Daily Rundown: 26th June

While the sporting world was concentrating on the futures of NBA prospects at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn there was some mighty fine baseball being played. Here’s your rundown.

Results

**Thursday, June 25**
MATCHUP		RESULT	WIN	LOSS	SAVE
Chicago	Detroit	CHW 8, DET 7 (F/10)	Zach Duke	Joba Chamberlain	David Robertson
Baltimore	Boston	BAL 8, BOS 6	Miguel Gonzalez	Eduardo Rodriguez	Zach Britton
Oakland	Texas	OAK 6, TEX 3	Sonny Gray	Keone Kela	Tyler Clippard
New York	Milwaukee	NYM 2, MIL 0	Jacob deGrom	Michael Blazek	Jeurys Familia
Los Angeles	Chicago	LAD 4, CHC 0	Carlos Frias	Jon Lester
Arizona	Colorado	COL 6, ARI 4	Justin Miller	Daniel Hudson	John Axford
San Diego	San Francisco	SF 13, SD 8	Chris Heston	James Shields
Atlanta	Washington	WSH 7, ATL 0	Doug Fister	Matt Wisler
Cincinnati	Pittsburgh	CIN 5, PIT 4 (F/13)	Pedro Villarreal	Rob Scahill
St. Louis	Miami	STL 5, MIA 1	Lance Lynn	Dan Haren
New York	Houston	HOU 4, NYY 0	Dallas Keuchel	Adam Warren

Standings

**American League**
EAST	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Tampa Bay Rays	41	33	.554	–	20-21	21-12	273	257	+16	L1	6-4
New York Yankees	39	34	.534	1.5	21-14	18-20	350	328	+22	L1	5-5
Baltimore Orioles	38	34	.528	2	22-13	16-21	332	291	+41	W1	7-3
Toronto Blue Jays	39	35	.527	2	23-14	16-21	405	324	+81	W1	5-5
Boston Red Sox	32	42	.432	9	17-20	15-22	304	349	-45	L1	5-5
CENTRAL	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Kansas City Royals	41	28	.594	–	22-13	19-15	303	251	+52	W1	7-3
Minnesota Twins	39	33	.542	3.5	25-15	14-18	301	292	+9	W1	5-5
Detroit Tigers	37	36	.507	6	18-19	19-17	317	322	-5	L2	4-6
Cleveland Indians	33	38	.465	9	15-23	18-15	288	314	-26	W1	4-6
Chicago White Sox	32	40	.444	10.5	18-15	14-25	249	328	-79	W1	4-6
WEST	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Houston Astros	43	32	.573	–	24-14	19-18	335	284	+51	W1	6-4
Los Angeles Angels	37	36	.507	5	21-16	16-20	288	293	-5	W1	5-5
Texas Rangers	37	36	.507	5	15-19	22-17	318	314	+4	L5	4-6
Oakland Athletics	34	41	.453	9	14-20	20-21	341	295	+46	W5	8-2
Seattle Mariners	33	40	.452	9	17-23	16-17	248	298	-50	L1	5-5

**National League**
EAST	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Washington Nationals	40	33	.548	–	22-14	18-19	323	295	+28	W6	7-3
New York Mets	37	37	.500	3.5	26-11	11-26	265	283	-18	W1	3-7
Atlanta Braves	35	38	.479	5	19-15	16-23	296	319	-23	L3	5-5
Miami Marlins	30	44	.405	10.5	17-20	13-24	276	306	-30	L4	3-7
Philadelphia Phillies	26	48	.351	14.5	17-19	9-29	244	366	-122	L1	4-6
CENTRAL	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
St. Louis Cardinals	48	24	.667	–	26-7	22-17	294	207	+87	W3	7-3
Pittsburgh Pirates	40	32	.556	8	22-13	18-19	286	244	+42	L2	5-5
Chicago Cubs	39	32	.549	8.5	20-15	19-17	291	273	+18	L2	5-5
Cincinnati Reds	34	37	.479	13.5	20-14	14-23	291	301	-10	W2	6-4
Milwaukee Brewers	27	47	.365	22	13-25	14-22	266	351	-85	L1	3-7
WEST	W	L	PCT	GB	HOME	ROAD	RS	RA	DIFF	STRK	L10
Los Angeles Dodgers	41	33	.554	–	27-13	14-20	313	254	+59	W2	4-6
San Francisco Giants	40	34	.541	1	19-19	21-15	310	289	+21	W2	6-4
Arizona Diamondbacks	35	37	.486	5	18-18	17-19	324	329	-5	L1	5-5
San Diego Padres	35	40	.467	6.5	16-19	19-21	312	349	-37	L2	3-7
Colorado Rockies	32	40	.444	8	17-22	15-18	328	365	-37	W1	4-6

Image of the night

Home run leaders timeline:

On this day in baseball history

2001:

Not known for being a base thief during playing days, Pittsburgh manager Lloyd McClendon steals first base when he is ejected in the seventh frame for arguing a close play in the team’s eventual 7-6, 12 inning come-from-behind victory over Milwaukee at PNC Park. “I told him (first base ump Rick Reed) he wasn’t using it, so I thought I’d take it,” explains the Bucs’ skipper after pulling the bag out of the ground and carrying it into the Pirates’ dugout.

Today’s games

Game	@	TIME (BST)	PITCHING MATCHUP
Cleveland	Baltimore	12:05 AM	Corey Kluber vs Wei-Yin Chen
Washington	Philadelphia	12:05 AM	Max Scherzer vs Aaron Harang
Atlanta	Pittsburgh	12:05 AM	Williams Perez vs Francisco Liriano
Texas	Toronto	12:07 AM	Nick Martinez vs Mark Buehrle
Chicago	Detroit	12:08 AM	Jose Quintana vs Anibal Sanchez
Cincinnati	New York	12:10 AM	Johnny Cueto vs Noah Syndergaard
Los Angeles	Miami	12:10 AM	Brett Anderson vs Justin Nicolino
Boston	Tampa Bay	12:10 AM	Rick Porcello vs Alex Colome
Minnesota	Milwaukee	1:10 AM	Trevor May vs Kyle Lohse
New York	Houston	1:10 AM	Nathan Eovaldi vs Vincent Velasquez
Chicago	St. Louis	1:15 AM	Jake Arrieta vs John Lackey
Seattle	Los Angeles	3:05 AM	Taijuan Walker vs Matt Shoemaker
Kansas City	Oakland	3:05 AM	Edinson Volquez vs Jesse Hahn
Arizona	San Diego	3:10 AM	Robbie Ray vs Tyson Ross
Colorado	San Francisco	3:15 AM	Chad Bettis vs Tim Hudson