— Team USA 110, Serbia 84
Americans led 58-49 at halftime.
Team USA was 18-32 on the arc (18 for 32!!!), Serbia 9-37.
Imagine having a team so good that Jayson Tatum didn’t get to play?
— Braves 9, Mets 2
Atlanta outscored Mets 13-2 the last two days, to earn a split of the series.
Matt Olson homered in consecutive games for first time this year.
— Dodgers 6, Astros 2
Rookie P River Ryan gets his first major league win.
Teoscar Hernandez hit his 22nd home run
— Twins 5, Tigers 0
Bailey Ober allowed one hit in 8 IP.
Twins finish season series 7-6 against Detroit.
— Mariners 6, White Sox 3
Chicago has lost 14 games in a row, for second time this season.
Seattle outscored the White Sox 22-6 in their 3-game sweep.
— Cubs 7, Royals 3
Pete Crow-Armstrong had three hits and the game-winning RBI
Cubs traded Christopher Morel during the game, which is unusual.
— Cardinals 4, Nationals 3
Paul Goldschmidt hit a walk-off HR, Cardinals’ first walk-off win since April 22.
Willson Contreras hit his 5th homer in eight games vs Washington this year.
— If the baseball playoffs started today (they do not):
AL: Orioles, Guardians, Astros. Wild Cards: New York, Twins, Royals
NL: Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers. Wild Cards: Braves, Padres, Mets
— Famous birthdays, July 29th:
Ken Kravec, 73
Scott Wedman, 72
Geddy Lee, 71
Dave LaPoint, 65
Steve Pelluer, 62
Martina McBride, 58
Ryan Braun, 44
Dak Prescott, 31
Jack Suwinski, 26
Baseball’s trade deadline is 6pm Tuesday; lot of deals have already been made……..
— Tampa Bay has traded away four regulars; they dealt All-Star IF Isaac Paredes to the Cubs, for Christopher Morel and two prospects.
Rays traded P Jason Adam to the Padres, in exchange for three prospects.
Tampa Bay traded OF Randy Arozarena to Seattle, for two prospects and a player to be named later.
Rays traded P Zach Eflin to division rival Baltimore, for three more prospects. Eflin makes his Orioles debut today, against Toronto.
— Marlins traded CF/2B Jazz Chisholm to New York, for three prospects; Chsholm played CF, batted 5th in New York’s win Sunday night.
— Phillies acquired OF Austin Hays from Baltimore, for OF Christian Pache, P Seranthony Dominguez; they also acquired closer Carlos Estevez from the Angels, for a couple prospects.
— Mets traded for OF Jesse Winker; they sent a AA pitching prospect to Washington.
Mets also added reliever Ryan Stanek from Seattle, on Stanek’s birthday; they sent their #30 prospect to the Mariners.
— Red Sox added C Danny Jansen from Toronto, in exchange for three prospects.
— Texas Rangers added C Carson Kelly from Detroit, in exchange for a couple AA prospects.
— Diamondbacks added reliever AJ Puk from Miami; he struck out the side in the 7th inning for Arizona in Sunday’s loss to the Pirates.
— Red Sox acquired James Paxton from the Dodgers; Paxton was 8-2, 4.43 in 18 starts for LA this year, after going 7-5, 4.50 in 19 starts for the Red Sox last year.
