The Week That Was in Baseball

Around and around he goes: 27-year-old Tristan Thompson will be joining his fourth team this year. He went to spring training with the Los Angeles Dodgers before he was claimed off waivers by the New York Yankees on April 3 and by Oakland two days later. He was 1-for-7 in three games with the A's. Golden State’s Klay Thompson was excited about his younger brother playing in the same city as him. So much for that.

Price relieved to be relieved of his duties: The listless Cincinnati Reds fired manager Bryan Price in the midst of his fifth season after the team muddled their way through a 3-15 start. The Reds also been fired pitching coach Mack Jenkins on Thursday morning. Bench coach Jim Riggleman was named Cincinnati's interim manager and the Reds will conduct a search for a permanent manager "later in the year."

Let’s play two but in one: The Twins Rosario scored the winning run in his homeland of Puerto Rico in the bottom of the 16th inning while coming around on LaMarre's single that gave Minnesota a 2-1 win over the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday, er, Thursday morning and a splitting the two-game set.

The official game time was a whopping 5 hours, 13 minutes. With a combined 117 at-bats and 0 for 21 with runners in scoring position until LaMarre’s game ending single."It was a heck of a baseball game," exhausted Twins manager Paul Molitor said. The game ended at 12:23am on Thursday which meant Minnesota’s Joe Mauer and Zach Duke both aged a year, they turned 35.

The Unstoppable Force meets the Immovable Object: Shohei Ohtani got shelled when he faced the nearly unbeatable Boston Red Sox this week. Mookie Betts after injuring his ankle last week showed no signs of slowing down as he his three home runs against the Angels tying Ted Williams for the most three homer games in Red Sox history with three. Ohtani only lasted 2 innings with 66 pitches throw. He allowed 6 men to reach base and only threw 4 out of 12 first pitch strikes.

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