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MLB News & Moments You Should Know: 6/26/2025

Misiorowski Loves Good Company, deGrom Dominates, and HRD News.

Asher Dratel
MLB Morning News 6/26/2025

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I hope everybody’s out there staying cool, because I am most certainly not doing that in this atrocious heatwave we’ve got in New York this week. I’m pretty impressed that anybody is able to play baseball in this garbage weather at all, much less go out there and mash taters, which you’ll see below. We also got our first bit of news about Home Run Derby hitters, and I didn’t realize I was so excited to see who would be partaking this year, which is especially surprising since it’s always my favorite part of the midsummer classic.

But enough about me, let’s get into the baseball.

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Today’s Headlines

 

Jake a Bow

Have you guys heard of this Jacob deGrom kid? He seems pretty decent, but I don’t really know ball.

DeGrom threw seven innings of no-hit baseball against the O’s in Baltimore last night. It was actually the first batter in the eighth that broke things up as Colton Cowser punched a grounder through the right side. And yet I am still somehow burying the lede here, because an inning earlier, leadoff man Jackson Holliday drew a walk to break up the perfect game deGrom had going through six. Bochy pulled him after the Cowser single with only 89 pitches thrown, but by then, Texas also had a 7-0 lead, so I understand, I guess.

For their part, the Texas offense scored their seven runs on nine hits and two walks, including a dinger each from Josh Jung (a two-run affair off of his homonymed opponent Brandon Young).

And a solo shot from Jonah Heim off of maybe the most unfortunately named reliever in history, Scott Blewett:

It’s not often I get to make a bad joke about two different pitchers in a game. This win brings the Rangers to one game under .500, but that also means they’re only two games behind Seattle for the third Wild Card slot now, although they’ll need to leapfrog the Angels and Guardians to get there.

Five Lefties, One L

Houston set a strange franchise record last night in their 2-0 win over Philadelphia on Wednesday as they ran five left-handed pitchers out to the mound. Colton Gordon started things off with five strong innings, giving up four hits and punching out four. He was followed by Steven Okert, Bennett Sousa, Bryan King, and Josh Hader, who pitched an inning each. King was the only one who really faced any trouble, as the Phillies loaded the bases with one out in the seventh, but Alec Bohm struck out, and Nick Castellanos followed it up with a groundout to end the threat.

Victor Caratini provided an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth with a solo homer:

But overall, the Astros were actually out-hit by the Phils, seven to five. That’s partially thanks to one of the more aggravating tough luck losses you’ll get from your ace, as Zack Wheeler went six innings, giving up four hits and three walks, letting up one earned run, and striking out eight. Meanwhile, the loss means the Phillies have been shut out for 19 straight innings, and are currently down to only a half-game lead on the Mets in the NL East.

The Duel That Wasn’t?

We were all hyped for the marquee matchup Wednesday afternoon between Paul Skenes and Jacob Misiorowski. Heck, Nick was so amped they did a live podcast recording while watching the first couple of innings on Playback. But only the first couple, as the Brewers got all over Skenes in the second inning for four runs. It was something of a case of being Singled Out for Skenes, as the innings went:

  • Walk
  • Single
  • Single
  • Groundout
  • Double
  • Fielders Choice (that ended in a very errant throw home that somehow wasn’t scored as an error)
  • Flyout
  • Single
  • Lineout

…although all of the hits had at least a .530 xBA according to Statcast. Skenes did return to pitch back-to-back 1-2-3 innings in the third and fourth with a pair of strikeouts between them, but was replaced by Mike Burrows in the fifth. The final line for the Pirates ace: 4 IP, four hits, four runs (all earned), a pair of walks, and four strikeouts.

Misiorowski didn’t last much longer, throwing only five innings, but they were something:

Jacob Misiorowski has gone 5+ innings with 2 or fewer hits allowed and picking up the win. That's tied for the longest such streak since at least 1901. The Miz did it in the first three starts of his career.

— Curt Hogg (@cyrthogg.bsky.social) 2025-06-25T22:34:32.140Z

So that’s tied for a record for Miz, and he’s absolutely shooting up the starting pitcher velo leaderboard:

Again, he’s three games into his career, and he’ll probably be No. 2 on the list (at worst) by the end of this season, right? He also picked up the win on Wednesday as the Brewers ended up winning the game 4-2, putting them only two and a half games behind the Cubs for the division lead.

Flushing Fireworks

Speaking of the Mets, they took down Atlanta 7-3 on Wednesday in a game that seemed to be incredibly important vibes-wise from the Mets fans I have spoken to. Clay Holmes was inefficient, needing 96 pitches to get through five innings, and while he gave up three hits and four walks to go with only a pair of Ks, he only surrendered one run and came away with the W.

The Mets’ bats got on the board in the third inning thanks to an absolute moonshot from Ronny Mauricio:

…before Atlanta tied it up in the top of the fourth off a Drake Baldwin solo shot (the aforementioned single run off of Clay):

It was in the bottom of the third that the Mets blew the game open, though, scoring five runs in part thanks to this Juan Soto blast:

Soto crushed a dinger again in the seventh inning:

Giving him nine home runs in June, 18 on the year, and marking his 27th career multi-home-run game. He’s only 26 years old.

Ronaldingers

But it’s not all bad news for Atlanta, as we got our first confirmed entrant for the Home Run Derby: none other than Ronald Acuña Jr.

Acuña’s only played in 30 games so far this season as he comes back from an ACL tear, but he’s already got nine home runs. We’ll have to see the rest of the field, but I would have to think he’ll be a favorite to win the thing, right?

 

Best Moments From Yesterday

 

Raindrop Pop Drop

The Rockies/Dodgers game was interrupted by a lengthy rain delay in the sixth inning. Just prior to the video you’ll see below, the jumbotron requested that people in specific parts of the stadium leave their seats due to lightning and the incoming storm, which seems like it should probably automatically mean the game gets put into a delay, but it wasn’t, and then this happened:

Likely partially due to the rain starting to fall, the Dodgers finally get two runs on perhaps Max Muncy's greatest single ever.

— Chad Moriyama (@chadmoriyama.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T01:55:29.909Z

I’m pretty impressed with how close that came to actually cracking Michael Toglia on the noggin; usually, when a guy loses the ball entirely like Thairo Estrada does, it at least lands near the guy who called for it repeatedly.

Max 10

The Yankees staved off a sweep at the hands of Cincinnati, and Max Fried found himself first past the line for an entirely arbitrary milestone using a stat most of us stick our noses up at:

But hey, you can’t get that pitching W without a team W, and Fried’s been nails for the Yanks. After Wednesday’s seven IP, four hits, one walk, one unearned run, seven K appearance, he’s 10-2 in 17 starts with an absolutely sterling 1.92 ERA. I am, in fact, telling you a Max fried these batters.

Good Riddance To Bad Manners

On Tuesday night, a fan in Chicago yelled something to Ketel Marte about his mother, who was killed in a car accident eight years ago. Whatever the fan yelled, it was enough to visibly upset Marte in the field, and he was comforted by his manager and fellow infielders. The fan was immediately kicked out of the game, and on Wednesday, the White Sox and MLB confirmed he was banned from not just Rate Field (ugh) but all ballparks. I’m with Torey Lovullo in saying “baseball deserves better.”

 

Injuries and Other Moves

 

⚾ Hugwatch was in full effect yesterday as Luis Robert Jr. was pinch-hit for in the first inning, but it was due to left hamstring tightness. Hugs remain on watch.

⚾ Boston will likely be without Kutter Crawford for the entire season as he is undergoing surgery on his right wrist. How he injured the wrist is a mystery, although manager Alex Cora was quick to deny that it was due to “irresponsible behavior.” Which doesn’t really make me believe it wasn’t due to irresponsible behavior.

⚾ The Red Sox will also be without Alex Bregman until at least the All-Star Break, with a July 18 return at the earliest.

⚾ Zach Neto underwent an MRI on his shoulder due to general soreness, and there was no structural damage found; he’s considered DTD.

⚾ The Cards have placed Jordan Walker on the IL with appendicitis.

 

Articles You Should Read

 

Will Warren’s One Weird Trick – Ben Clemens, FanGraphs

How the Tower Falls – Russell A. Carleton, Baseball Prospectus (sub req’d)

 

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Asher hails from Brooklyn, wears a 2008 Joba Chamberlain jersey to every Yankees game he attends, and pronounces BABIP funny. Appreciator of Beefy Lad dingers and beers. @asherd.xyz on Bluesky.

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