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AROUND THE HORN

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■ Indians: After hearing Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac explain their actions, the team sent the pitchers to their alternate training site on Friday after the two broke team rules and Major League Baseball coronaviru­s protocol last weekend in Chicago. Clevinger and Plesac drove to Detroit separately with their baseball equipment on Thursday for an “open forum” meeting at the team’s hotel before the Indians opened a series with the Tigers. Indians President of Baseball Operations Chris Antonetti said following “the discussion” that he met with manager Terry Francona, general manager Mike Chernoff and decided it was best to option Plesac and Clevinger to the alternate training site instead of allowing them to rejoin the team. “We had a chance to meet as small group and decided this would be the best path of action for us,” Antonetti said.

■ Cardinals: Coach Willie McGee has opted out of being with the team for the rest of the season while MLB announced Friday several doublehead­ers to make up for games the Cardinals have missed because of the coronaviru­s. McGee, 61, a four-time AllStar and the 1985 NL MVP for the Cardinals, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he has high blood pressure. The Cardinals are set for a twinbill Saturday with the White Sox. To make up for previously postponed games, the Cardinals will play doublehead­ers against the Cubs on Aug. 17, Aug. 19 and Sept. 5. The Cardinals and Pirates will play twinbills on Aug. 27 and Sept. 18, and the Cardinals will have a doublehead­er Sept. 8 against the Twins. The doublehead­er between the Cardinals and Tigers scheduled for Aug. 13 will be reschedule­d at a later date.

■ Yankees: Oft-injured star OF Aaron Judge was placed on the injured list with a right calf strain before the game against the Red Sox and manager Aaron Boone is optimistic Judge will not miss significan­t time. The move was retroactiv­e to Wednesday and Boone described the strain as mild after an MRI revealed the injury. To replace Judge on the roster, Thairo Estrada was recalled from the Yankees’ alternate site in Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre. Judge began Friday leading the majors with nine homers and tied with the Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon for the major league lead with 20 RBIs.

■ Mets: The team scratched two-time NL Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom from his start against the Phillies. DeGrom says he has neck tightness, but “everything is fine structural­ly” and he doesn’t plan to go on the injury list. DeGrom is 2-0 with a 2.45 ERA in four starts this season.

■ Orioles: The Orioles successful­ly finished what they started, beating the Nationals 6-2 in a game suspended five days earlier because of a tarp malfunctio­n at another ballpark. The Orioles led 5-2 in the top of the sixth Sunday at Nationals Park when rain halted play. The grounds crew failed to get a tangled-up tarp out in time to prevent the infield from becoming an unplayable quagmire that could not be dried.

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