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Brent Maguire

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Writer and researcher at mlb dot com. BBWAA member. Formerly: San Francisco Giants • The Athletic • Locked On Angels ✉️: [email protected]

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Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 13d

60 home runs for Cal Raleigh. Incredible.

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 11h

Four potential elimination games on Wednesday!!

In the history of Division Series (1981, 1995-onward), there’s been one year where all 4 DS ended on the same day:

October 5, 1996

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 12h

Aaron Judge has a 1.304 OPS in 26 plate appearances this postseason.

Entering this year, Judge had a career .768 OPS in the playoffs. That OPS has risen to .817 with this postseason performance.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 13h

Jazz Chisholm Jr. smashes a go-ahead home run in the fifth inning.

The Yankees have a lead for the first time this series.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 14h

Judge's home run came on a 99.7 mph fastball that was a good three inches off the plate.

Superhuman stuff.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 14h

Aaron Judge's third hit of the game is a game-tying three-run homer off the left-field foul pole.

Holy moly.

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Roger Cormier @yayroger.bsky.social · 14h

A gentleman with a "Dump Here 61" shirt caught the Raleigh home run (on a bounce.)

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 14h

60 home runs in the regular season, one in the postseason for Cal Raleigh.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Vlad Jr. literally flying into home plate.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Vlad Jr. is doing it all tonight. Look at this dive at home plate!

He was booking it too. 29.3 feet-per-second sprint speed (30+ is considered elite).

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Left-on-left home runs in Mariners postseason history:

J.P. Crawford vs. Brant Hurter, today
Ken Griffey Jr. vs. Sterling Hitchcock, 1995 ALDS GM 4 vs. NYY

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in his career vs. Carlos Rodón (including the postseason):

22 plate appearances
11-for-18
2 home runs
3 doubles
4 walks
0 strikeouts

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has homered in the first three games of the series. It's already 2-0 Blue Jays in The Bronx.

Man, he is incredible right now.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. has homered in the first three games of the series. It's already 2-0 Blue Jays in The Bronx.

Man, he is incredible right now.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 15h

Eugenio Suárez crushes a 422-foot homer to extend the Mariners lead to 3-0 in the fourth inning.

Comerica Park has gotten silent awfully quickly.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 16h

The Mariners scored the first run of the game and there is a lot going on here. The replay review confirmed the safe call.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 16h

Logan Gilbert's splitter is truly a unicorn pitch among starting pitchers. With a 50.4 percent whiff rate, it was the only pitch by a SP with a 50+ percent whiff rate this season (min. 200 swings).

A roughly 15-mph difference between his splitter and fastball is unfair.

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Jason Beck @jasonbeck.bsky.social · 17h

Tigers-Mariners scheduled to start at 7pm, per announcement. It'll be televised on FS2 and MLB Network as well as on the Fox One app.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 18h

That’s … a long delay

MLB Daily News @fantasymlbnews.bsky.social · 18h

Game alert: Mariners-Tigers hoping to start at 7:30pm ET on Tuesday.

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 23h

Players with 10+ hits and 3+ home runs in their first five career playoff games:

Jackson Chourio (2024-25)
Carlos Delgado (2006)
Carlos Beltrán (2004)
Marquis Grissom (1995)

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 1d

The NHL season is BACK.

Three NHL games on the slate today:

Panthers-Blackhawks
Rangers-Penguins
Kings-Avalanche

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHMYGOD
Trevor Lawrence is something else

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 1d

Jackson Chourio's three-run home run came on a 101.4 mph fastball from Daniel Palencia, the fastest pitch hit for a home run in the playoffs in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008).

The previous-fastest pitch hit for a HR was 100.6 mph by Nelson Cruz (2011 ALCS GM 5).

Brent Maguire @bmags94.bsky.social · 1d

The Brewers are doing it all so far in this series. Such a fun team.

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Casey Drottar @caseydrottar.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that William Contreras has spent mostly the entire season playing with a fractured finger