Quick Hitters Parra says he is retiring as player, becoming Nats assistant

WasHINGTON – Gerardo Parra says he is retiring from baseball after 12 seasons in the major leagues and will become a special assistant to Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo.

“It’s time for me to step aside to take on new professional and personal challenges,” the 35-yearold outfielder wrote Monday on Instagram. “It’s not an easy decision to make for any athlete, but I am happy with what I have achieved in these 12 years in the major leagues.”

Parra said his new role with the Nationals “is undoubtedly a dream job to start a new chapter.”

Parra became a fan favorite as he helped Washington win the 2019 World series, making “Baby shark” his walkup song. The Nationals released a video tribute to Parra, who signed a minor league contract with the team before this season but did not appear iny any games.

He hit .237 with 90 homers and 532 RBIs for arizona (2009-14), Milwaukee (2014-15), Baltimore (2015), Colorado (2016-18), san Francisco (2019) and Washington (2019, 2021) and spent 2020 with the yomiuri Giants in Japan’s Central League.

Yankees’ Cortes deactivates account after old tweets surface

BaLTIMORe – New york yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes said he deactivated his Twitter account after screenshots surfaced sunday of tweets from a decade ago that included racial slurs.

Cortes appeared to be quoting rap lyrics in at least some of the tweets, and he did not seem to be using the words to demean anyone directly.

“I felt like it wasn’t the right message that I wanted to send out, when I was 17 years old,” Cortes said before Monday’s game against Baltimore. “Those happened 10 years ago. I deactivated my Twitter to clean stuff up.”

“It’s not acceptable,” he added. “I think I could have managed myself and said stuff differently.

But I’m here today to say that I’m going to work on it and fix it.”

Casili hits 2 HRs, Yaz adds go-ahead HR, Giants beat Rox 7-6

deNVeR – Curt Casali hit two home runs, Mike yastrzemski delivered a go-ahead homer in the top of the ninth and the san Francisco Giants pulled out a 7-6 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.

Ryan McMahon homered for the Rockies, who lost for the 11th straight time to the Giants dating to aug. 15, 2021. It’s san Francisco’s longest win streak ever against the Rockies and matches an 11-game streak against the Houston astros from sept. 22, 1964 to May 22, 1965, according to stats, LLC.

The skid is the longest for Colorado to a single opponent since dropping 12 straight to the Los angeles dodgers from sept. 9, 2018 to June 27, 2019.

daniel Bard (1-2) struck out the first two batters he faced before yastrzemski connected, driving it deep into the right field seats for the lead.

John Brebbia (1-0) pitched a scoreless eighth for the win and Camilo doval got three outs for his sixth save in seven chances.

Both of Casali’s home runs were off Ty Blach, a former Giant who came on in the top of the third inning when Colorado starter antonio senzatela had to exit early after straining his lower back throwing a warm-up pitch.

Casali’s solo shot in the third evened the score at 1-1 and his three-run drive in the fifth put san Francisco up 4-1.