Corbin Carroll had two of Arizona’s FIFTEEN hits last night as the D-Backs did their best impression of the worst hosts in baseball with a 9-0 thumping of Nick Lodolo and the Cincinnati Reds.

The Snakes were biting in Arizona as Gabriel Moreno (2-for-5, 1 RBI, 5th SB), Geraldo Perdomo (3-for-5, 2 R, 1 RBI), Tim Tawa (2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 7th SB), and the aforementioned Corbin Carroll (2-for-4, 2 R, 18th SB) all had multi-hit games.

But, as always, I saved the best for last. 

Former top-prospect darling Jordan Lawlar is not only back from the IL, but he’s doing his best to make up for lost time. Lawlar went 3-for-5 with 2 runs scored, 3 RBIs, and took Nick Lodolo deep for his 2nd HR of the year.

As for Nicky Blisters, it was another tough outing for the oft-injured and constantly disappointing lightning arm from Cincy.

Nick Lodolo – 3.1 IP, 6 ER, 10 H, 2 BB, 2 Ks – was tagged with his 3rd loss. So much for that stream in my RCL. Woof.

The good news is if you were looking for the opposite of ineffective, but flashy, you came to the right place.

Eduardo Rodriguez – 5.2 IP, 0 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 4 Ks – continued his wizardry, picking up his 13th win. If you’re still waiting for him to fall apart, I’ve got bad news for you. This guy has a 2.61 ERA and 1.21 WHIP in 155 innings. 

That, my fantasy baseball friends, is what we call an All-Star season from a boring, yet effective, starting pitcher.

But not everyone was as lucky on the mound in our 15-game slate of Friday evening baseball.

Here’s what else I saw in Fantasy Baseball last night…

Freddy Peralta – 7 IP, 5 ER, 7 H, 1 BB, 6 Ks, and his 11th loss. ERA at 5.33. WHIP at 1.46. Yep. Just like we said a couple of weeks ago. That Rays coaching staff is gonna turn him around. Anytime now. Yep.

Kenny Piper – 1-for-3, R, 2 RBI, and his 1st career HR. AND he picked a peck of pickled peppers after the game! (And do you know how hard it was to NOT use a Run DMC reference for this one?!)

Trevor Rogers – 7 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 6 Ks, and his 9th win. That’s his 7th QS in his last 10 starts. I’d run him out there next week at STL, but be careful about the one after that (at COL).

Dylan Beavers – 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 6th HR. Batting .241. Part of me is a bit disappointed that I didn’t get a chance to write up any (Taylor) Ward and the Beav puns before the former’s trade to Seattle, but the other part of me thinks most folks are fine without the black and white TV show references.

Pete Alonso – 2-for-4, 1 R, 3 RBI, and his 30th HR. Batting .271. A Polar Bear AND Beavers? Jeez, that’s like the Canada Crew.

Rico Garcia – 1 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 0 BB, 2 Ks, and his 6th save. I guess the Orioles were too chicken to give the ball back to that C. Sanders guy for the save.

Joey Cantillo – 4.2 IP, 1 ER, 4 H, 4 BB, 5 Ks, and no decision. The 3.73 ERA is fine, but that 1.45 WHIP isn’t doing anyone any favors. 14 outs on 89 pitches is tough sledding, but at least it didn’t come with a bunch of earned runs.

Patrick Bailey – 2-for-5, 1 R, 3 RBI, 2B, and his 7th HR. Batting .193. Nice. Only 25 more consecutive hits before he reaches his weight in batting average.

Travis Bazzana – 4-for-5, 2 R, 3 RBI, SB (18). Batting .241. He’s been sitting against lefties in August, so the start against RHP Tanner Gordon in Colorado was a good chance to boost that average.

Tanner Gordon – 5.1 IP, 5 ER, 9 H, 2 BB, 2 Ks, and his 4th loss. ERA at 5.75. Don’t worry, Tanner, you’re still the second-best T. Gordon to pitch in the big leagues.

Jake McCarthy – 0-for-4, 1 R. Batting .292. Outside of this, and two hits from Jordan Beck, the Rockies offense was pretty…offensive. Woof.

Connor Prielipp – 6 IP, 6 ER, 8 H, 2 BB, 7 Ks, and his 7th loss. ERA at 5.57. WHIP at 1.40. Ok, ok, but how about those 7 strikeouts!? *dodges flying tomato*.

Kody Clemens – 1-for-3, 2 RBI. Batting .237. Ok, so Connor Prielipp got rocked, but what’s he supposed to do when this guy and Luke Keaschall are the only two guys to get a hit for the Twins?

Randy Vasquez – 7 IP, 2 ER, 2 H, 0 BB, 3 Ks, and his 9th win. The good news is this was another quality start. The not-so-good news is it was only his 5th game started in his last 10 appearances.

Fernando Tatis Jr. – 3-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI. Batting .284. Talk about putting the foot to the floor and not turning back. The last time his average dipped below .270 was on June 8th. I’m sure fantasy managers would much rather he be challenging for a home run title, too, but we should be happy with the steady climb towards .290.

Ty France – 1-for-1, 1 R, 3 RBI, and his 18th HR. Batting .293. Huh. I wonder how many more home runs France has hit at home than Vlad Jr. has. If it’s more than zero, he’s in the lead there too.

Reid Detmers – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 5 Ks, and that should be enough for an easy win, RIGHT?! Well, the easy answer is no. I joked last week that Detmers would have 15 wins if he played in Tampa all year, but it’ll seem a lot less jokey as we watch him post a few more of these scoreless no-decisions.

Vaughn Grissom – 0-for-2, BB. Batting .247. So this was the Angels FIRST BASEMAN and CLEANUP HITTER last night. We also have no confirmation that Reid Detmers was spotted on the phone with Mo Vaughn after the game, asking if he wanted a lift to Globe Life Field this afternoon.

Ben Joyce – 0.2 IP, 2 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 0 BB, 1 K, and his 1st loss. Is there anything more Angels than losing a game in extra innings on an infield error? Ugh.

MacKenzie Gore – 6 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 7 Ks, no-decision. ERA at 4.26. WHIP at 1.23. A quality start, a few more shaves off the sides of those ratios, and a successful RCL stream for your guy here!

Wyatt Langford – 1-for-5, 1 R, 1 RBI. Batting .250. This was all the offense worth reporting on from last night, unless we count the 4 hits from Ezequiel Duran (batting .271).

J.T. Ginn – 5 IP, 3 ER, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 Ks, and his 8th loss. Sure, the line would look a lot better if he’d been able to get another three outs with those 94 pitches, but the Athletics were another team that couldn’t hit their way out of a wet paper bag last night. No matter how good you pitch, it’s tough to come away with a win when your offense gives you just three singles to work with.

Hayden Wesneski – 5 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 3 BB, 4 Ks, and his 3rd win. This was a heck of a bounce-back after last week’s 4 IP, 5 ER debacle. He’s at NYY next week, and I’d check the Streamonator first, but I could see streaming him in deeper leagues.

Yordan Alvarez – 2-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, 2 2B. Batting .321. Did you know that if you put your right ear up to a maple leaf, and simultaneously rub a baseball against your left ear, you can hear the tears of an entire nation of fantasy baseball managers who drafted Vladimir Guerrero Jr. instead of Yordan Alvarez in the first round last February. *raises hand sheepishly…four times*.

Troy Melton – 5.2 IP, 2 ER, 6 H, 3 BB, 2 Ks, and his 2nd loss. ERA at 1.60. WHIP at 1.00. I don’t know exactly how bold a prediction this is, but I’m guessing Grey will write up this cat as an offseason sleeper. I’m already wondering what Melton’s ADP will be this offseason. He feels like he’ll be one of those big helium arms on a lot of short lists when draft season rolls around.

Kevin McGonigle – 2-for-4, 1 RBI, and, ironically, the only one that wasn’t left home alone without a bat when the Tigers travelled to KC last night was…KEVIN!

Noah Cameron – 5 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 3 BB, 2 Ks, and his 8th win. If you count last night’s “Youngster Quality Start”, that’s 5 QS in his most recent 6 GS. It doesn’t really count without the extra three outs last night, but the kid has been dealing for about a month now. I’d start him at TOR this week, even with the Jays on a bit of a roll (winning 7 of their last 10 games).

Carter Jensen – 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 17th HR. Batting .221. Hey, catchers aren’t supposed to hit for average anyway!

Kyle Isbel – 2-for-4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 2B, and his 5th HR. Batting “the dance instructor” aka .234.

Vinnie Pasquantino – 2-for-4, 2 R, 1 RBI, 2B, and his 8th HR. Batting .247. Vinny Pasketti hammering them way up in the rafters where Nona hangs the prosciutto! (And, yes, in my head I hear that as “Pruh-Shoot”).

Nate Pearson – 1 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 1 BB, and his 3rd save. Uh oh. Former Blue Jay appreciation/mancrush alert. I won’t say I was silly enough to make this guy a Cy Young pick one year (hello, Alek Manoah!), but I will say I’m a fan of the arm, and I’m hopeful that he gets some run with that ninth-inning gig in KC.

Matthew Boyd – 6 IP, 4 ER, 6 H, 2 BB, 3 Ks, and the no-decision. Hey, at least he didn’t give up 3 HRs to a rookie kid in their debut again this week.

Alex Bregman – 3-for-5, 2 R, 3 RBI, 2 HR! (16, 17). Batting .258. Someone lit this guy’s garbage can on fire. And, with the appropriate and obvious apologies to Christian Yelich’s mom, Bregman is hotter than anyone else in baseball right now.

Ian Happ – 2-for-5, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 21st HR. Batting .216. I’ll apologize for originally writing .211 instead of that robust .216. What an insult.

Pete Crow-Armstrong – 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 32nd HR. Batting .279. Sure, everybody loves Shohei, but how cool would it be if this kid topped off a stellar season with the NL MVP award? It’s a lot less silly to wonder about now than it used to be.

Ryan Zeferjahn – 0.2 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, and his 4th loss. It would be easy to say Jacob Webb’s job is safe, but that’s more about how well he’s been pitching than a guy like Zeferjahn getting tagged with an unearned run and a loss.

Emerson Hancock – 5.2 IP, 3 ER, 8 H, 0 BB, 6 Ks, no-decision. He settled down after early home runs to Bregman and PCA, and was solid the rest of the way. I can’t even give him a hard time and ask when Kade Anderson is coming up anymore.

Cal Raleigh – 1-for-4, 1 R, 3 RBI, and his 14th HR. Batting .157. Not bad for a backup catcher…wait, that wasn’t Mitch Garver’s line?

Seranthony Dominguez – 1 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 0 BB, 1 K, and his 4th win. This one was as much about the Seranthony win as it was about another Andres Munoz blown save (1 IP, 1 ER, 1 H, 0 BB, 2 Ks).

Yoshinobu Yamamoto – 6.1 IP, 2 ER, 5 H, 1 BB, 9 Ks. I watched the last few innings of this game and wondered why the Dodgers had Yoshi still throwing in the 7th inning with a 4-2 lead and a pitch count at 103. Well, let’s just say he ended up with the no-decision after they lifted him at 107 pitches. And there’s a bit of poetic irony that the guy who gave up a two-run home run to wipe out Yamamoto’s win is named “Hurt”.

Max Muncy – 1-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 26th HR. Batting .252. That’s “All-Time Dodgers HR leader” to you, thank you very much!

Shohei Ohtani – 1-for-3, 2 R, 2 BB, and his 8th SB. What? Another stolen base? That knee is good! Get back on the mound, buddy!

Bubba Chandler – 4 IP, 4 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 6 Ks. Minimal walks and a half dozen strikeouts is a double bonus. I don’t think we’re getting 7+ innings anytime soon, though.

Oneil Cruz – 1-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 16th HR. Batting .266. And this is the guy that spoiled Yoshi’s win? Even crazier, how does a guy who has been on the IL for what feels like 10 years have 16 home runs already?

Sean Manaea – 6 IP, 4 ER, 5 H, 2 BB, 4 Ks, and 3 HR allowed. Manaea left the loss for Jefry Yan in this one (1-1). No word on how the “Loser Leap” on the mound looked, but I bet it was a sad one. As a quick side note, I kind of can’t wait for someone to hit a walk-off home run off that dude and instead of tossing the bat, doing a big old starfish hop at home plate before cartwheeling around the bases.

Bo Bichette – 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 13th HR. Batting .266. Only 33 more homers and he’ll have one for each million in his contract for this year. On a separate note, you know who WOULDN’T have signed him to a three-year, $126 million contract? I mean, besides the Blue Jays? If you said BDon, you’ve been paying attention.

Sean Burke – 6 IP, 4 ER, 4 H, 0 BB, 7 Ks, and the no-decision. He just missed out on a quality start here, and kudos to the White Sox for letting him go 6 innings and throw 98 pitches. It sounds obvious, but when a guy posts a goose egg in the walks column and pairs it with just four hits, he’s on his way to finishing up innings and limiting those earned runs. Erasing that Bo Bichette solo HR would have given Burke the QS.

Miguel Vargas – 2-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 29th HR. Batting .243. It felt like there’s been a lot of buzz around Vargas lately, so I went to check out his spot on our Player Rater. Mr Vargas, he of the 278 preseason ADP, is sitting at #19 on the 2026 Player Rater. Now, you might be thinking the 19th-best hitter is a pretty amazing place for an underrated guy to be found at the end of August, but what if I told you he was the 19th-best player OVERALL? Boom.

Randal Grichuk – 2-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 11th HR. Batting .282. Now you might be thinking, “Really? After all of that praise for Miguel Vargas and the White Sox, you follow up with Randal freaking Grichuk?” Yes. Because why keep things positive and cheery when a team is running this fossil out as its cleanup hitter?

Colson Montgomery – 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 27th HR. Batting .217. Even better, guess who pinch ran for him in the 9th inning after a walk. Yep. His not-brother, Braden. That’s a Montgomery for Montgomery replacement.

Jake Rogers – 1-for-4, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 4th HR. Wow. I’d say everyone was getting in on that Manaea gopher-fastball, but this one was Jefry Yan’s fault.

Grant Taylor – 1 IP, 0 ER, 0 H, 1 BB, 2 Ks, and his 5th win. And, more importantly, yes, we’re somehow still talking about the White Sox game.

Spencer Arrighetti – 3.1 IP, 3 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 4 Ks, and his 6th loss as he made his first appearance in a Blue Jays uniform. The Jays eased the spaghetti pirate into his new uniform last night at Yankee Stadium by having Mason Fluharty open up for him. The two walks were encouraging. Pitching coach Pete Walker must have brought his bag of magic control dust with him to The Bronx.

Alejandro Kirk – 1-for-2, 1 RBI, 2 BB. Batting .284. It’s tough to report on offense when this is the only guy to drive in a run. Ouch.

Cam Schlittler – 6 IP, 1 ER, 6 H, 3 BB, 4 Ks, and his 11th win. ERA at 2.17. WHIP at 0.96. I can’t wait for those AL Cy Young votes to come in, then sit back and sift through the comment sections to read all of the irate Schlittler or Dylan Cease fan reactions. Fun times!

Spencer Jones – 1-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 7th HR. Batting .229. “Who needs Aaron Judge when you’ve got Spencer Jones?!” … said no Yankee fan, ever.

David Bednar – 1 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 BB, 1 K, and his 30th save. ERA at 2.36. WHIP at 0.99. “Who needs Devin Williams when you’ve got David Bednar?!” … Oh wait, that IS what Yankee fans have been saying all year.

Ryan Gusto – 4 IP, 0 ER, 5 H, 1 BB, 2 Ks, and the no-decision. It’s not quite enough to get MC Gusto on the Top 100 Starting Pitchers list on Monday, but the scoreless outing gives him a total of 4 ER in his last 18.2 IP. That’s enough for a monocle in deep leagues.

Javier Sanoja – 2-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI. Batting .282. Hey, it was either this yawner of a line with Sanoja’s two singles, or an Otto Lopez RBI and SB (his 25th). But, hey, if you think a team’s crummy offensive output like this wouldn’t be enough to lock down a win…

Pete Fairbanks – 1 IP, 1 ER, 1 H, 1 BB, 2 Ks, and his 4th win. Meh. Saves are overrated anyway.

Daylen Lile – 3-for-5, 1 RBI. Batting .244. He was almost a FortyTwenty, and I’m somewhat ashamed it took me as long as it did to find this in the Razzball glossary (for future reference, just hit CTRL-F and type in ‘boring’).

Nasim Nunez – 1-for-3, 2 SBs (41, 42). Batting .225. “42 steals? You oughta be ashamed. Rickey would have stolen 42 by May 1st”. (RIP, King).

Keibert Ruiz – 2-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 8th HR. Batting .279. “&%^$*&#$!”. That’s Keibert telling off all the fantasy baseball managers who thought he left and was playing in the KBO this year.

Clayton Beeter – 0.2 IP, 1 ER, 3 H, 2 BB, 0 Ks, and his 4th loss. And, despite what it says on his driver’s licence, Clayton was not a “Beeter” of the Marlins last night.

Logan Webb – 2.2 IP, 5 ER, 6 H, 3 BB, 2 Ks, his 8th loss, and WHAT HAPPENED HERE?! The 3.75 ERA and 1.11 WHIP mean this little speed bump of an outing doesn’t hurt his already solid ratios all that much, but still. Logan Webb was treated like he rolled into Fenway holding a giant pot of Manhattan Clam Chowder. Actually, that doesn’t work because I assume he would’ve been thrown out into the middle of the Massachusetts Turnpike if he’d done that.

Drew Gilbert – 2-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 7th HR. Batting .241. True story alert! I was playing MLB The Show with my youngest yesterday, and I always randomize the team that I play with while he always chooses The Avengers (LAD). I landed on the Giants and said to him, “Oh Great. I get to play with Rafael Devers and his team of nobodies.” I know it’s not that bad, but this lineup is not full of household names.

Rafael Devers – 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, and his 26th HR. Or, if you count the one I hit of my 10-year-old in that video game, it was his 27th!.

Sonny Gray – 6 IP, 4 ER, 7 H, 2 BB, 6 Ks, and his 16th win. “See?! He got crushed for TWO homers, AND gave up four earned runs! What a bum!” That’s the half dozen Yankee fans who are still carrying a grudge and agree that Sonny Gray shouldn’t have been an All-Star in July.

Wilyer Abreu – 3-for-4, 1 R, 1 RBI, 3B. Batting .261. I still think of the trolls from Chapter 2 of “The Hobbit” every time I say his name out loud. “I thought yer said yer were gonna hit .270 this year, Abreu! Well, Wilyer or won’t yer?”

William Contreras – 1-for-2, 1 R, 3 RBI, and his 26th HR. Batting .285. “Poor little blighter, let him go”. That’s William the troll talking to David Ortiz after Papi hung Dustin Pedroia by his jersey on a dugout hook during the alumni game.

Aroldis Chapman – 1 IP, 0 ER, 0- H, 1 BB, 3 Ks, and his 28th save. Here’s where the Hobbit references end, because there were no mothers mentioned in the book. That means I can’t make a joke about how the only thing Chapman loves more than saving games is spending time on the couch with his mother…or can I?

Hunter Dobbins – 4 IP, 3 ER, 5 H, 3 BB, 3 Ks, and the no-decision. “Dobbins can’t get a win for Harry Potter if he’s pulled after just 78 pitches and 12 outs! And Dobbins won’t be pitching this week either because Dobbins has a sore right forearm!” (He was removed from this start, and we’re waiting for more information. I’d be checking for updates before starting him vs BAL this week.)

Jordan Walker – 3-for-5, 2 R, 2 RBI, and his 27th HR. Batting .291. Dobbins the house-elf is out with an injury, but Jordan the Cave Troll just keeps on clubbing baseballs. 

Joshua Baez – 1-for-3, 1 R, 2 RBI, and his 4th HR. Batting .179. What? Only ONE home run and not THREE? What a bum.

Jesus Luzardo – 5.2 IP, 4 ER, 6 H, 1 BB, 9 Ks, no decision. ERA at 3.35. WHIP at 1.15. The two 2-run home runs allowed didn’t do him any favors, but aside from that, it was another solid outing with limited baserunners from the Luzard King. 

Alec Bohm – 3-for-5, 1 R, 3 RBI, 3B. Batting .246. And Bohm goes the dynamite.

Brandon Marsh – 2-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI. Batting .277. This guy holds a special place in Marmos’ heart if only because he was my first ever lede here at Razzball. Heart emoji.

Luis Arraez – 3-for-5, 1 R. Batting .322. Wait, we got ZERO homers from Kyle Schwarber, Trea Turner, AND Bryce Harper? And the Phillies just singled the Cardinals to death? 

Chris Sale – 6 IP, 2 ER, 8 H, 0 BB, 6 Ks, and his 9th loss. Talk about burying the marquee matchup of the day! Sale vs The Miz was must-see-TV, and the two aces did not disappoint. Well, that is, they didn’t disappoint unless you were banking on a Chris Sale win to push you over the top in your head-to-head playoff matchup this week. 

Michael Harris II – 2-for-4, 1 RBI. Batting .293. Hey, don’t blame Harris for giving us the lone RBI from the Braves’ boxscore. Facing The Miz is tough sledding on any day.

Jacob Misiorowski – 6 IP, 0 ER, 4 H, 2 BB, 6 Ks, and his 13th win. “Hey Gandalf, why don’t you shuffle over here so I can snap that wooden staff in half and stuff it up your nose!” Wow. I mean, I don’t have any proof that this is what Jacob Misiorowski said to Chris Sale before they both took the hill on Friday night. Still, I can confirm that The Miz wasn’t all that welcoming to the Grey-bearded Sale and his band of merry Phillies when they walked onto American Family Field.

Willson Contreras – 4-for-4, 1 RBI. Batting .264. If you played the Contreras brothers in DFS last night, you got yourself 5 hits, 4 RBIs, a run scored, and a HR. Not too bad!

Trevor Megill – 1 IP, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 BB, 1 K, and his 24th save. “MEGILL!” Not just what the Irish fish says when he gets hooked in the cheek, yet again, off the shore of Lough Lake in Killarney National Park.

 

 

That’s all for this week’s roundup! I hope you liked it!

Come back and see me on Monday, when I’ll have an updated Top 100 Starting Pitchers list with new Jumpers, Dumpers, and all the regular goodies.

 

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