from the Major League Baseball Players Association.... Toronto infielder Marcus Semien was selected

Open this photo in gallery Toronto Blue Jays' Santiago Espinal, left, throws out Boston Red Sox Enrique Hernandez at first base in the third inning of game one of a double header American League baseball game in Toronto on Saturday Aug.... However, the Red Sox catcher was erased on a double play. Boston put runners on first and second with no out in the sixth inning.... He was placed on the team’s COVID-19-related injured list.He hasn’t tested positive, but Martinez felt unwell following Frida

NEW YORK( Kyodo)--Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani became the first Japanese in 20 years to be named Most Valuable Player in the majors when he claimed the American League honor on Thursday, fetching all 30 first-place votes in the balloting from journalists.... Ohtani and Ichiro Suzuki, in 2001, are the only Japanese players to receive a Major League Baseball MVP award, with the winner in each league determined through a vote of eligible Baseball Writers' Association of America me

The Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani, selected as on the finalists for the major leagues' American League MVP.... It is MLB's highest annual honor, given to the player judged to have provided the most value to their team of anyone in their league that season.... Ohtani was hugely successful as a two-way player during his fourth season in the major leagues, with nine wins and two losses as a pitcher and 46 home runs, 100 RBIs and 26 stolen bases as a batter for the LA Angels....

Lourdes Gurriel also homered for Toronto, which has won 12 of its last 14 games and is second in the majors with 172 home runs.... " It wasn't like we were stretching him out, he was dealing," Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo said of Manoah.... We needed something like that." Springer extended Toronto's lead to 2-0 in the third inning with a solo shot to left-center off Dylan Bundy( 2-9)....

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