The MLB week, distilled from Crooked Inning data: the players, games, standings swings, and roster moves worth carrying into Monday.
Pete Alonso launched five homers in five games for the Orioles, while the Astros outscored opponents 46-19 and slipped past Texas atop the AL West. The Brewers, already the NL's runaway, added a 5-1 week and a Cardinals sweep.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres each went 6-1 to keep the NL West race tilted their way, while the Cleveland Guardians seized first in the AL Central with a 5-1 week and a five-game winning streak.
The San Diego Padres ran the table at 6-0 and stretched a win streak to seven while the Colorado Rockies went 0-6. Victor Mesa Jr. and Cam Schlittler supplied the individual weeks that topped the board for Tampa Bay and New York.
Thomas Saggese put up a 1.718 OPS for the Cardinals while the Red Sox took all four from the Orioles and cut into the AL East gap. Elsewhere, Gavin Williams punched out 24 over two Guardians starts and Chicago hung 17 on Milwaukee on Monday.
The Atlanta Braves went 6-0, sweeping the Dodgers and Rockies and stretching a win streak to seven, while the Angels dropped all six and Mickey Gasper posted a cartoon on-base line for Boston.
The Kansas City Royals, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles Dodgers combined to go 19-0 while the rest of the league sorted out division races the hard way. Pete Crow-Armstrong and Cal Quantrill led the individual board with power and zeroes, respectively.
