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The Eye: All of Friday's best as MLB resumes

“This is crazy — I’m speechless,” is about all that Angels star Mike Trout could say after he hit a game-ending solo home run Friday night to beat the Red Sox 1-0. Trout’s blast came with two outs in the ninth against Red Sox closer Koji Uehara, sending Angel Stadium into bedlam. The victory allowed the Angels to stay in first place in the AL West by a half-game after the Astros beat the Rangers.

Earlier this week, Trout hit a leadoff homer and won the All-Star game MVP for the second straight season. His homer against the Red Sox came after an 0-for-3 start. The Angels did not appear to have a car ready as a prize.

The result was a kick in the gut for the Red Sox, who fell 7 1/2 games out of first in the AL East. Left-hander Wade Miley had a perfect game through five and took a no-hitter into the sixth, before finishing with one hit and two walks allowed over seven in one of his better starts of the season.

C.J. Wilson allowed five hits and three walks over eight innings.

The four-day All-Star break is finally over. Don’t get us wrong, the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game are fun in their own way, but it’s time the beautiful monotony of day-in, day-out baseball to return. It’s time for the dog days of summer.

Here is today’s edition of Eye on MLB, aka the Eye. It’s a one-stop shop for everything that happens in the world of baseball on Friday. Game recaps, milestones, key and quirky highlights, news, notes, rumors and more. Perhaps you checked throughout Friday for updates, or are reading the finished product Saturday morning. There’s no wrong way to do it!

Final scores (Full scoreboard)

Angels 1, Red Sox 0: Recap | Box score

Twins 5, Athletics 0: Recap | Box score

Astros 3, Rangers 2: Recap | Box score

Reds 6, Indians 1: Recap | Box score

Nationals 3, Dodgers 2 (Suspended in 5th — power outage): Box score

White Sox 2, Royals (Game 2): Recap | Box score

Royals 4, White Sox 2 (Game 1): Recap | Box Score

Cardinals 3, Mets 2: Recap | Box score

Braves 4, Cubs 2: Recap | Box score

Phillies 6, Marlins 3: Recap | Box score

Brewers 4, Pirates 1: Recap | Box score

Yankees 4, Mariners 3: Recap | Box score

Jays 6, Rays 2: Recap | Box score

Tigers 7, Orioles 3: Recap | Box score

Still going:

Giants 5, Diamondbacks 5 — 8th: FOLLOW LIVE

Padres 3, Rockies 2 — 8th: FOLLOW LIVE

Milestone Watch

Longest active hit streak: The hit-streak leader to start the second half was White Sox slugger Jose Abreu, who hit safely in his last 13 games before the All-Star break. Abreu went 0 for 3 with a walk in the first game of the team’s doubleheader on Friday, however, so his streak is over. The longest active hit streak now belongs to Red Sox utility man Brock Holt at a mere 11 games.

Pujols watch: Angels first baseman Albert Pujols starts the second half with 546 career home runs. He’s two shy of tying Michael Jack Schmidt for 15th place on the all-time homer list. Pujols also has a pair of two-homer games this season.

A-Rod watch: After going 2 for 4 with his 673rd career home run, Alex Rodriguez is one hit shy of tying Lou Brock for 24th place on the all-time hit list.

Hawkins watch: With his next appearance, Rockies righty LaTroy Hawkins will tie Jose Mesa and Lee Smith for 11th place on the all-time games pitched list with 1,022 career appearances.

Daily Awards

Evan Gattis’s fifth triple of the year already of the day:


Autographed All-Star cleats of the day: A gift from David Price of the Tigers to Mike Moustakas of the Royals


Quote of the day: Former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, at U.S. Cellular Field this weekend for a reunion of the 2005 World Series champs:


‘I’m still alive!’ autograph session of the day: ’05 World Series MVP Jermaine Dye


Self-defense class of the day: Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann:


Bryce Harper progress report of the day: They fear him now.


Pauly Shore progress report of the day: He’s hitting in the cage with the D-backs



Autograph show of the day: Right-hander Mike Bolsinger of the Dodgers signed during the game, amid a darkness delay after a bank of lights at Nationals Park went out.


Struggle of the day: This poor umpire in Japan has had it up to here with this piece of paper.


Jersey of the day: The Fresno Grizzlies, Triple-A affiliate of the Astros, have one heck of a retro jersey lined up for Saturday’s game.


Photo of the day: Here are a bunch of brave men playing baseball on the frozen Bering Sea in the North Pacific back in 1953.


Injuries, News & Rumors

Jon Heyman’s Inside Baseball: Dodgers aim for Cueto, Hamels; Rangers in too

Marlins place Dee Gordon on DL | Marlins reinstate Martin Prado from DL

Nationals OF Jayson Werth hopes to return in a week or two

Phillies SP prospect Aaron Nola to make MLB debut Tuesday

Boras: Michael Conforto a better candidate for September callup

Royals’ Kris Medlen to pitch out of bullpen upon return

Rays’ Cash expecting lengthy rehab assignment for Drew Smyly

Rays’ Cash expecting Asdrubal Cabrera to come off DL in late July

Braves sign pitcher Jason Frasor

Click here for MLB player news

Looking Ahead to Tomorrow’s MLB action (all times ET)

All the pomp and circumstance of the first day of the second half will be over. The dog days begin for real on Saturday.

1:05pm: Mariners (Hisashi Iwakuma – 1-1, 5.22) at Yankees (Michael Pineda – 9-5, 3.64)

1:07pm: Rays (Erasmo Ramirez – 8-3, 3.63) at Blue Jays (R.A. Dickey – 3-10, 4.87)

2:10pm: Royals (Jeremy Guthrie – 7-5, 5.36) at White Sox (Jose Quintana – 3-9, 3.69)

4:05pm: Dodgers (Clayton Kershaw – 6-6, 2.85) at Nationals (Doug Fister – 3-4, 4.08)

7:05pm: Marlins (Tom Koehler – 7-5, 3.40) at Phillies (Chad Billingsley – 1-3, 6.75)

7:08pm: Orioles (Chris Tillman – 6-7, 5.40) at Tigers (David Price – 9-2, 2.38)

7:10pm: Cubs (Jon Lester – 4-8, 3.59) at Braves (Manny Banuelos – 1-0, 0.75)

7:10pm: Pirates (Francisco Liriano – 5-6, 2.98) at Brewers (Jimmy Nelson – 6-9, 4.21)

7:10pm: Indians (Corey Kluber – 4-10, 3.38) at Reds (Anthony DeSclafani – 5.6, 3.65)

7:10pm: Rangers (Colby Lewis – 8-4, 4.77) at Astros (Scott Feldman – 4-4, 4.80)

7:15pm: Mets (Bartolo Colon – 9-7, 4.46) at Cardinals (John Lackey – 7-5, 2.99)

8:10pm: Giants (Jake Peavy – 0-4, 4.71) at Diamondbacks (Chase Anderson – 4-3, 3.91)

8:40pm: Rockies (Chad Bettis – 5-4, 4.91) at Padres (Tyson Ross – 6-7, 3.34)

9:05pm: Red Sox (Rick Porcello – 5-9, 5.90) at Rangers (Garrett Richards – 9-6, 3.53)

9:07pm: Twins (Phil Hughes – 8-6, 4.32) at Athletics (Scott Kazmir – 5-5, 2.49)

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