Baseball notebook: Marlins activate Realmuto from DL

Miami Marlins catcher J.T. Realmuto was activated from the disabled list ahead of the team’s game against the New York Yankees on Tuesday.

Realmuto, whose start to the season was delayed by a lower-back contusion, hit .278 with 17 home runs and 65 RBIs in 141 games in 2017. He went 3-for-3 with a home run and a double in a rehab appearance with Class-A Advanced Jupiter on Saturday.

Catcher Chad Wallach has been optioned to Triple-A New Orleans in a corresponding move.

Wallach hit .129 with two RBIs in nine games this season while Realmuto was unavailable.

–Anthony Rizzo came off the disabled list to play first base as the Chicago Cubs hosted the St. Louis Cardinals.

Rizzo was placed on the DL last week with back discomfort, which he attributed to subpar sleeping conditions at the team hotel in Cincinnati. He is batting .107 with one home run and three RBIs through six games this season.

Infielder Efren Navarro was optioned to Triple-A Iowa to make room for Rizzo on the 25-man roster.

–The New York Yankees placed right-handed reliever Tommy Kahnle on the 10-day disabled list after an MRI revealed right shoulder tendinitis. The team recalled right-hander Luis Cessa from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in a corresponding move.

Kahnle, 28, had seen a significant drop in the velocity of his fastball recently, with it hovering just under 95 mph this season after averaging nearly 98 mph in 2017.

Kahnle has allowed seven runs (five earned) on four hits in 7 1/3 innings across six appearances this season, good for an ERA of 6.14, while walking eight and striking out nine. He posted an ERA of 2.60 over the 2016 and 2017 campaigns in 90 innings of work.

–The Tampa Bay Rays placed third baseman Matt Duffy on the 10-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain. Infielder Brandon Snyder was recalled from Triple-A Durham in a corresponding move.

Duffy exited the Rays’ 8-4 win over the Texas Rangers on Monday in the first inning.

In 15 games this year, Duffy has hit .267 with one home run and seven RBIs. Duffy missed all of last season with a heel injury that required multiple surgeries.

— The New York Mets recalled hard-throwing right-hander Gerson Bautista from Double-A Binghamton while optioning Hansel Robles to Triple-A Las Vegas to make room in the bullpen.

Bautista, 22, came to the Mets last season in the trade that sent Addison Reed to the Boston Red Sox. He fanned 11 in five scoreless innings over three appearances this month for Binghamton, allowing two hits and no walks.

Robles was 2-0 with a 3.38 ERA in eight appearances this season.

–Washington Nationals top outfield prospect Victor Robles, who injured an elbow trying to make a diving catch in a game at Triple-A Syracuse, will not require season-ending surgery.

However, Nationals manager Dave Martinez said that Robles’ recovery timetable “looks like months.”

Robles is widely considered a top-10 MLB prospect. He has hit .385 (5-for-13) in four games for Syracuse. Robles made his major league debut last season, hitting .250 with two triples and four RBIs in 24 at-bats.

— Field Level Media