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Contreras helped instill confidence in right-hander Ethan Roberts before his big-league call-up.

Suzuki, an early frontrunner for Rookie of the Year, posted a slash line of .279/.405/.529 in the month of April.

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The Sky’s first game on Marquee will be their season opener at 7 p.m. Friday against the Sparks. The team’s broadcasters will be play-by-play voices Lisa Byington and Jason Ross Jr. and analysts Stephen Bardo and Meghan McKeown.

For the first time in Mike Trout’s career, Los Angeles begins May in first place in the AL West.

Stroman shut out the first-place Brewers for seven innings and retired the final 14 batters he faced as the Cubs won 2-0 to avoid a weekend sweep.

MILWAUKEE — Patrick Wisdom’s fifth-inning solo home run off Corbin Burnes gave Marcus Stroman all the support he needed Sunday on his 31st birthday, and the Chicago Cubs starter dominated over seven scoreless innings in a 2-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers before 35,137 at American Family Field.

The quality of at-bats dropped, strikeouts mounted and the team’s fielding went from flawless to fumbling as a 6-4 start turned into 8-13.

Even when our baseball teams are losing, these head-to-head meetings hit the spot.

The Cubs have now lost nine of their last 11 games.

“I’m going to play until somebody takes the jersey off my back,” the journeyman first baseman said.