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From award races to contenders and everything in between, let’s take a look at what we’ve learned thus far.
Rockies walk off Red Sox … in a way we haven’t seen in 20 years!
Clutch hits elude D-backs again as Kelly’s quality start goes for naught
Antonacci plays hero in back-and-forth victory to put South Siders atop AL Central
Woodruff carries perfect game into 6th inning in return from IL
Lauer goes six hitless innings behind opener as Dodgers notch win No. 50
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Boomer Sooner! Oklahoma wins 1st MCWS title since ’94
‘Who wants to play third?’: Desperate O’s put career outfielder Taveras at hot corner
Tigers looking more like a contender — and Framber’s a big reason why
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Well, folks—it happened. Just before midnight, no less (par for the course with these NBA trades, I’m telling ya): The Miami Heat agreed to trade for Giannis Antetokounmpo, bringing an end to a saga that has hung over both him and the Milwaukee Bucks for the last year.
Things between the NBA superstar and his presumed career-long franchise have been seemingly on the rocks since the Bucks went on yet another disappointing run in the 2025 postseason. At the time, the belief was that Giannis wanted to play for a contender, but Milwaukee’s draft-pick situation meant the front office was going to have an awfully hard time building a team around their guy.
Antetokounmpo himself never outright asked to be traded; he remained pretty coy and vague about the speculation, expertly answering question after question even as the team’s season flittered away and the rumor mill did its thing. As far back as January, even, he said that there “will never be a moment that I will come out and say, ‘I want a trade,’” because “that’s not … in … my … nature. O.K.?” Still, talk persisted for the rest of the season … which then ended on quite the sour note for both parties. (You might recall the league investigation into the Bucks, which Giannis prompted when he accused the team of holding him out on purpose? Yeah, not good.)
After that, it was inevitable that the Greek Freak would move on. The only question was when. As of Monday night, word on the street was that a deal would go down sometime ahead of the draft, which made sense: The Bucks would have the chance to net some picks in a swap, and this year’s pool is chock full of young talent. But the streets were also saying that the team was deciding between two very different packages from Miami and Boston, one of which was believed to be more draft-focused than the other.CONTINUE BRIGID’S COLUMN ON SI
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The daily examination of conscience is an ancient Catholic practice. It’s very simple, and it’s designed to help us identify our sins and weaknesses so that we can improve and grow stronger in the spiritual life, while providing an excellent ongoing preparation for regular Confession. It consists of taking a few minutes at the end of the day to prayerfully review our actions in the light of God’s commandments, followed by the Act of Contrition.
Actively reflecting on the high and low points of the day can help you live more intentionally and bring a renewed sense of resolve into the following day.
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
It is God’s love that has brought you into existence and to this exact moment. Practice looking for His hand in your day.
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A significant title of Jesus Christ is “the Good Shepherd” (John 10:11, 14), and it is a perfect description for what He does in personally knowing and caring for His sheep. As part of this title, He mentions one of His primary activities in the latter half of John 10:9: “I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.”
The matter of “finding pasture” is a critical part of what a shepherd does for his sheep. Sheep are the farthest thing from being self-sufficient. They cannot make it on their own for very long, though they are seemingly oblivious to this. Left to themselves, they will not thrive because they require constant attention and direction. More than any other class of livestock, they are dependent on outside intervention, which is one reason why Jesus refers to Christians—us—as sheep: Without Him to lead, provide, and protect us, we would be in real trouble.
As Phillip Keller details in his book, A Shepherd Looks at Psalm 23, when sheep are left to their own ways, they cause utter desolation. Since sheep are so docile, we do not typically think of them as destructive animals, but their destructiveness lies in the fact that they are creatures of habit. Stubbornly following their habitual nature, they do not consider the future. Sheep will follow the same trails until the trails become ruts, and they will continue to walk those ruts until they have carved gullies in the midst of their pastureland. They will graze an area, day after day, until it has been turned into a wasteland. They will nibble the grass down to its roots, leading to the erosion of what may have been prime topsoil. In addition, they will pollute those same fields until they are rife with parasites and disease.
Sheep have their favorite spots, to which they will return repeatedly, quickly contaminating those areas. If great care is not taken, disease can run amok through an entire flock. If sheep are left to themselves, this is guaranteed to happen, which is why they require a shepherd’s constant management and oversight.
To keep a flock well-fed and free of disease, as well as to maintain his pastures, a skilled shepherd keeps his flock on the move, slowly but continually. He frequently changes where they pasture, gradually moving them throughout all of his fields. In this way, he ensures that his flock has the best food and enough of it. He makes sure that he returns to an area only after the life cycles of the various parasites have run their courses, so the flock does not continually re-infect itself. The longer the sheep remain in the same place, the more the shepherd incurs the risk that they will malnourish and sicken themselves or those around them.
Since Christ refers to the church as a flock, and to individuals as sheep (Matthew 26:31; Luke 12:32; John 10:16), we can be sure that He will be doing something similar with His church. Left to ourselves, we tend to develop habits that can be destructive, whether to ourselves or those in our environment. Even with the best of intentions, we sin, and our sins pollute and can cause an environment of disease. We consume, but without a wise Shepherd overseeing what we consume, there is tremendous danger to ourselves and those around us.
Thus, when we find that the circumstances of our lives are changing, we do not have to fear that things are actually out of control. They may just be out of our control. When we are under the ownership and care of the Good Shepherd, He changes our circumstances and keeps our lives from becoming static.
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The second All-Star Ballot update just dropped. Here’s where things stand entering the final week of Phase 1 voting.
If you haven’t voted yet, get those ballots in now — the first phase of All-Star voting ends this Thursday at noon ET. At the end of Phase 1, the top overall vote-getter in each league earns an automatic starting spot in this year’s All-Star Game. As for everyone else, the top two players at each position (and the top six outfielders) move on to Phase 2 of the voting, where it’s a head-to-head runoff to be named a 2026 All-Star starter.
A few races in particular have started to heat up since the first ballot update last week. These are the three biggest things that have changed in the All-Star standings:
1) There’s a new No. 1 in the American League
Guess who’s gotten the most All-Star votes of any AL player.
No, it’s not Yordan Alvarez. Nope, it’s not Aaron Judge either. It’s Ernie Clement!
We’re not pulling your leg. Clement is far from the biggest name on the AL ballot. But the Blue Jays’ fan-favorite second baseman has taken over the top overall spot in the All-Star vote.
Clement has received 2,054,130 votes so far, making him the only American League player to break the 2 million mark. He’s your leader in the clubhouse to earn the AL’s automatic starting spot in the All-Star Game. (Shohei Ohtani is leading in the National League, and MLB overall, with 2,310,735 votes.) Clement would be a first-time All-Star.
Since the last ballot update, Clement has leapfrogged both Alvarez (1,974,459 votes), who was in the lead for the AL a week ago, and Judge (1,788,499 votes), who won the auto-start last year for the AL. He’s also passed Mike Trout (1,735,051 votes) since last week.
2) Soto on the rise in the NL outfield
Juan Soto has jumped into the top 6 in the NL outfield voting, putting the Mets superstar in line to advance to Phase 2.
Soto was on the outside looking in at the last ballot update, when he was sitting in ninth place among NL outfielders. But now, with 947,033 votes, he’s passed Corbin Carroll, James Wood and Jordan Walker to move into sixth place.
Soto is a four-time All-Star, but this would be his first All-Star Game with the Mets. He’s batting .301 with an NL-best .973 OPS this season.
3) Arozarena joins J-Rod in the AL outfield top 6
Julio Rodríguez was the only Mariners outfielder in the AL’s top six at the first All-Star Ballot update. But now his teammate Arozarena is right there with him.
Arozarena was in seventh place a week ago, with Rodríguez in sixth, but both Mariners outfielders have moved up a spot, putting them both in position to reach Phase 2 of the All-Star voting. Riley Greene, who was ahead of them, has dropped out of the top six, going from fifth to ninth.
Both Arozarena and Rodríguez were All-Stars last year for Seattle.
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Here are three games to watch tonight. For info on how to watch every game this season, go to MLB.com/Watch.
Astros at Blue Jays (7:07 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
Two power-pitching aces go head-to-head in this one, as Houston’s Hunter Brown faces Toronto’s Dylan Cease. Brown was great in his return from injury last week, and Cease is in the AL Cy Young mix with a league-leading 110 strikeouts.
Guardians at White Sox (7:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV)
The Guardians and White Sox meet for the first time this season as they battle for first place in the AL Central. Cleveland holds a one-game lead over the surprising Sox entering the series opener in Chicago, and the Guards have ace Gavin Williams on the mound (9-4, 3.83 ERA, 103 strikeouts).
Braves at Padres (10:10 p.m. ET, ESPN)
A big series between two NL contendersstarts tonight in San Diego. The Braves, who are 20 games over .500 at 48-28 and have MLB’s best winning percentage, just took two of three from a fellow first-place team in the Brewers. The Padres are a half-game out of the third NL Wild Card spot, but star players like Fernando Tatis Jr. and Manny Machado are starting to heat up.
There’s already been a ton of trade smokearound Tarik Skubal. But is the Tigers ace really a lock to get traded?
Maybe not.
There’s a simple reason why Detroit dealing Skubal is far from a guarantee: The Tigers are playing a lot better baseball.
Yes, Detroit is 33-44 and in fourth place in the AL Central. This season has been a big disappointment. But the team has quietly started to turn things around.
Entering tonight’s series opener against the Yankees (6:10 p.m. ET, MLB.TV), the Tigers are 11-6 in June, a .647 winning percentage. They have the best record in the AL this month and the third-best record in the Majors. They’re five games out of a Wild Card spot, and their playoff odds are up to 22%, more than double what they were at the end of May.
With the Trade Deadline six weeks away, everything might come down to the Tigers’ upcoming stretch of games. Detroit plays six of its next 10 games against the Yankees, with four games against the Astros in between.
The results of those 10 games could set the Skubal trade market.
We’ve got one more game for you to watch tonight, but it’s not a Major League game.
The Men’s College World Series Finals has come down to a winner-take-all Game 3.
North Carolina faces Oklahoma (7 p.m. ET, ESPN) with an NCAA championship on the line. The Tar Heels forced a deciding third game by beating the Sooners yesterday to even the best-of-three series.
UNC is looking for its first-ever College World Series championship. Oklahoma last won a national title in 1994.
With the MLB Draft coming up in a few weeks, this will also be the last chance to see some of the top college prospects in game action.
Here are some of the big things that happened around the Majors this weekend.
• The Phillies’ big bats erupted for a historic performance in Saturday’s 15-3 win over the Mets. Not only did Bryce Harper hit for his first career cycle, but Kyle Schwarber smashed three home runs — including two in the same inning.
• The Braves did what no other team had been able to do for two months: They took down Jacob Misiorowski. Atlanta handed the Brewers’ electric young ace his first loss since April 19 on Friday night — with Misiorowski coming off one of the most dominant games of all time in his previous start.
• Chase Burns took down the Yankees at Yankee Stadium yesterday, almost exactly a year after his MLB debut, which was also against the Bronx Bombers. The 23-year-old has already come a long way since then, from showing flashes of his talent in 2025 to becoming one of the top young pitchers in the league in 2026.
• JJ Wetherholt continued his stellar rookie campaign with a two-homer game against the Royals in yesterday’s series finale. But Wetherholt’s NL Rookie of the Year case is just as much about his defense as his offense.
• Cam Schlittler was dominant yet again on Friday, collecting a career-high 13 strikeouts against Cincinnati while lowering his ERA to an AL-best 1.71. The Yankees ace even wowed NBA champion Knick Josh Hart, who posted on X during the game: “Schlitty is the Cy Young winner hands down.”
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