Aaron Judge launched home run No. 50 on the season during Wednesday's game against the White Sox, and in doing so, he joined a select group of sluggers in MLB's history books.
2025 is now the fourth season of Judge's career in which he's hit 50 or more home runs. Only three other players in MLB history have ever done that: Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and the legendary Babe Ruth. The Yankees' star finds himself in the mix with some of the greatest sluggers of all time, and deservingly so.
Judge has hit 50 or more homers in three of the last four seasons, and achieved the feat for the first time back in 2017, his first full season in MLB.
He's now up to 365 homers for his career, having reached that milestone in just 1,140 games. Judge was the fastest player in MLB history to hit 350 home runs, needing just 1,088 games to do so, and he hasn't slowed down since checking off that achievement in July.
Judge, an AL MVP candidate, owns the American League record of 62 home runs in a single season, though it's possible Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, with whom Judge is competing for MVP, could dethrone that mark this year.
يرى ستيفن وارنوك، اللاعب السابق لفريق ليفربول، أن كتيبة آرني سلوت قدمت شيئًا خلال مباراة برايتون، مساء أمس في بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي الممتاز، لم نشاهده منذ فترة طويلة.
واستضاف ملعب “الأنفيلد” مباراة ليفربول وبرايتون في الجولة السادسة عشر من بطولة الدوري الإنجليزي، موسم 2025/26.
وتمكن ليفربول من تحقيق فوز ثمين على برايتون بهدفين دون رد، في مباراة شهدت مشاركة النجم المصري محمد صلاح كبديل في الدقيقة 25.
اقرأ أيضًا.. لاعب ليفربول يستعد لفحص بالآشعة.. وقلق حول مدة غيابه
وأشاد ستيفن وارنوك بقدرة ليفربول على إيقاف خطورة الهجمات المرتدة التي تعرضوا لها من جانب برايتون في مباراتهما أمس، وهو الأمر الذي لم يكن يحدث في السابق.
وقال وارنوك، في تصريحات عبر شبكة “بي بي سي” العالمية: “أنا معجب جدًا بليفربول، كان تسجيل هدف مبكر أمرًا حاسمًا (أحرز هوجو إيكتيكي الهدف الأول في الدقيقة الأولى)”.
وأضاف: “يمكن النظر إلى التنظيم وعودة اللاعبين إلى مراكزهم، لقد تعرضوا لبعض الهجمات المرتدة، في الماضي، كان ليفربول سيستمر في السماح بحدوث ذلك، لكنهم الآن تداركوا الأمر”.
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Monday night featured a pair of men named John Schneider who could directly impact, or already had, the future of Seattle sports. Who could, if the gods of games desired, usher in a golden era the likes of which Seattle and its athletic landscape has never before seen.
Neither John Schneider, in this instance, was the most famous of all John Schneiders. That would be the actor/country music singer John Schneider. To those of a certain age, especially outside of greater Seattle, Bo Duke from will always reign supreme—at least in the case of John Schneider supremacy. But to anyone under 50, living and breathing Seattle sports, Bo Duke was no hazard on Monday night.
Instead, a metropolis known for many things—but not any sort of sports supremacy, especially from multiple teams in multiple sports winning and building momentum at the same time—turned its eyes to two games and two John Schneiders and a future that looked bountiful. At least for anyone who dared to dream in a city where that hasn’t worked out well, not in sports, for, well, ever.
At 5:10 p.m. local time, the Mariners would begin Game 7 of the American League Championship Series against Toronto. John Schneider, baseball version, is at the end of his third season as the Blue Jays’ permanent manager after spending part of 2022 as the interim. If the Mariners toppled the baseball Schneider, they would advance to the first World Series in franchise history.
At 7 p.m., also local, the Seahawks would kick off a contest against the Texans. Their general manager, the football John Schneider, has raised expectations for Seattle’s football team all fall. A big win—on the sport’s grandest regular-season stage—would cement the notion that has been percolating. That these Hawks are the best version of a professional football team in town since, well, that Super Bowl they lost 10 years ago.
If both games featuring a John Schneider went well for the Emerald City’s sports denizens, then a true golden age of sports in Seattle could dawn, in full. To write that before Monday’s first pitch in Toronto or kickoff in Seattle was tantamount to daring those gods of games. Whomever they are, wherever they are, they’ve never treated Seattle kindly.
The Seahawks played their first football season in 1976. The Mariners played their inaugural baseball season in ’77. And yet, from the ’77 sports calendar through the 2024 iteration, both teams have never won a postseason game in the same season. Not even once.
Would that pattern take a step toward ending Monday night via two games featuring two John Schneiders? At 3:40 p.m. local, there is only hope from greater-Seattle sports fans. Hope that this time will be different. That a true golden age will dawn Tuesday morning, after the Hawks announced themselves as true Super Bowl contenders and the Mariners made their first World Series.
What could possibly go wrong?
2 p.m. PST: Golden age or missed golden opportunity?
The Seahawks’ John Schneider receives a text message from , laying out the premise for this story. He asks if he can call “on the way home.” Of course he can.
Schneider worked in this market in 2000 (as the Seahawks director of player personnel), left and returned in 2010 as the Hawks’ general manager and vice president. Which is to say that he understands the city, the history, what has been and what was possible Monday night, what is possible in the months and years ahead. The Seahawks don’t make back-to-back Super Bowls in the mid-2010s without him. They don’t do what the Mariners are trying to do—win that elusive first championship—without him, either.
As the starts of two critical games in two sports featuring two JS’s drew nearer, “golden age” needed to be defined. Consider the antithesis to this piece I wrote in 2008—where no less authority than Sir Mix-A-Lot described a putrid Seattle sports scene as —the baseline for one. A golden age of Seattle sports, then, would feature all local teams moving in the right direction, with at least two headed toward or at the top of their respective sports.
Next, research. In the Mariners’ 49-season baseball history, the club made the ALCS four separate times, including this season. The others: 1995, 2000 and ’01. In those long-ago football seasons, the Seahawks finished 8–8 (third in the AFC West), 6–10 (fourth) and 9–7 (second) respectively. They didn’t move to the NFC until ’02.
The Mariners didn’t make baseball’s playoffs from that historic 2001 season until ’22. The Seahawks didn’t make their playoffs from 1988, where they lost in the wild-card round, until ’99 (same round, also lost). They didn’t make the playoffs again until 2003—loss, same round—meaning their droughts coincided, directly, with the best seasons in Mariners history. The Hawks subsequent runs—’03 through ’07 under Mike Holmgren; ’12 through ’16 under Pete Carroll and, yes, the football John Schneider—fell squarely inside the Mariners’ two-decades-plus postseason drought, which grew to be the longest in professional sports.
When that mercifully ended, the Seahawks even made a playoff appearance the same season. They lost in wild-card round, played early in 2023, and haven’t been back since.
Seattle sports, in other words, could have nice seasons. Just not too many at the same time. Which prevented any golden age, however defined, from truly blooming.
2:40 p.m.: A city braces for heartbreak
Downtown Seattle bustled with magnitude, sports fandom and uncommonly high stakes for a Monday in mid-October. The highest, I’d argue, that this sports scene had ever held on a random weekday this late into any given year. The Seattle Storm had made the WNBA playoffs before being eliminated on Sept. 18. The Washington football program holds a 5–2 record as of this Monday, its only losses against traditional Big Ten powers in Ohio State (ranked No. 1 when UW hosted the Buckeyes late last month) and Michigan (yes, unranked but also last weekend and on the road). The Mariners were still playing baseball on Oct. 20, right as the Seahawks seemed to be rounding into midseason form.
Mariners fans congregated outside of T-Mobile Park ahead of Game 7, just as they did to celebrate a Game 5 victory (pictured above) last Friday. / Alika Jenner/Getty Images
I drove through the stadium district, around T-Mobile Park, which would host a watch party for Game 7 on Monday evening, and around Lumen Field, where the Hawks would kick off roughly two hours after the baseball started. I stopped to talk to anyone who seemed interesting, in light of two games and two JS’s on Monday night.
For once, the local sports scene was in mid-October conflict. There were Steve Largent jerseys among Cal Raleigh ones. One man stood waiting for the light near the Ken Griffey Jr. statue on First Avenue, wearing a No. 16 Tyler Lockett jersey and a Mariners ballcap. Vendors had already set up on Edgar Martinez Dr. S. or Occidental Ave. Local watering holes with televisions—I stopped inside four of them—each planned to show both games Monday night.
Parking twice meant those four stops and four attempted conversations with local sports fans. None would touch this golden age and whether it might dawn in the next seven hours or so. It was like no one dared jinx the possibilities. (At , we live with one of the most notable jinxes in sports. Perhaps the non-answers stemmed from that.)
Of note: On the drive back to the suburbs east of downtown Seattle, traffic thickened. As if everyone who worked downtown also understood Monday’s stakes. As if those who couldn’t swing a ticket for either stadium’s event on Monday night, surely weren’t going to miss either game on television.
2:57 p.m.: Seattle’s near-golden ages
Mid-stadium route, I sent a text message to Danny O’Neil, a friend and former colleague who, per my recollection, understood Seattle sports as well as anyone. His Substack always teaches me something about this landscape I didn’t know before. I asked for his take on my research, the golden age, those Monday night sports stakes extending far beyond the NFL’s loudest stadium.
For once.
O’Neil pointed out 2000, when the Mariners went to the ALCS and the football Huskies won the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1, 2001. He also noted 1995, when the M’s made the ALCS (for the first time ever)—and the 1995–96 Seattle Supersonics would advance to the NBA Finals. He wasn’t arguing those were that, only informing with what he knew.
Consider those years the best candidates for any golden age of Seattle sports. This is not that. The possibilities seem higher; the baseball-football momentum, without precedent; the entire landscape moving in the same direction, not just pieces.
4:06 p.m.: Seahawks’ John Schneider relationship with “special” in Seattle
Seattle’s John Schneider did call Monday. He was en route to Lumen Field for the Monday Night affair and willing to entertain questions on building sports momentum in Seattle and famous John Schneiders of all sports/standing. He pointed, right away, to 2010, when he came back to Seattle and Pete Carroll arrived and Seahawks moments without precedent were set in motion.
“O.K., we’re gonna have this stadium rocking, we’re gonna build this team,” the men who changed Seattle’s sports landscape told each other then.
Seahawks general manager John Schneider returned to Seattle hoping to tap into a dedicated group of sports fans. / Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
They carried, the football Schneider says, the chip familiar to those steeped in West Coast football with them. There is no better time zone in which to watch football—to watch sports, really. Schneider had already noticed the franchise’s momentum culled from the Mike Holmgren–Tim Ruskell pairing from 2005 through ’09. Seattle’s JS had wanted to come back earlier than ’10. “I tried getting a shot [at GM, when the team hired Ruskell] really badly,” the football JS says. “Like, I wanted to get back [to Seattle], because of the people in the building and the fan base.”
He believed the Seahawks could carry the same heft that the Packers did in Green Bay, near where the football Schneider grew up and where he spent the bulk of his pre-Seahawks-GM career. “Watching the Mariners, the intensity of the fans is really what brings [those memories] back for me,” he says Monday. “That’s what drives us to do what we do, trying to make their team(s) incredible. I get that feeling watching the Mariners.”
For the Seahawks, notes the football JS, 2012 marked the season when seemed possible, even imminent. That wasn’t a Super Bowl team. But those Hawks did finish 11–5. They did make the postseason. Did batter their division’s winner, San Francisco, in the regular season’s penultimate game, winning 42–13. “I just remember thinking, at that time, we’re gonna beat San Francisco, we’re gonna go to Atlanta and we’re gonna beat those guys. These [Seahawks] are buying into what Pete’s preaching. They dig each other. This could be … .”
Like these Mariners in 2025.
5:18 p.m.: The Mariners game begins
In these John Schneider wars on Monday night, the Mariners struck first. Julio Rodríguez doubled to start the game and scored when Josh Naylor—already worthy of a Mariners statue?—sent him home. This, to Seattle sports fans, feels too good to be true.
Josh Naylor continued his impressive postseason for the Mariners with an RBI single in the first inning of Monday’s Game 7. / Nick Turchiaro-Imagn Images
Seattle’s John Schneider is not a Mariners expert. But he did catch a few games recently for the baseball team that plays in a stadium across the street in what’s known as SoDo—south of downtown—or Seattle’s stadium district. He saw a team that played for each other; an elite everyman who could be rallied around in catcher Cal Raleigh and, potentially, a postseason catalyst similar to Marshawn Lynch for the Hawks in 2012.
“He was ours,” football JS says, referring to Lynch, while pointing to the M’s midseason acquisition of Naylor from Arizona in late July. “Players loved [Marshawn]. They didn’t want to let him down. I just see that from [Naylor].
“I could be totally wrong,” he adds.
5:37 p.m.: Blue Jays strike back
John Schneider’s Blue Jays, loaded with bats, even the score in the bottom of the first. But fold? Not these M’s. In the very next inning, two more batters reach base, and they’re moved by a bunt from J.P. Crawford into scoring position. In Seattle last week, Toronto put on a bunt clinic of sorts, especially in its Game 4 victory.
This turn toward artful baseball indicated that Seattle would not shrink under such stakes. But the set-up yielded no runs.
The Seahawks’ John Schneider has never met the Blue Jays’ John Schneider. The football JS, however, has met Bo Duke. As a fan, this marked a life highlight for the football general manager. It happened “about 10 years ago” when Bo/John attended a Hawks game amid Seattle’s football rebuild. Two John Schneiders spoke briefly that night in the tunnel at the football stadium.
“Wow, people really don’t like you on Twitter, man,” the actor/singer John Schneider told the John Schneider who built football teams. “They don’t like me, either,” the Bo Duke JS added.
As for the Blue Jays manager, the Seahawks exec says they do have mutual friends in common. All sounded the same theme, that his baseball managing counterpart is a “great guy, really good dude.”
6:01 p.m.: Mariners take the lead
Juuuuulllliiiiiooooo. The brightest, youngest star—he is 24; Raleigh, 28—in the Mariners’ suddenly budding constellation of baseball talent saw an 85-mph slider and swung that sweet, natural swing to give the M’s a 2–1 lead. His fourth home run this postseason traveled 423 feet into Mariners postseason lore.
Which, of course, is neither glorious nor expansive. At least for one more night.
6:40 p.m.: The Big Dumper goes yard
My 8-year-old boy yelled from the next room over. “Daddy, home run!” He was right. It’s from Raleigh, the Mariners’ MVP this season, to expand the lead to 3–1 in the fifth. Attempts were made to explain how unusual this concept is—Game 7, ALCS, real, actual cushion—but the boy knows only winning baseball. This is what he .
7:04 p.m.: Mariners hold the line
Was that Bryan Woo, pitching for the second time this series and since a late-season injury shelving? Yes. And did he really strike out Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to preserve that two-run lead?
Anything seemed possible at this point on Monday night.
7:32 p.m.: Disaster strikes
The Seahawks have taken a 7–0 lead across the street from the baseball stadium where Mariners fans watch Game 7 on the big screens. The roars volleyed back and forth.
Until! Bottom of the seventh, Game 7, Mariners perched nine perilous outs from the—have you heard?—first World Series appearance in franchise history. Woo was still on the mound. The Blue Jays put a runner on first, then runners on first and second. Out went Woo. To the plate came George Springer—the most booed of all the , as the 8-year-old calls them, because Springer played for the hated Astros before the Blue Jays, winning a World Series and WS MVP in 2017, in year 16 of the M’s drought, amid the yet-to-be-revealed sign-stealing scandal down in Houston.
His three-run home run gave Toronto its first lead Monday night. Score one for baseball John Schneider, who adeptly managed his pitching staff, starters and bullpen throughout this series. Mariners manager Dan Wilson, meanwhile, faced with increasingly difficult decisions for his tired bullpen Monday night, kept Woo in—and perhaps two batters too long.
Blue Jays outfielder George Springer blasted a three-run home run to give Toronto a late lead over the Mariners in Game 7. / Dan Hamilton-Imagn Images
Suddenly, the Mariners, in their first-ever ALCS Game 7, were down to their last six outs. Of the game, sure. But also for 2025.
Anyone who said that of course this would happen didn’t know the history. The Mariners had never reached such stakes. Win or lose, the magical season that was still counted. And yet, this close? Against guy?
The gods of games can, of course, be cruel.
7:40 p.m.
. After Crawford grounded out to short.
7:41 p.m.
. After Eugenio Suárez, Game 5 hero, struck out looking.
7:43 p.m.
. After Randy Arozarena also grounded out.
7:49 p.m.
About those gods. The boy had all but given up, consigned to the Blizzard that was marked either for his celebration or consolation prize. The Mariners’ bullpen appeared as tired as it should have been. In came Andrés Muñoz, Señor Smoke, as dependable a pitcher as exists in that Seattle bullpen. Two more runners. First and third. Disaster appeared imminent.
But! A line drive shot from a Blue Jays bat lasered into Nailor’s glove at first, enabling an easy double play that was anything but to enable escaping the eighth inning without any more runs added by Toronto.
7:55 p.m.
Top of nine. Three outs remaining in this magical 2025 season.
7:56 p.m.
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7:58 p.m.
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7:59 p.m.: Mariners go down swinging
Rodríguez strode to the plate. Raleigh stood in the on-deck circle. One strike. Two strikes. The count, 2–2. The count, full. The boy curled up in anticipation. Strike three. He sighed.
No shame in that. No shame in this Mariners season, nor what it projected next season and in others, near-term.
Cameras flashed to Rodríguez in the dugout. Tears welled in his eyes. The 8-year-old did not cry. His history doesn’t run deep enough yet.
“This is sad,” the 8-year-old says, wisely. “But they were close, so close, to history.”
The baseball John Schneider celebrated on his home field in Toronto, having just clinched the Blue Jays’ first World Series appearance since 1993. The Seahawks took a 14–0 lead across the street from an instantly dejected T-Mobile Park and would go on to win 27–19. Springer was on TV, detailing all the things that made him happy. Perhaps others threw up in their mouths right then.
Regardless, Monday night and the battle of John Schneiders may still end up as the dawn of the first true golden era for Seattle sports. That will be answered by the Seahawks this season and the entire landscape, Hawks and M’s included, in the years ahead.
If not, at least wait-’til-next-year is already the baseline. And signs for an unprecedented, all-around surge remain—young talent, all over; additional resources, in all places—just not with a World Series payoff Monday night.
“Can I turn on Netflix?” the boy asks. Of course. His winning baseball team has plenty of games ahead.
The clearest winner Monday night: John Schneiders.
West Ham United have a proud history of developing and promoting some brilliant youngsters from their academy system.
The most recent one to really make his mark on the team and then be sold on for a massive fee was Declan Rice.
Freddie Potts looks like he could be the Hammers’ next homegrown superstar after his sensational Premier League displays before the international break.
However, while the club try their best to keep hold of their most promising talents, they aren’t always able to, and one youngster they may rue losing more than any other looks like he could be a bigger prospect than Potts and a future England star.
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Now, the 21-year-old has made four appearances for the first team and even scored a brilliant goal against Luton Town in the Premier League a couple of years ago, but due to loan moves and injury, those four appearances have amounted to only 36 minutes.
In other words, most fans aren’t really thinking about the youngster, and those that occasionally do aren’t sure what sort of player they’ll be getting when he returns from his hamstring injury.
Well, firstly, even though his primary position is attacking midfield, the Havering-born gem has and can play in several positions across the pitch.
Second, he’s as comfortable scoring goals as he is providing assists, and has a seriously impressive record from his time in the academy.
For example, in 60 appearances for the u18s, totalling 4804 minutes, he scored 25 goals and provided 18 assists.
That comes out to an average of a goal involvement every 1.39 games, or every 111.72 minutes.
Earthy’s Junior Record
Team
U18s
U21s
Appearances
60
55
Minutes
4804′
3618′
Goals
25
18
Assists
18
14
Goal Involvements per Match
0.71
0.58
Minutes per Goal Involvement
111.72′
113.06′
All Stats via Transfermarkt
Then, during his time with the u21s, he scored 18 goals and provided 14 assists in 55 appearances, totalling 3618 minutes, which is an average of a goal involvement every 1.71 games, or every 113.06 minutes.
Finally, while he’s not played much for the Hammers, he has gained a decent amount of first-team experience from his time on loan with Bristol City last season, where he was named Young Player of the Season.
In all, so long as he can remain fit, West Ham have another superb homegrown talent on their hands in Earthy, which should help make up for them losing another, arguably more promising talent last year.
The Academy gem West Ham will rue losing
One of the most exciting talents to come through West Ham’s academy in the last five years or so was undoubtedly Divin Mubama.
During his time in West London, the Englishman was utterly unstoppable for the junior sides, racking up a staggering tally of 40 goals and five assists for the u18s and then 18 goals and two assists for the u21s.
This brilliant output saw him get a chance with the first team, and over the 22/23 and 23/24 seasons, he made 18 senior appearances, totalling 431 minutes.
Mubama’s record
Team
Games
Goals
Assists
West Ham
18
1
1
WH U21s
34
18
2
WH U18s
57
40
5
Man City
2
1
0
Man City U21s
9
8
4
Stoke City
15
5
1
All statistics via Transfermarkt
However, in August 2024, then Premier League champions Manchester City came knocking, and despite their best efforts to keep him, Julen Lopetegui and Co had to make do with a measly £1.2m as he joined the Citizens.
To nobody’s surprise, the goalscoring machine continued his fine form in the North West, and ended the 24/25 campaign with 16 goals and four assists in 14 appearances for City’s u21s.
Moreover, Pep Guardiola gave him two run-outsrun-outs in the first team, and on his debut in an FA Cup game against Salford, he scored his first senior goal for the club.
Coming into this season, it was crystal clear that the 21-year-old is too good to play in the youth sides, and so he was sent out on loan to Stoke City in the Championship, where he has done a reasonable enough job.
For example, even though it’s his first season of regular first-team football, the “powerful” strike, as dubbed by respected analyst Ben Mattinson, has scored five goals and provided one assist in 15 appearances.
In addition to making his way in the club game, the Newham-born monster has also been in incredible form for England’s u21s.
In five caps, the game-changing marksman has already scored five goals and provided one assist.
Ultimately, it’s not West Ham’s fault, but if Mubama continues to develop in the way he has over the last year or so, they could really come to rue losing him.
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Sunderland have now reportedly made contact in the race to sign a teenage sensation, who is on course to leave his current club as a free agent next summer.
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Sunderland just do not know when they’re beaten in the Premier League. They are writing a blueprint that every newly-promoted side must follow to secure survival and their comeback victory against Bournemouth followed that plan to perfection.
The Black Cats came from two goals behind to secure a dramatic victory and keep hold of their place in the top six after 13 games. With Liverpool at Anfield up next, things don’t get any easier, but Sunderland have relished the challenge of upsetting the odds so far this season.
Regis Le Bris was full of praise for both his side and the Premier League itself following Sunderland’s victory over Bournemouth, telling reporters: “This league is really demanding. You make two mistakes and are punished.
“With the ball, we are good, so just keep pushing. We are able to hit their defence, and it was important to be clinical in the box. I think here we have a great energy in the stands. If we give a lot on the pitch, then they will react. We deserved to win in the end.
“It’s important to play game after game. We went to Fulham last week and we lost. We were dominated. We go again. It’s positive to start this week with three points. It’s an exciting league with tough challenges but we want those challenges.”
Survival, which almost looks guaranteed already, would be a major achievement on the pitch, but it would also make an impact away from the action. The Black Cats are already thinking about the future on that front, targeting Rangers teenager Bailey Rice.
Sunderland make contact to sign Bailey Rice
According to the Daily Mail’s Simon Jones, Sunderland have now made checks on Rice, who is on course to leave Rangers as a free agent next summer after rejecting the Gers’ contract offers.
The 19-year-old became the club’s youngest post-war player to make a Scottish Premiership appearance in 2023, but now looks destined to leave Ibrox with Sunderland, Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Cardiff City all queueing for his signature.
Manchester City were also tracking the young midfielder when he decided to leave Kilmarnock, only for Rangers to jump in and secure his arrival.
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For Sunderland, it would therefore be a major coup to land a player of Rice’s potential. Man City’s initial interest highlights how highly he’s rated in England and praise from Rio Ferdinand echoed that earlier this year.
The Manchester United legend said on commentary when Rangers squared off against Manchester United last year: “I tell you what, I’m liking Rice by the way, he’s come on and looked composed, the kid’s got something about him, he’s got a lovely left foot on him.”
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What’s better than picking the right player to hit a home run in a game?
There are few baseball bets that are more lucrative when they come through, as some players can be as high as 10/1 to hit a home run in a game on a given night.
Tonight, there are a pair of players that I love to go deep, as they are facing pitchers that have been very prone to the long ball so far in the 2024 season.
Home run props are tough to predict, but focusing on hitter matchups and the amount of home runs allowed by starters are a great place to begin.
Best MLB Home Run Picks for Monday, June 24Jurickson Profar to Hit a Home Run (+650)Bobby Witt Jr. to Hit a Home Run (+340)
Jurickson Profar to Hit a Home Run (+650)
San Diego Padres outfielder Jurickson Profar has been great this season, posting a .319/.413/.484 slash line with 10 home runs.
I’m surprised to see Profar all the way down at +650 to hit a home run, as Patrick Corbin has struggled mightily with the long ball in recent seasons.
The Washington Nationals lefty has allowed 12 home runs in 15 starts this season, and Profar has solid numbers in his career against Corbin. The switch hitter has seven at bats against Corbin, posting a .429 batting average and .500 on-base percentage, although he hasn’t hit a home run against him.
Could that change tonight?
Given Profar’s play this season and Corbin’s struggles (5.60 ERA), he’s worth a shot at +650 to go deep tonight.
Bobby Witt Jr. to Hit a Home Run (+340)
Kansas City Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. is an MVP candidate in the American League, and he’s a great candidate to go yard on Monday night.
The Miami Marlins are starting Roddery Muñoz, who has given up 11 home runs in just six appearances this season, including four games where he’s allowed multiple long balls.
That sets up well for Witt, who has 12 home runs on the season – including 10 against right-handed pitching.
Muñoz has a 5.76 ERA and 7.46 Fielding Independent Pitching this season, so I wouldn’t be shocked to see him roughed up by this Kansas City offense on Monday.
MLB just wrapped up the 2025 All-Star Game, which was held at Atlanta's Truist Park, home of the Braves. The National League emerged victorious courtesy of an enthralling Home Run Derby-style "swing-off" tiebreaker after the first nine innings of the game finished in a 6–6 deadlock.
Now that this year's All-Star Game has officially come and gone, fans will be turning their heads towards next year. We've got the information about where the game will be played in 2026 and even in '27, as well as some reports about what's in store for 2028.
Future MLB All-Star Game Locations
YEAR
LOCATION
2025
Truist Park – Atlanta
2026
Citizens Bank Park – Philadelphia
2027
Wrigley Field – Chicago.
2026 MLB All-Star Game Location
The 2026 MLB All-Star Game will be played at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, home of the Phillies. The last time the Phillies hosted an All-Star Game was back in 1996, when they played at Veteran's Park. Citizens Bank Park opened in 2004, so '26 will be the first time this stadium welcomes a crowd for the Midsummer Classic.
In all, it will be the fifth time the Phillies have been MLB's All-Star host. They've previously done so in 1943, 1952, 1976 and 1996.
2027 MLB All-Star Game Location
After spending the 2026 All-Star break in Philadelphia, MLB will return to one of its most renowned playing grounds for the 2027 All-Star Game; Chicago's Wrigley Field. The Cubs' stadium is one of baseball's most recognizable landmarks, but it hasn't hosted an All-Star Game since 1990. Almost four decades later, the event is coming back to the North Side of Chicago.
In total, the Cubs have hosted the All-Star Game three times, so 2027 will be their fourth. In addition to '90, the Cubs hosted it in 1947 and '62.
2028 MLB All-Star Game Location
No official decision has been made in regards to the location of the 2028 MLB All-Star Game, but reports indicate that Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, is the early front runner. Whether they're able to secure the Midsummer Classic in '28 remains to be seen, but it's looking optimistic for The Bay.
Walt Weiss was named the manager of the Braves, the team announced Monday. Atlanta parted ways with Brian Snitker after a disappointing season in 2025, and it opted to promote from within when homing in on his replacement.
Weiss has been the Braves’ bench coach since 2018. He had a 14-year playing career that spanned from 1987 to 2000, and spent his final three seasons in Atlanta. A shortstop, Weiss was a starter at the All-Star Game in 1998 and had 1,207 hits in his career. He won the World Series in 1989 as a member of the Athletics, and also won it with the Braves as the bench coach in 2021.
He’s previously served as the manager of the Rockies, where he was at the helm from 2013 to ‘16. He had a winning percentage of .437 in Colorado, failing to make the postseason in any of his four seasons with the team.
Weiss is the 49th manager in Braves’ franchise history, and he’ll inherit a talented roster that he’s plenty familiar with. The team has made the postseason in seven of the last eight years, and is just four years removed from a World Series title.
Game 1 of the National League Championship Series came down to one deciding at-bat on Monday night and the person in the batter's box would have done something differently if he had the opportunity.
With the Dodgers holding onto a 2-1 lead in the ninth inning, Brewers' Brice Turang encountered a bases-loaded, two-out opportunity against L.A. reliever Blake Treinen. Turang quickly fell down 1-2 in the count and went into battle mode. The next delivery broke inside and potentially would have hit him on his back leg for a game-tying HBP, but Turang instead avoided it. Treinen would go on to notch a strikeout, ending the proceedings and giving the Dodgers a 1-0 series league.
Turang was asked about the pitch and his avoidance after the game and couldn't quite explain it.
"Well, if you see me look in the dugout, I'm thinking, 'Damn.' I know it. Everybody knows it. I couldn't tell you why I did it, I just got out of the way. That's how it is."
Turang didn't wear the breaking ball because he was in the biggest at-bat of his life and instinct kicks in when someone is throwing pure heat with incredible movement. It would have been nice for Brewers fans had he simply stood his ground and made the score 2-2 but it's much, much easier to make decisions given more than .1 of a second to consider them.