<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers/dodgers-news-clayton-kershaw-strikes-out-rafael-devers-end-final-home-start');   ga('set', 'title', 'Clayton Kershaw strikes out Rafael Devers to end final regular season Dodgers start');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Clayton-Kershaw_f26d5e.jpg"><figcaption>Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Clayton Kershaw strikes out Rafael Devers to end final regular season Dodgers start</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-09-19T21:10:37-07:00">September 19th, 9:10pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-09-19T21:15:45-07:00">September 19th, 9:15pm</time><address><a>Matty Breisch</a>Matty Breisch is a Senior Editor who specializes in NFL and WWE content at ClutchPoints. He can be read at Heavy, FanSided, The Needle Drop, Philadelphia Sports Network, and right here at ClutchPoints. Are you ready to read about football and wrestling? Well, you've come to the right place.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Los Angeles Dodgers</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>When <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers/dodgers-news-clayton-kershaw-retire-after-2025-season">Clayton Kershaw announced</a> that the Los Angeles Dodgers’ <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/los-angeles-dodgers/dodgers-news-heliot-ramos-spoils-clayton-kershaws-final-start-leadoff-home-run">September 19 showdown against the San Francisco Giants</a> would be his final home start before an offseason retirement, it instantly made the contest a must-watch for fans of baseball, Los Angeles sports, or sports history in general.</p><p>Taking the mound to incredible fanfare from a sold-out crowd as Fun.’s “We Are Young” played over the soundsystem, Kershaw looked a little shaky early on but rounded into form in the middle innings after the Giants manufactured a second run mid-way through the third, entering the fifth inning with Rafael Devers before a series of righties, when coupled with a high pitch count, would almost certainly end his evening.</p><p>Would Kershaw give up another run and end his final start on a sour note? Or would the first-ballot Hall of Famer take down Devers swinging, adding a final K to his impressive collection, with stands at over 3,000 all in Dodgers blue?</p><p>Well, as it turns out, Devers didn’t even get a chance to swing, watching his final out wiz by and Kershaw <a href="https://x.com/PitchingNinja/status/1969244683386695917" rel="noopener">walk off into history</a>.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Clayton Kershaw's Strikeout …</p><p>Walking off the Mound at Dodger Stadium. 😥<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FridayNightBaseball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FridayNightBaseball</a> <a href="https://t.co/NkeqeLYbS8">pic.twitter.com/NkeqeLYbS8</a></p><p>— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) <a href="https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1969244683386695917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Now understandably, when that ball was called a strike and Kershaw walked off the mound like The Man with No Name, Dodger Stadium went absolutely ballistic, with tears falling into the smiles of fans knowing they’d just seen something historic.</p><p>Will Kershaw pitch at Dodger Stadium again? Potentially so, be that as a starter or a relief option coming out of the bullpen, but for one mid-September night in Los Angeles, Kershaw got to have his moment, and what a moment it was.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Clayton Kershaw strikes out Rafael Devers to end final regular season Dodgers start

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/diamondbacks-news-zac-gallen-leaves-rafael-devers-fuming-huge-milestone');   ga('set', 'title', 'Diamondbacks’ Zac Gallen leaves Rafael Devers fuming after huge milestone');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Zac-Gallen-1.jpg"><figcaption>Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Diamondbacks’ Zac Gallen leaves Rafael Devers fuming after huge milestone</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-09-15T21:48:39-07:00">September 15th, 9:48pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-09-15T21:48:39-07:00">September 15th, 9:48pm</time><address><a>Richard Pereira</a>Richard Pereira joined ClutchPoints in January 2025 as an Associate Editor. He earned his degree from Florida Atlantic University in 2023 and has been covering the school's athletic programs since 2020, having served as a Sports Editor at the FAU University Press. He was granted the unique opportunity to report on the men's basketball team's journey to the Final Four in Houston for FAU Owls Nest during March Madness, consistently striving to grow as a sports journalist.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Arizona Diamondbacks</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Zac Gallen achieved an impressive pitching feat during the series opener between the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/arizona-diamondbacks/diamondbacks-news-zac-gallen-1000-strikeouts">Arizona Diamondbacks and San Francisco Giants</a> on Monday night.</p><p>Going into the matchup, Gallen was approaching the career milestone of 1,000 strikeouts with the Diamondbacks. The best pitchers have the honor of reaching that special mark, showing how long they have been in the majors and how well they performed to get to that point.</p><p>All he needed was <a href="https://x.com/alexjweiner/status/1967794792861213175" rel="noopener">one more strikeout to achieve the feat</a>, per reporter Alex Weiner. That would come against Rafael Devers, leaving the star infielder in frustration as he couldn’t prevent the strikeout from taking place against him.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Zac Gallen recorded his 1,000th strikeout as a Diamondback in a six-inning quality start.</p><p>Line: 6 IP, 1 ER, 2 H (both Casey Schmitt), 1 BB, 6 Ks<a href="https://t.co/XXR1Aty0pD">pic.twitter.com/XXR1Aty0pD</a></p><p>— Alex Weiner (@alexjweiner) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexjweiner/status/1967794792861213175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://instagram.com/embed.js"></script></p></figure><h2><b>How Zac Gallen, Diamondbacks played against Giants</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Arizona-Diamondbacks-1.jpg"><figcaption>Joe Camporeale-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Zac Gallen had an excellent performance on the mound, helping the Diamondbacks beat the Giants 8-1 to begin the three-game set.</p><p>Gallen was active in the game for six innings, striking out six batters while conceding two hits and one run. San Francisco simply had no answer against him and the relievers, only landing two hits after 29 at-bats. Their lone score took place in the third inning with a home run from Casey Schmitt.</p><p>The game was close as they were even at one apiece after five innings. The Diamondbacks finally boomed with six runs in the sixth frame, taking all the momentum and never looking back. They landed seven hits after 33 at-bats as Geraldo Perdomo had himself a night by going 3-for-3 in his chances for a pair of RBIs. Ildemaro Vargas and James McCann also provided two RBIs each, getting their runs against the Giants’ defense.</p><p>Arizona improved to a 76-75 record on the season, holding the third spot of the NL West Division standings. They are 6.5 games behind the San Diego Padres and nine games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers.</p><p>The Diamondbacks will prepare for Game 2 of their series against the Giants. The contest will take place on Sept. 16 at 9:40 p.m. ET.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Diamondbacks’ Zac Gallen leaves Rafael Devers fuming after huge milestone

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/san-francisco-giants/giants-news-rafael-devers-willy-adames-go-back-to-back-giants-win-cardinals');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rafael Devers, Willy Adames go back-to-back in Giants win vs Cardinals');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Rafael-Devers-cover-8.jpg"></figure><h1>Rafael Devers, Willy Adames go back-to-back in Giants win vs Cardinals</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-09-05T23:55:46-07:00">September 5th, 11:55pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-09-05T23:55:46-07:00">September 5th, 11:55pm</time><address><a>Brayden Haena</a>Brayden Haena is an Associate Editor at ClutchPoints. He's a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan and a football fanatic. In addition to sports writing, he works for Arizona Football in the Player Personnel and Recruiting department and formerly served as the Defensive Coordinator for Heritage High School.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/giants-news-rafael-devers-stuns-rockies-with-historic-statcast-feat">San Francisco Giants have chosen the most direct route back</a> into relevance: straight over the wall. They opened Friday night in St. Louis with Rafael Devers launching Michael McGreevy’s sixth pitch 416 feet to right-center and Willy Adames following with a 401-foot shot to left-center. The back-to-back jolts extended San Francisco’s home run streak to 18 games in an 8-2 win over the Cardinals, one shy of the franchise record set by the 1947 New York Giants. It was the fourth time the Giants have gone back-to-back this season — and <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/09/05/sf-giants-match-season-high-18-hits-as-seymour-notches-first-career-win/" rel="noopener">the second time in seven games</a> it’s been Devers and Adames doing the honors.</p><p>For a club that was seven games under .500 two weeks ago, everything suddenly looks loud and contagious. San Francisco racked up 18 hits — matching its season high — and has piled up a staggering 70 knocks over its last five games, the most in any five-game span since the franchise moved west. Six starters collected multiple hits Friday, all nine had at least one, and Jung Hoo Lee tied a career high with four.</p><p>Patrick Bailey added three from the nine-spot as the Giants notched their 11th win in 12 games to climb to 72-69, four games back of the Mets and Padres for the final two NL Wild Card berths. “We go into the game feeling good about our offense, and there’s a reason for it. … It’s contagious just like it goes the other way,” manager Bob Melvin said. “Right now, offensively, we feel like we’re as good as we’ve been all year.”</p><h2><b>Giants are positioning themselves for a playoff push</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Willy-Adames-3.jpg"><figcaption>Jeff Curry-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p>Rookie right-hander Carson Seymour rode that surge and then some. In just his second big-league start, Seymour carried a no-hitter into the fifth and finished five innings of one-run ball, allowing two singles with two strikeouts and one walk for his first MLB victory. Melvin had planned for a short night and a bullpen relay, but Seymour’s early dominance changed the script; San Francisco needed only Matt Gage and Tristan Beck, who recorded a rare three-inning save.</p><p>The postgame celebration was sticky. “My lip was kind of on fire,” Seymour said of the clubhouse condiment bath. “The whole bit, for sure.” Devers’ early thunder has become a theme. Seven of his 16 homers as a Giant have come in the first inning, and he owns a 1.010 OPS in the opening frame with San Francisco.</p><p>“Those are things that just happen in baseball,” Devers said through the team interpreter. “I just take every turn the same way.” Seymour felt the jolt. “It gives us energy in the dugout… It’s just contagious.”</p><p>The math is still uphill — FanGraphs pegs San Francisco’s playoff odds around four percent, Baseball-Reference a shade over 11 — but the path is clear. Since Aug. 22 the Giants are averaging 7.5 runs per game, riding a record-chasing long-ball binge that has them one swing from history and, suddenly, within shouting distance of October.</p><p>As Melvin put it: “Home runs have been a huge part of what we’ve been doing here recently, <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/benches-clear-in-giants-rockies-clash-after-rafael-devers-home-run">and a lot of it has been Devers in the first inning.</a> He’s on a nice little heater.”</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Rafael Devers, Willy Adames go back-to-back in Giants win vs Cardinals

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/colorado-rockies/rockies-news-kyle-freeland-shares-his-side-rafael-devers-altercation');   ga('set', 'title', 'Rockies’ Kyle Freeland shares his side of Rafael Devers altercation');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Rockies-hurler-Kyle-Freeland-voices-his-displeasure-.jpg"><figcaption>Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Rockies’ Kyle Freeland shares his side of Rafael Devers altercation</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-09-02T22:57:58-07:00">September 2nd, 10:57pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-09-02T22:58:13-07:00">September 2nd, 10:58pm</time><address><a>Alex House</a>Alex House is a sports journalist who covers the NFL, NBA, and MLB for ClutchPoints. He grew up in a New York sports-heavy region in Connecticut and earned his journalism degree at the University of Rhode Island. His in-depth knowledge of two of the most passionate and raucous fan bases in the country gives him a truly unique writing voice.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Colorado Rockies</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Times have changed. There are certain things baseball players do now that was considered taboo even a decade ago. Admiring home runs falls under that category. While plenty of fans still take issue with the practice — bat flipping as well — this is now largely seen as gamesmanship within the industry. Pitchers still don’t like it, but many of them begrudgingly accept it and try to regroup. That is much harder to do when a team is in the midst of a historically awful campaign, which is following six straight losing seasons. Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Kyle Freeland exploded on Tuesday.</p><p>The veteran left-hander gave up a two-run home run to Rafael Devers in the first inning of Tuesday’s 7-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants, but the three-time All-Star was not in a hurry to round the bases. Freeland took great offense and fired a verbal shot at the slugger. Devers became incensed, and a <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/benches-clear-in-giants-rockies-clash-after-rafael-devers-home-run">benches-clearing brawl broke out</a>. As is often the case, things settled down before true chaos was unleashed. Freeland, Matt Chapman and Willy Adames were all ejected.</p><p>Freeland <a href="https://x.com/JomboyMedia/status/1963101541801324588" rel="noopener">explained his blazing reaction</a> after the game. “I just found it extremely disrespectful to show me up like that in the first inning after hitting a home run,” he told reporters, via Jomboy Media. “Standing there watching it, taking your sweet time getting down to first base. I’ve been in this league for quite some time, and I know he has as well. I just find that extremely disrespectful and felt that I needed to let him know about that.”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">“I found it extremely disrespectful to show me up like that in the first inning.”</p><p>Kyle Freeland shares his thoughts on his ejection after Rafael Devers homered off of him <a href="https://t.co/l2DvqfJSfF">pic.twitter.com/l2DvqfJSfF</a> <a href="https://t.co/BZdLFoopZp">https://t.co/BZdLFoopZp</a></p><p>— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) <a href="https://twitter.com/JomboyMedia/status/1963101541801324588?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><h2><b>When will the dark days end for the Rockies?</b></h2><p>There are those who will snap back at Kyle Freeland with the classic response: “if you don’t want the hitter to pose, then get him out.” Others will argue that it is beneath anyone, let alone an <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/giants-news-rafael-devers-stuns-rockies-with-historic-statcast-feat">established star like Rafael Devers</a>, to marvel at a homer that he hit against the lowly Rockies. Perhaps everyone can learn from this experience.</p><p>Colorado needs Freeland to channel all his frustrations into his pitching. He is having another brutal year, posting a 5.41 ERA and 1.52 WHIP through 131 1/3 innings. Unless a spectacular final stretch follows, this will mark the third straight season the former first-round draft pick has recorded a 5.00-plus ERA. A top-five finish in the 2018 National League Cy Young race seems like ancient history now.</p><p>Both Freeland and the Rockies (39-100) must use the remainder of this lost campaign to find a spark that they can use in 2026. Otherwise, they will remain baseball’s most accessible punching bag.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Rockies’ Kyle Freeland shares his side of Rafael Devers altercation

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb/san-francisco-giants/giants-news-rafael-devers-opens-up-playing-third-base');   ga('set', 'title', 'Giants’ Rafael Devers opens up about playing third base for first time in 2025');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Rafael-Devers-4.jpg"><figcaption>Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><h1>Giants’ Rafael Devers opens up about playing third base for first time in 2025</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2025-09-02T22:21:02-07:00">September 2nd, 10:21pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2025-09-02T22:21:02-07:00">September 2nd, 10:21pm</time><address><a>Troy Finnegan</a>Troy Finnegan is a Senior Editor and NFL Lead at ClutchPoints. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023 with a degree in journalism and minors in communications and sports media, as well as a critical sports studies certificate. He has had a passion for sports his entire life, and enjoys covering and writing about all sports.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>In one of the most surprising twists of this MLB season, the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/giants-news-rafael-devers-stuns-rockies-with-historic-statcast-feat">San Francisco Giants are alive and kicking</a> in the National League playoff picture.</p><p>After limping into the trade deadline and not doing much to improve the team coming out of it, many fans and pundits had given up on the Giants’ playoff chances. However, they are now one of the hottest teams in baseball and that continued with a 7-4 win over the Colorado Rockies in Denver. The Giants have now won nine of their last 10 games and are just five games out of the last wild card spot with less than a month to go in the regular season.</p><p>Bob Melvin and company ran into a bit of a curious situation in the first inning when third baseman Matt Chapman was ejected from the game. That left Melvin without anyone to play the hot corner, so he moved Rafael Devers from first base to third base for the night.</p><p>Devers’ position was a big controversy in Boston with the Red Sox before he was traded to the Giants, as Boston had him playing mostly first base and designated hitter. The Giants have had him in a similar role, but Devers picked it up like riding a bike on Tuesday night.</p><p>After the game, he <a href="https://x.com/NBCSGiants/status/1963100907874443712" rel="noopener">shrugged off the transition</a> and took it in stride.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Rafael Devers didn't hesitate to play third base tonight, despite not having taken any grounders at the position this season 😤 <a href="https://t.co/b3OwsUYMMB">pic.twitter.com/b3OwsUYMMB</a></p><p>— SF Giants on NBCS (@NBCSGiants) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1963100907874443712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>“I noticed the situation, I didn’t hesitate,” Devers said through a translator. He asked me to play third base and I am here to help the team. … I haven’t taken any grounders at third base but I felt comfortable. I think that both positions are similar, first and third.”</p><p>The star slugger started the game at first base and had a first baseman’s glove, so he even had to steal Chapman’s glove to go play third. Apparently, the accolades of Devers’ star teammate carried over in the glove even after the ejection.</p><p>“It felt really good, it has five Platinum Gloves in there,” he said with a laugh.</p><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/mlb/san-francisco-giants/benches-clear-in-giants-rockies-clash-after-rafael-devers-home-run">Devers got his night started off with a bang</a> at the plate, smashing a two-run home run in the first inning that started a benches-clearing altercation between the two NL West rivals. However, he struck out twice during the game and finished just 1-for-5.</p><p>While the Giants will not want to lose Chapman for any more time, it’s good to know that Devers can still get the job done at third base during this playoff push if needed. Now, the Giants will want him to get going at the plate as they look to continue this epic comeback in the standings.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

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