Brewers bash way to win over Orioles

BALTIMORE — Jake Bauers hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the fourth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers slugged their way to another victory, 11-5 over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.

The Brewers have scored 58 runs in their last six games, with at least seven in each of them. That streak ties a franchise record set in 1982 and 1989.

Milwaukee spotted the Orioles a 4-1 lead in the second inning but didn’t stay down for long on a day when the wind at Camden Yards seemed to suit the hitters better than the pitchers. Rhys Hoskins also went deep for the Brewers, and Ryan Mountcastle, Jordan Westburg and Adley Rutschman homered for Baltimore.

Giants 11, Rays 2: At St. Petersburg, Fla., Logan Webb allowed one run over seven innings, Thairo Estrada homered twice and San Francisco cruised past Tampa Bay.

Webb (1-1) scattered six hits in his fourth start of the season. The 2023 NL

Cy Young Award runnerup lowered his ERA from 4.86 to 3.80.

Blue Jays 5, Rockies 3: At Toronto, Daulton Varsho hit his second career grand slam, Yariel Rodríguez struck out six over 32⁄3 innings in his major league debut and Toronto beat Colorado.

Rodríguez allowed one run, four hits and two walks. The right-hander signed a five-year deal with Toronto in the offseason after pitching in Japan in 2022.

Astros 9, Rangers 2: At Houston, Kyle Tucker doubled twice and had three RBIs and Jose Altuve added three hits and drove in two runs as Houston used a seven-run seventh inning to break a tie and coast to a victory over Texas.

The Astros snapped a four-game skid and bounced back after allowing the Rangers to score their season high in a 12-8 win in the series opener.

Phillies 4, Pirates 3: At Philadelphia, Nick Castellanos hit a walk-off, basesloaded single in the ninth inning, Kyle Schwarber homered and Philadelphia

rallied to beat Pittsburgh.

Alec Bohm added an RBI for the Phillies, who moved over .500.

Marlins 5, Braves 1: At Miami, Josh Bell homered, Max Meyer allowed one run over six innings, and Miami beat Atlanta for their its home win of the season.

Bell hit a fly ball off Braves starter Chris Sale that sneaked over the leftfield wall of a windy loanDepot in the first inning. It was Bell’s second home run of the season.

Nationals 3, A’s 1: At Oakland, Calif., MacKenzie Gore tied a career high with 11 strikeouts, CJ Abrams hit an RBI triple and Washington beat Oakland.

Gore (2-0) tossed five scoreless innings, throwing 90 pitches and striking out the last five batters he faced. He struck out the side in the fifth before giving way to the bullpen. Nationals pitchers combined for 18 strikeouts. Kyle Finnegan recorded his fifth save of the season.

Reds 5, White Sox 0: At Chicago, Nick Lodolo struck out 10 in 52⁄3 innings in his first big league start in almost a year, and Cincinnati beat Chicago.

Cincinnati scored five runs in the second against Garrett Crochet, and Lodolo took over from there. The 6-foot-6 left-hander allowed one hit — Robbie Grossman’s infield single leading off the sixth — and walked one. He also hit two batters.

Twins 11, Tigers 5 (12 inn.); Twins 4, Tigers 1:

At Detroit, Edouard Julien and Willi Castro homered and Minnesota beat Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader.

Minnesota used a seven-run 12th inning to win the first game 11-5.

The Tigers struck out 27 times in the doubleheader and 42 times in a 24-hour span including Friday's rain-delayed 8-2 win.

Simeon Woods-Richardson (1-0) allowed one run on two hits and a walk in six innings in the second game. Cole Sands pitched the final 21⁄3 innings for his first save of the season.

The first game went to extra innings thanks to an eighth-inning pinch-hit homer by Ryan Jeffers.