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A pair of talented left-handers will take the mound on Saturday night when Chris Sale and the Atlanta Braves visit Cristopher Sanchez and the scuffling Philadelphia Phillies. Both pitchers are off to solid starts this season. Sale (3-1, 3.27 ERA), the 2024 National League Cy Young Award winner, remains a force for first-place Atlanta in the NL East. Philadelphia, meanwhile, continues to count on Sanchez (2-1, 2.01), the runner-up to Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes in the 2025 NL Cy Young race. Sale has allowed one or fewer runs in three of his four outings this season. He held the Cleveland Guardians to one run in six innings on Sunday, throwing a season-high 97 pitches in a 13-1 victory. “Hall of Famers

Seattle Mariners manager Dan Wilson is preaching patience. Which is exactly what long-suffering fans of the Seattle Mariners — a franchise celebrating its 50th anniversary season while still seeking its first World Series appearance — don’t want to hear. The host Mariners were shut out this season for the fourth time in 21 games, tied for the most in the major leagues, by the American League West-leading Texas Rangers 5-0 on Friday night. It was Seattle’s fourth consecutive defeat and dropped them to 0-4 against the Rangers this season. The series will continue Saturday in Seattle. “We keep talking about it. We keep looking at things and talking about things and trying things,” Wilson said of the Mariners’ offense, which

Napoli host Lazio at Stadio Diego Armando Maradona on Saturday in a Serie A match that still matters a lot, even if the Scudetto picture has mostly tilted away from them. Napoli sit second on 66 points with a game in hand, but Inter’s win over Cagliari pushed the gap to 12 before kickoff, so this now feels more like a must-win spot to protect second and keep the Champions League race under control. Lazio come in from the other side of the table fight, trying to stay alive in the European mix after slipping outside the strongest qualification positions. The recent form line is interesting because Napoli are not exactly flying, even if the home record still looks elite.

Udinese hosts Parma at Bluenergy Stadium in a Serie A Matchweek 33 matchup that still matters in the middle and lower-middle part of the table. Udinese entered the day 11th on 43 points, while Parma sat 14th on 36 points, so this is not quite a relegation six-pointer, but it is still the type of late-season game where a result changes the mood quickly. Udinese came in off a 3-0 win at Milan and a 0-0 draw with Como, while Parma had just taken a useful 1-1 draw against Napoli. There is also a slightly awkward split in the numbers. Udinese has been the higher team in the table and has owned this fixture lately, winning the reverse meeting 2-0