The Latest Breaking News from Luis Arraez

PITTSBURGH — Remember when the Pirates were the talk of baseball? When the sport buzzed about their shocking 20-8 start? It seems like a lifetime ago now, doesn't it? The Pirates have gone 15-34 since. They have turned back into laughable losers.

The Marlins second baseman is on track to hit one of the hardest metrics in MLB, and he deserves just as much hype as, if not more than, Aaron Judge’s HR feat.

MIAMI — Luis Arraez’s batting average keeps climbing, and he keeps staking his claim into the Miami Marlins’ record book during his first season with the club.

WASHINGTON — Luis Arraez was looking to break out of his mini slump, a three-game stretch in which the Miami Marlins’ hit-collecting second baseman was held without a hit.

Eury Perez, the Miami Marlins’ 20-year-old wunderkind of a 6-8 right-handed pitcher, continues to find ways to amaze through the early start of his MLB career.

They’ve won back-to-back games on numerous occasions this season, though not enough to meet their own overall expectations. It certainly hasn’t felt that way given their back-and-forth inconsistency. They’ve swept the Athletics, who were hapless at the time and hard to beat in the last week, in a four-game series.…

Twins fans are familiar with FOMO — the fear of missing out. Particularly when it comes to playoff victories over, oh, the last 20 years.

The Sox’ pitching staff bent and bent and bent through eight innings of a 5-1 loss Saturday. Eventually, three outs away from what would have been the team’s seventh victory in eight games, it broke.

No one has hit .400 over the course of a full season since 1941, but the Marlins infielder has kept the pace up into June.