Cincinnati Reds right-hander Hunter Greene will make his season debut on Saturday night against the Baltimore Orioles.

Greene has been sidelined since undergoing surgery in March to remove bone chips from his pitching elbow.

Greene made three minor league rehab starts totaling 14 1/3 innings across two levels and didn’t allow a run. He struck out 13 and allowed five hits and two walks.

In his last outing, Greene gave up one hit over 6 1/3 shutout innings on Sunday for Triple-A Louisville. He struck out four and walked none while throwing 82 pitches.

Reds manager Terry Francona said Greene will not be limited against the Orioles.

“I think he’s strong enough (and) stretched out enough, healthy enough, where we’re going to get him back, not just in name only, but in production also,” Francona said.

Greene, 26, was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2017 draft by the Reds.

He has displayed flashes of greatness during four big league seasons but stands just 25-29 with a 3.65 ERA in 91 career starts. He has 617 strikeouts in 495 2/3 innings.

Last season, he went 7-4 with a 2.76 ERA in 19 starts while being hindered by groin injuries. One year earlier, he was 9-5 with a 2.75 ERA in 26 starts and was a National League All-Star.

The Reds are hopeful Greene will stay healthy and form a top-rate tandem with right-hander Chase Burns, the No. 2 overall pick in 2024.

Burns, 23, has emerged as one of the top pitchers in the NL this season and is 10-1 with a 2.40 ERA in 17 starts. He has fanned 116 batters in 97 2/3 innings.

–Field Level Media

Argentina scored yet another vital World Cup goal with the help of a hand, but this one was completely legal.

In the 111th minute, Cristian Romero headed Lionel Messi’s corner kick off the hand of Cape Verde defender Diney Borges, redirecting it inside the far post to complete a 3-2 victory in extra time of the round of 32 for the defending champions in an all-time great World Cup match Friday in Miami Gardens, Fla.

Messi added his 20th career World Cup goal and tournament-leading seventh early in the contest, and Lisandro Martinez scored early in extra time to give the Argentines a 2-1 advantage.

Cape Verde, the smallest nation ever to reach the World Cup knockout round, answered those first two goals. Deroy Duarte’s 59th-minute leveler was well-deserved after his side’s bright start to the second half. Sidny Lopes Cabral’s world-class strike stunned the crowd and evened it at 2-all in the 103rd minute.

But 40 years and 11 days after Diego Maradona’s famous “Hand of God” goal — which would have certainly been ruled out in the modern era of VAR — the manual intervention this time around was above board because it came from a defender.

The advantage law allows a referee to ignore a foul — including a handball — by a defensive team if it benefits the attack. Had Borges’ handball prevented Romero’s header from going across the goal line, it likely would’ve resulted in an Argentina penalty kick.

Argentina’s Emiliano Martinez made two crucial late interventions, including a denial of another attempt from Cabral, to set up a round of 16 meeting with Egypt in Atlanta on Tuesday.

The match was easily Argentina’s most difficult of the tournament, and will leave Cape Verde as one of the competition’s feel-good stories.

While they become the seventh African side to be eliminated from the competition, they earned worldwide respect with a performance that also included draws against two other World Cup-winning nations, Spain and Uruguay.

After leading 1-0 late in the first half through Messi’s 29th-minute contribution, Argentina regained their lead two minutes into extra time.

Messi struck a corner kick to the near post, where Alexis Mac Allister met it with a flick-on header.

From there the ball bounded across the goalmouth before Lisandro Martinez reached it on the far side of the penalty area, took a touch forward and then powered a left-footed strike seemingly through Vozinha into the roof of his net.

Improbably, Cape Verde leveled again through Lopes Cabral’s world-class strike.

With Mac Allister defending, Lopes Cabral took a pass at the left edge of the box, cut past Mac Allister and then bent a looping strike well beyond the reach of the goalkeeper into the top right corner.

Vozinha, 40, was credited with eight saves after making seven in the tournament-opening scoreless draw with Spain.

–Field Level Media

For England manager Thomas Tuchel, the stress of a dramatic 2-1 victory over the Democratic Republic of Congo in the World Cup round of 32 on Wednesday was actually the best part.

Harry Kane scored the 12th and 13th goals of his World Cup career in the 75th and 86th minutes to lift the Three Lions through to the round of 16. But the German manager, who brought experience from stops at Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain to his first international job, left Atlanta most pleased with his squad’s temperament after a poor start and the increasingly exceptional play from Congolese goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi.

“Things stayed difficult but this team today did not accept a defeat as an outcome,” Tuchel said. “They just didn’t accept it, and that makes me very proud because they did what was necessary.

“The going got tough, and they showed up, and we got a deserved win, even if it was a late one.”

What Tuchel describes is a trait of most championship-winning teams. It’s also one that often hasn’t been true of the Three Lions, who are seeking their first major tournament title since winning the 1966 World Cup as hosts.

England improved to 2-17-5 in World Cup matches after conceding first. The other victory? None other than their 4-2 triumph over West Germany in extra time in the 1966 final.

And while it took until the late stages to reverse the outcome, Tuchel insisted he did not see a squad wilting under the legacy of previous disappointments amid high English expectations.

“I did not see any of that today and it would be so easy to see it,” Tuchel said. “It would be so easy to give in, and it would be so easy to accept that narrative. I didn’t see any of that, and that is a very, very good sign.”

It will get tougher in the round of 16 against Mexico in Mexico City on Sunday. The short turnaround won’t give England time to acclimate to the altitude above 7,000 feet. And Mexico have been among the tournament’s very best teams, posting a perfect 4-0-0 record and outscoring opponents 8-0.

The setting will also be the same as arguably the most infamous moment in English national team history: Argentine Diego Maradona’s famous and controversial “hand of god” goal against England in a 1986 quarterfinal.

“More and more obstacles will maybe come, but we are ready for that,” Tuchel said. “We need it. Maybe we have the ideal platform now to genuinely believe that we are ready for that.”

As for Kane, his fourth and fifth goals of the tournament pulled him into a third-place tie with Norway’s Erling Haaland for the tournament lead, one behind Argentina’s Lionel Messi and France’s Kylian Mbappe.

It’s a rarity to see so many stars producing big numbers in a big tournament, and doing it in considerably different ways. But Tuchel sees one similarity.

“They’re all sharks,” he said. “If they smell blood, they come and score.”

–Ian Nicholas Quillen, Field Level Media