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Aaron Whitefield entered as a pinch runner in Minnesota’s 10-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox earlier this morning, becoming the 35th Australian to play Major League Baseball.

The 23-year-old Queenslander replaced left fielder Eddie Rosario after he singled on a fly ball with one out in the top of the ninth at Chicago’s Guaranteed Rate Field.

Liam Hendriks’ stunning 2019 season has come to an end after Oakland was outclassed by Tampa Bay 5-1 in the American League Wild Card Game at the Oakland Coliseum this afternoon.

Hendriks worked a scoreless ninth but by that stage the A’s were three outs from an MLB record ninth-straight loss in a sudden-death playoff contest.

Ji-Man Choi became the latest former Australian Baseball League import to blast a walk-off homer, lifting Tampa Bay to a 2-1 win over the New York Yankees at Tropicana Field.

A day after former Canberra import Anthony Alford went deep for his first big league homer as Toronto secured a 15-inning win over Baltimore, it was the past Adelaide star’s turn.

Former Canberra import Anthony Alford had not homered in his first 29 MLB games – he found the perfect time to change that.

The Toronto outfielder went deep in the 15th inning as the Blue Jays secured a 11-10 walk-off win over Baltimore at Rogers Centre this afternoon (Australian time).

Former Adelaide Bite import Travis Demeritte got on base three times and scored once in his Major League debut with the Detroit Tigers this morning.

Demeritte, 24, tripled and walked twice in the Tigers’ 5-4 loss to the Texas Rangers after being being called up by Detroit on Thursday afternoon (US time).