Phillies walk-off the Pirates, 4-3
PHILADELPHIA >> Nick Castellanos hit a walk-off, basesloaded single in the ninth inning, Kyle Schwarber homered and the Philadelphia Phillies rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Saturday.
Alec Bohm added an RBI for the Phillies, who moved over .500.
Oneil Cruz homered for Pittsburgh.
Schwarber led off the ninth with a single to right off Jose Hernandez (1-1), and Trea Turner walked to put runners on first and second with no outs. Both advanced on a wild pitch.
REDS 5, WHITE SOX 0 >> Nick Lodolo struck out 10 in 5 2/3 solid 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.
YANKEES 3, GUARDIANS 2, 1ST GAME, YANKEES 8, GUARDIANS 2, 2ND GAME>> Oswaldo Cabrera hit a two-run homer and New York beat Cleveland in the first game of a split doubleheader to match the best start in their famed history.
Juan Soto hit a threerun homer and Cody Poteet pitched six solid innings in his debut for New York as they won the second game to sweep a doubleheader over Cleveland Guardians and continue one of the strongest starts in their storied history.
The Yankees are 12-3 for the seventh time and first since 2003, when they made one of their 40 trips to the World Series. They’re 8-1 on the road.
Soto, acquired by the club in an offseason trade from San Diego to put New York back on top, connected in the fourth off Triston McKenzie (1-2), who struggled from the outset and walked six in four innings.
Poteet (1-0) allowed one run and six hits while picking up his first win since 2021 — 1,056 days ago — with Miami.
TWINS 11, TIGERS 5, 12 INNINGS, 1ST GAME, TWINS 4, TIGERS 1, 2ND GAME>> Minnesota took advantage of a based-loaded walk, a threerun error by Detroit third baseman Zach McKinstry and three-run homer by Matt Waller in the 12th inning to beat Detroit in the first game of a doubleheader.
Edouard Julien and Willi Castro homered and Minnesota beat Detroit in the second game.
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 2 1/3 innings for his first save of the season.
ROYALS 11, METS 7>> Salvador Perez had four RBIs on two hits and Bobby Witt Jr. scored four times to lead Kansas City to a win over New York.
The four-run game was the second of the week for Witt, who scored four times in Thursday’s 13-3 win over the Houston Astros. He just missed scoring a fifth run in the sixth inning Saturday, when Brandon Nimmo robbed him of a three-run homer with a leaping catch at the right-centerfield wall.
BLUE JAYS 5, ROCKIES 3 >> Daulton Varsho hit his second career grand slam, Yariel Rodríguez struck out six over 3 2/3 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.
MARLINS 5, BRAVES 1 >> Josh Bell homered, Max Meyer allowed one run over six innings, and Miami beat Atlanta for their first 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.
GIANTS 11, RAYS 2 >> 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 runner-up lowered his ERA from 4.86 to 3.80.
LaMonte Wade Jr., Jorge Soler and Matt Chapman also homered for the Giants, who entered with a seven-game longball drought. It was the team’s longest power outage since a seven-game stretch in June 2014.
NATIONALS 3, ATHLETICS 1>> 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.
Abrams, who has hit safely in eight of the last 10 games, had a one-out RBI triple in the third inning to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead. Luis García Jr. made it 2-0 in the sixth with an RBI double.
ASTROS 9, RANGERS 2 >> 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.
BREWERS 11, ORIOLES 5 >> Jake Bauers hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the fourth inning and Milwaukee slugged their way to a victory over Baltimore.
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. DIAMONDBACKS 4, CARDINALS 2 >> Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a three-run homer, Ryne Nelson threw six solid innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Saturday night.
Gurriel’s big blow came in the sixth, giving Arizona a 4-1 lead. The left fielder lined a low fastball from Kyle Gibson into the left field seats, barely clearing the wall. The 30-year-old’s off to a hot start this season with a .317 batting average and four homers after re-signing on a $42 million, three-year deal during the offseason.