In a game featuring 40 strikeouts, 12 hits and 14 innings, offense was in short supply Monday night at Minute Maid Park, but the Astros found just enough to eke out a 2-1 win.

After a crazy 12-inning win on Sunday night, the Cubs needed an extended outing by Kyle Hendricks and he delivered, and also helped himself at the plate. Hendricks scattered seven hits in his second complete game this season and third of his career and hit an RBI single to spark the Cubs to a 5-0 victory on Monday night over the Marlins for their 12th win in the last 18 games.

Wild night at MMP.

It’s the first day after the non-waiver Trade Deadline, meaning a number of players will join their new teams today to begin a new chapter.

Josh Donaldson was held out of the Blue Jays’ lineup on Monday night because of a sore left hamstring but did enter the game as a pinch-hitter in the 12th of Toronto’s 2-1 loss in 14 innings.

After the All-Star break last year, Jake Arrieta went on a dazzling run, posting a 12-1 record and 0.75 ERA. This season, the Cubs’ fifth starter, Kyle Hendricks, appears to be on the same streak.

The buildup to the non-waiver Trade Deadline was dramatic, and the flurry of action on Monday afternoon was a fitting finish to a crazy few weeks of transactions. Here are some takeaways from the wheeling and dealing.

After a sequence of unpredictable events, the Marlins and Padres on Monday agreed it was in the best interest of both squads undo a two parts of last Friday’s seven-player trade.

As every baseball fan knows, the passing of the non-waiver Trade Deadline doesn’t mean the end of wheeling and dealing. It’s just a little more complicated now. Any players who are moved have to be placed on waivers first. Some clubs will put in claim hoping to fill immediate needs. Some will be trying to block certain players from going to a rival.

It was a wild day around Major League Baseball as the dust settled on the non-waiver Trade Deadline. Teams were working down to the wire, with 18 trades involving 49 players on Monday, one of the busiest Deadline days in decades.

While it’s impossible to discern which trade of the flurry of deals made in advance of the Deadline will have the biggest impact down the stretch and into October, there is one common theme among baseball’s best teams: they all made significant moves to improve.

That’s a lot of seventh-inning stretches.

The Twins continued their success against the American League Central-leading Indians on Monday night, as right fielder Max Kepler put on a stellar performance with three of Minnesota’s five home runs in a 12-5 win in the series opener at Progressive Field.

In case your head is still spinning following a whirlwind Trade Deadline day, below is all the need-to-know info on the big moves from the past 72 hours (plus the Aroldis Chapman trade, because fantasy players love closers):

After giving up three runs to the Indians in the first inning, it looked like it could be another rough showing for top pitching prospect Jose Berrios, who made his long-awaited return to Minnesota’s rotation on Monday.

Athletics No. 27 prospect Raul Alcantara looks to extend his scoreless streak for Triple-A Nashville against New Orleans at 7 p.m. ET on MiLB.TV.

Royals left-hander Danny Duffy simply dominated the Rays in a 3-0 win on Monday night, carrying a no-hitter into the eighth inning and posting a franchise and career-high 16 strikeouts in the process.