ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Kevin Gausman struck out six over eight strong innings, Daulton Varsho had a solo homer among his three hits and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers on Monday.
Gausman (5-4) threw 72 of his 96 pitches for strikes, including his first 14, and didn’t walk a batter. He gave up one run and five hits.
Jeff Hoffman worked a perfect ninth for his 11th save in 14 chances.
Jacob deGrom (4-2) lost for the first time in his last seven starts, and didn’t have a strikeout in 5 1/3 innings. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner allowed five hits and walked two.
TIGERS 3, GIANTS 1
DETROIT (AP) — Keider Montero pitched five scoreless innings and Riley Greene drove in two runs to help Detroit beat San Francisco.
Montero (2-1) entered the game with a 5.28 ERA in six games, but held the Giants to one hit and two walks while striking out three.
Five relievers finished, with Will Vest pitching the ninth for his sixth save.
Hayden Birdsong (2-1) took the loss, giving up three runs on five hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings.
The Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the fourth on Dillon Dingler’s RBI single, and they added two runs in the fifth.
With one out, Detroit loaded the bases on a single and two walks before Greene looped a two-run single into center. Reliever Erik Miller avoided a worse outcome by intentionally walking Spencer Torkelson and getting Zach McKinstry to hit into an inning-ending double play.
Wilmer Flores’ RBI single made it 3-1 in the sixth, but the Giants failed to get a runner into scoring position in the last three innings.
CUBS 3, ROCKIES 1
CHICAGO (AP) — Jameson Taillon pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Kyle Tucker drove in two runs and Chicago beat Colorado.
NL Central-leading Chicago improved to 8-2 in its last 10 games. Colorado lost for the eighth time in nine games, dropping to a major league-worst 9-45.
Taillon (4-3) retired his first 14 batters before Mickey Moniak connected in the fifth, driving a changeup deep to right-center for his fifth homer. Moniak also hit a solo drive during Sunday’s 5-4 loss to the New York Yankees.
Taillon departed after he struck out Brenton Doyle looking for the first out of the seventh. The big right-hander struck out seven and walked none.
Daniel Palencia, the fourth Cubs reliever, pitched a perfect ninth for his third save.
Colorado’s Carson Palmquist (0-3) permitted two runs and three hits in five innings in his third major league start.
The Cubs jumped ahead when Ian Happ scored on Dansby Swanson’s groundout in the first inning.
After Moniak’s homer tied it in the fifth, Tucker singled in Matt Shaw in the bottom half of the inning. Tucker added a sacrifice fly in the
seventh.
BREWERS 3, RED SOX 2
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Chourio homered on the opening pitch from Garrett Crochet, and Milwaukee defeated Boston.
Milwaukee pushed the lead to 2-0 in the fifth on consecutive doubles by Joey Ortiz and Andruw Monasterio.
Milwaukee starter Chad Patrick pitched 4 2/3 scoreless innings, giving up three hits while walking two and striking out six. DL Hall, fresh off the , came on to relieve Patrick with Jarren Duran on second base. Hall retired Rafael Devers on an easy ground out to first to end the threat.
Hall (1-0) pitched out of a jam in the seventh by getting Duran to ground into an inning-ending double play.
The Red Sox plated a run in the eighth but the Brewers regained a two-run cushion on Eric Haase’s infield single with the bases loaded.
Duran’s run-scoring single in the ninth pulled the Red Sox within a run.
Trevor Megill earned his 10th save in 11 tries but had to pitch out of a bases-loaded jam.
After winning four of five, the Red Sox lost their third straight while scoring a total of four runs in those contests.
Crochet (4-4) gave up five hits and two runs in 6 2/3 innings. He walked two and struck out 11, marking his eighth career start with 10 or more strikeouts.
ORIOLES 5, CARDINALS 2
BALTIMORE (AP) — Dylan Carlson hit a three-run homer against his former team, Charlie Morton earned his first victory with Baltimore, and the Orioles achieved their first three-game winning streak of the season, beating St. Louis.
Carlson’s drive in the fourth off Erick Fedde (3-4) put the Orioles up 5-0. Morton (1-7) took a shutout into the fifth before allowing a two-run shot by Pedro Pagés. The 41-year-old right-hander, who signed with Baltimore in the offseason, allowed four hits in six innings after losing his first six starts of the season. He’d pitched mostly in relief lately.
After Morton exited, three Baltimore relievers — Seranthony Domínguez, Yennier Cano and Félix Bautista — retired all nine of their hitters. Bautista pitched the ninth for his eighth save in nine chances.
Fedde allowed three earned runs in five innings and did not get much help from his infielders. After a leadoff single by Jackson Holliday in the first, Ramón Urías hit a grounder to third, but Nolan Gorman threw wildly to second for an error. Holliday went to third and then scored one batter later.
With one out and a man on first in the fourth, St. Louis second baseman Brendan Donovan fielded a grounder, but his throw to second hit the runner for another error. Carlson followed with his home run.
REDS 7, ROYALS 4
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nick Martinez worked seven strong innings and Tyler Stephenson homered to lead Cincinnati to a win over Kansas City.
Martinez (3-5) allowed three singles through six shutout innings and finished seven innings allowing three runs on six hits with two strikeouts and no walks.
Stephenson hit a two-run homer to left in the fifth inning, his second of the season, boosting the Reds’ lead to 6-0. Stephenson had three of Cincinnati’s 14 hits.
Michael Lorenzen (3-6) allowed six runs on a career-high 11 hits with three walks and two strikeouts in five innings as the Royals lost for the third time in four games.
METS 2, WHITE SOX 1
NEW YORK (AP) — Tyrone Taylor hit a leadoff double in the ninth inning and scored on Francisco Lindor’s sacrifice fly as New York mounted a late comeback to edge Chicago in the opener of a three-game series.
New York managed just two baserunners through the first six innings against Adrian Houser and left the bases loaded in the seventh before Juan Soto delivered a tying sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Steven Wilson (1-1) gave up Taylor’s double to start the ninth. Jeff McNeil was intentionally walked and Luis Torrens singled to load the bases before Taylor trotted home on Lindor’s fly to deep right field.
Edwin Díaz (2-0) tossed a hitless inning for the win as the Mets won their third straight game since dropping six of eight.
Mets starter Clay Holmes gave up one run and four hits while throwing a career-high 102 pitches over 5 2/3 innings.
DODGERS 7, GUARDIANS 2
CLEVELAND (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer for the second straight game and Los Angeles defeated Cleveland.
Will Smith also went deep for the Dodgers, who bounced back after dropping two of three games in New York to the Mets.
Los Angeles’ first five hitters accounted for seven of its eight hits.
Ohtani didn’t waste any time in hitting his major league-leading 19th homer of the season. He drove a low, inside fastball from Gavin Williams (4-3) on the first pitch into the right-field stands. It was the second time this year he went deep on the first pitch.
It was Ohtani’s fifth leadoff homer this season and 17th since arriving in the majors from Japan in 2018. It is the first time he has had 19 home runs in the majors before June 1.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto (6-3) allowed two runs in six innings and struck out seven. The Japanese right-hander has a 1.97 ERA, which ranks sixth in the majors.
RAYS 7, TWINS 2
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan Aranda hit a three-run homer and Danny Jansen added a two-run shot as Tampa Bay extended their winning streak to six games with a win over Minnesota.
Zack Littell (4-5) allowed three hits through six shutout innings. He left with one out in the seventh after hitting Ty France with his 72nd pitch. Then, Minnesota’s Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer, his fourth of the season, off reliever Garrett Cleavinger, pulling the Twins within 3-2.
Kody Funderburk, the Twins only left-handed reliever, entered with one out in the eighth and the bases empty and allowed back-to-back singles to Aranda and Curtis Mead. A two-out, two-run double by José Caballero and Jansen’s fourth homer made it 7-2.
Aranda broke a scoreless tie in the sixth inning, hitting a 1-2 pitch from Minnesota reliever Brock Stewart 365 feet to right field for a 3-0 lead. Twins starter Chris Paddock breezed through five innings before leaving with one out in the sixth after Brandon Lowe singled and Junior Caminero doubled.
Littell, who lost his first five starts this season, allowed one run on three hits in 6 1/3 innings. Manuel Rodríguez and Mason Montgomery each pitched a scoreless inning to close it out.
Paddock (2-5) gave up two runs in 5 1/3 innings on five hits. Funderburk retired two batters and allowed four runs on six hits.
Brandon Lowe went 2 for 4 and extended his hitting streak to nine games for the Rays (27-26). Curtis Mead has hit in eight straight after going 1 for 4.
DIAMONDBACKS 5, PIRATES 0
PHOENIX (AP) — Eugenio Suárez and Josh Naylor homered to back a stellar start from Ryne Nelson as Arizona beat Pittsburgh to end a five-game skid.
Suárez hit his 15th homer — a 109 mph shot to left-center that traveled 433 feet — for a 3-0 lead against Andrew Heaney (3-4) in the third inning. Suárez also walked with one out in the fifth before Naylor launched his sixth home run.
Nelson (2-1) permitted four hits in 6 2/3 innings as Arizona (27-27) got back to .500. He struck out four and walked none.
Justin Martinez stranded three inherited runners after coming in with the bases loaded and nobody out in the eighth. Ryan Thompson pitched the ninth to finish a six-hitter for Arizona’s fifth shutout.
PADRES 4, MARLINS 3. 11 INNINGS
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Manny Machado hit a tying homer in the eighth inning and Tyler Wade scored the winning run on Cade Gibson’s wild pitch in the 11th as San Diego rallied past Miami.
Jose Iglesias had a two-run double in the fourth to begin San Diego’s comeback from a 3-0 deficit. Machado tied it with his sixth homer, a leadoff shot to left-center off reliever Calvin Faucher.
Adrian Morejon (2-2) stranded a Marlins runner at third in the 11th for the win.
Wade, who replaced Machado as the automatic runner at second base, moved to third on a groundout before Gibson (0-2) intentionally walked Xander Bogaerts. The Marlins used an outfielder as a fifth infielder, but Gibson threw a curveball in the dirt on a 1-2 pitch to Jake Cronenworth.
Miami grabbed the lead two batters into the game against starter Randy Vásquez. Jesús Sánchez singled and scored on a double by Agustín Ramírez. Otto Lopez made it 2-0 with a two-out single.
Sánchez hit Vásquez’s pitch 417 feet out to center at 111 mph for his third home run and a 3-0 lead in the second. Vásquez gave up three runs in 6 1/3 innings.
Bogaerts singled with two outs in the fourth and stole his 10th base before Cronenworth reached on a throwing error by third baseman Connor Norby. Luis Campusano walked to load the bases and Iglesias doubled to make it 3-2.
Miami starter Ryan Weathers allowed two unearned runs in 5 2/3 innings.
YANKEES 5, ANGELS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anthony Volpe hit a three-run double during the Yankees’ four-run fourth inning, and Ryan Yarbrough yielded two hits over six innings in New York’s victory against Los Angeles.
Cody Bellinger had two hits and an RBI in the Yankees’ ninth victory in 10 games.
Zach Neto hit a leadoff homer for the Angels, who didn’t score again. They’ve lost three straight after surprisingly getting to .500 last week with an eight-game winning streak.
Yarbrough (2-0) recovered and delivered with another strong outing for New York, striking out seven and eventually retiring 13 of his final 14 hitters. The former Dodgers left-hander has allowed five runs in 20 innings across four starts since joining the rotation this month.
Jack Kochanowicz (3-6) pitched five-hit ball into the seventh in another solid start for the Angels, but four of those hits came during the Yankees’ rally in the fourth.
