Guardians slugger Jose Ramirez joins Home Run Derby field
Cleveland Guardians third baseman Jose Ramirez will participate the Home Run Derby, the slugger announced on social media on Tuesday. Ramirez, 31, is already heading to Arlington, Texas, for the All-Star Game on July 16. It’ll be his fourth straight All-Star appearance and sixth overall. Ramirez competed in the 2022 derby, but he was dealing with a thumb injury and was eliminated by Juan Soto in the first round. This year’s derby will be held on July 15. A four-time Silver Slugger winner, Ramirez entered Tuesday with 23 homers and 76 RBIs along with a .269 batting average in 86
games this season. In 1,379 games over 12 seasons with the Guardians, Ramirez has a .278 batting average, 239 home runs and 822 RBIs. Other confirmed entries in the slugging exhibition are the Philadelphia Phillies’ Alec Bohm, the Baltimore Orioles’ Gunnar Henderson, the Kansas City Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr., the Atlanta Braves’ Marcell Ozuna and two-time winner Pete Alonso of the New York Mets.
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Bottom of Phillies’ lineup powers a blowout win over Dodgers despite Zack Wheeler’s early exit
PHILADELPHIA – The cavalry arrived – and in the nick of time, too – for a visit from the Phillies’ mirror-image coastal superpower. But what happened next was more out of the ordinary than even a trouncing of the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers. Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber were mostly immaterial to the victory.
Crazy, isn’t it? Upon welcoming back the star sluggers who account for more than one-quarter of the team’s scoring output, the Phillies leveled a 10-1 shellacking Tuesday night because the bottom of the order – Brandon Marsh, Rafael Marchán and Johan Rojas – went 7 for 9 with a homer (from Marsh), two doubles (from Marchán), seven runs, three RBIs and two stolen bases. OK, so Trea Turner did smash a grand slam to crack open the game like a piñata at an 8-year-old birthday party before struggling Bryson Stott banged a solo shot off the facing of the second deck. And the Dodgers aren’t the Dodgers with three regulars, including Mookie Betts, three starting pitchers, and much of
their bullpen jamming up on the injured list like a Los Angeles freeway. It wasn’t all knee-slapping laughs, either, before 43,065 patrons, another sold-out crowd at Citizens Bank Park. Zack Wheeler dominated for five innings, then exited before the sixth with what the Phillies characterized as “left low back tightness.”
