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Turner is not in the lineup Wednesday against the Mets, J.P. Hoornstra of the Los Angeles Daily News reports.

Turner will retreat to the bench after ending his hitting 14-game hitting streak with an 0-for-4 performance Tuesday. Logan Forsythe will slide over to third base in his place, opening up a spot for Chase Utley to start at the keystone. Turner has been on a tear in 10 games since coming off the disabled list, slashing .432/.523/.703 with three homers and nine RBI over that span.

Pederson went 1-for-2 with a pair of walks, an RBI and a run scored in Tuesday's win over the Mets.

The 25-year-old has put together a modest seven-game hitting streak, in which he is batting .320 with two home runs and five RBI. His run as the Dodgers' leadoff hitter lasted just one game, but his power plays better lower in the lineup anyways. Pederson has seen better results since returning from the disabled list, needing just four contests to match his power output from his first 34 games of the season, while posting a walk rate almost six points higher in eight games since his return (16.2 BB percentage).

Belt went 1-for-4 with a solo home run in Tuesday's 6-3 win over the Braves.

Belt was moved down to sixth in the order three games ago -- after spending the majority of the season batting second or third -- in an effort to spark a struggling Giants offense. While he may not score that many runs with the new configuration, the 29-year-old should be able to improve on his lacking RBI total of 29 (24th among all qualified first basemen).

Carpenter went 1-for-3 with a run-scoring double, three walks and a run in Tuesday's 8-1 extra-inning win over the Phillies.

The surging leadoff man was a thorn in the side of the Phillies throughout the game, drawing multiple walks for the third straight contest and upping his OPS for June to an impressive 1.068. Carpenter's .313 average in June is over 100 points better than the pedestrian .204 figure he mustered in May, and the 31-year-old is also now just one RBI short of equaling his total for all of last month as well.

McCutchen went 3-for-3 with a homer, a walk, three RBI and two runs against the Brewers on Tuesday.

Through this season's first 45 games, McCutchen was hitting a brutal .200/.271/.359 with six homers and 20 RBI, but the light came on in late May: Over the 24 games since, he's hit a spectacular .402 with eight homers and 23 RBI. That's both intriguing and confusing output from a guy who's coming off his worst MLB season and was widely considered to be in decline -- an idea his early slump did nothing to dispel. However, it's certainly tantalizing whenever we see this kind of outburst from a guy who's done it before.

Ozuna went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run and second run scored in Tuesday's 12-3 loss to the Nationals.

The blast was Ozuna's 19th of the season and fourth in the last seven games. The 26-year-old is hitting .385 (10-for-26) over that stretch with nine RBI and has pushed his OPS on the season up to an impressive .988.

Stanton went 3-for-5 with a solo home run, a second run scored and a stolen base in Monday's win over the Nationals.

The homer was his 18th of the year, but the steal was his first in over two years. Stanton's put together a productive month of June, slashing .283/.403/.550 with four homers, nine RBI and 17 runs in 17 games.

Cespedes was back in left field Monday, batting third, and went 1-for-4 in a 10-6 loss to the Dodgers.

The Mets are taking it easy with Cespedes to try and avoid any recurrence of the lower-body issues that have plagued him this season, sitting him down Sunday after he'd started three games in a row. Expect him to continue getting frequent days off for the time being.

Harper went 1-for-4 with a walk and a two-run home run in Monday's loss to the Marlins.

His first-inning blast, Harper's 18th homer of the year, staked the Nats to an early lead which Tanner Roark quickly squandered. The 24-year-old superstar is working on a 12-game hitting streak during which he has a .320/.404/.560 slash line with three homers, eight RBI and eight runs.

McCutchen went 2-for-5 with a two-run home run and three RBI during Monday's win over Milwaukee.

In 22 games since moving down the lineup into the six-hole, McCutchen has exploded for seven homers, 20 RBI, 19 runs and a .378/.453/.720 slash line. His batting average has climbed 55 points during that stretch (it's now at .260 for the season), and he's now on track to post another solid cross-category fantasy campaign.