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With the score tied at 1-1, Rooker came to the plat against Luke Jackson and clobbered a pitch from Jackson over the left-field fence to give the A’s a 3-1 lead. The Athletics would score four more on a grand slam by Lawrence Butler in the inning to turn a nailbiter into a blowout. Rooker has gone deep eight times in 30 games — putting him around a 40-homer pace — and remains one of the most underrated offensive weapons in the sport of baseball.
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ATH • RF
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Butler put the game away for the A’s with a salami off Shawn Armstrong that turned a 3-1 game into a 7-1 rout. It’s the fifth homer of 2025 for Butler, and his RBI total bumps up from seven to 11 with the bases-clearing bomb. He ends the month with a slash of .258/.324/.432, and those numbers should keep climbing.
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Severino allowed eight hits, but outside of a single from Adolis Garcia that scored a run in the fourth, he was able to keep the Rangers off the board. It’s the third time in four outings that the 31-year-old has given up no more than one run, and his ERA has lowered to 3.30 from 4.74 in the process. Severino isn’t dominating, but he’s getting the job done; more so from a ‘real-life’ standard than a fantasy one. He faces the Mariners in Sacramento on Monday.
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Duran came over from the Dodgers earlier this month in the Esteury Ruiz trade and will be making his big-league debut when he gets into a game. The hard-throwing 23-year-old righty is capable of touching triple digits, but holds a lackluster 6.75 ERA across seven appearances this season at the Triple-A level.
TOR • DH
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Santander came through with the biggest moment of his Blue Jays debut, delivering a clutch seventh-inning homer against Red Sox reliever Garrett Whitlock to help Toronto erase an early six-run deficit. It was his fourth big fly of the season. It wound up being his lone hit in five at-bats, but it made a significant impact in a comeback victory.
PIT • DH
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McCutchen got the big hit in this one when he squeaked a ground ball up the middle that Dansby Swanson inadvertently kicked into shallow center field. That mishap allowed both Bryan Reynolds and Isiah Kiner-Falefa to score and give the Pirates a late lead that they wouldn’t relinquish. While McCutchen began the season in more of a part-time role, he’s started in 12 of Pittsburgh’s last 13 games and has slugged his way to an .826 OPS overall.
PHI • DH
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Schwarber’s homer is the ninth of the season for the 32-year-old slugger, and it gave the Phillies a 3-0 lead in the first inning. He’s gone deep in back-to-back games, and he ended the month of April with six roundtrippers with the other three coming in March. There are very few better power producers in the sport than Schwarber, and while he doesn’t contribute in many other categories, it’s certainly good enough that you want him in your fantasy lineup.
