- The term cycle bread is often thrown around in these recaps but on this day the only carbs being consumed were leaderboard bread as all of the day's blanks came from the middle of the standings.
- Before we get to those grainy folks, let us speak of those that dined on misery meat. And to do so we'll begin with the person dealing with the most rotten luck this month, Al. Bobby Witt Jr. walked three times against Oakland and softly grounded out in his lone official at-bat. It is now six straight days without a hit for Al, which ties the record set last season. At least his misery had company on this day as Scott blanked as well with the Royals' top youngster.
- Pavli shifted from one NL West first baseman to another before things locked in and probably regrets the decision slightly. Eric Hosmer didn't set the world on fire with three total bases against Philadelphia, but it was miles better than Brandon Belt's two at-bat blank before being yanked for a defensive replacement.
- JP Crawford may have only gotten one shot at the plate for Nate, but at least his reasoning for not getting more was a lot more colorful than a bunch of walks or being subbed out for Yermin Mercedes. Benches cleared between the Angels and the Mariners and Crawford was one of several players ejected for throwing a multitude of punches in the ensuing scrum.
- Our two "low" scorers both came from Sunday Night Baseball as the Dodgers beat the Braves in extra innings. LA's Will Smith (Lenny) and Atlanta's Last Man In Michael Harris II (Matt) each had two hits, but both of Harris' hits were singles while Smith had a double paired with his single.
- Boston won their seventh straight game and racked up 15 hits against Cleveland. Two of those, both doubles, came from Colin's selection Christian Vazquez who was responsible for either scoring or knocking in three of the eight runs the Red Sox put up on the Guardians.
- That left a three-way tie for the daily top score split between two players. Seth Brown got Buddy his requisite six total bases with a double and home run in Oakland's win over the Royals. Both Ryan and Joseph went with Minnesota's Byron Buxton who fell a home run shy of the cycle in Minnesota's victory over Colorado. That lack of a home run is the key for Joseph at least as we closed out the month of June with a misfire on the Home Run Hero.
- Optimally, Milwaukee's Rowdy Tellez blasted his former team, Toronto, to the tune of two home runs, four RBI, and eight total bases.
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