After the San Francisco Giants acquired Rafael Devers, one of the Dodgers' starting pitchers, Clayton Kershaw, was very complimentary of the rival organization.

Pitcher Sean Hjelle was just told to be ready to go for first pitch on Sunday. It was an unusual request for a few reasons, given that Hjelle’s a reliever, it was roughly 30 minutes before gametime, a

Elite hitters simply aren’t easy to replace. In a cynical sense, the Red Sox harvested what they needed out of Devers: Signed him out of the Dominican Republic at 16, won a World Series with him five years later, retained him with a nine-figure deal after the embarrassment of the Mookie Betts trade and then moved on.

Clearly, Buster Posey has paid attention to all the failed dalliances to land sluggers like Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, among others.

Trailing by three runs in the top of the ninth inning, San Francisco’s finally found life against the Rockies’ Zach Agnos. Casey Schmitt led off the top of the inning with a solo home run, trimming the deficit to 5-3, then Tyler Fitzgerald and Andrew Knizner followed Schmitt by drawing back-to-back walks.