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 the weekend in Major League Baseball:
Goldschmidt’s return to St. Louis goes well for New York
The Yankees entered the weekend just half-a-game up on the Cleveland Guardians, and it looked like it was the latter who had the momentum, considering how well they’ve been playing for some time now, compared to New York, which has been playing under .500 ball since before the summer began.Â
The Cardinals were apparently just what the Yankees needed to get back on track, though, and at the same time that the Guardians were swept by the Braves, too. With sweeps in both series, New York was able to bump their wild card lead to 3.5 games, leaving Cleveland just half-a-game up on the Royals, too.
Yankees’ first baseman — and former Cardinals star — Paul Goldschmidt didn’t play in the series opener thanks to a knee sprain suffered on Tuesday, but he made an appearance in the eighth in the second contest, and then started Sunday’s game. He received a warm reception via a standing ovation from the Cardinals’ faithful, and why not? Goldschmidt spent six years in St. Louis, batting .278/.360/.483 with 153 homers in his time there, and even won the 2022 NL MVP on account of leading the Senior Circuit in slugging (.577) and OPS+ (177), in a nearly 8-win season.
Goldschmidt looked a lot like he did in St. Louis facing off against his former club, too. He went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and a run and an RBI each, bringing his season line up to .280/.334/.429.Â
The Cardinals have now lost five in a row, and sit 5.5 back of the last wild card in the National League race. They are not out of it at this point by any means, not with 37 games left on the schedule, but Baseball Reference lists their chances of making the postseason at 3.1% now that they sit 61-64 after a sweep at the hands of the Yankees. They’ll have to turn things around fast if they are to avoid missing the postseason for the sixth time in 10 years.
The Dodgers swept the Padres
There was, understandably, a lot of concern about the way the Dodgers had been playing of late, combined with the much more successful way that the rival Padres had been playing. San Diego even moved into sole possession of first place in the NL West on Thursday, on the strength of a roster upgraded at the trade deadline.
When the two faced off over the weekend for a three-game series, though, it was all Los Angeles. The Dodgers swept the Padres, pushing their lead in the West back up to two games. The series was much closer than that suggests — Los Angeles won 3-2, 6-0 and 5-4 — but the standings don’t care how much a team wins by. Those dubs are in the bank, as are San Diego’s three new losses, and there is that much less time for the Padres to wrest the division from the Dodgers because of it.
Mookie Betts was the hero on Sunday, as the Padres tied the game up in the top of the eighth, and Betts immediately put the Dodgers back up on top in the bottom of the frame with a solo homer to left field.
Betts is having by far his worst season at the plate in the majors, but he’s at least been able to contribute defensively, and at a high level: despite his first below-average season offensively, Betts is on pace to finish with a 3-win season, by wins above replacement. He hasn’t been a drag on the Dodgers, basically, but if he can return to form offensively even a little bit before the end of the season — time for the postseason — then the Dodgers’ lineup is going to look that much better.
Raleigh had a better weekend than his team
Pretty big weekend for the Big Dumper, as Cal Raleigh smacked two doubles and a home run on Friday against the Mets, helping the Mariners to an 11-9 victory. While Seattle would lose the next two contests, Raleigh couldn’t be faulted for it. He had another two hits on Saturday, as well as a stolen base — his 14th of the year — and a pair of walks, and then on Sunday he went yard again for his 47th homer of the year as part of his third multi-hit game of the weekend.
Raleigh is leading the majors in home runs, and his 102 RBIs are also tops. And for as unfortunate as losing a series to the August edition of the Mets is for any team, the Mariners do still hold the second wild card in the AL, and are half-a-game up on the Yankees for that spot despite the latter sweeping the Cardinals.
Rockies take down the D’backs (and themselves)
The Rockies won three of four from the Diamondbacks over the weekend, but of course they couldn’t do it in a normal way. This is the 2025 Colorado Rockies we’re talking about, which is why their game ended on Sunday with what was basically one player tackling another player.
Now, to their credit, earlier in the season this happening would have resulted in that ball being dropped, and then probably thrown into the stands, or even into the Rockies’ dugout into the face of one of their players. Here, though, Juan Mejia managed to avoid the fumble and keep possession of the ball, despite the hard hit. [Football terms.]
Winning five of his last six has made some of the loss of eight directly lost, so Rocky is at speed once again to avoid setting the records of damage to all time. They also have 38 games left on the schedule, however, and seeing the season they have, perhaps there is no time to pop the champagne yet.
Sorry what?
Catching a ball that has come out of your glove is old hotness. Meet the new, holding a ball between your legs, really tight and possibly praying throughout your feet.
Jung Hu Lee did not hold the ball in his glove as much as it stopped along with it, and then it fell and slowly rolled his leg, until he was able to get trapped between his legs somehow, while he himself rolled on the ground. He knew that it was there, however, as he stood too – very carefully – to show what he did.
Hey, if it does not touch the ground, it has not really landed. Nothing says that you need to catch the ball in your glove.
Bruers’ victory streak is over
Bruers on Saturday managed to achieve their winning streak for a franchise-and MLB-IN-2025-Best 14 wins in a row, and can thank Andrew Monstio to thank Andrew Monstio to score 3 runs in an additional innings for this.
However, they could try, however, they could not secure number 15. Reds took a 1-0 lead in the ninth innings, and William Contraras hit a 2-run homer for the first time to top the Milwauki for all games.
The game was not being played In Milwauki, however, therefore, the Reds got a chance to bind things at the bottom of the frame. What he did! With runners on the corners and out, backstop Jose Trevino line a ball Now! On the second basis on the head of Kaleb Durbin, Will Banson Scoring.
Brucers would fail to score at the top of the 10th, and with Grant Anderson – who had already blowed the innings – will still score once more via Reds Single on the mound at the bottom half of the innings.
For example, despite losing to Padress Dojers, not losing much despite the sweep, Reds should not feel very terrible about this series. On Sunday, he had his own dramatic additional innings victory, and on Friday there was a high scoring case, it was 10–8, not a beetdown by Milwoki. Of course, Cincinnati will win these games instead of winning them instead of winning, but they sit back 1.5 of the third wild card despite facing buzzsaw, which is the brovers. There are worse ways to wake up on Monday morning.
Taunted
This is 474 feet away from Corbin Carol’s bat, which you are going to see.
Arizona’s weekend was not so hot, but Carol found all that was his 27th explosion of the year.
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