CLEVELAND (AP) — James Wood hit a two-run homer and Keibert Ruiz had a two-run single in the second inning as the Washington Nationals beat the Cleveland Guardians 6-3 on Tuesday night.
Wood’s towering, 401-foot drive to right field was his 15th homer of the season and second in as many days against AL Central-leading Cleveland. Wood leads the majors with 49 runs and ranks third with 29 extra-base hits.
The Nationals won their fourth straight and improved to 19-11 on the road. Washington (29-27) has outscored the Guardians 16-5 in the series and matched its best record of the season by moving two games over .500.
Cade Cavalli (3-3) struck out seven over six innings and allowed one run on five hits. Mitchell Parker worked the final three innings, allowing a two-run single in the ninth to rookie Travis Bazzana before earning his first save of the season.
ORIOLES 6, RAYS 1
BALTIMORE (AP) — Shane Baz struck out a season-high nine and Samuel Basallo hit a three-run homer as Baltimore beat Tampa Bay.
Baz (2-5), , pitched seven innings of one-run ball. The 26-year-old right-hander allowed seven hits and walked two.
Jackson Holliday reached on a single in the fifth and advanced to second after Gunnar Henderson beat out a throw to first base. Holliday was originally ruled out at second, but that call was overturned when the Orioles challenged. Basallo followed with his eighth homer of the season, a 405-foot shot to right-center field.
Basallo scored in the second inning on a fielding error by Rays second baseman Richie Palacios. Holliday added an RBI single, and Taylor Ward knocked in another run with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.
Chandler Simpson scored on Jonathan Aranda’s RBI single in the first inning for Tampa Bay.
ANGELS 10, TIGERS 6
DETROIT (AP) — Vaughn Grissom hit a grand slam and drove in six runs as Los Angeles beat Detroit.
Detroit led 6-4 going into the eighth, and Will Vest (1-4) got the first two outs with a runner on second. Logan O’Hoppe’s double made it a one-run game, Zach Neto singled and Mike Trout walked to load the bases.
Facing his ninth batter of the game — matching a career high — Vest fell behind 2-0 before Grissom homered to right-centerfield to give Los Angeles the 9-6 lead.
Jo Adell and Jose Siri also homered for Los Angeles, which has won four straight. Neto had three hits and a walk, scoring twice.
Wenceel Pérez homered for the Tigers, who have lost 12 of their last 14 games. Kevin McGonigle reached base four times, including a two-run triple.
PIRATES 12, CUBS
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Esmerlyn Valdez hit a two-run home run to cap a five-run first inning Pittsburgh routed the skidding Cubs to extend Chicago’s losing streak to 10 games.
The rookie became the seventh player in Pirates’ history to hit two home runs within the first four games of his major league career and the first since Austin Meadows in 2018.
The Cubs are just the second team in major league history to have two 10-game winning streaks and one 10-game losing streak in the same season, joining the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers, according to Elias Sports.
It is also the Cubs’ longest losing streak since 2022.
Braxton Ashcraft (4-3) allowed one run on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings while striking out five and walking one. He is 3-0 with a 1.82 ERA in five starts in May.
BRAVES 7, RED SOX 6
BOSTON (AP) — Michael Harris II had four hits, including a two-run home run, Matt Olson added another two-run homer and Atlanta held on to beat Boston.
The victory snapped a two-game skid for the Braves, who have beaten the Red Sox in three of their four meetings this season. It was the ninth career four-hit game for Harris and his second of the season.
Atlanta took a 7-4 lead into the ninth when things got a little dicey
Boston led off the inning with a single by Mickey Gasper and double by Nick Sogard off Raisel Iglesias.
Isiah Kiner-Falefa closed the gap to a run with a two-run single, followed by a single by Jarren Duran. Ceddanne Rafaela hit a groundball into a force at third for the second out of the inning.
Wilyer Abreu then hit a tapper back to Iglesias to end the game.
BLUE JAYS 8, MARLINS 1
TORONTO (AP) — Jesús Sánchez hit his first career grand slam, Ernie Clement and Yohendrick Piñango had solo home runs, and Toronto beat Miami, snapping the Marlins’ winning streak at four.
All three homers came off Marlins right-hander Sandy Alcantara, whose winless streak reached six starts.
Sánchez cleared the bases in Toronto’s six-run sixth inning with a 394-foot drive to right. It was his sixth home run of the season.
Sánchez spent parts of six seasons with the Marlins before joining Houston at the trade deadline last season. He was dealt to Toronto in February.
REDS 7, METS 2
NEW YORK (AP) — Chase Burns tossed 5 1/3 strong innings and won his fourth straight start for Cincinnati, who beat the Mets, dropping New York 11 games under .500 — tying a season-high.
The Mets, who ended April at 10-21, have lost five straight to fall to 22-33. They have scored just six runs and collected 25 hits during the losing streak — their second-longest of the season behind a 12-game skid from April 8-21.
Eugenio Suárez and Elly De La Cruz each had two-run doubles off David Peterson (3-5), who also gave up a pair of RBI hits to Tyler Stephenson. Sal Stewart added a run-scoring single in the eighth.
Burns (7-1) allowed two runs and walked two with eight strikeouts. He carried a one-hit shutout into the sixth, when Juan Soto, due to illness, delivered a two-run homer.
Burns has a 1.54 ERA over his last four starts to lower his seasonal ERA to 1.96. He hasn’t lost in his last eight starts dating back to April 18.
BREWERS 6, CARDINALS 0
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Garrett Mitchell hit a three-run homer and Kyle Harrison tossed six innings of four-hit ball to lead Milwaukee to a victory over St. Louis Cardinals.
Harrison (6-1) allowed two singles to open the third and two singles in the sixth, but did not allow a runner past second. He struck out two and walked none, lowering his ERA from 1.77 to 1.57. Harrison improved to 4-0 in five starts in May, allowing three runs in 28 innings.
Grant Anderson, Abner Uribe and Trevor Megill followed with a scoreless inning apiece.
Milwaukee has won 14 of its last 18 games and moved 3 ½ games ahead of second-place St. Louis in the NL Central.
Mitchell’s blast capped a five-fun fifth that put Milwaukee up 6-0.
