Baltimore Orioles second baseman Jackson Holliday went 2-for-5 with a home run, a double, and three RBI in Saturday's 10-6 road loss to the Washington Nationals. The former first-overall pick had a brutal stretch in mid-April, but he's picked it up in recent weeks and has been excellent in May. Since the calendar flipped, Holliday is hitting .302 (16-for-53) with three homers, three doubles, five runs, and seven RBI (13 games). He's been even better over his previous two outings with a .500 average and three of his six extra-base hits on the month. The 21-year-old has had trouble adjusting to major-league pitching since his debut in 2024, but he's on track for his best month in the bigs by far if he can sustain this pace.

New York Mets reliever Edwin Diaz fired a clean ninth inning in Saturday's 3-2 win over the New York Yankees to earn his tenth save of the season. He allowed no hits and struck out two in the perfect inning. The 31-year-old was summoned in the bottom of the ninth to protect a one-run lead after shortstop Francisco Lindor drove in Luisangel Acuna on a sac fly earlier in the frame. Diaz started by striking out Austin Wells and made quick work of Ben Rice before squaring off against the otherworldly Aaron Judge. After a seven-pitch at-bat, he finally got Judge to strike out swinging on a high fastball, and notably touched 100 MPH during the battle. After a shaky start to 2025, Diaz has been superb, ripping off eight straight appearances without allowing a run, and four straight without yielding a hit. He holds an 11:2 K:BB ratio over that stretch (8 1/3 innings).

Washington Nationals starting pitcher Jake Irvin yielded five hits and two earned runs over 6 1/3 innings in his team's 10-6 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He struck out six and issued one free pass to pick up his fifth quality start and improve to 3-1 in ten starts. The 28-year-old was able to make it through six innings unscathed, but began to unravel when he returned to the mound for the bottom of the seventh. An Adley Rutschman double kicked off that frame, and Irvin would only be able to get Cedric Mullins to ground out before two hits and an error pushed across two runs. Still, it was another strong performance for him as he's gone six or more innings and yielded three or fewer runs in seven of his starts. However, it's worth noting that those didn't always coincide. He'll carry a serviceable 3.88 ERA and 1.16 WHIP into a home matchup against the San Francisco Giants his next time out.