There is always baseball happening â almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.
Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:
Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte walked off the Dodgers on Thursday, earning Arizona a series split with the surging NL West leader. Its an incredible home run, a dinger worth celebrating (unless youre a Dodgers fan, naturally), so lets go through the moment piece by piece to pick out the best parts.
First, the dinger in question, off of Tanner Scott:
Baseball rules. Oh, and check this out.
Add that bat flip to the above list, because its expert-level even without the mimicry. Marte has three walk-off hits already on the season, the most of anyone in the league. And theres a whole lot of 2026 left, too.
Speaking of walk-offs and a whole lot of them, the Chicago Cubs picked up their seventh of the season on Thursday, the most in MLB. “Are the Cubs good?” is not an easy question to answer, between this, the two 10-game winning streaks and the 10-game losing streak. But its at least a team that feels like it could be good, and with all these wild-card spots, that might be enough even in the more crowded National League.
The hero of the day was center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, but before the walk-off, he went yard in the sixth to put the Cubs on the board and cut the Athletics lead to 4-1.
The As would respond with another pair of runs, but then left fielder Ian Happ undid that progress with a two-run shot in the seventh. Still not nearly enough, but patience: the big inning was coming.
In the bottom of the ninth, Joel Kuhnel came on in relief of Mark Leiter Jr. for the As. Everything began to unravel right then and there. First baseman Michael Busch led off the inning with a double, and then Happ hit a second one to cut the lead to 6-4. Second baseman Nico Hoerner singled Happ to third, but was then caught stealing â two outs. Moisés Ballesteros ripped a single to short that deflected off of Alika Williams, with third baseman Zack Gelof then unable to reel it in, either. Happ scored; 6-5, As.
Seiya Suzuki entered as a pinch-hitter and singled, putting the tying run in scoring position. Luis Medina then entered the game in relief of Kuhnel, but he gave up a game-tying single to the first batter he faced, shortstop Dansby Swanson, whose knock also sent Suzuki 90 feet from home plate. That brought up PCA with a chance to be the hero, and he delivered.
A complete meltdown by the Athletics in the ninth, but take heart, As fans: this just lost the game, not the series, and with the Mariners off on Thursday the damage to the standings was just half-a-game.
There was also this fun bit of game, before said meltdown. Designated hitter Shea Langeliers joined a strange club, as he hit a home run the traditional way in the fourth inningâ¦
â¦and then in the sixth hit an inside-the-park homer for his second of the day.
Per MLBs Sarah Langs, Langeliers is the 15th player in As history to have a multi-homer game with an inside-the-park shot, and just the fifth during the divisional era (1969-2026). And also per Langs, this is the eighth time that its happened at Wrigley Field, and the first time since 1991 when Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg pulled it off.
Its worth pointing out, too, that it was Pete Crow-Armstrong who lost Langeliers second homer in the sky and let it fall behind him. PCA managed to make up for that mistake and then some by the end of the game, huh?
While the Cubs were able to gain a game on the Brewers â Milwaukee lost to the Giants in that series finale, 12-9 â they were not able to do the same to the NL Centrals second-place team,
