ORLANDO, Fla. -- The 2019 edition of the MLS All-Star Game was one that won't go down as a night to remember for the home team. The All-Stars were humbled 3-0 against an Atletico Madrid side that seems well prepared for the upcoming La Liga season.

Even worse, the league's best didn't offer many reasons to get the capacity crowd of 25,547 fans at Exploria Stadium behind them. Yet for one pair of All-Stars in particular, there were still moments to savor.

Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando, now in his 20th professional season, was a commissioner's pick, making him an All-Star for the sixth time. San Jose Earthquakes forward Chris Wondolowski, who became the league's all-time leading goal scorer earlier this year, was named to his fifth All-Star squad.

Both are as competitive as they come, and have been stalwarts in the league for years. There's also no denying that they are approaching the tail ends of the careers. Rimando will retire at season's end. Wondolowski's future is more open-ended, although the end of his time as a professional can be espied from a distance. For them, these past four days went beyond the result, or debates about whether the format should revert to Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference. There is time to be shared and friendships to be formed or rekindled.

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For that reason, both Rimando and Wondolowski had the same goal coming into the week: Soak everything up, and don't miss a moment. Ultimately that goal was reached, even if the result isn't what either player wanted.

"I was surprised to come into this All-Star Game," Rimando said. "There are so many good goalkeepers in this league. It was special, of course, for them to pick me and honor me in my last year. I took everything in."

Wondolowski recalled his first All-Star experience in 2011 against Manchester United.

"That didn't go well either," he said about the 4-0 defeat.

Wondolowski acknowledged that back then he was eager, nervous and desperate to impress. This time was different.

"I wanted to enjoy it," he said. "It's an amazing week, but everything happens so quickly you forget the little things. I definitely took the approach where I wanted to talk to everyone, get to know the guys. I'm glad I did."

To be clear, there was no storybook ending on the field. Rimando was beaten in the 85th minute by Atletico's teenage prodigy Joao Felix and then again in stoppage time by Diego Costa. Wondolowski very nearly got on the end of a cross only for it to flash by.

But such is the respect the two players have accumulated during their careers that even a manager like Orlando City's James O'Connor -- who has managed in the league for just more than a year -- can acknowledge the depth of their contribution.

"It's a wonderful opportunity for guys coming toward the end," he said about Rimando and Wondolowski. "They're two absolutely incredible servants to the league, and I think both of them were very deserving of the call-up, and great to see them get the opportunity to play tonight. I think they've been trying to speak to a couple of the young guys and settle them down a little and share some of those experiences."

The two players took in the All-Star festivities in different ways. Rimando brought his family out from Utah, and his children were by his side in the locker room afterward. Wondolowski preferred to be the veritable mayor of the MLS All-Stars, seeking out every player in a bid to get to know them, lest the opportunity pass him by.

Tuesday's practice saw the Quakes forward partake in a small-sided game with the likes of Carlos Vela and Paxton Pomykal as teammates. The time away from the field provided the opportunity for longtime adversaries to become friends, although Wondolowski acknowledged that it takes some effort.

"Sometimes you end up in cliques or guys you know and you just end up sticking with those three or four guys," he said. "Whether it was a dinner or the Skills Challenge, I tried talking to different guys. I know for myself I'm different on the field than I am off the field. So you have Diego Chara, who is probably one of the nicest guys in the world and on the field he's one of the most intimidating. And you have guys like Carlos Vela and Wayne Rooney, who are just down to earth. You're wondering 'How? Why?' It's pretty cool to see the differences."

With the end drawing near for both Rimando and Wondolowski, those memories will be long lasting.

BEREA, Ohio -- Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield has already shown that he isn't afraid to get after his star wide receivers.

Over the weekend, Mayfield briefly screamed at his receiving corps for not working their way back to him while he was scrambling.

Mayfield explained Wednesday that blowing up on them that way was about getting on the same page as the offense.

"Those guys know that's a big part of our offense. And they know that," said Mayfield, who can be a prolific playmaker through the air scrambling outside the pocket. "It's just the fact that if we get lazy and let things slide -- we need to be open to communicating right now.

"That's what the good teams do."

Among the big questions surrounding the upstart Browns this training camp has been how star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. will gel with the second-year quarterback.

Mayfield noted that so far he and Beckham -- along with leading returning receiver Jarvis Landry -- have been able to talk through any missteps or miscues that have surfaced on the field as they continue to establish chemistry.

"Absolutely. And there's an appreciation from my end that [Beckham] has been able to come communicate and talk through things," Mayfield said. "Just being able to talk through things and see it from their perspective and mine is really good."

Coach Freddie Kitchens has said that he has no issue with Mayfield yelling at his receivers or any other player on the team.

"I expect my quarterback to get everybody on the same page," said Kitchens, a former quarterback at Alabama. "That's what I want."

Mayfield added that when he does get on teammates, he considers it paramount to address it with them later.

"I'm not going to be a jackass. I'm gonna talk through it," he said. "I'm gonna harp on it, then I'm going to talk to them. And like I said, we need to be on the same page."

NEW YORK -- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman stood firmly behind his organization's inactivity at Wednesday's trade deadline, saying that despite his best efforts, he had trouble finding fair offers with the potential trade partners he spoke to in recent weeks.

"We didn't get close to anything," Cashman said a couple hours after the deadline passed. "But we certainly knocked on all doors and had a lot of ideas and exchange of ideas with clubs in our effort to improve."

He didn't specify what the differences were on many of those offers, but he noted that teams' asking prices for pitchers they were shopping were much steeper than the return he was willing to give up.

"As a buyer, it has to hurt. I get that," Cashman said. "But I was not willing to do what was available and what was being presented. And clearly, my counterparts were unwilling to do what I was willing to do in my offers.

"Maybe my counterparts felt my offers were underwhelming, and certainly I felt their offers were overwhelming. We just never matched up."

Cashman reaffirmed that he spoke to every team but the Boston Red Sox, adding that he had multiple conversations with New York Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen. It was Van Wagenen who authored one of the biggest early deadline deals, bringing starting pitcher Marcus Stroman to Queens from Toronto.

Stroman (with both Toronto and New York) and other Mets pitchers were thought to be possible pieces moved to the Yankees by the deadline.

As he tried to address his team's biggest need, starting pitching, Cashman ran into other road blocks. He said several pitchers who had been speculated about in the public sphere were, in actuality, unavailable. That also complicated matters, making it hard to find the types of deals his team was willing to pull off.

He pointed out that there were some pitchers whom the Yankees didn't value as highly as some other teams. Those pitchers also weren't options.

"The best play was we did nothing. And we did nothing for a very good reason because we felt everything that was in front of me was really not obtainable on the associated costs," Cashman said. "And that's with understanding that as a buyer, you have to step up and pay. But these were prices that were making things way out of reach -- way out of reach and way out of line."

Cashman said he was "disappointed" that he wasn't able to add to his team, but he takes comfort in knowing that the group the Yankees have assembled this season can be a World Series contender.

"The fallback is to look in that [locker] room and the players we have, and I feel really good about those guys and hope that the ones that we have that are coming off the [injured list] at some point come back and join the party and keep this thing rolling," Cashman said. "You fall back and look at the roster you have and feel like, 'This is a damn good roster,' and we can compete with anybody in the game."

That echoed similar statements uttered by other Yankees following Wednesday afternoon's 7-5 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

"Was just in there celebrating a win with those guys, and looking around the room and knowing that we've got everything we need to be a championship club," manager Aaron Boone said. "That doesn't change. I have total faith in Brian and their staff that they're going to always do what's best for this organization as far as whether that's short-term, long-term, all those things."

Boone's players also believe this Yankees roster has World Series potential.

"If someone comes in [from a trade], then one of our guys goes out," starter Masahiro Tanaka said through an interpreter. "So just go out and do what we need to do. That's kind of the bottom line for us.

"Of course we can [still] compete. It's baseball. You don't know what's going to happen, but I definitely think we can compete."

In the weeks leading up to the NBA season last October, a bettor at the SuperBook at the Westgate Resort & Casino in Las Vegas placed a $67,000 wager on the Golden State Warriors to make the playoffs at minus-10,000 odds.

The bettor was rewarded with a $670 profit when the Warriors reached the postseason.

The same bettor was back at the SuperBook on Wednesday and this time played a little Philly Special.

According to Jeff Sherman, vice president of risk for the SuperBook, the anonymous bettor placed a $100,500 bet on the Philadelphia 76ers to make the playoffs at minus-5,000 odds Wednesday. If the 76ers reach the postseason, the bettor will win a net $2,010.

Sherman confirmed to ESPN that the Sixers bet was placed by the same customer who wagered on the Warriors last year. The customer will have to wait a little more than nine months for the wager to be graded.

Philadelphia added Al Horford and Josh Richardson in the offseason and traded away Jimmy Butler. The 76ers, along with the Milwaukee Bucks, are considered the favorites to win the Eastern Conference. At the SuperBook, the Bucks are plus-125 to win the Eastern Conference, followed closely by the 76ers at plus-150.

The SuperBook has the over/under on Philadelphia's regular-season wins pegged at 55.5. The Bucks at 58.5 are the only team with a higher season-win total at the SuperBook.

The 76ers went 51-31 last season and earned the third seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. They reached the conference semifinals before being eliminated by the eventual champion Toronto Raptors in seven games.

Boston Red Sox starter Rick Porcello took out his frustrations on a couple of TV monitors in the dugout Wednesday night.

Porcello allowed six runs on nine hits and one walk, striking out seven in 5⅔ innings before leaving with a 6-2 deficit against the Tampa Bay Rays. He proceeded to smash two TV monitors in the dugout as he headed to the locker room.

"I kind of wish I did that without cameras being on me,'' he said after the Red Sox's 8-5 loss. "I apologize to everyone that had to see that. It's not a behavior that I feel like is representative to me and my personality. The frustration got the best of me.''

Porcello, the 2016 AL Cy Young Award winner, was the beneficiary of the best run support in the majors in his previous four starts, with the Red Sox scoring 49 runs while he was in the game. He was 4-0 in those starts, despite allowing 19 runs in 22⅔ innings.

Porcello is 9-8 with a 5.74 ERA this season.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Right-hander Trevor Bauer was officially traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday, but he was still on hand as the Tribe took on the Houston Astros at Progressive Field.

Bauer also met with Indians manager Terry Francona for a final time. Francona said the meeting with Bauer was "pretty short'' and it brought him relief.

"Sometimes it's emotional, and sometimes it's not quite as emotional,'' Francona said. "That's just being honest.''

Francona acknowledged that he was concerned about long-term effects within the team following Bauer's spectacle Sunday, when he angrily threw a ball from behind the mound over the center-field wall in Kansas City. Bauer later called the act "childish'' and was fined by Major League Baseball.

"I had concerns what it could do to our team, and I voiced those concerns," Francona told reporters. "I would never, ever go tell [the front office] something, but they are good enough to always allow me my opinion, and you just try to do the best you can, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit worried."

Bauer, who met with Cleveland reporters during Wednesday's game, reacted with a smile and a long exhale when told of Francona's comments.

"Well, I'm not on the team. So none of that really matters," he said.

Bauer added that he has been pitching with an assortment of injuries -- torn ankle ligaments, back spasms -- since early this season.

"It's been really frustrating,'' he said. "One of the things I'm most proud about is I haven't missed a start this year through two months of probably needing to be on the IL and probably should have missed some starts. I was able to get myself ready and take the ball.''

Among the players the Indians got back in the three-team, seven-player swap is mercurial outfielder Yasiel Puig, who was expected to arrive in Cleveland late Wednesday. Puig had a memorable departure from Cincinnati on Tuesday, when he ended up in the middle of a benches-clearing brawl with the Pirates shortly after the trade was agreed upon.

Francona watched the brawl unfold on a TV in his office but said he isn't worried about Puig being a troublemaker. MLB has yet to announce any discipline.

"I need to talk to him. I need to ask him what's important to him,'' Francona said. "The fact that he may have done something four years ago in L.A. doesn't affect how he'll be treated here.''

But what about last night?

"I can tell you that if something ever happens, I'll be behind him every step of the way,'' Francona said.

Just remember, sometimes the biggest deals don't end up being the most important. See: Nathan Eovaldi and Steve Pearce for the 2018 Red Sox. Anyway, let's review some of the winners and losers from a 2019 MLB trade deadline that finished with a flurry of activity. (Note: This is not a comprehensive review of every trade, but I did like the A's picking Tanner Roark in the most A's trade the A's could make.)

Winner: Houston Astros

In a move that broke in the minutes immediately after the 4 p.m. ET deadline, the Astros acquired Zack Greinke, the blockbuster deal that made all the weeks of rumors and speculation worth the wait. With a rotation now of Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole, Greinke and Wade Miley for the postseason, plus one of the best bullpens (they also acquired Joe Biagini and Aaron Sanchez from the Blue Jays), the Astros will probably now rate as the consensus World Series favorites.

When so many front offices are afraid of making a mistake and dealing a prospect who then becomes a star, Jeff Luhnow continues to outmaneuver his peers. In 2017, he acquired Justin Verlander at the Aug. 31 deadline and won a World Series. That offseason, he acquired Gerrit Cole from the Pirates for four young players and Cole has gone 27-10 with a 2.90 ERA in Houston. Now he gets Greinke, who is 10-4 with a 2.87 ERA. Verlander, Greinke and Cole rank first, fourth and eighth in the majors in weighted on-base average allowed. In the year of the home run, starting pitching is a precious commodity and the Astros now have three of the 10 best starters in the majors. Heck, even Miley is top-15 in ERA.

Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole, Zack Greinke this season (69 starts):
36-13 W-L
2.85 ERA
0.92 WHIP
11.1 K/9
6.1 K/BB
.197 Opp BA
.608 Opp OPS
13.3 WAR

— Paul Hembekides (@PaulHembo) July 31, 2019

Yes, Luhnow gives up three of Houston's top 10 prospects in J.B. Bukauskas, Seth Beer and Corbin Martin, but all three have notable flaws: Bukauskas struggled with his control and has a 5.25 ERA in Double-A; Beer can hit, but has no position; Martin reached the majors this year, but underwent Tommy John surgery. The Diamondbacks also get Triple-A utility player Josh Rojas, who has hit .315/.403/.575 and could be a nice sleeper.

Arizona also gets salary relief, as Greinke was set to make $35 million each of the next two seasons (the Diamondbacks will send the Astros $24 million, according to a report by Ken Rosenthal). Luhnow also kept his top two prospects in outfielder Kyle Tucker and pitcher Forrest Whitley. The Astros also have a replacement now for Cole, in case he leaves as a free agent. And don't undersell the addition of Sanchez, who hasn't been able to replicate his 2016 season, when he led the American League in ERA. As Buster Olney said, he looks like the perfect science project for Houston's analytics department, maybe as a power reliever (he's under team control through 2020). Man, I would hate to be one of the four other AL West teams.

Today just adds to the wonderful mystery of "What hat will Zack Greinke wear on his Hall of Fame plaque?"

— Joe Posnanski (@JPosnanski) July 31, 2019

Losers: New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers

As the Greinke deal was announced, Yankees and Dodgers fans had a collective Twitter meltdown. Hey, it's not easy being a fan of a big-market team. The Yankees didn't do anything on Wednesday; they didn't do anything all month after acquiring Edwin Encarnacion in June. The Dodgers made a couple minor deals in getting veteran infielder Jedd Gyorko from the Cardinals and left-hander reliever Adam Kolarek from the Rays. Kolarek is a lefty killer (.187 average, .531 OPS allowed) and will help, but the Dodgers missed out on getting a premium setup guy for Kenley Jansen.

And for the Yankees, for the second time in two seasons, Luhnow outdueled Brian Cashman. It's not quite that simple: Greinke had a no-trade clause to 15 teams, including the Yankees, and reports say he never would have approved a trade to New York. So it's not fair to bash the Yankees for not getting Greinke. But it's perhaps fair to bash the front office -- and by extension, ownership -- for not adding a starter like Robbie Ray or even a reliever. The rotation has been in a freefall since April. The Yankees are good, but the Astros won the day. And just as Verlander beat them twice in the 2017 American League Championship Series, you wonder if Greinke will haunt the Yankees this October.

Winner: National League East bullpens

Look, the Nationals could have acquired Charlie Sheen and that kid from "Rookie of the Year" and that would have improved a bullpen that ranks last in the majors with a 5.93 ERA. Adding Daniel Hudson, Roenis Elias and Hunter Strickland will certainly help. Are they big difference-makers? No, not really. Hudson has a 3.00 ERA, although his peripheral numbers aren't as impressive (4.21 FIP). Elias is a journeyman lefty who has closed for the Mariners, but has a 4.40 ERA and a significant reverse platoon split (righties have hit .182 off him, lefties .353). Strickland just returned from a strained latissimus dorsi that had kept him out since the fourth game of the season. Nothing flashy here, but this trio should improve the seventh and eighth innings in front of closer Sean Doolittle.

So the Nationals did OK, but the Braves probably did better. They added Chris Martin on Tuesday and then Shane Greene and Mark Melancon on Wednesday to a bullpen that has struggled in July:

Braves have added Chris Martin and Shane Greene to a bullpen that has struggled in July: pic.twitter.com/BtYr0T2ck1

— David Schoenfield (@dschoenfield) July 31, 2019

Greene comes with the magical labels of "closer" and "All-Star" and also owns a 1.18 ERA. All three items probably overstate his value -- he has allowed five home runs and just five earned runs, as he also has allowed six unearned runs, and his runs allowed per nine is actually 2.61. It seems almost impossible, but here's how that has happened:

Shane Greene has allowed five earned runs. He's also allowed five home runs. He's allowed 10 runs on those five home runs, but five were unearned (including a grand slam). He's allowed just one run that didn't come via a home run (and that was also unearned).

— David Schoenfield (@dschoenfield) July 31, 2019

Greene has also thrown just 38 innings, including just 14 innings over the past two months. Let's see what happens when he has to pitch five times in a week.

Still, as Ryan Milowicki of ESPN Stats & Information points out, the Braves' acquisitions have been better in the clutch than the guys the Nationals picked up. Here's how these guys rank in Win Probability Added out of 697 MLB pitchers this season:

Chris Martin: +1.26 (33rd)

Shane Greene: +1.14 (41st)

Mark Melancon: +0.52 (106th)

Daniel Hudson: +1.08 (46th)

Hunter Strickland: -0.40 (442nd)

Roenis Elias: -0.79 (559th)

Winner: San Francisco Giants fans

Madison Bumgarner stays put, which should make Giants fans happy. I think it's the right decision by Farhan Zaidi. With their tremendous July, the Giants have earned the right to give the wild-card race a run (and give Bruce Bochy one more shot at a playoff run in his final season). They did trade away three relievers (Mark Melancon, Sam Dyson, Drew Pomeranz) and acquired Scooter Gennett, so it seems Zaidi tried to play it both ways, realizing that odds of reaching the playoffs are slim (6.2%, according to FanGraphs) and making a deep run even slimmer. Still, trading away a franchise icon isn't easy if you're only 2.5 games out of a wild card.

Loser: Boston Red Sox

They needed a reliever. They didn't get one. But maybe Dave Dombrowski is right: Really, they just need the current guys to pitch better. (Hey, the bullpen does have the second-highest strikeout rate in the majors and if Nathan Eovaldi can get going, maybe the pen will be fine.)

Winner: New York media

The Yankees don't do anything, the Mets don't trade Zack Wheeler or Noah Syndergaard. Plenty of fodder to discuss.

Was it the right move by the Mets to keep Wheeler, who is a pending free agent? Riding a five-game winning streak, the Mets' playoff odds have increased to 16.4% -- and odds of winning the division are just 1.1%. But why not? Plus, they can always extend Wheeler a qualifying offer and get a pick for him -- or even re-sign him. How about a 2020 rotation of Jacob deGrom, Syndergaard, Stroman, Wheeler and Steven Matz?

Winners ... or maybe Losers ... or maybe something in between:Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds

The fascinating three-way trade that sent Trevor Bauer to the Reds, Franmil Reyes, Logan Allen and Yasiel Puig (and two minor leaguers) to the Indians and prospect Taylor Trammell to the Padres could end up being a win-win-win or a lose-lose-lose. We don't know.

The Indians probably have the most on the line because they're the team trying to make the playoffs and they just traded a very good starting pitcher who leads the majors in innings pitched. Reyes and Puig will help an offense that ranks 10th in the AL in runs per game, and Reyes and Allen, who projects as a back-end starter, should help the Indians win the long-term WAR comparison because they'll have years of team control of those players in comparison to Bauer.

But does it improve their chances of catching the Twins and winning a World Series? I'm not so sure. I'd take my chances in the playoffs with a rotation of Bauer, Shane Bieber, Mike Clevinger and Corey Kluber, even with a mediocre offense. Of course, if the Indians had addressed their outfield in the offseason, maybe they wouldn't have been in position of making this trade. It also could work in their favor: They start scoring more runs, Kluber returns and pitches well and they also have Reyes mashing for the next five years.

The Padres' side is easy to understand: They're swinging for the fences with Trammell, who is loaded with tools but has struggled in Double-A with a .236/.349/.336 line. In contrast to Reyes, who is a one-dimensional slugger with limited defensive value, Trammell is a more well-rounded player who projects as the team's center fielder of the future if the bat comes around.

The Reds, with playoff odds of 4.9%, essentially acquired Bauer for next season. Trammell seems like a high price to pay for one year of Bauer's services, but maybe the Reds aren't as high on Trammell and now they have a rotation of Luis Castillo, Sonny Gray and Bauer to build around. Plus, they can give Bauer a qualifying offer at the end of 2020 and receive draft-pick compensation or trade him if they're not in the playoff race, so their side of the deal really includes a prospect to be named later.

Winner: Challenge trade!

The Marlins traded pitcher Zac Gallen to the Diamondbacks for minor league shortstop Jazz Chisholm, an odd trade to make on July 31. The Marlins better hope Gallen isn't their next Chris Paddack or Luis Castillo. His raw stuff isn't on their level, but he has a 2.72 ERA through his first seven major league starts with 43 K's in 36.1 innings, suggesting he can pitch off a fastball that has averaged 92.2 mph.

Chisholm began 2019 as Arizona's top prospect, but he has struggled mightily in Double-A, hitting .204/.305/.427 with 123 strikeouts in 364 plate appearances. He does have 18 home runs, but just 11 other extra-base hits, so it has been an all-or-nothing approach. He's just 21, hits left-handed and can run, so he fits the Marlins' profile as a tools-laden position player with a questionable hit tool, but how many players who strike out 34% of the time in Double-A turn into good major league hitters? There's a chance the Marlins gave up a solid rotation anchor for Lewis Brinson II. Or maybe they hit a home run with a kid who develops into a power-hitting shortstop.

Winner: Jerry Dipoto

Sit quietly? No way. Trader Jerry didn't disappoint, trading Mike Leake to the Diamondbacks and the two relievers to the Nationals. Were they good trades? Who cares. Trader Jerry rose up to the occasion -- unlike some other general managers -- and that's all that matters.

American teenager Coco Gauff is out of the Washington Open after losing to Kazakhstan's Zarina Diyas in straight sets in the first round.

Gauff, 15, continued her stunning form from Wimbledon by qualifying for the third WTA main draw of her career.

Playing in front of a packed court in the American capital, she was beaten 6-4 6-2 against world number 84 Diyas.

It was her first main-draw appearance since SW19, where she beat Venus Williams on her way to the last 16.

Gauff, who has climbed up to 146th in the world after her recent exploits, was the youngest woman to reach the second week at the All England Club since Jennifer Capriati in 1991.

Meanwhile, top seed and former champion Sloane Stephens suffered a shock 6-2 7-5 first-round loss to Swede Rebecca Peterson on Tuesday.

England's players are shedding around three times as much weight during training sessions in extreme humidity in Italy as they would do during a Test match, says Mike Brown.

Treviso was picked to host a 12-day camp as the conditions are similar to what players can expect when the World Cup begins in Japan in September.

Humidity levels have reached as high as 80-90% in north-east Italy.

"As soon as you step outside everyone starts sweating," said Brown.

"You are absolutely dripping with sweat and that makes ball-handling very tough. It's also hard to keep your core temperature low because you are sweating all the time.

"It just sits on your skin and then heats up even more so you can't get your body temperature down. It's really sunny here as well so you're constantly feeling incredibly hot.

"We have guys coming on and spraying us with cold water and we're constantly trying to wipe the sweat off you so your skin gets the chance to cool down."

Brown was left out of head coach Eddie Jones' initial training squad but the 33-year-old has been given a chance to impress before Jones picks the 31 players he will take to the World Cup on 12 August.

Each player is weighed before and after training and the Harlequins full-back says nutritionists are on hand to make sure they regain the weight lost during sessions by eating properly and hydrating.

"On our first really hard session I lost 3kg of weight. Back in England, I would barely lose any weight from a normal session in normal conditions," said Brown.

"After a Test match, I would probably lose a maximum of 1kg. And that's playing at the highest level under massive fatigue. So that puts into perspective the weight loss that you can get over here.

"Once you have taken all the right things, we will go and eat lunch and you are pretty much back on it by the afternoon session. It's no problem as long as you do the right things."

England return home on Friday to start preparations for the first of four warm-up matches, against Wales at Twickenham on Sunday, 11 August.