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- Angels right fielder Jo Adell robbed three home runs in Saturday’s 1-0 win over the Mariners. No one on record had ever stolen more than two in a game before Saturday.
- Sam Blum has more details on Adell’s big game. (The Athletic sub. req.)
- Matt Clapp has both the Angels and Mariners TV broadcast calls of all three robberies.
- Jared Greenspan breaks down all three catches.
- Matt Snyder ranks the three catches.
- A fan got an incredible photo of the aftermath of Adell’s third catch.
- On Sunday, the Mariners went with a new plan.
- Thomas Harrington has the greatest home-run robbing catches in MLB history. It was in the WBC and not MLB so I guess it doesn’t count, but he should have included Adam Jones’ robbery of Manny Machado.
- As long as we’re on freaky performances, Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton hit one so hard he put a dent in the Yankee Stadium outfield wall.
- Mike Axisa looks at how the Yankees got off to such a hot start despite a slumping Aaron Judge.
- Alden Gonzalez has some possible storylines for the Dodgers’ regular season.
- Josh Peter argues that the history of the Dodgers is the history of America.
- That might be our cue to start the butcher’s bill. Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts went on the injured list with an oblique strain.
- The Astros put their pitching ace Hunter Brown on the IL with a shoulder strain.
- Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander went on the IL with hip inflammation.
- Seven fun early season stats from MLB dot com.
- Jayson Stark has his weekly “Weird and Wild” column and this week features on the oddities of the Automatic Ball-Strike System. (The Athletic sub. req.)
- Dan Szymborski points out that yes, teams can lose a pennant in April.
- One team whose hopes are dropping rapidly are the Giants, (The Athletic sub. req.) according to Ken Rosenthal. New manager Tony Vitello is under pressure already to deliver results, per Rosenthal.
- Speaking of which Vitello got ejected for the first time on Sunday as the Giants fall to 3-7.
- Maury Brown looks at the early-season TV ratings. Mostly good news for MLB.
- Bob Nightengale notes that the great start to the career of Tigers rookie Kevin McGonigle has Detroit fans thinking about a pennant in 2026.
- David Adler hs ten new nasty pitches for this year.
- Jake Mintz looks at all (or most of) the players who could be in line for a long-term extension.
- White Sox third baseman Munetaka Murakami become the first Japanese player to hit four home runs in his first eight games.
- The White Sox also announced that former manager Ozzie Guillén would have his number retired, which caused Guillén to tear up on the air.
- And finally, since pocket pancakes out passé, Brewers manager Pat Murphy has a new gimmick: a tiny tortoise named after Bobby Witt Jr.
