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The Los Angeles Dodgers just made the biggest move of the trade deadline, acquiring two-time American League Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal from the Detroit Tigers. The twenty-nine-year-old left-hander heads west in exchange for Zyhir Hope, River Ryan, and Brady Smith — and just like that, the most dangerous rotation in baseball gets even more dangerous as LA chases a third straight World Series title.
Across the league, the rebuilding Chicago White Sox made a surprising splash of their own, landing ace right-hander Luis Castillo from the Seattle Mariners. The return package heading to Seattle includes Seranthony Dominguez, Nolan Jones, and prospect Boston Smith. An unexpected move for a franchise in the middle of a rebuild, but Castillo is a frontline arm and this deal turns some heads.
Meanwhile, over at the U.S. Swimming Nationals, Gretchen Walsh and Caeleb Dressel closed out the five-day meet in style, both claiming the fifty-meter freestyle titles. Walsh came within five one-hundredths of a second of her own world record, touching the wall at twenty-three point sixty seconds — a number that would have broken the record in any other lane, on any other day.
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