Tensions boil over in the clubhouse of the struggling Mets after a 5 – 3 loss to the Cubs at Wrigley Field as manager Mickey Callaway accuses Newsday beat reporter Tim Healey of antagonizing people. The exchange quickly degenerates as P Jason Vargas also gets involved and threatens to knock out the journalist while Callaway shouts for him to leave the clubhouse, using choice profanities.

For the third straight game, the Dodgers win on a walk-off homer­, and for the third straight game, it’s a rookie who hits the winning blow. After Matt Beaty and Alex Verdugo, it is Will Smith’s turn to play the hero as he launches a three-run pinch homer in the bottom of the 9th for a 6 – 3 win over the Rockies.

An authentic Babe Ruth new York Yankees jersey from 1928-30 sets a record for a piece of baseball memorabilia as it sells for $5.64 million at auction.

The Padres and Rockies set a record for most combined runs in a four-game series with a total of 92, breaking the previous record of 88 set in 1929 between the Brooklyn Robins and Phillies. In today’s game, San Diego scores four times in the 9th off closer Wade Davis, the last run coming on a bases-loaded walk, to win 14 – 13 and salvage a split of the series played at Coors Field. For Colorado, Charlie Blackmon goes 15 for 24 over the four games, including four-hit games in the first three contests, and also hits 4 homers, scores 9 runs and drives in 10; for San Diego, Hunter Renfroe hits 5 homers, including 3 in the second game.

2019 – With some of their big sluggers about to return from injury, the Yankees still add another one via trade, acquiring DH Edwin Encarnacion, who is leading the AL with 21 homers, from the Mariners for 19-year-old P Juan Then.

2019 – Jake Bauers of the Indians, hits the third cycle of the season, one day after Shohei Ohtani had hit the second. He completes the feat with a homer in the 8th as Cleveland defeats the Tigers, 13 – 4. Bauers gets two of his hits in the 4th, when the Indians score eight times.

Max Kepler becomes the latest player this season to have a three-homer game, connecting three times against the Indians to lead the Twins to a 5 – 4 win. He had been hitless in his previous 21 at-bats entering the game, before breaking out of his slump in a big way.

One day after the other top-rank free agent remaining on the market, Craig Kimbrel, has found a home, it is Dallas Keuchel’s turn to come to an agreement with a team. According to reports, he will sign a one-year contract with the Braves for $13 million, now that compensation in the form of a pick in the amateur draft is off the table.

2019 – It seems like former All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel has finally found a home. A free agent since the end of the World Series, he remained unsigned due to his insistence on obtaining a multi-year contract, and the compensation in the form of top draft pick in the 2019 amateur draft that a team signing him would have had to pay. With the draft now out of the way, the Cubs prove ready to bite on a longer-term deal, offering Kimbrel a three-year contract worth $43 million.