Ontem à noite no beisebol: Mike Trout comemora aniversário e retorna com Dinger

There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.

Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:

Mike Trout debuted in the majors on July 8, 2011. Mike Trout came back from a stint on the IL for a strained right hamstring on July 8, 2026. He marked both occasions the same way: by hitting a 438-foot homer.

This shot in the eighth inning put the Angels up 11-0 on the Rangers, and seriously, Trout crushed it. Lefty reliever Robby Ahlstrom left an 88.4 mph changeup over the plate and knee-high, and Trout shot it back in the other direction — and pulled to left-center — 22 mph faster than it arrived. Trout is freakishly strong. It rules.

For the night, the Angels’ DH was 1-for-4 with a walk, two runs and two RBIs, courtesy that homer. A much better night than July 8, 15 years ago, as Trout was 0-for-3 in his debut. Just 19 years old at the time, Trout batted all of .220/.281/.390 with five homers in 40 games in 2011. The next season, he won the American League Rookie of the Year and finished second in the MVP vote, too, while leading the majors in wins above replacement, so. It didn’t take very long for Mike Trout to become Mike Trout, you know? Time flies in a number of ways.

Speaking of flies, check out what Jo Adell was up to in the same game. The Angels’ right fielder went yard twice, first with a two-run dinger in the fourth to give Los Angeles a 3-0 lead over Texas…

…and then again on a hard-hit liner that StatCast estimated at 433 feet, if it hadn’t hit that pesky solid wall behind the fence. Adell golfed that one, too — that was the kind of pitch so low that it probably needed an ABS challenge to be called a strike, and he drove it away at 110 mph.

The Angels would end up winning, 13-1. Which, about that…

The Rangers were getting crushed, thanks to a combination of starter MacKenzie Gore giving up seven runs in five innings and his opposition, Walbert Ureña, getting away with walking five batters in four innings without so much as allowing a run. Texas’ bullpen gave up another four runs after Gore exited, while the Angels’ pen kept the shutout going — in the bottom of the eighth, Kyle Higashioka stepped to the plate as a pinch-hitter to lead off, down 11-0.

The result? Elation. Pandemonium. A run.

The fireworks! The Tarps Off crew in the stands losing it like Texas had just tied the game up or this was the World Series! Incredible vibes, really, and good for those fans to still be able to have a good time with the deficit cut to 10 runs and just six outs remaining.

Higashioka was not so lucky in the ninth. The Rangers put him on the mound, and he gave up two runs, meaning he left Texas with a larger deficit than he entered into before his homer. And yet! No shutout. Small victories, you know?

Kyle Schwarber entered play on Wednesday leading the majors in dingers. The Phillies’ All-Star mashed number 31 on Tuesday, and the next day bashed the sequel.

Not his longest long ball ever, but boy that one still got out of the park in a hurry. Schwarber hit a career-high 56 homers in 2025, his first campaign reaching 50, and is now on pace for 57 for 2026. This is a good time to point out that just 11 players have ever hit 50 homers more than once in their careers, and just seven of those managed the feat in back-to-back seasons.

Somehow “Schwarber went deep again and is on pace to make history” wasn’t the homer-centric story of this game, however. And that’s because his dinger cut the lead to 11-4, Reds, on account of Cincinnati having already hit five homers of its own in the game.

Including a back…

…to-back…

…to-back stretch in the bottom of the fourth.

Shortstop Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run homer to put the Reds up 5-2, off of lefty Tanner Banks, off an 88 mph slider on the outer part of the zone. Four pitches later, Banks caught way too much of the middle of the plate against third baseman Sal Stewart, who went yard for the second time that day, but first time off Banks. And last, Banks gave up the second to-back of back-to-back-to-back two pitches later on a slider low in the zone, to left fielder J.J. Bleday.

Maybe the wildest bit about this is that Bleday’s was the third homer in the row but the fourth of the inning: Banks had entered the game shortly after right fielder Noelvi Marte hit his sixth homer of the year, off starter Alan Rangel. The homers stopped after Bleday’s, at least, but the damage was already done: Cincinnati was up 7-2 at that point, and while four more runs were scored, they weren’t necessary for the W.

The Padres and Diamondbacks are both fighting for a wild-card spot in the NL, which makes series like the one they are facing off in right now important in the lead-up to the trade deadline and also just in general: after Wednesday, five teams are sitting within 5.5 games of the final wild-card, and it’s San Diego and Arizona at the back of that line.

The D-backs were ahead of the Padres in that race, but San Diego has now won the middle two games of the series, and the fourth will determine if this is a split or an extremely productive start to the week for the Friars. On Wednesday, San Diego started scoring in the third, and didn’t stop again until the eighth: one run in the third and another in the fourth, then two, then four and another two.

Shortstop Xander Bogaerts was responsible for the two in the fifth, with a two-run single to left that made it 4-1, Padres…

…and then the sixth brought the four-run inning, with catcher Luis Campusano hitting his fourth home run of the year…

…third baseman Sung-Mun Song singling in another run, followed by right fielder Fernando Tatis Jr. singling to left and then advancing to second as a run scored.

Center fielder Jackson Merrill would make it four runs with a single of his own before Arizona got out of the inning, but the damage was done. The Padres would add two more to get to double-digits, and win 10-4. 

The Dodgers quickly recovered from losing to the Rockies on Tuesday, with it being Los Angeles getting the late-game rally this time around. The game was tied 3-3 after the Rockies scored a run in the top of the third, and stayed that way until the bottom of the eighth, thanks to Dodgers’ starter Roki Sasaki and Rockies’ starter Gabriel Hughes both buckling down from that point forward, to each toss a few scoreless innings and come out of this with Quality Starts.

Colorado’s bullpen blinked first and last, though, when shortstop Mookie Betts picked up his lone hit of the day on a hard-hit single to center that scored the game-winning run.

Betts was batting fourth, and “lone hit of the day” wasn’t meant to say he did little: Betts went 1-for-3 with a walk, a run and an RBI. He’s also in that cleanup spot because he’s looked an awful lot like Mookie Betts [complimentary] novamente ultimamente: em seus últimos 22 jogos e 97 aparições em plate, ele está acertando 0,322/0,371/0,556 com 11 rebatidas extra-base e 0,927 OPS.

Os Guardiões quase conseguiram. Depois de acertar alguns home runs para fazer 3 a 0, o Cleveland acabou deixando os Twins empatarem no quarto com uma entrada de três corridas. Depois disso, os dois lados ficaram quietos na base até o sétimo, quando o defensor direito Chase DeLauter acertou uma de suas duas rebatidas do dia para fazer 4-3, Guardians.

O shortstop Brayan Rocchio faria outro no que deveria ser um sac bunt, mas acabou sendo um erro de arremesso com todos seguros. O problema é que os Twins mais uma vez responderam de imediato: no final do sétimo, duas andadas com as bases carregadas – ambas do canhoto Erik Sabrowski – empataram mais uma vez.

Isso colocou Minnesota no final do nono para vencer com uma rebatida, e foi o que aconteceu: o defensor direito Alan Roden pegou sua segunda rebatida e o segundo RBI do dia, cortesia de um single profundo de 393 pés que foi apenas um single porque esse era o jogo.

Não é um resultado ideal para o Cleveland, já que está lutando por uma vaga como wild card e perdeu a oportunidade de empatar com o também perdedor White Sox no topo do AL Central. Para Minnesota, o W tem apenas dois jogos atrás de Chicago e um jogo atrás dos Twins para a segunda vaga de wild card, meio jogo atrás de qualquer wild card em geral.

Ouça, quanto menos se falar sobre a derrota extremamente embaraçosa de terça-feira, em que o Royals marcou 12 corridas sem resposta e venceu o Mets por quatro corridas, melhor. Então, vamos nos concentrar no jogo de quarta-feira, onde foi Nova York quem fez o rali com uma grande entrada!

No final do oitavo, a sequência de um jogo de 16 a 12 empatou em 1 a 1. Alex Lange entrou aliviado e no início as coisas correram bem – ele tirou o defensor esquerdo Juan Soto e o terceiro base Bo Bichette. Foi aí que as coisas começaram a desmoronar: o shortstop Francisco Lindor marcou, então o defensor direito e novato Carson Benge deu uma caminhada para colocar o sinal verde em segundo lugar, com dois a menos. DH Jorge Polanco escolheu para carregar as bases, e então Lange acertou o primeiro base Jared Young com um arremesso – 2-1, Mets.

O jogador da segunda base, Brett Baty, acertou um single de duas corridas contra Lange, que foi substituído por Jose Cuas. Ele lançou um arremesso selvagem para marcar Young, então o apanhador Francisco Alvarez marcou em Baty – 6-1, Mets. Foram – conte-os – cinco eliminações de duas corridas.

De alguma forma, foram apenas cinco também: Cuas então desistiu de uma dobradinha para o defensor central AJ Ewing, mas não marcou Alvarez, e então Soto foi intencionalmente eliminado enquanto o Mets rebatia porque sim, ele é literalmente Juan Soto. Bichette acabou rebatendo para acabar com a ameaça, mas não importou – Xzavion Curry desistiu apenas de uma corrida no final da nona, e foi a dublagem do Mets.

O que o final da série vai nos trazer, afinal?

Aqui está uma seleção de home runs do confronto Orioles-Cubs de quarta-feira em Baltimore.

Coby Mayo, que entrou no jogo como rebatedor, fez um home run no segundo deck, apenas a oitava tacada em Camden desde que o parque foi inaugurado em 1992.

O defensor central do Cubs, Pete Crow-Armstrong, foi para a jarda não uma, mas duas.

Esse home run foi o 20º do ano de Crow-Armstrong, tornando-o um jogador de 20 home run e 20 roubos de bola pelo segundo ano consecutivo e o primeiro desde Sammy Sosa, em meados dos anos 90, por Estatísticas da MLB. E, como mencionado, ele também teve uma segunda dúvida.

E então havia Michael Conforto e Carson Kelly indo de costas um para o outro arremessosnão apenas rebatidas.

Os Cubs venceriam por 9-7, em um jogo que teve esses cinco home runs e mais quatro. Isso mesmo! Nove dingers em um jogo. Você poderia pensar que talvez mais de 16 corridas teriam sido marcadas, mas os home runs continuaram vindo com muita regularidade para que alguém estivesse na base para um monte deles.

Ah, e foram quase 10 home run. Confira esta captura de Taylor Ward à esquerda.

Fechar! Mas talvez devesse ter sido mais longe.

Como lembra a última entrada, quase não conta, mas “quase um no-hitter” também vale a pena notar. E foi isso que Dylan Cease conseguiu para os Blue Jays na quarta-feira, quando entrou na nona entrada com um no-hitter contra os Giants.

Ele não conseguiu registrar uma eliminação no nono, no entanto: o defensor esquerdo Heliot Ramos liderou a entrada e recebeu sua – e a dos Giants – a única batida do dia com uma linha para o centro, e foi isso para Cease. Mas que dia: uma rebatida em oito entradas acompanhada por 11 eliminações e três caminhadas. Tyler Rogers limpou as coisas após a saída de Cease, e Toronto venceria por 10-0.