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Hedges is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Red Sox.

Hedges will take a seat after he caught in five of Cleveland's last seven games. No. 2 backstop Wilson Ramos will be behind the dish in the series finale, batting seventh.

Vazquez is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against Cleveland.

He'll be getting a breather after starting in each of the past five games while going 5-for-18 at the dish. Kevin Plawecki is catching for starting pitcher Tanner Houck in the series finale.

Haase is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Blue Jays.

Haase caught in both of the Tigers' two games after he was reinstated from the 10-day injured list Friday, so he'll just be receiving some routine maintenance in Sunday's series finale. Dustin Garneau steps in behind the plate to replace Haase, who went 1-for-7 with an RBI in the first two contests of the weekend.

Kirk went 1-for-5 with a solo home run in Saturday's 3-2 extra-inning win over the Tigers.

He took Tyler Alexander deep in the sixth inning for the game's first run. Kirk has started six of the last nine games, slashing .318/.360/.545 in 25 plate appearances over that stretch, but Saturday's homer was only his fourth of the year and first since April 30.

Perez went 1-for-3 with a two-run home run in Saturday's win over the Mariners.

Perez is having an excellent year at the plate and is riding an otherworldly power surge -- he belted grand slams in back-to-back games Thursday and Friday and has now homered in four straight games. Perez is now second in MLB in homers with 37 and only trails Shohei Ohtani (41) in that department.

Stassi is out of the lineup Saturday against the Padres.

Stassi has a .583 OPS and 39.7 percent strikeout rate through 18 games in August, and he'll take a seat Saturday for the second time in the past three days. Kurt Suzuki will work behind the plate and bat seventh in his place.

McGuire isn't in the lineup Saturday against Detroit.

McGuire started each of the last two games and went 2-for-7 with a run and three strikeouts. Alejandro Kirk will start behind the dish and bat fourth.

Higashioka went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and an additional run scored in an 8-2 win over Oakland on Friday.

The backstop made his first start since Aug. 21 and pounded his second homer in his past three games. It has largely been a frustrating campaign for Higashioka, however, as he is slashing just .184/.256/.414 overall.

Perez went 3-for-5 with a grand slam and a walk in Friday's 8-7 extra-innings win over the Mariners.

Seattle got off to an early 5-1 lead in the contest, but Perez erased the deficit with one swing in the fourth inning. It marked his third straight game with a long ball and his second straight with a grand slam. Per ESPN, he joined Mike Piazza and Bill Dickey as the only catchers in history to belt a grand slam in consecutive games. Perez is tied with Vladimir Guerrero for the second-most homers (36) in MLB this season, trailing only Shohei Ohtani (41).

Grandal went 4-for-6 with two home runs, a double and eight RBI in Friday's 17-13 win over the Cubs.

The catcher missed nearly two months while recovering from knee surgery, and he seemed to want to make up for it all at once. Grandal hit three-run blasts in the third and eighth innings while adding a two-run double in the fifth to account for nearly half of the White Sox's run production. The huge game lifted his season slash line to .203/.394/.481 with 16 homers, 46 RBI, 44 runs scored and four doubles through 252 plate appearances.