Former Major League pitcher Joaquin Andujar, a four-time All-Star who helped lead the Cardinals to the World Series title in 1982, has died at the age of 62.

Bartolo Colon has not only placed himself back in the Mets’ playoff picture with his recent renaissance, but he has also earned a spot among the game’s best.

For a large majority of Minor League players, the 2015 season has come to a close. But for a lucky minority, the year is being extended by the postseason. Underway in some of the short-season leagues and starting in earnest on Tuesday across the Minors, a total of 40 players on the Top 100 prospects list are on postseason rosters across all levels.

It seems as if everyone has an opinion on the dilemma facing Matt Harvey, the Mets and his looming innings limit, including Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez, who has never been shy about giving his opinion.

Major League Baseball on Tuesday released its tentative 2016 regular-season schedule, starting with the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game on April 3 with a matchup to be announced, and then featuring 13 games on the first convergence of Opening Day and Square Root Day: April 4, 2016.

Zack Greinke threw only 89 pitches and lasted six innings, allowing three runs and a pair of home runs, but the Dodgers’ offense, led by Scott Van Slyke’s four RBIs, backed him in a 7-5 win over the Angels on Monday night in the opener of the second half of the Freeway Series at Angel Stadium.

Here’s a Statcast-driven look at those two plays, plus a high-flying homer and a pair of outfield gems from a busy day across the Majors.

The Yankees powered up to beat the O’s while the Jays fell in Boston, and the Mets rallied against the Nationals in Washington.

Before Matt Harvey’s Aug. 28 start, Statcast™ showed that the Mets right-hander’s average four-seam fastball velocity, which had peaked at 96.44 mph in June, was down to 95.9 over his first three starts of August. Meanwhile, the spin rate on that same pitch had dropped from a high of 2397.74 rpms in June down to 2335.93 rpms.

The Rangers gained a game on the first-place Astros with their eighth shutout of the season in a 3-0 victory over the Mariners on Monday afternoon at Safeco Field. The Rangers are back to within two games of the Astros in the American League West, while the Mariners had a five-game winning streak snapped.

The A’s offense spoiled Mike Fiers’ Labor Day, exploding for six runs in the sixth inning, and Felix Doubront pitched into the seventh as Oakland defeated the first-place Astros, 10-9, Monday afternoon at the Coliseum.

Rangers center fielder Delino DeShields had to leave Monday’s 3-0 win in the seventh inning after suffering a mild left knee sprain on a slide at third base. He is day-to-day with the injury.

On the mound in a one-run game vying for his first save of the season following two lengthy shoulder rehabs, Sean Doolittle reached for the fastball this home crowd had long missed and needed just five of them to dispatch the heart of Houston’s lineup for a 10-9 A’s victory on Monday.

All Matt Harvey has to do is win this one game. Do that and all is forgiven. Well, almost all of it.

Kyle Kendrick yielded three runs in five innings and hit his first career home run on Monday as the Rockies edged the Padres, 6-4, at Petco Park.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said Mat Latos would be the club’s starting pitcher on Wednesday in the series finale against the Angels, a team he handled in his Dodgers debut.

Painting a vague picture of Matt Harvey’s availability late in September and throughout October, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson on Monday described the situation simply as “when we get there, we’ll figure it out.”