Yankees get past Verlander, Astros
Justin Verlander pitched seven innings, allowed a go-ahead home run to Jake Bauers in the fifth inning and began his second stint for the Houston Astros with a 3-1 loss to the New York Yankees on Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
Verlander (6-6) allowed two runs and seven hits and lost a regular-season start to the Yankees for the first time since June 19, 2015, with Detroit. He struck out four and walked two.
The Astros reacquired Verlander on Tuesday from the Mets for a pair of top prospects.
Rookie Anthony Volpe lifted a sacrifice fly in the second against Verlander for the Yankees, who won for the third time in four games. Gleyber Torres added a homer to open the eighth off Kendall Graveman.
Jose Altuve hit his 200th career homer in the third off Nestor Cortes, but that was Houston's only hit off the Yankees left-hander, whoreturned from a rotator cuff strain and went the first four innings, striking out eight. CUBS 8, BRAVES 6 >> Dansby Swanson homered against his former team in a five-run first inning and Chicago beat major league-leading Atlanta in a rain-soaked win at Wrigley Field.
Jeimer Candelario hit his first home run since being reacquired by the Cubs, and Ian Happ also went deep.
Matt Olson narrowed the gap with a tworun homer off Adbert Alzolay in the ninth. Olson leads the NL with 38 home runs. RANGERS 9, MARLINS 8 >> Rookie Josh Jung hit the third of three multi-run home runs for Texas in the middle innings and the Rangers overcame a 5-0 deficit to beat visiting Miami for their fifth consecutive victory.
Robbie Grossman hit a three-run homer in the fourth, and Corey Seager had a two-run homer in the fifth preceding Jung's first-pitch, two-run shot.
BLUE JAYS 5, RED SOX 3 >> Brandon Belt hit a solo homer over the Green Monster and had a goahead single, George Springer went 4 for 4 and Toronto held off Boston for the second straight day at Fenway Park after losing its first seven against the Blue Jays this season.
The game ended on a double play when Connor Wong hit a drive that Kevin Kiermaier caught at the base of the left-center field wall and fired to second to double up Reese McGuire, who had raced toward home and was standing at third, thinking the ball would be off the wall.
NATIONALS 7, REDS 3 >> Joan Adon retired his first 17 batters and Washington handed host Cincinnati its fifth consecutive defeat.
Lane Thomas knocked in two runs and scored twice to help the last-place Nationals win their third in a row.
The 24-year-old Adon (1-0), in his second stint with Washington this season and making his first major league start since July 7, 2022, was working on a perfect game with two outs in the sixth inning when No. 9 batter Luke Maile lined a clean single to right field.
Elly De La Cruz followed with an infield single and TJ Friedl hit a three-run homer into the right-field seats to cut it to 6-3.