The video scoreboard in left at Wrigley Field took a hit when the Cubs’ Jorge Soler crushed a home run off it in the fourth inning on Friday.

Major League Baseball on Friiday decided to uphold its one-game suspension of Jose Bautista for his recent altercation with the Rangers.

The Yankees embarked on a lengthy road trip, and they didn’t forget to pack their bats. Joe DiMaggio continued his recent tear at the plate by leading the Yankees with four hits in five trips to the plate, including a three-run home run, his seventh round-tripper of the year, in a pivotal five-run inning.

This rebuilding of the Braves is baseball’s version of watching sausages being made. It’s not pretty, but it’ll taste good in the end. With that big picture in mind, every trade of a Jason Heyward here or a Craig Kimbrel there makes sense.

Phillies prospect Mark Appel, the former No. 1 overall Draft pick who is currently rated the club’s No. 4 prospect and the No. 65 prospect in the Major Leagues by MLBPipeline.com, was placed on the disabled list Friday with a right shoulder strain.

The Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo got a “mini All-Star break” while Kris Bryant got a chance to break in his first baseman’s glove on Friday.

Maikel Franco’s prediction was right. The Phillies’ third baseman said his right ankle is doing great, and he was in Friday’s lineup against the Cubs just as he said he would be after exiting Wednesday’s 8-5 win against the Tigers.

She’s throwing out the first pitch, too.

The premise for a small-budget baseball team with questionable offseason upgrades is that everything — especially the big stuff — has to go right. But for the Cleveland Indians, some of the big stuff has gone absolutely, positively wrong. And yet, here they are, half a game out of first place in the American League Central entering Memorial Day weekend.

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Final score: JetHawks 29, Ports 11.

There is nothing more to be done about the first 46 games of the season. But you had to like what manager Paul Molitor said in regard to Miguel Sano: “It’s a tough game. He’s kind of learned that.”

Consistent success has propelled Benintendi on this rapid journey, from the University of Arkansas, through three Class A Red Sox affiliates and now to Portland. With the latest promotion comes perhaps the most daunting challenge yet for the 21-year-old, who is No. 21 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 Prospects list.

Two months into the season, the Mariners have emerged as one of baseball’s biggest surprises. At 28-18, they sit atop the American League West and own the second-best record in the league, a half-game behind the Red Sox.

After the Braves burned through the bullpen through the first nine innings of Wednesday’s 13-inning loss to the Brewers, Casey Kelly accepted the task of pitching the final four innings. Unfortunately for Kelly, this unexpected development provided the Braves no other choice but to option him back to Triple-A Gwinnett before Thursday’s series finale against Milwaukee.

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Ryan Braun and Jonathan Villar homered as the Brewers added to the Braves’ home woes and completed their first three-game series sweep of the season with Thursday night’s 6-2 win at Turner Field.