- Picking against poor teams and pitchers is a bedrock of this game but sometimes it doesn't pay dividends to dogpile on one of baseball's lesser clubs. Colin, Lenny, and Nate learned that the hard way as they all failed to find a hit from their Nationals selections against the Pirates. The former two were burned by Josh Bell while the latter now finds himself without a Juan Soto ace in the hole.
- There is a three-way logjam at the top of the AL East at the moment after New York was able to shut out Toronto. Pick One art imitated life as the two selections from both the Blue Jays and Yankees, Matt's pick of Bo Bichette and Buddy's of Aaron Judge, also tied with a double apiece.
- Continuing this brief tie theme, Buddy is also in a three-way tie at 16 total bases with Al and Joseph. Al leaped up a bit with a binary code special from Jesus Sanchez while Seiya Suzuki's double left Joseph level.
- Tampa Bay continues to garner multiple selections daily but on this day the results were quite far apart. Pavli retained his overall lead despite Wander Franco's hitless afternoon. Scott however nearly doubled his score with some cycle bread from Brandon Lowe who is one selection behind teammate Ji-Man Choi for the most in the Challenge.
- But our top scorer was someone who actually did double their overall score and then some. Eric Hosmer singled twice and doubled twice in San Diego's rout of Atlanta. This pushed Ryan two total bases clear of the basement.
- Optimally, there were two players that got to eight total bases with a flood of hits. Pittsburgh's Dan Vogelbach had four hits (2 singles, 1 double, 1 home run) to get his haul while San Diego's Manny Machado got his with five base knocks (4 singles, 1 home run).
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