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The Yankees had the day off after a particularly uninspiring display of baseball in the City, dropping two out of three to the White Sox and Red Sox before splitting a two-game Subway Series.They face a quick turnaround rematch against the Red Sox, this time in Boston, but before we get to that upcoming series, let's recap the action among the Yankees' AL rivals who did play yesterday.

Ozzie Albies homered, while Jared Shuster turned in a good performance to help the Atlanta Braves to a 4-2 win over the Oakland Athletics.Jared Shuster found himself in trouble early as Esteury Ruiz reached on an error by Orlando Arcia.Ruiz then stole second before Brent Rooker popped out.Shuster then picked off Ruiz at second, but walked Ryan Noda.

After another tough loss Tuesday, the Atlanta Braves will try to avoid a sweep Wednesday when they wrap up a three-game series against the Oakland Athletics.The Braves are 32-23 and currently hold a four-game lead in the NL East over the Marlins and Mets.The A's are 12-45 and secured their second series win of the season with Tuesday's win.

The Atlanta Braves are now one game away from getting swept by the Oakland Athletics.With help from an error on a ground ball from Austin Riley, the A's picked up their second straight win after having lost 11 straight games, with both wins coming against the Braves.This was another night where it ended up turning into The Bryce Elder Show on the mound despite his overall stuff not being obviously imposing.

Chicago White Sox (36-49, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Oakland Athletics (23-62, fifth in the AL West)
Oakland, California; Sunday, 4:07 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Touki Toussaint (0-1, 3.60 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Athletics: Paul Blackburn (1-0, 3.77 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 35 strikeouts)
BOTTOM LINE: The Oakland Athletics will look to sweep a three-game series with a victory over the Chicago White Sox.

Chicago White Sox (36-49, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Oakland Athletics (23-62, fifth in the AL West)
Oakland, California; Sunday, 4:07 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: Touki Toussaint (0-1, 3.60 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, eight strikeouts); Athletics: Paul Blackburn (1-0, 3.77 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, 35 strikeouts)
BOTTOM LINE: The Oakland Athletics will look to sweep a three-game series with a victory over the Chicago White Sox.

Chicago White Sox (36-47, fourth in the AL Central) vs. Oakland Athletics (21-62, fifth in the AL West)
Oakland, California; Friday, 9:40 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: White Sox: TBD; Athletics: Luis Medina (1-7, 6.84 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 45 strikeouts)
BOTTOM LINE: The Oakland Athletics open a three-game series at home against the Chicago White Sox on Friday.

The Dodgers dropped a game they should have won on Wednesday, thanks to yet another late-inning collapse by the bullpen.The Dodgers led 4-2 heading into the eighth inning, and Yency Almonte had just finished a dominant 1-2-3 seventh.However, Roberts decided to keep Almonte in for the eighth, and he allowed a leadoff double and a game-tying two-run home run to the first two batters of the inning.

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A 5-4 Dodgers victory over the Chicago White Sox that was made possible by Chris Taylor's sixth-inning grand slam and Freddie Freeman 's 11th-inning walk-off RBI single Thursday night served as one giant cleansing breath for their beleaguered bullpen.The Dodgers entered the game with a 4.90 bullpen ERA, the second-worst mark in baseball ahead of only the Oakland Athletics, but four relievers combined to blank the White Sox on one hit and strike out nine over the final six innings before a crowd of 48,655 in Chavez Ravine on Thursday night.

If Major League Baseball warms to the idea of relegation, it may want to consider an entire division instead of just a single team.Yes, it's getting that bad in the American League Central.None of its five teams has a winning record and, perhaps most alarmingly, three of them occupy the bottom five positions in USA TODAY Sports' MLB power rankings − a tricky feat given that the historically terrible Oakland Athletics have signed a non-binding agreement for the No. 30 spot.

Outside of Michael Soroka finally making his much-anticipated return to Major League Baseball, last night's contest was one to forget.Here's hoping that tonight's game between the Atlanta Braves and the Oakland Athletics is a totally different affair - one in which the Braves pick up a big win to even up the series against this squad.

The MLB trade deadline is rapidly approaching, and this one is sure to be interesting.There are tons of buyers, as teams look to make a late push up the standings and into the expanded postseason.However, there aren't very many sellers.The two teams most obviously set to be sellers - the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals - don't have much to offer, and after that, it's hard to know which teams will look to sell.

On Tuesday, as fans of the Athletics began to gather en masse at Oakland Coliseum in a long-planned reverse boycott of the team's ownership and its plans to move the A's to Las Vegas, Nevada's State Senate voted in favor of a bill to provide public funding for a Major League Baseball stadium on the Las Vegas Strip.

Roger Craig, who pitched or managed in five World Series and changed the face of pitching in the 1980s as the guru of the split-fingered fastball, died Sunday.He was 93.The San Francisco Giants, a team Craig managed for eight seasons, leading them to the National League pennant in 1989, announced his death on its website on Sunday.

Tasked on Thursday with deciding whether the state of Nevada will cough up $380 million to help the Oakland Athletics build a new state-of-the-art ballpark on the Las Vegas strip, the state's top legislators instead bought themselves more time.Following an hourslong delay before a special legislative session, the state's senate punted its big decision to Monday, leaving in limbo a proposal that could make or break the A's dreams of a new digs.

The legendary Los Angeles Dodgers infield of first baseman Steve Garvey, second baseman Davey Lopes, third baseman Ron Cey and shortstop Bill Russell is going to be celebrated at Dodger Stadium for their 50th anniversary on Friday, June 23.The quartet will be recognized during a pregame ceremony before the Dodgers play the Houston Astros.

The lineups for tonight's middle game between the Atlanta Braves and the Oakland Athletics have been revealed.Both teams have decided to go with one new face in the lineup and very few changes outside of that.So here's how the Braves are looking for tonight's contest:
The Braves are going with Kevin Pillar as their left fielder for tonight's game.

Monday was a great day for the Braves franchise, fanbase, and one Michael Soroka.Soroka completed six innings of productive pitching against the Oakland Athletics on Monday night.Though Soroka would take the loss and gave up four runs over six innings, the Braves have to be encouraged by his outing overall.

Here's how the Braves will line up in support of Mike Soroka.Spoiler alert: it's the same lineup.For those of you keeping score at home, this will be the time (and in a row) that the Braves use this lineup, where it will become tied for the most common lineup used this year by a few others.Defensive arrangement-wise, this is the team's most common starting nine already, and will be used for a ninth time in this game.

The excitement on his face was palpable -- Jose Abreu's drought is no more.Abreu, the longtime former Chicago White Sox first baseman, finally recorded his first home run of the season, simultaneously making it his first as a Houston Astro.The score came in the top of the eighth inning on the road against the Oakland Athletics.

The Nationals' Jeimer Candelario slides home after a double from Corey Dickerson, part of a four-run sixth inning for Washington in a 4-2 win.(Charlie Riedel/AP)KANSAS CITY, Mo. - If every inning were the sixth inning at Kauffman Stadium for the Washington Nationals, their hitters might grow tired of running around the bases.

Chris Sale will be on the mound when the Boston Red Sox look to snap their four-game losing streak in the first of three against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.In his last outing, Sale pitched seven innings in Boston's 4-2 win over the San Diego Padres, allowing two runs on three hits while striking out eight.

The Boston Red Sox have made due with a patchwork middle infield for the last couple of weeks but reinforcements could be returning in the near future.Christian Arroyo (right hamstring strain) and Yu Chang (hamate fracture) continue to make progress from their injuries to the point that Red Sox manager Alex Cora revealed the two will begin rehab assignments this week.

CLEVELAND (AP) - Will Brennan only tried to hit the ball.What happened after that wasn't by design.Cleveland's rookie outfielder hit a hard grounder that accidentally killed a bird wandering on the infield grass during the second inning of the Guardians' 3-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.

Broadcaster Glen Kuiper Jr. works from the press box during a game against the Chicago White Sox at Hohokam Stadium on March 8, 2015, in Mesa, Arizona.Glen Kuiper, the primary play-by-play broadcaster for the Oakland Athletics, has been fired following an internal review triggered when he said a racial slur on air.