Listed here are three issues to regulate round baseball at present:
1. Braves to reinstate Michael Harris II:
Braves supervisor Brian Snitker instructed reporters (together with Mark Bowman of MLB.com) that Michael Harris II shall be activated from the 60-day injured checklist at present. He’ll be a part of the Braves in San Francisco as they try to safe a sequence victory over the Giants. The middle fielder has been out since mid-June with a hamstring pressure.
Harris tore issues up at Triple-A over six rehab video games, batting .435 with a 1.065 OPS. The Braves will hope he stays scorching within the majors; earlier than his damage, he was hitting simply .250 with a disappointing .653 OPS in 67 video games. Atlanta might want to make an extra transaction or two to clear house for Harris on the 26 and 40-man rosters. Bowman implies the Braves might DFA Adam Duvall as a corresponding transfer. Duvall is within the midst of a dreadful season (.178/.240/.315, -1.1 FanGraphs WAR), and as Bowman factors out, the righty-batting Duvall didn’t get the beginning final evening even with a left-handed pitcher on the mound.
2. Aaron Decide going for house run No. 300:
Yankees outfielder and AL MVP frontrunner Aaron Decide has been sitting on 299 profession house runs since Sunday, when he took Rangers southpaw Andrew Chafin deep for his MLB-leading 42 homer of the season. Together with his subsequent lengthy ball, Decide will develop into the 162nd participant in MLB historical past to affix the 300-homer membership. He will even, nearly certainly, develop into the quickest participant to hit 300 house runs. That honor presently belongs to Ralph Kiner, who hit his three hundredth house run in his 1,087th profession sport. Decide has performed simply 954 video games since his debut in 2016. In different phrases, Decide will develop into the quickest participant to succeed in the 300-homer mark whether or not he hits his subsequent bomb at present, subsequent week, or subsequent month. Nonetheless, he’ll have a fairly good shot tonight, because the Yankees play their ultimate sport of the season in opposition to the hapless White Sox. White Sox pitchers have given up the third-most house runs in MLB this season (157).
3. Little League World Sequence begins at present:
The Little League World Sequence kicks off this afternoon in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Ten groups from round america and one other ten from world wide will compete to be topped LLWS champions. The match, which airs on ESPN, runs by means of August 25. In the meantime, the Yankees and Tigers will take the sector in Williamsport for the Little League Traditional on August 18.
