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Around the Horn: Mike Leake, Jose Fernandez keep them missing

Mike Leake joined Hall-of-Fame company with his latest double-digit strikeout performance.
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With is 11 strikeouts, no walks outing against San Diego on Monday, St. Louis pitcher Mike Leake joined Bob Gibson as the only Cardinals pitchers with consecutive starts with at least 10 strikeouts and no walks…. In his 65 career starts with the Marlins, Jose Fernandez has struck out 14 or more batters four times. In 3,685 starts made by others with the Marlins, they have struck 14 or more four times…. Billy Hamilton has 153 stolen bases through 357 games. By comparison, Rickey Henderson had 189 steals, Vince Coleman had 256, Tim Raines had 199 and Lou Brock had 60…. According to several reports, Yoenis Cespedes has asked the Mets to move him from center field to left as soon as possible…. Taking a page from the movie “Major League,” the Cleveland Indians made a ceremonial sacrifice to help appease the baseball gods and help slumping catcher Yan Gomes. The next day, Gomes suffered a shoulder injury and is out at least four weeks…. Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman said that even if the team trades him, as is rumored, he would love to sign with them as a free agent after the season…. Atlanta Braves General Manager John Coppolella told the Braves radio network that the team will not trade starting pitcher Julio Teheran, one of the bigger names expected to be traded by the deadline. “We need to get back to winning games. Julio is a big part of that. We aren’t going to trade Julio.”… Albert Pujols of the Angels now has 54 multi-homer games in his career, tied with Frank Robinson and Manny Ramirez for 10th all time. The all-time leader is Babe Ruth, with 72…. Jeurys Familia of the Mets has converted 49 consecutive save chances, tied with John Axford for the fourth-longest streak in history. Eric Gagne has the record, 84, set with the Dodgers from 2002-04.

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