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The New York Yankees face the Boston Crimson Sox in an everyday season recreation on Saturday, August 13, 2022 (8/13/22) at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

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What: MLB common season

Who: Yankees vs. Crimson Sox

When: Saturday, August 13, 2022

The place: Fenway Park

Time: 7:15 p.m. ET

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Mark Appel is proof that even for a No. 1 draft choose, the highway to the foremost leagues is usually a bumpy one.

Appel was known as up by the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday, 9 years after he was drafted first general by Houston. In between, he bounced across the minors, was traded within the 2015 deal that despatched Ken Giles to the Astros — and even give up baseball for a bit.

He resurfaced final yr and eventually joined the Phillies this weekend, though he didn’t pitch. If the 30-year-old Appel does seem in a recreation for Philadelphia, he’ll be the fourth No. 1 general choice to make his main league debut this yr, becoming a member of 2017′s Royce Lewis (Twins), 2019′s Adley Rutschman (Orioles) and 2020′s Spencer Torkelson (Tigers).

Just one different time have 4 prime picks made their debuts in a single yr. That was in 1989, when Andy Benes, Ken Griffey Jr. and Jeff King — the No. 1 choose in every of the earlier three years — all started their massive league careers. The opposite prime choose to make his debut in 1989 was Ben McDonald, who had truly been drafted that very same yr by Baltimore.

With the draft developing subsequent month, listed here are a number of different notes concerning the historical past of No. 1 general picks, with some assist from Baseball-Reference.com:

— Though to this point, 1989 is the one yr 4 prime picks have made their massive league debuts, there have been different seasons when three No. 1s did it. These had been 2007 (Luke Hochevar, Justin Upton and Josh Hamilton) and 1987 (B.J. Surhoff, Shawn Abner and Tim Belcher).

— Though it was extra frequent within the early days of the draft, McDonald is the final participant to make his debut the identical yr he was drafted first general. The longest wait belongs to Matt Bush, who was taken in 2004 by San Diego and eventually pitched within the majors in 2016 for Texas. He’s nonetheless with the Rangers.

— Appel is one in every of a handful of No. 1 picks who haven’t performed within the majors. Steve Chilcott, picked in 1966 by the New York Mets, and Brien Taylor, taken by the New York Yankees in 1991, had harm issues. Brady Aiken, chosen in 2014 by Houston, is a newer instance. Final yr’s prime choose, Henry Davis, has reached Double-A within the Pittsburgh Pirates’ system.

TRIVIA TIME

Appel was drafted by two different groups (and didn’t signal) earlier than the Astros picked him first general. Who had been these franchises?

LINE OF THE WEEK

Austin Hays needed to beat the climate to hit for the cycle. On Wednesday night time, Hays and the Orioles routed Washington 7-0 in a recreation shortened to 6 innings. That was sufficient time — he hit a single within the first, a homer within the third, a triple within the fourth and a double within the sixth.

COMEBACK OF THE WEEK

Down 2-0 with two outs within the ninth and no one on, the Los Angeles Dodgers had a 1.1% probability of beating Atlanta on Sunday night time, in accordance with Baseball Savant. Then ex-Dodger Kenley Jansen allowed a pair of singles, placing males on first and third. After Chris Taylor stole second, Trayce Thompson’s single scored each runners to drive additional innings.

Every staff scored as soon as within the tenth earlier than the Dodgers lastly received 5-3 in 11. Los Angeles received two of three in Freddie Freeman’s return to Atlanta.

TRIVIA ANSWER

The Detroit Tigers drafted Appel out of highschool in 2009 within the fifteenth spherical. He was picked eighth general by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012 earlier than returning to Stanford for his senior season and shifting as much as No. 1.

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(The Related Press contributed to this report)

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Ryan Novozinsky could also be reached at rnovozinsky@njadvancemedia.com.