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BOSTON — Chaim Bloom insisted this week that how the Red Sox perform leading up to Aug. 2 would only go so far into determining his approach at the trade deadline. The standings matter, but they weren’t everything to the chief baseball officer’s plans.

MILWAUKEE – Dylan Bundy has been a major-league starting pitcher for seven seasons, but had never faced the Brewers. Joe Smith has been a big-league reliever for twice as long and has faced absolutely everybody.

In his last start before the all-star break, Kyle Freeland punched out a light in the Rockies’ dugout in a fit of frustration. Monday night in Milwaukee, the left-hander was simply lights out.

It looked like the type of game the Rockies’ dreamed up during the offseason: A road victory, against a quality team, based on clutch hits, including a big home run.

The Rockies have to bring their A-game to defeat a good team on the road. They forgot to bring it to the ballpark Saturday night.

Baseball has resumed after the All-Star break, so it’s time for us to revise our preseason picks.

Considering 58% of the season was in the bag by the time the Cardinals split ways for their All-Star break, it feels a little silly to refer to what starts Friday in Cincinnati as the beginning of the second half.

Most of the recent public talk regarding a new Rays stadium has come from St. Petersburg Mayor Ken Welch about building near the current site as part of the redevelopment of the Tropicana Field area.

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants are no longer reeling. In fact, you could even say they enter the All-Star break on a roll.

Milwaukee lost in heartbreaking fashion yet again after an eighth-inning, bases-loaded balk.

SAN FRANCISCO — It couldn’t happen again. It wouldn’t, right? Surely, the thoughts racing through the heads of so many of the 41,257 Giants fans in attendance Saturday afternoon when Mike Yastrzemski stepped in against Brewers reliever Jandel Gustave with the bases loaded, tied at 1, in the bottom of…