Yangervis Solarte hit a three-run home run and Christian Friedrich allowed two runs over 6 2/3 innings as the Padres topped the Braves.

How good are the Cubs? They’re good enough that they’ve rendered the power rankings a weekly anticlimax, just the way the Yankees did in 1998 and the Mariners did in the second half of 2001.

Look at the Indians. They are sitting atop their division and rank fourth in the AL in runs scored with 271, more than any other team in the AL Central. How’s that?

Braves pitcher Williams Perez departed Monday’s game against the Padres in the bottom of the fifth inning with an right triceps soreness.

Hard-throwing right-hander Edwin Diaz, called up from Double-A Jackson on Saturday, made his big league debut on Monday night with a perfect seventh inning, a bright spot in the Mariners’ 3-1 loss to the Indians.

The Rays used a four-run rally in the fifth inning to support a solid outing from starter Chris Archer in a 6-4 win over the D-backs in the series opener at Chase Field on Monday night.

Leading up to when the first pick, Jim Callis and Jonathan Mayo will be working the phones, texting and emailing decision-makers in the scouting industry, as they line up their final mock Drafts. They hear a lot of rumors and bring that information here in MLBPipeline.com’s Draft Buzz.

The D-backs activated right fielder David Peralta from the 15-day disabled list and had him batting sixth in the lineup for Monday night’s Interleague game against the Rays at Chase Field.

Tyler Chatwood was at his best in Sunday’s 6-1 win over the Dodgers, allowing a career-low one hit in a career-high eight innings pitched.

In a few moments, Starlin Castro’s home run during the seventh inning of the Yankees’ 5-2 win would land in the left-field seats, a souvenir for the suddenly elated Yankee Stadium crowd.

Carlos Beltran lifted a two-out, three-run homer off lefty reliever Jose Alvarez in the bottom of the eighth, sending the Yankees to a come-from-behind 5-2 victory over the Angels on Monday night.

Desmond Jennings’ struggles this season have been well-documented.

Carlos Beltran’s eighth-inning, opposite-field fly ball is an out at almost every ballpark in the Major Leagues. But in Yankee Stadium, with it being 314 feet down the right-field line and not much further in the gap, it is a home run. And on Monday night, it dealt the Angels a tough 5-2 loss.

Jim Callis revisits the 2011 Draft and takes a look at what could have happened had things gone differently, including Jose Fernandez on the Pirates, Francisco Lindor with the Mariners, and Mookie Betts with the D-backs.

Trevor Bauer delivered his longest outing of the season (7 2/3 innings) and established a season-high in strikeouts (10) in a tour de force of a performance that helped power a 3-1 win over the Mariners that increased the Indians’ winning streak to six games.

Here are the Top 6 GIFs from Monday’s games, courtesy of @MLBgifs.

Neil Walker’s official return to PNC Park and Jonathon Niese’s first start against his former team will have to wait another day. The scheduled game between the Mets and Pirates on Monday night at PNC Park was postponed before it could begin due to rain. The two clubs will play a straight doubleheader Tuesday, beginning at 4:05 p.m. ET, with the second game beginning approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game.