Lindor, Tribe earn sweep of Rangers

Francisco Lindor smashed a ninth-inning grand slam to lift the Cleveland Indians past the Texas Rangers 9-6 on Wednesday night.

Lindor recorded the first two-homer game of his career and drove in a career-high five runs.

The win gave the Indians their first 3-0 start since 1998. Texas is 0-3 for the first time since 2007 and 0-3 at home for the first time since 1991 after getting swept in the season-opening series.

Dodgers 3, Padres 1

Yasiel Puig homered and Rich Hill threw five strong innings as Los Angeles beat San Diego. The Dodgers got an RBI double from Adrian Gonzalez to go with an unearned run as they rebounded from being blanked by the Padres in the previous game.

Hill surrendered one run on two hits and three walks, with five strikeouts.

Red Sox 3, Pirates 0 (12)

Sandy Leon hit a walk-off three-run homer with one out in the 12th inning as Boston beat Pittsburgh in Chris Sale’s Red Sox debut at Fenway Park.

Leon launched an 0-1 fastball off Pirates reliever Anthony Bastardo into the Green Monster seats in left field. It was his first career game-winning RBI.

Sale threw seven scoreless innings for Boston, and Pittsburgh’s Jameson Taillon tossed seven shutout innings, too.

Rays 4, Yankees 1

Tampa Bay got a strong outing from Alex Cobb and enough offense early to pull out a win over New York, taking two of three games in the opening series of the season.

Cobb, making his way back from 2015 Tommy John surgery, held the Yankees to four hits in 52/3 innings, striking out four and continuing his strong personal success against the Yankees.

Corey Dickerson led off the first with a home run and added an RBI single in the second, with No. 9 hitter Derek Norris bringing in the other runs with a two-out single in the second for the Rays.

Braves 3, Mets 1 (12)

Matt Kemp hit a bases-loaded, two-run double with two outs in the top of the 12th inning, lifting Atlanta over New York.

Kemp collected two doubles and a walk before getting the tie-breaking hit off Rafael Montero. Kemp put the Braves in front one pitch after the Mets opted to intentionally walk Freddie Freeman.

Four Braves relievers combined on six scoreless innings after Bartolo Colon allowed one run and two hits in a crisp six innings.