Baseball's trade deadline: The Dodgers (and Red Sox?!) are going for it. Is anybody else?

The Los Angeles Dodgers landed perhaps the best pitcher in baseball in Tarik Skubal, triggering another round of disgust over how the two-time defending champions seem to get every star they want.

Bryce Harper — who might have to go through the Dodgers to reach the World Series with Philadelphia — was having none of it.

“A lot of teams could have done what they did,” Harper said. “That’s not a money move, that’s a prospect move, right? There’s a lot of teams in baseball that have the prospects to move them."

By the time Monday's trade deadline passed, the Dodgers had taken their big swing, and the Boston Red Sox had thrown caution to the wind, sending prospects every which way to acquire Adley Rutschman and others. Other contenders, however, took a more tepid approach. Milwaukee added right-hander Dustin May. The New York Yankees made a solid pickup in infielder Luis García Jr., but general manager Brian Cashman said they tried for Skubal and Rutschman and didn't get either. Atlanta was fairly quiet.

Near the postseason cutoff, a few teams acted like they were much further behind. Detroit is 2 1/2 games out of a playoff spot and just 5 1/2 out of first place in the AL Central. The Tigers have the second-best run differential in the American League but still parted with Skubal and right-hander Casey Mize.

Baltimore is also 2 1/2 games out of a wild card, and July was its most successful month in over two years. But the Orioles traded Rutschman, starter Dean Kremer, outfielder Taylor Ward and reliever Tyler Wells. They got a lot back for Rutschman — three of Boston's top five prospects according to MLB Pipeline — but didn't add many players likely to help this year.

“This is not the plan that we had going into the season,” team president Mike Elias said. “I wish that we were in a better position in the standings right now. This is not something that we embrace, but once you find yourself in these positions, you make the right moves by the franchise.”

Miami won six in a row, lost 12 in a row, then won six of seven. The Marlins are two games out of a playoff spot but traded catcher Liam Hicks to Tampa Bay for prospects.

Here’s a division-by-division look at this year’s deadline:

TAMPA BAY will hope Freddy Peralta can find his form after posting a 4.99 ERA this season for the New York Mets. In addition to García, the YANKEES added outfielder Heliot Ramos, but Aaron Judge's health is probably going to be the biggest factor down the stretch for New York, and this deadline did nothing to change that reality.

The vibes are good in BOSTON thanks to a recent 15-game winning streak, and now the Red Sox bring in a new All-Star in Rutschman, But for Boston fans of a certain age, trading shortstop Marcelo Mayer — the No. 4 overall draft pick in 2021 — for San Francisco reliever Erik Miller might stir unpleasant memories of Jeff Bagwell for Larry Andersen.

It's not a shock that BALTIMORE traded Rutschman less than two years from free agency, especially given what Boston was offering. The same could eventually happen with Gunnar Henderson. What's hard to swallow for Orioles fans is that they only enjoyed two good seasons before it occurred. Last-place TORONTO balanced buying and selling more than the Orioles, dealing right-hander Kevin Gausman away but replacing him with the much younger José Soriano.

The WHITE SOX made a splash by trading for Luis Castillo. But he hasn't been good this year, going 3-9 with a 5.06 ERA for Seattle. CLEVELAND is barely holding on to a wild-card spot but made an honest effort to stay afloat by adding slugger Jo Adell and pitcher Foster Griffin. MINNESOTA was also looking to buy at the deadline. That amounted to adding Kremer from the Orioles, plus a couple pricey relievers in A.J. Minter and Jeff Hoffman.

Don't totally write off DETROIT yet. The Tigers made the playoffs after selling at the deadline two years ago. Probably not happening this season, however. Not only did they shed Skubal and Mize, they also failed to improve their bullpen. KANSAS CITY was an obvious seller, but Lane Thomas and Kris Bubic could only bring back so much.

HOUSTON is now in first place but just two games over .500. The Astros acquired Daulton Varsho, a good defensive outfielder, and will keep relying on Yordan Alvarez to provide the offense. Jacob deGrom said he wanted to stay with TEXAS, and if there were any plans for the Rangers to be big sellers, they didn't come to fruition. Texas lost its sixth straight game Monday night but is still just two games out of a wild card.

SEATTLE has plenty of pitching even after trading Castillo, and there's time for the Mariners to claw back into a playoff spot. The ATHLETICS have fallen apart lately and did almost nothing at the deadline. The ANGELS were much more active, dealing Soriano, Adell, Ryan Zeferjahn and Kirby Yates. They acquired infielder Arjun Nimmala, a 2023 first-round pick, from Toronto.

ATLANTA leads the division comfortably and largely stood pat, acquiring Thomas from the Royals and right-hander Tyler Mahle from San Francisco. PHILADELPHIA made one of the biggest additions Monday by trading for three-time batting champ Luis Arraez, a move that will shift Bryce Harper back to the outfield. MIAMI has two playoff berths in the last 20 years and isn't exactly pulling out all the stops to make it this season.

WASHINGTON was surprisingly in the playoff race and made a pretty standard hitting-for-pitching swap when it sent Curtis Mead to Boston for Connelly Early two weekends ago. Now the Nationals have lost six straight and sold at the deadline, dealing Garcia and Griffin. The METS were obviously going to be sellers and parted ways with Minter, Peralta, Clay Holmes and Luke Weaver.

Perhaps MILWAUKEE was hesitant to give up a big package of prospects to rent Skubal for three months, but watching him go to the Dodgers couldn't have been pleasant. The CUBS also did more than the Brewers, adding Gausman, Holmes and Zeferjahn to their pitching staff. PITTSBURGH added Weaver, Yates and Camilo Doval to its bullpen. ST. LOUIS traded May and reliever JoJo Romero within the division to the Brewers, and CINCINNATI traded Nathaniel Lowe within the state to Cleveland.

Even after trading for Skubal, the DODGERS have seven prospects in MLB Pipeline's top 100. ARIZONA mostly stood pat but did add outfielder Lars Nootbaar. SAN DIEGO was unusually quiet before landing Mize. Robbie Ray also joins the Padres' pitching staff.

SAN FRANCISCO had a busy week, selling off Arraez, Mahle, Ray, Miller and Ramos. The Giants will hope the Red Sox moved on from Mayer too quickly. COLORADO added infielder Connor Norby, who was once a solid prospect for the Orioles but never really took off after being dealt to Miami.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tarik Skubal walks to the dugout after warming up before a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Chicago. (AP Photo/David Banks)

CAIRO (AP) — A British maritime monitoring agency said a cargo ship reported being hit by a projectile overnight off the coast of Oman in the Strait of Hormuz, while the United States and Iran made opposing claims about whether they were holding talks.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said the two sides are resuming talks to wind down the war. But Iran insisted it only was talking with Oman and the discussion focused on the Strait of Hormuz.

Here is a look at the most important developments in the Middle East on Tuesday.

The cargo ship reported being “hit by an unknown projectile” at 2 a.m. local time while it was 37 kilometers (23 miles) northeast of Al Khasab in Oman, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said.

The UKMTO did not provide further information on the ship, including what flag the vessel was sailing under or whether it was carrying cargo.

The ship suffered damage, according to British maritime security firm Ambrey, which did not elaborate.

The town of Al Khasab sits on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula that juts into the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial waterway at the mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas passed before the war.

The strait has been effectively shut by Iran’s attacks on shipping since the start of the war in February, while the U.S. also has imposed a blockade on Iranian ports in the waterway.

Trump said Monday that talks with Iran had resumed, a day after saying he called of massive strikes he had threatened to unleash on the country. Trump said he pulled back at the urging of Gulf allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Whether “Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking,” Trump maintained.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said Monday that no negotiations were being held with the U.S., adding that Tehran’s talks were only with Oman and focused on establishing a route for safe navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump voiced frustration with Iran, suggesting Tehran had asked for the talks, which are critical to ending the monthslong conflict and reviving stalled cargo traffic through the strait.

“Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous!” the U.S. president vented on Truth Social, his social media platform.

“They ask for a meeting, some would say ‘beg,’ talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they’re only dealing with ‘Oman’,” he wrote.

Gaza residents held a mass funeral Tuesday for 112 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered after nearly three years under the rubble in Gaza City. They were among more than 300 people killed on Nov. 22, 2023, when Israeli warplanes flattened a residential block in the city’s Sabra neighborhood.

First responders recovered the bodies over the weekend after digging through the rubble for 136 hours, according to the Civil Defense, a rescue agency operated under Gaza’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry.

The bodies included 40 children, 30 women and seven people with disabilities, the Civil Defense said in a statement, adding that another 157 people remained missing under the rubble.

Hundreds of people gathered for the funeral, where the bodies wrapped in Palestinian flags were laid in rows near the flattened buildings before being carried on stretchers through a narrow street for burial in a nearby cemetery.

The Gaza war began on Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage.

Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has since killed 73,375 people, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Its figures do not distinguish between civilians and combatants but they are considered generally reliable by the United Nations and other international organizations.

Becatoros reported from Athens, Greece.

Pedestrians cross a street in front of a billboard depicting a fallen Statue of Liberty and crowds carrying Iranian and Shiite flags at Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A girl swings along the shore as cargo ships and other commercial vessels appear anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Monday, July 27, 2026. (Razieh Poudat/ISNA via AP)

Women walk past a banner showing portraits of the late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, left, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, center, and the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S. and Israel strike on Feb. 28, under a bridge in northern Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting about military families, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FILE - Children wade in the water with cargo ships at anchor in the background and a fisherman nearby, in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (Amirhosein Khorgooi/ISNA via AP,File)