Rockies hurler shakes off 496-ft. HR
DENVER — Pinch-hitter Yonathan Daza doubled to drive in three runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, helping the Colorado Rockies rally past the Miami Marlins 7-1 on Monday and give starter Ryan Feltner his first bigleague win.
The game also included the longest home run of the season in MLB, a 496-foot shot in the second inning from Miami’s Jesús Sánchez. It reached the third deck concourse at Coors Field.
Garrett Hampson had a tworun triple, Brendan Rodgers singled in the bottom of the eighth inning to extend his career-long hitting streak to 17 games and Rockies first baseman Connor Joe reached base safely in his 26th straight game with a triple in the sixth inning.
Feltner (1-1), who has been called up twice already from Albuquerque in 2022, went seven innings and allowing four hits while striking out six and walking one.
Sánchez’s homer is tied for the second-longest home run ever hit at Coors Field. Mike Piazza, then with the Dodgers, hit a 496-foot HR on Sept. 26, 1997. Giancarlo Stanton holds the record for the longest homer at Coors Field — a 504-foot drive for the Marlins on Aug. 6, 2016.
ASTROS 5, ATHLETICS 1: In Oakland, Calif., Yordan Álvarez hit a pair of no-doubt homers, Framber Valdez pitched a twohitter for a rare complete game and Houston’s bats woke up against Oakland ace Paul Blackburn (5-1) after being held to five runs the previous four games.
Álvarez hit a 469-foot drive to give Houston its first run in the fourth against Blackburn and added a 444-foot shot to nearly the same spot in the eighth off A.J. Puk for his 14th homer of the season.
BREWERS 7-3, CUBS 6-1: In Chicago, Tyrone Taylor homered in both games, Aaron Ashby struck out a career-high 12 in the nightcap and Milwaukee swept a doubleheader from the Cubs.
Luis Urías lined three-run homer into the basket in leftcenter to break a seventh-inning tie in the opener. The Brewers trailed 4-2 before Taylor’s tworun homer in the sixth off Matt Swarmer, and Milwaukee led 2-1 in the second game when Taylor homered off left-hander Brandon Hughes in the eighth.
Victor Caratini hit a tiebreaking home run in the fifth inning against his former team, and the Brewers won their third in a row while getting just three hits in the nightcap.
Swarmer and Milwaukee’s Ethan Small made their big league debuts in the opener. It marked the first time in Brewers history that both starters made their debuts and the first for the Cubs since 1944.
RANGERS 9, RAYS 5: In Arlington, Texas, Rangers center fielder Eli White made a spectacular leaping catch to take a three-run homer away from Ji-Man Choi in the first inning, and later hit a long home run to lead Texas.
Jonah Heim also homered and Kole Calhoun drove in three runs for Texas. Former La Cueva Bear and UNM Lobo Mitch Garver was 3 for 4 with a walk and a two-run double after missing the previous three games with a mild left knee sprain.
DIAMONDBACKS 6, BRAVES 2: In Phoenix, Pavin Smith hit a three-run homer, Zac Gallen had another strong start on the mound and Arizona beat Atlanta to snap a four-game losing streak.
Arizona took a 6-2 lead in the fifth, scoring three runs a few minutes after manager Torey Lovullo was thrown out of the game for arguing. Ketel Marte had a two-out, two-run double and David Peralta followed with an RBI single that brought home Marte.
All three runs scored after the Braves should have been out of the inning: Gold Glove first baseman Matt Olson dropped a throw that would have completed an inning-ending double play.
METS 13, NATIONALS 5: In New York, Starling Marte and Nick Plummer each homered and finished with four RBIs as the Mets rode an early offensive outburst to rout Washington.
The top three batters in the Mets’ order — Luis Guillorme, Marte and Francisco Lindor — combined to reach base in their first nine plate appearances, all of which occurred in the first three innings against Nationals starter Erick Fedde and reliever Andres Machado.
New York trailed 3-0 after a half-inning but led 12-4 after the fourth.
TIGERS 7, TWINS 5: In Detroit, Jonathan Schoop became the third player from Curaçao with 1,000 major league hits and finished a home run shy of the cycle to help Detroit beat Minnesota in the opener of a five-game series.
Schoop, a 30-year-old infielder in his 10th big league season, singled in the third inning, doubled in the fifth for his 1,000th hit and tripled leading off the seventh as part of a 3-for-5 afternoon. He joined Andruw Jones (1,933) and Andrelton Simmons (1,163 through Sunday) as players from Curaçao with 1,000 hits,
CARDINALS 6, PADRES 3: In St. Louis, Mo., Nolan Gorman hit a go-ahead, two-run homer, rookie Andre Pallante got his first big league win in his 17th appearance and the Cards beat San Diego.
Paul Goldschmidt also hit a two-run homer for the Cardinals. He has a 21-game hitting streak and has reached base safely in a career-high 35 consecutive games, the longest streak in the majors this season.
GIANTS 5, PHILLIES 4 (10 inn.): In Philadelphia, Curt Casali hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning to put San Francisco over Philadelphia in a long-ball contest that extended the Phillies’ losing streak to four.
Wilmer Flores and Evan Longoria also homered for the Giants. Kyle Schwarber, Nick Castellanos and Rhys Hoskins went deep for the Phillies, who lost in extra innings for the second straight day.
GUARDIANS 7, ROYALS 3: In Cleveland, Andrés Giménez hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning off rookie Collin Snider, sending the Guardians over injury-riddled Kansas City.
Emmanuel Rivera homered for the Royals, who rallied in the eighth but couldn’t stop from falling to 16-31 — the AL’s worst record. Before the game, Kansas City made roster moves involving eight players.
ORIOLES 10, RED SOX 0: In Boston, Tyler Wells pitched six smooth innings of two-hit ball and Baltimore got early homers from Ryan Mountcastle and
Ramón Urías.
Anthony Santander sealed Baltimore’s third win in the five-game series with a three-run homer in the ninth.
Notes
GIANTS: Manager Gabe Kapler stood just outside the third base dugout at Citizens Bank Park for the national anthem on Monday, taking a break on Memorial Day from his protest against the direction of the nation.
Kapler, who began his protest Friday, stood by himself at the railing of the Giants dugout during the playing of taps during the holiday ceremony, which was followed by a rendition of “The StarSpangled Banner.”
“Today, I’ll be standing for the anthem,” Kapler wrote earlier Monday on his blog. “While I believe strongly in the right to protest and the importance of doing so, I also believe strongly in honoring and mourning our country’s service men and women who fought and died for that right. Those who serve in our military, and especially those who have paid the ultimate price for our rights and freedoms, deserve that acknowledgment and respect, and I am honored to stand on the line today to show mine.”
Kapler announced on Friday that he intended to remain in the clubhouse during the anthem to protest “the lack of delivery of the promise of what our national anthem represents” following the shootings that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
TIGERS: Kody Clemens, an outfielder and the 26-year-old son of seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens, was brought up on Monday for a possible major league debut. That could come as soon as Tuesday.