News about Joc Pederson

During the team's 10-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Monday night in a matchup of teams competing in the National League wild-card competition, Philadelphia slugger Bryce Harper hit an inside-the-park home run. Kyle Schwarber, Alec Bohm, and Edmundo Sosa all homered for the Phillies, while starting pitcher Aaron Nola threw seven strong innings as they advanced three games ahead of the Giants in the wild-card standings. LaMonte Wade Jr. and Joc Pederson homered for San Francisco, who have lost four of five and 11 of 15.

Flemming, 47, was on-and-off the field for three innings at Oracle Park on Monday before returning to the booth to call the game on radio in the fourth inning. Flemming has been the Giants' play-by-play voice since 2003, but he couldn't stop San Francisco from losing at home, 10-2. This year is the second consecutive year that the Giants have adopted the practice of yelling workers and players who have fallen in last place in fantasy football to serve as bat boys.

After playing for years in Japan, Masataka Yoshida has already made some mechanical improvements at the plate during his rookie season with the Boston Red Sox. They certainly paid the bill on Sunday. Boston roared to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 12-5 after Yoshida homered twice during Boston's nine-run outburst in the eighth inning. Since Hall of Fame slugger David Ortiz's debut in August 2008, he became the first Red Sox player to go deep in a single inning.

The San Francisco Giants have stepped up their efforts to attract Aaron Judge to the west coast, and veteran Joc Pederson is keeping no information about his efforts to assist in recruiting the search process. Judge Larry Avery of the New York Yankees joined free agency at the end of the 2022 season and is now considering his options, with a move to San Francisco a possibility. Although the Yankees would like to keep him, there will be some anxious faces in the Bronx earlier this week, considering that he would not meet with the Giants this week.