Max Scherzer and Noah Syndergaard both have baseball’s best fastball. That may sound like a mistake, but it’s not — on Tuesday night in Queens, the Mets and Nats will kick off a series facing the highest-spin and highest velocity fastballs in baseball.

If you enjoy great pitching, then today’s Major League games will be right up your alley. A number of baseball’s top arms will be on display in a full 15-game slate, including a National League East showdown between the Nationals’ Max Scherzer and the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard.

Marcell Ozuna and Justin Bour each homered on Monday, and Adam Conley allowed one run in six innings as Miami defeated the Phillies, 5-3, at Citizens Bank Park.

It looks like Shelby Miller may be turning a corner in his first season with the D-backs. Will it last?

Carlos Beltran’s 400th career home run added to a Hall of Fame-worthy resume.

The Indians were able to overcome an early deficit with an overwhelming offensive outpouring on Monday night at Progressive Field, topping the Reds 15-6 in the series opener in the annual Ohio Cup. Cleveland’s comeback erased some offensive fireworks from Cincinnati’s offense.

Among the tougher decisions on your 2016 All-Star ballot is right there at third base in the American League: Josh Donaldson or Manny Machado.

Hey, it counts.

If Tigers fans wanted more emotion out of Brad Ausmus, they got it on Monday. Detroit’s embattled manager made his ninth career ejection a memorable one, draping his hoodie over home plate after arguing balls and strikes with home-plate umpire Doug Eddings during the series opener against the Twins.

Clayton Kershaw shouldn’t be able to get better. It shouldn’t be possible that a pitcher riding a five-year streak of Top-3 Cy Young finishes actually still had room to improve. Yet here we are, watching him get off to a start in 2016 unlike any he’s had so far.

I heard my Grampa Yogi say a thousand times, I never knew a time when I didn’t know Joe. And I heard Joe Garagiola say a hundred times, I never knew a time when I didn’t know Yogi. And it was the same with the kids and grandkids. Grampa and Joe were so intertwined in each other’s lives that the younger generations of Garagiolas and Berras naturally developed strong relationships, too.

Billy Hamilton was reinstated from the bereavement list while the Reds optioned reliever Drew Hayes to Triple-A Louisville.

Tampa Bay used the long ball and a solid pitching performance by Drew Smyly to put away Toronto 13-2 Monday night in the opening game of a three-game series at Rogers Centre.

Daniel Murphy is just the 10th qualified hitter since the turn of the century to have a batting average at .400 or better on May 16. Here’s a look at the other nine players.

They know their stuff.

The Angels, in desperate need of help in their rotation, are nearing an agreement with two-time National League Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, multiple sources told MLB.com on Monday. Jon Heyman of MLB Network and Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports first reported the impending deal, which won’t be official until Lincecum passes a physical.

Major League Baseball chief baseball officer Joe Torre was in Phoenix on Monday to take part in ceremonies honoring the late Joe Garagiola before the D-backs’ game against the Yankees at Chase Field. Naturally, the Hall of Fame manager was also asked his opinion of Sunday’s benches-clearing incident between the Blue Jays and Rangers.