Atlanta Braves’ Ronald Acuna Jr. watches his solo home run in the first inning against the Philadelphia Phillies at Truist Park in Cumberland, Cobb County, GA on Tue Sep 19, 2023. Acuna Jr becomes the fifth MLB player to join the 40-40 club on Fri Sep 22, 2023. (AP News photo)

#1 Amaury, the Atlanta Braves Ronald Acuna became the fifth player in MLB history to become a 40-40 player, Aucna joined the club after hitting his 40th home run of the year against the Washington Nationals on Friday night.

#2 In triple A baseball the Miami Marlins Sandy Alcantara who is on a rehab assignment suffered forearm tightness on Thursday night the Marlins announced on Friday night. Alcantara who won two Cy Young Awards struck out four hitters in four innings is headed back to Miami and will be evaluated by team doctors. Alcantara has not pitched since Sep 6th.

#3 MLB announced they will be selecting 12 of the top clock operators for the post season as the time clock rule will be in place for the post season. The league upon selection will use the same time clock operator for that specific series. The rule remain the same with the exception of the ghost runner in extra innings which will not be used.

#4 Amaury, Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton finds Chicago Cubs manager David Ross’ comment that the Pirates “are not a very good team” comment unfortunate. The Cubs are the third team in the NL Wild Card and the Pirates are two games behind them. Will Ross’ comments fire up the Bucs and make it an interesting run for the Wild Card in this last week of the season?

#5 The Oakland A’s conclude their final homestand of the 2023 season on Sun Sep 24th against the Detroit Tigers. The A’s have a lease with the Oakland Coliseum through the 2024 season is there any chance that the A’s could break the lease and choose to play somewhere else maybe Las Vegas Ballpark for next season or will they honor the lease and play here in 2024?

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the lead play by play voice for the Oakland A’s on the A’s Spanish radio network and does News and Commentary at http://www.sportsradioservice.com