Bullpen lifts Indians
Carlos Carrasco left early with an injury, but five relievers kept the lead and helped Cleveland hold off Tampa Bay 8- 7 on Monday night. Carrasco was pulled because of tightness in his left pectoral muscle after giving up an RBI single to Brad Miller. The right- hander allowed five runs in 32/ innings, 3 but left the game with Cleveland holding a 7- 4 lead.
AMERICAN LEAGUE INDIANS 8, RAYS 7
CLEVELAND — Carlos Carrasco left early with an injury, but five relievers kept the lead and helped the Cleveland Indians hold off the Tampa Bay Rays 8- 7 on Monday night.
Carrasco was pulled because of tightness in his left pectoral muscle after giving up an RBI single to Brad Miller. The right- hander allowed five runs in 32/ innings and left with 3 Cleveland ahead 7- 4.
Boone Logan ( 1- 0), who entered in the fifth, retired both batters he faced. Andrew Miller allowed his first run of the season in the eighth, and Cody Allen gave up a home run to Peter Bourjos in the ninth before recording his 10th save.
Lonnie Chisenhall hit a three- run home run when Cleveland scored five times in the first off Chris Archer ( 3- 2). Francisco Lindor added a home run in the eighth.
Carrasco was charged with five runs and threw 75 pitches. He was sidelined in spring training with a sore elbow and didn’t pitch in last season’s playoffs because of a broken right hand after being hit by a line drive in September.
Cleveland’s rotation already is missing right- hander Corey Kluber, who has been on the 10- day disabled list since May 3 with a strained lower back.
Archer allowed seven runs in five innings. He gave up 5 hits, walked 6, struck out 6 and threw 101 pitches.
Edwin Encarnacion had an RBI grounder in the first for the Indians. The slugger, dropped out of the cleanup spot for the first time this season, went 0 for 5 and is now batting .198.
Encarnacion is stuck in an 0- for17 slump. He hit 42 home runs and
drove in 127 runs for Toronto last season before signing a $ 60 million, three- year contract with Cleveland.
Abraham Almonte started the Indians’ second with a triple and scored on a throwing error by catcher Derek Norris. Yan Gomes had an RBI double in the third.
Almonte was removed in the fifth with a sore right shoulder, an injury that occurred during an at- bat last week.
Kevin Kiermaier homered for the Rays.
INTERLEAGUE
BRAVES 10, BLUE JAYS 6 Freddie Freeman hit his 13th home run, Nick Markakis had 3 RBI and the Atlanta Braves snapped host Toronto’s 5- game winning streak with a victory over the Blue Jays on Monday night. Matt Kemp had four hits and scored three times for the Braves, who have won three of four. Freeman matched Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman and Milwaukee’s Eric Thames atop the National League home run leaderboard with a three- run shot off Leonel Campos. Freeman’s long drive to center was the big blow in Atlanta’s four- run sixth. Freeman has connected against all 10 opposing teams Atlanta has faced this season. Bartolo Colon ( 2- 4) allowed 3 runs, 2 earned, in 5 innings to win for the first time since April 16. Colon allowed fewer than four runs for the third time in eight starts this season. Kemp singled and scored in the first, singled in the third, then doubled and scored in the fifth and sixth. He walked in his final plate appearance. Markakis hit a two- run single in the first and singled home a run in the fifth. Braves third baseman Adonis Garcia had two RBI and scored twice. Shortstop Dansby Swanson also had two RBI. Making his second start of the season, Blue Jays right- hander Mike Bolsinger ( Arkansas Razorbacks) ( 0- 2) allowed six runs in 41/ innings. Toronto’s Justin Smoak 3 hit a two- run home run off Josh Collmenter in the ninth.
ASTROS 7, MARLINS 2 Short on sleep, the Houston Astros finally stirred in the sixth inning Monday night when Yuli Gurriel hit a grand slam to help beat host Miami. The Astros arrived at their hotel at 5 a. m. after a doubleheader in New York against the Yankees, and they were listless and hitless against Dan Straily until the fifth inning. Josh Reddick doubled in the sixth off Junichi Tazawa ( 1- 1), and after a walk and a hit batter loaded the bases, Gurriel pulled a 94 mph fastball over the fence with two out for a 4- 1 lead. It was the Astros’ second grand slam of the year, and their second in two games. Alex Bregman hit one in Sunday night’s victory at Yankee Stadium. Jose Altuve homered into the Marlins Park home run sculpture in the ninth and drove in three runs. Joe Musgrove ( 3- 3) allowed one run in 51/ innings for 3 the Astros ( 27- 12), who climbed 15 games above .500 for the first time since 2005.