“Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.” Proverbs 19:11
Yesterday, I shared the acronym EGO-Edging God Out. Ego asserts our will, even as we say to God, “Thy will be done.” Ego subtly pushes God aside, little by little. Ego can destroy your potential. Here’s a goal for a truly successful person, Christian or not: become un-offendable. This trait will get you far in life…Read More
Pastor Bobby Schuller challenges believers to slow down, listen to the Holy Spirit, and become more intentional about what they say. Learn to recognize the spiritual battle over your speech and declare God’s truth with confidence and conviction, with today’s message: “The War of Spiritual Words.”
The Cathedral Choir and Worship Team leads the congregation in worship with “Gratitude” (Benjamin Hastings; Brandon Lake; Dante Bowe; arr: Grant Wall; orch: Dan Galbraith). They are accompanied by the Cathedral Orchestra and Dr. Philip Hoch on piano.
The Cathedral Choir, directed by Elizabeth Salvati, performs “Be Thou My Vision” (Traditional; arr: & orch: Cliff Duren). The choir is accompanied by the Cathedral Orchestra and Dr. Philip Hoch on piano.
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The average person walks approximately 100,000 miles over the course of a lifetime — roughly four times around the circumference of the earth. Most of those miles are covered in shoes that didn’t exist as a concept until the 1800s; before that, left and right shoes were identical.
At long last, six hours of endurance sports car racing comes to “America’s National Park of Speed” as Road America hosts the Motul SportsCar Endurance Grand Prix. A new addition to the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup in 2026, a six-hour showcase at Road America should produce the best the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship has to offer on a weekend with the entire domestic motorsports calendar to itself. The full race streams live, flag-to-flag, Sunday, August 2, at 11:30 a.m. ET on Peacock. International coverage is available via IMSA’s Official YouTube Channel and IMSA.TV.
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(6) Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, (7) casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you. (8) Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. New King James VersionChange email Bible version
Satan may or may not be the cause of difficult situations, where all seems hopeless and we’re going through great difficulty, but even if he is not, he is prowling around to take advantage of it in the hopes that he might pick us off. What does the roaring lion most likely attack? The strays, the ones on the fringes, and those not keeping up with the flock. Spiritually, the ones most likely to be attacked are those who are not spiritually with it. Wearied by a barrage of problems, they begin to separate themselves, then Satan, the roaring lion, picks them off.
He is especially adept at taking advantage of people’s feelings. All too often, we are dominated by our emotions rather than facts or, we could say, the truth of God. In such a circumstance, it is easy for us to get our feelings hurt, ignore the facts, and proceed to lie to ourselves, just as Satan did to himself when he first sinned.
Welcome to The Pregame Lineup, a weekday newsletter that gets you up to speed on everything you need to know for today’s games, while catching you up on fun and interesting stories you might have missed. Today’s edition is brought to you by David Adler.
Here’s the high-octane matchup we have circled for tonight: Munetaka Murakami vs. Cam Schlittler.
When the White Sox and Yankees face off (7:40 p.m. ET on Amazon Prime Video, MLB Network and MLB.TV), we get both a showdown between two American League playoff contenders and a showdown between two top American League award contenders.
Schlittler is the clear American League Cy Young favorite. Murakami is a Rookie of the Year frontrunner. And this one is going to be firepower vs. firepower.
Schlittler blows hitters away with fastball after fastball. But Murakami? Murakami crushes heaters.
Wait — hold on a second. Wasn’t Murakami supposed to struggle vs. velo like Schlittler’s?
He was. When Murakami was coming to the Majors last winter, one of the biggest questions in the scouting reports was: Could he handle MLB velocity?
For all the home runs he hit in Japan, Murakami didn’t do well against high velo. His contact numbers were not good. And in the Major Leagues, hitters see high velo a lot more often than they do in Nippon Professional Baseball. The average MLB fastball velocity this season is close to 95 mph. Everyone throws hard — all the time.
So that was the concern for Murakami when he arrived in Chicago. Now let’s fast forward to the present. Murakami is an All-Star. He has 22 home runs. And he’s been arguably the best hitter in the entire league against high velocity.
Highest OPS vs. 97+ mph pitches, 2026
Of 144 hitters with at least 30 PA decided vs. 97+ mph velo
Munetaka Murakami: 1.249
Yordan Alvarez: 1.142
Juan Soto: 1.103
Not only is Murakami making contact against high-velocity fastballs, he’s straight-up crushing them. Four of his 22 homers have come against heaters thrown 97 mph or faster. Murakami, Soto and Junior Caminero are the only Major League hitters with four home runs against that level of velocity.
Schlittler throws some variety of fastball — either a four-seamer, sinker or cutter — over 90% of the time. And they are very fast fastballs. Over half his total pitches this season have been 97 mph or faster, the third-highest share among starting pitchers behind only Jacob Misiorowski and Hunter Greene.
So you know Schlittler will bring the heat against Murakami. Can Murakami make him pay? We’ll be watching every at-bat.
The Twins have won three in a row to get back to .500 and stay within a half-game of an AL Wild Card spot. They’re playing so well that general manager Jeremy Zoll says they’re going to be buyers at the Trade Deadline. That message has to be reassuring to tonight’s starter, ace Joe Ryan, whose name was popping up in trade rumors.
The Cubs have a firm grasp on the top NL Wild Card spot after winning the first two games of this four-game series against their longtime rivals. And with every win, Chicago’s front office becomes more likely to be aggressive at the Trade Deadline. The Cardinals, on the other hand, just fell below .500 for the first time all season. Are they at risk of becoming Deadline sellers?
Bottom line: Ohtani is dealing with both left knee soreness and a right biceps issue, and even though he’s still batting, there is no timetable for his return to the mound.
The Dodgers still expect Ohtani to pitch in the postseason (if not earlier), as they try to defend their back-to-back World Series titles. They also have no plans to take him out of the lineup as a hitter.
One interesting question is whether Ohtani being out of the starting rotation will push the Dodgers to make a move for an arm at the Trade Deadline — especially with Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell also out. Tarik Skubal, anyone?
And with Ohtani’s injury limitations keeping him off the mound, the National League MVP race is also a whole lot tighter, as other top contenders like Pete Crow-Armstrong have stepped up to challenge Ohtani, who’s looking to win his fourth straight award and third straight as a Dodger.
TRADE RUMORS: THE MILLER ASKING PRICE
We’re bringing you the latest trade rumors up to Monday’s 6 p.m. ET Trade Deadline. Here’s what’s going on today.
• It’s going to take an exorbitant offer for the Padres to trade Mason Miller. GM A.J. Preller is reportedly telling teams that no one in their organization can be off limits if they want to get the lights-out closer.
• Add the Phillies to the list of teams who could be in the market for Tarik Skubal, who made his final start before the Trade Deadlinethis afternoon. They’ve been scouting Skubal. But the Dodgers look like the favorites to land the ace lefty.
• The Marlins just swept the Phillies, but after their recent 12-game losing streak, a bunch of players could be available for trade, including infielders Otto Lopez and Xavier Edwards, catcher/DH Liam Hicks and outfielder Heriberto Hernández. But Miami seems to want to keep pitchers Sandy Alcantara, Eury Pérez and Max Meyer, and rookie catcher Joe Mack.
• The Orioles have reportedly had trade conversations even about core players like catcher Adley Rutschman, infielder Jackson Holliday and outfielder Colton Cowser. But if a Wild Card spot is still within reach for them, the O’s could even end up buying at the Deadline.
Fischer has now homered in four straight games for Double-A Biloxi. The Brewers’ No. 7 prospect — who’s also the No. 6 third-base prospect in baseball, per MLB Pipeline — leads the entire Minor Leagues with 33 home runs this season.
That’s 33 homers in 86 games, mind you. The 22-year-old is slugging at a pace of 62 homers per 162 games.
Fischer was already the Brewers’ first prospect in 25 years with a 30-homer season in the Minors. And he just keeps on hitting bombs.
Milwaukee’s first-round pick in the 2025 Draft, Fischer made a bit of a name for himself playing for Team Italy at this year’s World Baseball Classic, where he batted .357 with a home run in four games.
• Tarik Skubal notched his 1,000th career strikeout today in Detroit, with the big question looming over his outing: Was this the back-to-back Cy Young winner’s final start as a Tiger?
• Gerrit Cole had one of his best starts of the season last night, pitching six shutout innings with seven strikeouts to beat the White Sox. But the play you have to see is him catching a popup in front of the mound despite some “pass interference” from his own catcher.
• The Mariners mashed five home runs to beat the Dodgers for the first time since 2021, including one dinger each by stars Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodríguez and two big ones by Dominic Canzone — one to tie the game, one to give the M’s the lead. Canzone has been carrying the Seattle lineup since the All-Star break.
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Normally in this newsletter we keep the focus on tonight’s games. But just this once, we want to look ahead to tomorrow.
Keep your eyes on the Tigers’ game against the Orioles tomorrow afternoon (1:10 p.m. ET on MLB.TV). Because it could be the last game of the Tarik Skubal era in Detroit.
Skubal takes the mound at Comerica Park for what could be his final start as a Tiger — his last start before Monday’s 6 p.m. ET Trade Deadline. By the time his turn in the rotation comes up again, the back-to-back Cy Young Award winner could be wearing a new uniform for the first time in his career.
“Every single start that I have at home, even on the road, the support that the fans have given me is second to none, and I truly appreciate that,” Skubal told reporters today. “But the questions, they follow you everywhere.”
All eyes will be on Skubal, the No. 1 trade candidate on the market. He’s been linked most strongly to the Brewers, Rays and Dodgers over the last few days, and Detroit’s current three-game losing streak only makes it more likely that Skubal will be moved in a Deadline blockbuster. The Braves and Yankees are expected to start calling about Skubal now, too.
Entering play today, the Tigers are six games back in the AL Central and four games out of a Wild Card spot, with five teams in front of them. Their playoff odds are down to close to 25%.
Skubal, though, has been his old dominant self over the last month, as the ace left-hander gets further removed from the elbow procedure that kept him out from the end of April until mid-June. Over his last five starts, Skubal is 4-1 with a 1.48 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 30 1/3 innings.
He’s also about to reach the 1,000-strikeout milestone — Skubal is sitting on 999 career K’s entering tomorrow’s start. Even as the trade rumors swirl, he expects to make that start.
“I’m pitching tomorrow,” Skubal said. “I’ve got something cool that I want to accomplish at home, so that won’t change.”
Skubal is the biggest difference-maker available at the Trade Deadline, and after he starts tomorrow, there will be only five days left for the Tigers to make a decision. If that decision is to trade him, Skubal could single-handedly swing a playoff race for the team that lands him.
The Dodgers’ role in the Skubal sweepstakesis the most interesting question as of today. There are differing opinions about whether the World Series champs will pursue a trade for Skubal.
Some reports suggest that a Skubal-to-L.A. blockbuster is unlikely, since the Dodgers expect to have Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow back in their rotation soon and would not need another top starter. But others still believe the Dodgers will jump in if the Tigers do indeed put Skubal on the trade block.
We’ll just watch Skubal on the mound tomorrow, and wait.
With the Dodgers’ embarrassment of riches, sometimes you forget that Kyle Tucker, their marquee $240 million free-agent signing, hasn’t even kicked things into gear yet.
Something Tucker himself said this past weekend at Citi Field — when he homered in back-to-back games against the Mets — might provide a little insight: “There’s some times where I see the ball coming in, put a swing on it, and I can visualize the ball coming off the bat and doing what I want with it, but it doesn’t really go that way.”
In other words, Tucker feels like he’s mis-hitting the baseball, even when he feels like his swing is in the right place.
The numbers actually back that up. Tucker’s theory is pretty much exactly what’s happening.
See, there’s not one big, glaring thing that Tucker is doing wrong this season. He’s just missing out on some of the best-quality contact that he’s always made in the past.
Tucker is not barreling the ball quite as often as usual — which basically means he’s not hitting the ball hard and in the air like he usually does. Barrels are the type of batted ball that typically turn into extra-base hits and home runs.
If Tucker just had his typical amount of barreled baseballs, his offensive stats would look, more or less, like a normal Kyle Tucker season.
Instead, we’ve gotten a weird Kyle Tucker season. But since the Dodgers keep rolling, it hasn’t really even mattered. And there’s still plenty of time for the real, All-Star Tucker to come back.
Q: Are the Brewers really going to be aggressive? I’ve been hearing that but it doesn’t seem to fit with their overall strategy.
Feinsand: Everything I have heard backs up the idea of the Brewers being aggressive, and frankly, they should be. … An aggressive Deadline could put them in position to finally topple the Dodgers or whoever else gets in their way. President of baseball operations Matt Arnold has been working the phones and has checked in on the likes of Tarik Skubal and Mason Miller, but players like that need to be made available for him to act.
Q: How serious is the noise around CJ Abrams?
Feinsand: I think you used the perfect word: noise. I would be surprised if Abrams was moved, though I suppose anything can happen if a team decides to make a huge overpay for him. The Nationals are having a surprisingly good season and Abrams has been a major part of that turnaround. My guess is that he’s still in Washington on Aug. 4.
Q: How likely is it that the Angels will trade controllable players?
Feinsand: That is a very good question. Owner Arte Moreno has never been much of a seller, but with interim GM John Mozeliak running baseball ops, it will be interesting to see if he can convince ownership that a rebuild is the best path and that moving players like Reid Detmers, Jose Soriano or Zach Neto is the best avenue to jump-starting such a rebuild. I honestly don’t know how likely it is, but I’m sure those conversations are being had out in Anaheim.
• The Marlins finally snapped their franchise-record 12-game losing streak yesterday — and they did it in dramatic fashion, with a three-run ninth-inning comeback against the Phillies and All-Star closer Jhoan Duran. Griffin Conine delivered the walk-off single and said afterwards: “I think beating a good team like that, coming from behind in the ninth, like that’s a playoff-type game right there.”
• Mets superstar Juan Soto, on the injured list with a strained left calf, says there’s a “100 percent” chance he returns to play again this season. Interim manager Andy Green added that, even though the Mets are in last place and expected to rebuild at the Trade Deadline, “the fans that show up deserve to see the best that we have available, and he’s the best that anybody has available.”
• In other Mets news, Francisco Lindor — who’s been hearing his name mentioned in the trade rumor mill — had his best game of the year as New York drubbed the division-rival Braves, 14-3, at Citi Field. The star shortstop went 3-for-5 with two home runs, a triple and six RBIs, his first multi-homer game of 2026 and his season high in RBIs.
• Max Scherzer got a standing ovation as he returned to make his 100th career start at Nationals Park, which he called home from 2015-21, on his 42nd birthday. It was a short outing for the Blue Jays right-hander, who was coming back from the injured list, but Mad Max recorded four strikeouts to move within eight of Walter Johnson for 10th place all-time.
• When is winning a challenge a bad thing? When it backfires like this. The Reds thought they had saved a run today when they successfully overturned a hit-by-pitch call on the Guardians’ Kyle Manzardo with the bases loaded … only for Manzardo to launch a grand slam two pitches later. One run would’ve been better!
TRADE RUMORS: RED SOX SHORTSTOP TARGETS
We’re bringing you all the latest trade rumors up to Monday’s Trade Deadline. In today’s news, the Red Sox are looking for a shortstop upgrade.
Even after the Red Sox traded for Curtis Mead, they might not be done adding to their infield.
Boston is reportedly in the market for a shortstop, too, and has interest in the Angels’ Zach Neto, the Nationals’ CJ Abrams and the Astros’ Jeremy Peña.
Those won’t be the easiest players to land in a trade. Neto is 25 years old and has three-plus years of club control left, Abrams will likely require an even larger return thanks to his star-level production this season, and Peña’s availability is complicated because Houston is in contention to win the AL West and might actually be buying at the Deadline. But the Sox are going to try.
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