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Reds shortstop Eugenio Suarez hit a solo home run in Tuesday's loss to Minnesota. Suarez went deep for the second time this year and first since June 13. 

Suarez is 6 for his last 13 and has four RBI in the last two games. 

Nationals infielder Anthony Rendon took batting practice on Tuesday, the first time he has done such since landing on the disabled list with quad injury on Friday. Rendon already missed the first two months of the season with knee and oblique injuries.

He has not started running yet, but he can participate in baseball activities, according to MASNSports.com.

Reds shortstop Eugenio Suarez never batted over .288 in the minors. He hit just .242 as a rookie in 2014. But the numbers don't lie - he is now at .316.

Of course, 57 at-bats is a small sample size. But Suarez has been hot for a while. He slammed three more hits Monday night against Minnesota to push his average to .406 (15-of-37) over his last nine starts and give him five multi-hit games in the last six.

Suarez, who hit his third double during that stretch Monday, also managed his first three-RBI game of the year.

Brewers shortstop Jean Segura is posting virtually the same numbers this season as he did a year ago. But that's not good considering his production in a breakout 2013.

Segura was showing some promise into mid-June before a recent slide. He is batting a mere .143 (7-for-49) since June 13 with no extra-base hits and just two runs scored. He has bottomed out with his current .259 average.

Phillies left fielder Cody Asche went 2 for 3 with one run and one walk in the second game of Sunday's doubleheader against the Nationals after going 0 for 3 in the first game. He was lifted from both games in the seventh inning.

Since returning from the minors May 29, Asche is batting .242 with one home run, five doubles, five RBI, eight runs, four walks and 19 strikeouts in 26 games.

Matt Duffy got all the hard parts out of the way, but wound up falling a single short of hitting for the cycle on Sunday in the Giants' victory over the Rockies. 

Duffy tripled in the first inning, doubled in the third and homered in the sixth. In his last at-bat, he hit into a double play to end the seventh inning. 

The third baseman has gotten a hit in nine of his last 10 games, and more importantly, has scored 11 runs in his last six contests, providing a huge spark at the top of the Giants' order. 

Duffy is now hitting .303 with eight homers and 37 RBIs on the year. 

Nolan Arenado was a one-man wrecking crew for the Rockies, but it wasn't enough to keep them from dropping a 6-3 decision to the Giants on Sunday. 

Arenado opened the scoring with a two-run blast off Madison Bumgarner in the first inning and closed the Rockies' offense with a solo blast in the ninth. The third baseman now has 24 homers on the season, and is tied with Bryce Harper for the third-most in the majors. Arenado has 12 home runs in June and eight in the last week of play. 

With three runs driven in, Arenado now has 68 for the season, passing the injured Giancarlo Stanton as the top run producer in MLB. 

Braves second baseman Jace Peterson smacked his third home run of the season Sunday to help defeat the Pirates 2-1.

Peterson hit the solo home run off Vance Worley in the seventh inning. It was his only hit in five at-bats during the game.

Prior to Sunday's performance, Peterson was hitting .175 with five doubles and six RBI in his last 11 games.

Pirates first baseman Pedro Alvarez is not in the starting lineup for Sunday's game. 

Alvarez has started 61 games this year, including the last five and eight of the last nine. 

He'll be replaced in the lineup by Sean Rodriguez, who starts at first for the seventh time this year. 

Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado increased his current hitting streak to 14 games on Saturday. Arenado went 1 for 4 with a double, an RBI and a run scored in the 7-5 loss to the Giants.

Over the 14-game stretch, the star third-baseman is batting .370 with seven home runs and 18 RBI.