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Nolasco (3-5) lasted 6.2 innings in Thursday's loss to the Phillies. He allowed four runs, 10 hits and four walks while striking out one.

The veteran drew a perfect opportunity to become the Twins first pitcher with four wins, but struggled to command his pitches. Nolasco's four walks were a season high, and his one strikeout was a season low. He was only able to garner seven swinging strikes while missing the zone on 41 percent of his pitches. He'll look to rebound Tuesday when he toes the rubber against the White Sox.

Nuno will start Thursday's game against Detroit, Bob Dutton of the Tacoma News Tribune reports.

In an odd turn of events, Thursday's scheduled starter, Adrian Sampson, was removed from the game before the first pitch was even thrown. According to Dutton, Sampson may have tweaked something during warmups before Thursday's contest. Regardless, Nuno will fill in as the spot starter Thursday, but he hasn't thrown more than 3.0 innings in any of his appearances this season. With that, Thursday could be a very taxing day for the Mariners bullpen on a getaway day.

Worley (groin) is scheduled to throw a bullpen session Thursday, then make a rehab appearance at Double-A on Saturday, MASN Sports reports.

Worley's timetable will be June 28 if the Orioles only give him one rehab appearance and that may be all he needs. He would be back on the roster after the minimum 15 days. Worley should return to his long relief role at that point. There is no indication that he is a candidate for a rotation spot, but he could challenge Ubaldo Jimenez if Jimenez struggles.

Rodriguez went back to his old delivery for Wednesday night's game against the White Sox and had his most powerful fastball of the season, Jason Mastrodonato of the Boston Herald reports.

Rodriguez had been using a modified delivery after rehabbing a knee injury suffered during spring training, but was experiencing diminished velocity on his fastball. Going back to his old delivery Wednesday, the left-hander's heater was sitting consistently around 95-96 mph. While he gave up two more homers Wednesday -- that's seven homers allowed in 26.2 innings -- Rodriguez struck out a season-high seven.

Gibson allowed five runs, four of which were earned, on eight hits and two walks while striking out five over six innings, but received no decision Wednesday against the Phillies.

Gibson was provided plenty of run support, but he allowed the Phillies to post runs in three of his six innings of work to keep him from having a chance to pick up a victory. Opponents have now scored at least five runs off of him in three of his last four starts, and his ERA is at 6.05. He'll make his next start Tuesday at the White Sox.

Hamels (8-1) whiffed eight Reds over six innings of one-run ball Wednesday, allowing just five hits and two walks in a 6-4 win.

The bullpen made this game closer than it needed to be, but Hamels gave them more than leeway to work with by way of his fifth straight quality start. He may not be quite as dominant as the good old days -- his 1.40 HR/9 and 3.44 BB/9 are both easily career worsts -- but the 32-year-old lefty has given fantasy owners precious little to complain about. That said, he's never had peripherals this ugly (4.57 FIP) before, so the baseball gods may send some painful regression Hamels' way soon. He'll head to New York for a road start against the Yankees on Tuesday.

Rodriguez allowed four runs (three earned) on four hits and a pair of walks while striking out seven over six innings Wednesday against the White Sox.

He left with the lead, but ended up with no decision thanks to Koji Uehara getting blown up in the eighth. This was a much-needed improvement after three consecutive ugly starts by Quintana, but it was still well short of spectacular. The 23-year-old lefty has tons of upside, though, and it seems the Red Sox are inclined to see what he can do over an extended period of time in the rotation. He'll start again Monday against the Rays.

Quintana put a slew of men on base Wednesday in Boston, as he allowed eight hits and six walks in 5.1 innings, resulting in six runs on his ledger. He struck out just one and didn't factor into the decision.

Fortunately for the lefty, his offense pulled this one out against the Red Sox bullpen. following what was certainly his worst start of the season. This was wholly unlike the Quintana we've been seeing, as Wednesday represents only the third time in 15 starts that he's allowed more than three runs. It's also the first time all year that he's had more walks than strikeouts -- you certainly don't expect a one-strikeout, six-walk performance from a guy who comes into the game with an 87:18 K:BB. Give the guy a mulligan on this one and look forward to a rebound when he draws the much lighter-hitting Twins on Tuesday.

McCullers (3-2) allowed just one runs on six hits over 5.2 innings but took a no-decision in the victory over the Angels on Wednesday. He also struck out six and walked three.

He threw 61 of his 97 pitches for strikes and induced 17 swing-and-misses. It's the second straight outing that McCullers allowed two or fewer runs in 5-plus frames but took a no-decision. He has a 3.91 ERA, 1.67 WHIP and 56 strikeouts in 46.0 innings. His next scheduled start will be Tuesday versus the Angels again.

Kopech will join High-A Salem in the coming days, where he should pitch for the foreseeable future, the Boston Globe's Alex Speier reports.

He has had a tumultuous calendar year, getting suspended for taking a banned substance and then fracturing his throwing hand in an altercation with a teammate, but Kopech remains one of the Red Sox's top pitching prospects. The 20-year-old righty allowed four hits and four walks while striking out four over 4.1 scoreless frames in a rehab start with Short-Season Lowell last week, and figures to stick at Salem for the remainder of the 2016 season.