the San Diego squad just a two-hour-and-change cruise down the I-5—got straight-up swept in the weekend set. The Friars’ hustle to snag the top spot for a hot minute didn’t amount to squat against L.A.’s firepower. Just goes to show, when contenders clash, the whole season’s script can flip. And the best part? We’ve got plenty more heavyweight bouts coming as the playoff push heats up. Buckle up for drama. But here’s the kicker we clocked from this last showdown: if you’re not producing, you’re riding pine or getting your walking papers. That’s the cold truth of the show. Don’t believe it? Ask Martín Maldonado, the Padres’ Opening Day backstop—cut loose and still unsigned.
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Things got real—Luis Campusano, the backup catcher, got shipped down to the farm after slumping hard at the dish. That roster shake-up made room for Freddy Fermín, the Venezuelan backstop snagged from KC right before the trade deadline. He used to ride pine behind fellow countryman Salvador Pérez, but now he’s backing up Elías Díaz. Or was. Fermín’s been quietly balling out and straight-up snatched the starting gig. Need receipts? He started every game in the set, hosed Shohei Ohtani trying to swipe second with a filthy 1.79-second pop time—that’s the Statcast metric for how fast a catcher gets the ball out and fired to the bag. Then there was that full-send crash into the padding chasing a foul pop yesterday, plus his scorching slash line over the last 15 games: .350/.381/.450 with an .831 OPS. With numbers like that and hustle to match, how you gonna keep him outta the lineup?
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[MLB.com](https://www.mlb.com) dropped a tearjerker about Yohel Pozo, the Cards’ backup catcher behind Panama’s Iván Herrera. On homestands when the squad’s not jetting city to city, players often give back—and Pozo hit up a children’s hospital. The kids, grateful for his visit, gifted him a bat with a custom knob featuring his son’s face, who’d been treated there after suffering strokes back in 2020. They asked him to go yard against the Yankees over the weekend, and Pozo promised he’d give it a shot. Movie-script stuff: he was hitless through the first two games, and his first two ABs yesterday came up empty. But in the sixth, with the score knotted at 3, Pozo got a hanger—an 87 MPH slider that sat middle-middle—and launched it with that same bat. Tears flowing, he rounded the bags, promise fulfilled. Tell me baseball ain’t beautiful.
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The “Uecker Magic” ran out yesterday in wild fashion, leaving folks wondering if the Reds might just sneak into that third NL Wild Card spot. Top of the ninth at Great American Ball Park, it looked like déjà vu from their 14-game heater. Brewers’ Venezuelan backstop William Contreras stepped in with his squad down 1-0 and a man on first. He sat on an 86 MPH cutter that leaked into his wheelhouse and lit up the Brew Crew dugout with a go-ahead bomb. But hold the champagne—Cincy answered in the home half, tied it up, and walked it off to snap Milwaukee’s streak. Reds now just 1.5 games out of the third Wild Card and still the only club in the bigs that hasn’t been broomed in a series all year. The ONLY one. Congrats @hosgug. Baseball’s got a flair for the dramatic, doesn’t it?
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