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Mookie Betts and the Boston Red Sox get set to take on Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels in a battle of the top two MVP vote getters in the AL in 2016. Trout won the award and is the best player in baseball, but its Betts who is looking for back-to-back playoff appearances while Trout does his best to help the Angels avoid falling out of the race entirely before the trade deadline.... 

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The two worst teams in the NL West match up in a battle for the division cellar. It’s been a horrible fall this season for the San Francisco Giants who, on paper, still look like a much better team than the San Diego Padres despite sitting five games back in the standings. The Giants will host the Padres in a four-game series this weekend, hoping to make up some of that ground.... 

The Chicago Cubs have come out of the break hot and finally look like the dominate team everyone expected coming off their World Series title. They team will look to keep the good times rolling as they return home to take on their rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, in a best-of-three weekend set. St. Louis currently sits only a couple games back of the Cubs who themselves are now just a couple games out of the top stop in the NL Central.... 

The Arizona Diamondbacks have been one of the biggest surprise stories, but it’s been a struggle recently. The Diamondbacks have now lost 11 of their last 14 games, including five in a row against the Reds and Braves. They’ll look for revenge against the Cincinnati Reds in a three-game set starting on Tuesday, this time taking them on in Cincinnati. Arizona is four games under-.500 on the road this year.... 

The reinforced Washington Nationals will take on the Los Angeles Angels in a brief two-game series in Anaheim starting on Tuesday. With a couple of veteran relief pitchers added to the staff, the Nationals’ biggest weakness has been addressed, but is it enough? The Angels certainly don’t match up to Washington on offense, but can Mike Trout lead the team to an upset or two?... 

The Texas Ranger remain playoff hopefuls despite a rough first half. Their pitching has gotten healthy and their rotation is the best in the AL amongst teams not currently in playoff position. There’s no doubt that gives them a nice chance at making a run. That run can start this week against a Baltimore Orioles team that makes any offense look lights out as the starting pitching is essentially bleeding runs early.... 

Here we have two teams heading in opposite directions. The Toronto Blue Jays and Boston Red Sox were supposed to be battling for the top of the AL East, instead one is at the top and the other is fighting to stay out of the cellar. It makes sense that to this point, the Sox have gone 5-1 in the season series, outscoring the Jays 41-17.... 

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The Chicago Cubs didn’t wait for the season to resume before making some noise. Instead, the preseason favorites made a splash in the trade market on Thursday adding Jose Quintana to their rotation. Now, they’ll look to add a few wins to their resume with a strong showing in Charm City this weekend as they take on the struggling Baltimore Orioles in an interleague showdown between two disappointing teams.... 

The American League’s strongest team will open the second half at home trying to maintain—or build on—its staggering 16.5 game lead in the AL West. The Astros will host the Minnesota Twins over the weekend, a team having a great season despite slipping a couple games back in the central prior to the break. With Cleveland charging hard, Minnesota needs to recapture some of its early season magic to hold on in what will be a contentious playoff race for those teams not from Houston in the AL.... 

It was supposed to be the Cubs running away with the NL Central this year, but instead no team has taken the division by force. The Brewers have started to put some distance in the standings, but despite sitting under-.500, both the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates are still within striking distance in the division as they get set for a three-game weekend set in the Steel City.... 

Clayton Kershaw, Alex Wood, Justin Turner and Kenley Jansen will all be staying put in south Florida as the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers join the All-Stars for a weekend series against the Miami Marlins. The Dodgers will look to maintain the best record in baseball as they push forward into the second half of the season.... 

The Colorado Rockies head to the Big Apple as they kick off the second half of the season on the road with three games against the New York Mets. The Rockies were just 5-13 in their last 18 games before the break. They’ll hope the time away will help them revert to the team that was 21-games over-.500 less than a month ago.... 

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Both the Toronto Blue Jays and the Detroit Tigers are not used to being in their current positions. These teams have been competitors the last few years, but the Tigers have grown old and the Blue Jays have been plagued with injuries and ineffectiveness. Both teams should be sellers at the trade deadline. If there was a question about that for the Jays, their 19-1 loss against Houston heading into the break should help emphasize that.... 

The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox has died down a bit over the last few years, but with both teams back in the race, things could start heating back up between these longtime rivals. New York held the division lead for most of the first half, but the Sox have come charging hard in the last several weeks and now hold a several game lead in the AL East.... 

The Washington Nationals resume the season on Friday night with the first of four against the Cincinnati Reds. The Nationals took two out of three from the Reds earlier this season, outscoring the NL Central’s cellar dwellers by 12-runs in the series. Cincinnati has proven to be a much more difficult team at home, sitting three-games over-.500.... 

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The St. Louis Cardinals remain on the fringes of the wildcard picture in the NL despite a 40-44 record. They’re 7-4 in their last 11 games, giving their fans hope despite plenty of long losing streaks. The Cards will play host to the New York Mets over the weekend as they look to get some momentum going into the All-Star break. Both of these teams were expected to be contenders and both have, to this point, been heavy disappointments. This series will be contested from Friday, July 7, 2017 through Sunday, July 9, 2017 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.... 

The Seattle Mariners round out a difficult first-half with a four game series against the division cellar-dwelling Oakland Athletics. Coming into the series, Seattle is as close in the standings to the A’s at the bottom of the AL West as they are to a wildcard spot in what has been a rather mediocre American League. This series will be contested from Thursday, July 6, 2017 through Sunday, July 9, 2017 at Safeco Field in Seattle.... 

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Miami is about to be the talk of the baseball world as it gets set to host the All-Star game. Before then, however, the Miami Marlins will close out their first half on the other side of the country, taking on the San Francisco Giants in a three-game series over the weekend. Neither Miami nor San Francisco are having the season they hoped to have, but each will have a chance to close out the first half on a winning note.... 

The Boston Red Sox have started to build a nice lead in the AL East standings after a nice stretch, including six straight wins as of Wednesday. The Sox offense is picking up and the pitching is starting to solidify as we head into the final series before the All-Star break. The Boston All-Stars won’t have far to go to get to Miami after their four-game weekend series in St. Petersburg against the Tampa Bay Rays....