BALTIMORE (AP) — Trevor Rogers allowed three hits in a career-high eight innings in his home debut, Jackson Holliday hit a three-run homer and drove in the game’s first four runs and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Texas Rangers 6-0 on Monday night with the game temperature reaching 100 degrees.
Rogers (1-0) made his third start and turned in the longest outing by an Oriole this season, throwing 72 of his 101 pitches for strikes. He struck out four and didn’t issue a walk.
Holliday’s run-scoring double followed Chadwick Tromp’s first hit with Baltimore, a two-out double in the third off Texas starter Patrick Corbin (4-7).
Coby Mayo and Cedric Mullins had consecutive one-out singles in the fifth and Holliday hit his ninth homer one out later, a 402-foot shot the opposite way to left-center field for a 4-0 lead. He finished 3 for 5 for his seventh three-hit game this season.
Corbin allowed five runs on nine hits in five innings.
REDS 6, YANKEES 1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Elly De La Cruz had three hits — including a home run — and drove in three runs as Cincinnati defeated New York.
Gavin Lux also went deep for the Reds, who have won their last two and 11 of 16.
Aaron Judge accounted for the Yankees lone run with his 28th home run of the season. Cody Bellinger added three hits.
It was only the second time in 14 games Yankees’ pitchers have allowed three or more earned runs. New York had come in with a 1.99 ERA since June 10.
Cincinnati grabbed the lead with three runs in the fourth inning. De La Cruz had an RBI triple over the head of Bellinger in center field to tie it at 1-1 before scoring the go-ahead run on Spencer Steer’s sacrifice fly. Gavin Lux followed with a solo shot to right off Yankees’ starter Allan Winans (0-1).
MARINERS 11, TWINS 2
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 32nd home run, one of four by Seattle n their victory over Minnesota.
Raleigh hit a two-run shot to left in the ninth inning off reliever Joey Wentz.
Julio Rodríguez and Luke Raley homered as part of a six-run third inning for Seattle. Dominic Canzone, who homered twice on Sunday, went deep again for the Mariners, while Bryan Woo (7-4) gave up two runs and struck out nine to win his second straight start.
Brooks Lee, Trevor Larnach and Carlos Correa each had two hits. Larnach and Correa hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning for Minnesota, which has lost 14 of its last 17.
Twins starter Bailey Ober (4-5) had just one bad inning, but it was rocky enough to be the difference in the game. He gave up six runs in the third, with a two-run homer by Rodríguez and Raley’s three-run shot doing most of the damage.
CARDINALS 8, CUBS 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alec Burleson and Brendan Donovan each hit two-run homers in the fifth inning, Matthew Liberatore pitched seven strong innings, and St. Louis beat Chicago.
Lars Nootbaar and Nolan Gorman also homered as the Cardinals hit a season-best four home runs for the first time since April 30 at Cincinnati.
Liberatore (5-6) allowed two runs on six hits and struck out five for the Cardinals, who have won six of their last seven games.
Ben Brown (4-6) allowed eight runs on nine hits in five innings for the Cubs, who have lost four of their last five.
BRAVES 3, METS 2
NEW YORK (AP) —Ronald Acuña Jr. homered, Spencer Schwellenbach pitched seven strong innings and Atlanta held off New York in the opener of a four-game series.
Michael Harris II and Sean Murphy each had an early sacrifice fly for the Braves, who beat starter Paul Blackburn (0-2) for the second time in six days and improved to 4-0 against the Mets this season.
Juan Soto hit a two-run homer that pulled the Mets within one, but he struck out against left-hander Dylan Lee with runners at the corners to end the eighth.
New York has dropped nine of 10, including a three-game sweep by its NL East rival in Atlanta last week.
PIRATES 5, BREWERS 4
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nick Gonzales went 5 for 5 with two RBIs, Isiah Kiner-Falefa tripled home the go-ahead run in the sixth inning and Pittsburgh beat Milwaukee to snap the Brewers’ four-game winning streak.
Tommy Pham hit a one-out single off Nick Mears (1-1) and scored when Kiner-Falefa sent a line drive into the right-field corner. Pham also hit his first homer of the season, a two-run shot off Chad Patrick in the fourth.
Kiner-Falefa’s big hit came after Milwaukee slugger Christian Yelich tied the game in the fifth by connecting on a 3-0 pitch from Chase Shugart (4-3) for a two-run homer that stayed just inside the right-field foul pole.
Yelich has batted .402 (41 for 102) with eight homers and 30 RBIs over his last 26 games. He is 16 for 30 with 14 RBIs in his past seven games.
David Bednar worked around a hit and a walk in the ninth to earn his 11th save in as many opportunities. Bednar hasn’t allowed an earned run in his last 13 appearances.
Pittsburgh’s Braxton Ashcraft made his first career start and allowed one hit and no walks over three innings, lowering his ERA to 1.23. Ashcraft primarily has been a starter in the minors, but all seven of his previous major league appearances came in relief.
DIAMONDBACKS 10, WHITE SOX 0
CHICAGO (AP) — Pavin Smith homered twice and drove in four runs, and Arizona beat Chicago in a game that saw the Diamondbacks lose Eugenio Suárez and Josh Naylor to injuries.
Suárez left after he was hit on the right hand in the first inning on a pitch from Shane Smith. The team announced he had a right-hand contusion and X-rays were negative.
Naylor, who hit a two-run double in the first for a 2-0 lead, appeared to injure his shoulder on a swing in the second and left in the fourth after grounding out. He is day to day with right shoulder discomfort.
Eduardo Rodriguez (3-4) gave up five hits and struck out 10 in six innings. It was the first time he hasn’t allowed a run through five innings since Sept. 24, 2023, while pitching for the Tigers. He is 5-0 in five career starts at Guaranteed Rate Field.
Anthony DeSclafani struck out four in three hitless innings for his first career save. He issued two walks in the ninth before striking out Michael A. Taylor to end it.
NATIONALS 10, PADRES 6
SAN DIEGO (AP) — James Wood had a three-run homer among his three hits, drove in four and scored three times for Washington, who beat San Diego.
Josh Bell also homered and finished with three RBIs. CJ Abrams had three hits and scored three times, twice on hits by Wood.
Wood broke open the game with a three-run shot off the right-field foul pole against Yuki Matsui in the eighth inning. Abrams and Daylen Lile were aboard for Wood’s 22nd homer.
Bell’s 10th homer sailed into the second deck in left in the ninth.
Nationals starter Mitchell Parker (5-8) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings.
ANGELS 9, RED SOX 5
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Zach Neto hit a leadoff homer and rookie Christian Moore had a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in a four-run eighth inning that sent Los Angeles past Boston.
LaMonte Wade Jr. opened the eighth with a single off reliever Garret Whitlock (5-1). Wade stole second and went to third when catcher Connor Wong’s throw bounced into center field for an error.
Luis Rengifo walked, and Moore hit a sacrifice fly for a 6-5 lead. A single by Neto, who had three hits, and an intentional walk to Mike Trout loaded the bases with two outs. Taylor Ward walked to force in a run, and Travis d’Arnaud’s two-run single made it 9-5.
Angels left-hander Reid Detmers escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the seventh by striking out Roman Anthony and Trevor Story with 96 mph fastballs. Sam Bachman (1-0) retired the side in order in the eighth for the win.
Angels closer Kenley Jansen left because of injury after four pitches in the ninth, and Hector Neris got the final three outs.
The Associated Press
