Colon shakes off liner to stomach; Rangers win
Bartolo Colon allowed four hits in 7⅔ shutout innings in Texas’ 5-1 win over the Mariners.
SEATTLE — Bartolo Colon laughed off having Jean Segura’s line drive hit him in the stomach, allowing four hits in 7⅔ shutout innings and giving the Texas Rangers a 5-1 win over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday.
Colon (2-1), who turns 45 on May 24, struck out two, walked none and threw 71 of 96 pitches for strikes.
Delino DeShields gave Texas the lead with a two-out RBI double in the eighth inning that scored Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who had singled off James Pazos (1-1). The Rangers added four more in the ninth, all after Ryon Healy’s two-out error.
In Anaheim, Calif., Justin Verlander pitched a five-hitter for his first shutout in three years and Evan Gattis hit a two-run homer as Houston beat Los Angeles.
Verlander (5-2) was superb in ending his two-game skid, finishing with seven strikeouts to reach 2,500 for his career. He walked one and lowered his ERA from 1.21 to 1.05.
The right-hander threw 118 pitches in his 24th career complete game and first since 2016 with Detroit. With two runners on, he retired Zack Cozart on an infield popup to polish off his eighth major league shutout and first since 2015 with the Tigers.
In Miami, Los Angeles erased a four-run deficit and still lost their sixth game in a row when J.T. Realmuto’s tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning helped the Marlins win.
The Marlins clinched the series after another last-place team, Cincinnati, swept a four-game set at Los Angeles. The defending NL champion Dodgers and the rebuilding Marlins have identical 16-26 records.
Miami’s Justin Bour hit a tworun homer. Starlin Castro tied a
career high with four hits to hike his batting average to .300.
In Boston, Xander Bogaerts hit a three-run homer, J.D. Martinez added a two-run shot and the Red Sox avoided their first series sweep this season by beating Oakland.
The win also prevented the Red Sox from matching their seasonhigh losing streak of three games.
In Atlanta, Ronald Acuna Jr. drove in Ozzie Albies with the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning to send the Braves past Chicago.
Carl Edwards Jr. (2-1) allowed five straight baserunners in Atlanta’s three-run eighth, including a bases-loaded walk to Tyler Flowers, without getting an out. Justin Hancock also forced in a run with a walk to Johan Camargo.
In Baltimore, Nick Pivetta (3-2) tied a career-high with 11 strikeouts, and Cesar Hernandez homered as Philadelphia (24-16) climbed eight games over .500 for the first time since the end of the 2011 season.
Odubel Herrera singled in the
first and extended his on-base streak to 42 games for the Phillies, who have won six of seven.
In Pittsburgh, pinch-hitter Josh Bell singled off Joakim Soria (0-2) to break a 2-2 tie in the seventh.
Pittsburgh has won seven of eight and improved to 10-2 in interleague play this season. Chicago has lost eight of nine and 13 of 15. A major league-worst 10-29, the White Sox have matched their worst start since 1948.
In Detroit, Trevor Bauer (3-3) struck out 10 in eight innings and allowed four hits as Cleveland avoided a three-game sweep.
Ryan Carpenter (0-1) gave up six runs — five earned — and seven hits in five innings, and his throwing error to first on a comebacker allowed the first run to score. Tigers center fielder JaCoby Jones left in the third with a left hip injury.
In Minneapolis, Dexter Fowler reached base four times and drove in two runs in his return to the lineup. Matt Carpenter had three hits after being demoted to seventh Tommy Pham in the added batting two order, hits, and including his eighth homer of the year. Jordan Hicks (2-1) pitched a scoreless inning, and Bud Norris got five outs for his ninth save.
BLUE JAYS 12, METS 1
reached only innings, In two New and three runners York, Toronto times J.A. over Happ and got seven its allowed (5-3) first road going victory 0-12. at the Mets after Happ struck out 10 while pitching two-hit ball. The left-hander also singled twice and walked in his first multihit game since 2011, when he had two hits for Houston at Citi Field.
RAYS 5, ROYALS 3
In Kansas City, Mo., C.J. Cron homered and scored three runs, and Tampa Bay completed a threegame sweep of the woeful Royals.
Cron extended his on-base streak to 22 games when he was hit by a pitch from Jason Hammel (0-5) in a three-run first that included Brad Miller’s RBI groundout and Adeiny Hechavarria’s tworun single.
In Phoenix, Travis Shaw, Domingo Santana, Christian Yelich and Tyler Saladino homered in the first four innings off Matt Koch (2-2), who allowed all eight runs.
Brandon Woodruff (2-0) gave up one hit in five innings, Daniel Descalso’s two-run homer in the first.
In San Francisco, Scooter Gennett homered a half-inning after the second baseman saved two runs with a diving catch on a difficult popup, helping Cincinnati avoid a sweep. Adam Duvall hit a three-run homer in the first, and Jared Hughes (2-2) pitched two scoreless innings as the Reds won for the seventh time in nine games.
Staked to a 4-0 first-inning lead, Reds Matt Harvey allowed three runs, seven hits and four walks in four innings. Raisel Iglesias got three outs for his eighth save.