Farmer leads Reds past Cubs
Player ties his career high with five RBIS, hits two home runs
Kyle Farmer homered twice and tied his career high with five RBIS to power the Cincinnati Reds to their highest-scoring game in 23 years, a 20-5 rout of the Chicago Cubs on Thursday.
Nick Senzel also had four of the Reds’ hits, and Brandon Drury, Tommy Pham and Albert Almora Jr. had three apiece. Drury, Pham, Almora and Matt Reynolds each had three RBIS.
The Reds scored the most runs since a 22-3 win at Philadelphia on Sept. 4, 1999, while Chicago gave up its most since a 21-8 defeat at the Phillies on July 3, 1999.
Hunter Greene (2-6) won for the first time since his major league debut on April 10 despite giving up five runs, seven hits and two walks in five innings. Justin Steele (1-5) gave up seven runs, seven hits and two walks in two-plus innings.
Phillies 4, Braves 1: Aaron Nola struck out 10 while pitching shutout ball into the ninth inning for his first victory since opening day, leading Philadelphia over Atlanta. J.T. Realmuto homered as the Phillies prevented the World Series champion Braves from posting their first three-game winning streak of the season. Nola (2-4) did little wrong against the Braves, allowing one run and five hits in 81⁄3 innings. Kyle Wright (4-3) retired the first six batters before Realmuto connected.
Tigers 4, Guardians 3: Miguel Cabrera’s third hit of the game was a game-ending single in the ninth inning, lifting Detroit past Cleveland.
Jonathan Schoop hit a one-out double in the final inning, advanced on a wild pitch from Trevor Stephan (2-2) and scored on Cabrera’s 3,029th hit. Gregory Soto (2-2) gave up one hit and struck out one in the ninth, earning the win for the Tigers. The Guardians ended Tarik Skubal’s 21-inning scoreless streak, the longest by a starting pitcher this year, and tied the score in third. Luke Maile hit an RBI double and Owen Miller had a two-run single.
Nationals 7, Rockies 3: Patrick Corbin ended a 10-start winless streak, allowing three runs over 71⁄3 innings to lead Washington over Colorado. Corbin (1-7) had not won since last Sept. 23 at Cincinnati in his next-to-last start of the season. He gave up seven hits, struck out three and walked two, lowering his ERA from 6.60 to 6.30. Cesar Hernandez had a single, double, walk and scored twice for Washington, which took a 4-0 first-inning lead. Dee Strange-gordan added a triple and a single.
Royals 3, Twins 2: Whit Merrifield drove in two runs with a double and scored on Bobby Witt Jr.’s double, as Kansas City rallied for three runs in the eighth inning and beat Minnesota. Josh Staumont (2-1) worked a scoreless inning and picked up the win. Scott Barlow escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth and stranded two on base in the ninth to earn his fifth save as the Royals snapped a seven-game losing streak.
Brewers 4, Cardinals 3: Luis Urias hit a home run and Milwaukee held off St. Louis. Eric Lauer (5-1) combined with four relievers to scatter seven hits.
Notes: Cleveland put slugger Franmil Reyes on the 10-day injured list with a tight right hamstring and selected the contract of Oscar Gonzalez from Triple-a Columbus. ... Major League Baseball and the players’ association are allowing teams to have an additional pitcher through June 19. MLB and the union said March 31 that a 13pitcher limit would be enforced starting May 2, then on April 16 announced the date had been pushed back to May 30.