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Daniel Vogelbach and Edwin Encarnacion combined for six hits, three home runs and 10 RBIs to back a solid outing from Wade LeBlanc and lead the visiting Seattle Mariners to a 12-5 victory against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon. Vogelbach was 3-for-4 with two home runs and a career-best six RBIs while Encarnacion had one home run among his three hits and four RBIs as the Mariners won for the ninth time in 11 games to open the season. LeBlanc (2-0) held the White Sox to two runs on six hits in six innings, walking one and striking out six. Continue to Article

April 07, 2019 6:19:pm EST

Mike Clevinger allowed one hit and struck out 10 over five scoreless innings as the host Cleveland Indians completed a four-game series sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays with a 3-1 victory on Sunday afternoon. Cleveland's Tyler Naquin highlighted his three-hit performance with an RBI single in the first inning that plated Carlos Santana, who had a run-scoring double in the previous at-bat to extend his hitting streak to eight games. Jose Ramirez added an RBI single with two outs in the fifth inning for the Indians, whose pitching staff recorded 57 strikeouts in the four-game series. Continue to Article

April 07, 2019 4:07:pm EST

But Palka has found out the hard way that it is indeed possible to go 0-for-21. That's where he stood entering Sunday's contest, still searching for his first hit of the 2019 season after the White Sox played their first eight games. It's been an obviously dreadful beginning to an important, "prove it" year for the guy who blasted a team-high 27 home runs as a rookie in 2018. Continue to Article

April 07, 2019 2:06:pm EST

The Cleveland Indians have relied on their pitching to warm their spirits while waiting for their bats to heat up. The Indians, in fact, have posted a franchise-record 88 strikeouts over their first eight games of the season, with 40 coming in the first three contests against the Toronto Blue Jays. Cleveland will look for more of the same on Sunday afternoon when it attempts to complete a four-game sweep of visiting Toronto. Continue to Article

April 07, 2019 2:56:am EST

Maybe this is all just a particularly effective bout of "daddy strength," as Rick Renteria called it. Tim Anderson is indeed a new papa, fresh off the birth of his daughter, Paxton. No one's suggesting that Anderson has reached the point where he's a better player than the mighty accomplished Machado. Continue to Article

April 06, 2019 7:11:pm EST