We’re in the home stretch of the 2026 MLB season, with teams making their final pushes toward the postseason and a few key award races coming to a head. These performances went a long way toward both of those chases. Here are both leagues' monthly award winners for August:

A 95 mph heater running in on the knuckles. A 96 mph one at the top rail of the zone fouled off. Then a hammer of a breaking ball at 87 mph that resulted in a hapless swing. Those were the first three pitches thrown by Gage Wood on Thursday

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Former big league ballplayers who turn into Major League coaches don’t always get a chance to show off their skills in front of their new pupils. Two such staff members across MLB this week, however, made some absolute highlight plays to prove they “still got it.” Phillies interim manager Don

PHOENIX -- Andrew Painter silenced the Diamondbacks on two hits over seven innings in a 93-pitch gem in Wednesday’s finale at Chase Field. He turned a scoreless game over to Jonathan Bowlan to start the eighth, and the Phillies were trailing after one pitch. Bowlan opened the frame with a

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Pete Crow-Armstrong is going toe to toe with the game’s biggest, baddest sluggers -- and he’s winning. PCA is hardly a giant -- listed at 6 feet tall and 184 pounds -- but he might be a giant-slayer. Last week, he vaulted over back-to-back-to-back MVP Award winner Shohei Ohtani in

Last week, we identified the hottest hitting prospects in each organization. This week, we shift our focus to the top-performing pitchers during August from each farm system.

PHOENIX -- In a rotation that features the runner-up for the National League Cy Young Award in three of the past five seasons between Zack Wheeler (2021 and ’24) and Cristopher Sánchez (’25 and possibly this season), it’s Jesús Luzardo who has been the Phillies’ rock for the better part

PHOENIX -- The Phillies, fresh off a dominant 21-7 showing in August, got some September reinforcements for the stretch run when rosters expanded on Tuesday with the additions of reliever Grant Holman and catcher Rafael Marchán. Holman, a 26-year-old right-hander, was acquired via waivers on May 7 after the Tigers

PHOENIX -- The Phillies closed July having lost four straight games and four straight series, but they opened August with four straight wins and never looked back. With a 2-1 victory over the D-backs in Monday’s series opener, the Phillies closed August at 21-7, tied for the 10th-best month by

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ANAHEIM -- After another rough start in Seattle on Monday, Zack Wheeler said he and the Phillies were going to sit down and look at “everything,” in an effort to get to the bottom of it. They found something.

ANAHEIM -- Bryce Harper had watched the Phillies miss too many chances on Saturday night. So, standing on third with two outs in the eighth inning and his team clinging to a one-run lead, Harper took matters into his own hands -- or, well, feet. He casually strolled down the

ANAHEIM -- Cristopher Sánchez has his sights set on bigger milestones than the one he reached on Saturday night in Anaheim. He wants to win a World Series. He'd love to be the Phillies' first 20-game winner since Roy Halladay in 2010. He hopes to win a Cy Young Award

For the fourth time this season -- all in the past two months -- Andrew Fischer has landed on the Prospect Team of the Week. Perhaps that shouldn't be a surprise, considering the 2025 first-rounder leads the Minors with 42 home runs. Still, it's another feather in his cap as

ANAHEIM -- Bryson Stott stood on first base staring out into right field in disbelief. He thought he had just hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the top of the ninth. Instead, he watched Angels right fielder Wade Meckler go over the wall to make a potential game-saving robbery.

ANAHEIM -- Larry Christenson, a beloved member of the 1980 World Series champion Phillies, passed away unexpectedly on Friday morning at the age of 72. He was on a fishing trip with family and friends in Washington. Christenson spent his entire 11-year big league career with the Phillies after the

The Phillies are on a roll, having won 10 of their past 12 games and making things a little tighter atop the National League East. Philadelphia has climbed to within five games of Atlanta as we approach the end of August.

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