Seven new inductees to the Salón de la Fama del Beisbol Mexicano were announced on Sunday, including a pair of players being honored for their MLB experience.

After going undrafted out of college, Erubiel Durazo returned home to Mexico, where he made a quick impression in the Mexican League, hitting .282 with 8 HR and 61 RBI in 110 G. After winning the league’s Rookie of the Year Award, he followed up by hitting .350 with 19 HR and 98 RBI the next season. That production got the attention of the Diamondbacks, who purchased his rights from his team in Mexico, the Sultanes de Monterrey, in Dec. 1998.

Durazo made his debut in Arizona midway through the 1999 season, spending the next four seasons split between the D-backs and their Triple-A affiliate (then based in Tucson, AZ). His time with the MLB club totaled 287 games and 901 PA, in which he slashed .278/.390/.528 (128 OPS+) with 38 2B, 47 HR, and 149 RBI. The first baseman was also 6-for-26 in 11 postseason games with the franchise, including a 4-for-11 run to help the team win the 2001 World Series.

Barely a year after that championship celebration, four teams agreed on a rather unique four-player trade. Arizona acquired right-hander Elmer Dessens. Cincinnati landed infielder Felipe López. Toronto received right-hander Jason Arnold. Oakland got Durazo. He’d spend parts of three seasons with the A’s, playing in 337 games while hitting .283/.375/.462 (120 OPS+) in 1390 PA with 70 2B, 47 HR, and 181 RBI. His best individual season came in 2004, when he even received some down-ballot MVP votes (finishing 23rd in voting).

An elbow injury and subsequent Tommy John surgery cut his 2005 season short. Durazo spent some time at Triple-A with the Rangers, Yankees, and Twins’ organizations during the 2006 and 2007 seasons, and was invited to spring training by the A’s in 2008 but failed to make the team before returning to Mexico, where he played two more seasons (and several winter league seasons).

A 19-year-old Rodrigo López had just started his pro career in Mexico when the San Diego Padres took notice, before purchasing his contract in March 1995. López climbed through the Padres’ minor league system before making his debut with the team in April 2000. He made six starts in San Diego that season, going 0-3 with an 8.76 ERA over 24.2 IP (13 BB, 17 SO), before returning to the minors through the next season.

The Padres released López after 2001, and he signed a free-agent deal with the Orioles, where he spent the bulk of his career. That stretch started with a 15-9 record and 3.57 ERA over 196.2 IP in 2002, which was good enough to finish second in AL Rookie of the Year voting (behind Toronto’s Eric Hinske). The right-hander spent five seasons in Baltimore, appearing in 167 games (141 starts) with a 60-58 record and 4.72 ERA (94 ERA+) in 912.2 IP (281 BB, 614 SO).

The Orioles traded López to Colorado after the 2006 season. He’d play for the Rockies and three other clubs over the next six seasons (missing all of 2008 to injury), posting a 21-28 mark and a 4.81 ERA (89 ERA+) over 413.1 IP (122 BB, 234 SO).

López returned to Mexico after his release from the Cubs in 2013. After finishing the season, he was hired to join the Diamondbacks’ Spanish-language broadcast team.

Plans for a new stadium on the site of Hillsborough College in Tampa — literally next to George M. Steinbrenner Field (home to the Yankees’ Class-A affiliate and spring training) and across the street from Raymond James Stadium (home to the NFL’s Buccaneers) — took another step forward on Thursday. The team, the city of Tampa, and Hillsborough County announced they had reached an agreement on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) outlining the project's costs and plans.

As MLB.com’s Adam Berry reports, Hillsborough County commissioners and members of the Tampa City Council will vote on the MOU next week.

The total mixed-use project carries a projected cost of $2.3 billion. Per details shared by Berry, the team would be responsible for $1.27B, approximately 55%, “plus all design and construction overruns”. The county would own the ballpark, with the team leasing its use (with an initial 35-year term).

A 3rd-round pick by the Orioles in 2013, Stephen Tarpley was traded twice as a minor leaguer before making his MLB debut in Sept. 2018 with the Yankees. The left-hander made 44 appearances (all but one in relief) with the Yankees, Marlins, and Mets between 2018 and 2022, posting a 7.05 ERA (64 ERA+) in 44.2 IP (31 BB, 58 SO).

Tarpley’s career took him to the independent Atlantic League for three seasons. He’s pitched in Mexico since 2024.

The 33-year-old has reinvented himself as a starter (he was used as a starter in the minors early in his career, even throwing a six-inning rain-shortened no-hitter in 2015 in Class-A) and has seen some success in Mexico with the Sultanes de Monterrey. Tarpley may have pitched one of the best games of his career on Monday: 9.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 7 SO, on 97 pitches.

Tarpley is one of 11 players on the Monterrey roster with prior MLB experience. The opponents on Monday, the Rieleros de Aguascalientes, have 5, including infielder José Rondón, who hit .216/.274/.353 in 380 PA over parts of four seasons in MLB (he was 0-for-1 with 2 BB against Tarpley).

A long, storied history exists between the Giants and Dodgers, two of baseball’s earliest franchises. After splitting their first series of the 2026 season, the two teams couldn’t stand much closer in their all-time matchup. The Giants have won 1,292 games, while the Dodgers have won 1,289. Just three wins separate them.

2,581 total games between the two franchises. They have played 1,171 of those games since the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles in 1958.

Outfielder Larry Herndon spent 14 seasons in the big leagues, hitting .274/.322/.409 (103 OPS+) in 5319 PA with 107 HR. In Sept. 1981, his final season with the Giants, Herndon hit an inside-the-park home run against the Dodgers’ Fernando Valenzuela at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park.

Herndon was the last Giant to achieve the feat against the Dodgers until Thursday.

No Giants player had ever done so against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium until Thursday. No player from any team has done so at Chavez Ravine since the Diamondbacks’ Nick Ahmed in May 2018.

Jung Hoo Lee changed that in the fifth inning. With a runner on first base and the Dodgers leading the game 2-0, Lee lined a hit into the left field corner that bounced past Teoscar Hernandez. The relay throw from shortstop Miguel Rojas to catcher Dalton Rushing sailed high as Lee dove across home plate, tying the score.

Lee, 27, has slashed .266/.322/.392 (104 OPS+) in 954 PA since joining the Giants ahead of the 2024 season, following a seven-year run where he was among the best hitters in Korea (.340/.407/.491, 244 2B, 43 3B, 65 HR, 515 RBI, 69 SB). He’s hit 13 HR in the majors in that time. Thursday’s was the first inside-the-parker. In fact, the speedy outfielder, nicknamed “Grandson of the Wind”, told reporters he’d never hit an inside-the-park home run before.

Lee’s father, Jong Beom Lee, played 16 seasons in the KBO and another 4 in the NPB. Nicknamed “Son of the Wind”, he hit a combined .291/.364/.450 with 398 2B, 221 HR, 829 RBI, and 253 SB. The 13-time All-Star, 4-time KBO champion, and 1994 KBO MVP winner had his No. 7 retired by the Kia Tigers in 2012.