After a long-term veteran retired this morning, I will be paying attention to three things in the baseball world all day today:
1. Stripes in St. Louis, Minnesota rely on facial doubles:
After yesterday's postponement in Baltimore and Philadelphia, about half of the doubles would cause splits, meaning both the twins and the Cardinals will challenge the odds this afternoon. Now every club needs to sweep their doubles to keep these streaks alive. St. Louis' winning streak is already the longest game of any club's 2025 season, although the title will change hands if the card is about to lose the first game and the twins are going to sweep the Orioles today.
Tickets for Baltimore fans today will start at 12:05 p.m. Local Times and will be voted with a single-issued double, with the second game scheduled to start about 30 minutes after the end of the first MLB.com. Meanwhile, Todd Zolecki of MLB.com pointed out that Phillies played in split doubles in today's game, and tickets for postponed games last night are valid for evening games scheduled to start at 6:15 p.m. local time.
2. Potential pitcher duels in Philadelphia:
In addition to the plot surrounding the Cardinal’s current winning streak, both games have potentially exciting pitcher matchups in today’s doubles game between the Phillies and Cardinals. This afternoon's game will feature right-handed Erick Fedde (3.86 ERA) played a dominant full game with his former team in Washington, where he beat eight nationals and did not go while spreading six strikes. Philadelphia to fight Southpaw Jesus Luzado (2.11 ERA), he has been one of the best pitchers in baseball early in the early days after his injured season in Miami last year.
Tonight's game is equally exciting, with two veterans showing off their main players: Sonny Gray and Aaron Nola. Gray, 35, scored 3.50 ERA in eight games this year, not far from the twins’ dominant 2023 season, finishing second in the Al Cy Young Award vote after throwing 184 innings, one of 25 starters to hit at least 180 frames that year. He will face Nola, 31, who has thrown at least 180 innings in the last six 162 seasons. Nola started with just 4.89 ERA to eight times in the Phillies game, although he has recently turned everything around with a 2.50 ERA in his last three outings.
3. Acuna on the way:
Since Atlanta hasn't had the best player Ronald Acuna Jr. The ACL suffered a torn last season, but the 27-year-old is returning. After appearing in his first rehab game of the year last night, which saw him go 1-for-3 with a home run while playing right field for the club's complex league team, Daniel Alvarez-Montes of ElExtrabase relays that Acuna is set to depart the organization's complex in Florida and head back to Georgia today before joining the club's Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett to continue his The move from complex ball to Triple-A is a noteworthy ball, and while the superstars were at least a week or two in the return action of the majors, there was only one step between Acuna and the Grand Slam.
