Detroit newcomer Ramos homers; Tigers fall to Yanks

Here are some of Monday’s spring training game results:

Yankees 5, Tigers 4 (7 innings)

New York catcher Gary Sánchez, a two-time AllStar who batted just .147 last year, hit a long home run over the batter’s eye screen in center field.

Yankees starter Gerrit Cole gave up one run on three hits and a walk in one inning. Jameson Taillon followed with a scoreless inning.

Detroit newcomer Wilson Ramos homered and singled. New York minor leaguer Chris Gittens hit a grand slam.

Astros 7, Nationals 6

Ryan Zimmerman appeared in a game for the first time in almost exactly a year -- he sat out the pandemic-shortened 2020 regular season because of concerns about his family’s health -- and hit one of Washington’s three consecutive homers off Houston righty Steve Cishek in the third inning.

“I’ll be sore, like I always am,” said the 36-year-old Zimmerman, who walked in his first plate appearance and played three innings at first base.

“You can’t mimic a sprint to first base. Or there’s a couple foul balls near our dugout that I had to run full-speed over there for,” he said.

Dodgers 10, Rockies 0 (6 Innings)

Trevor Bauer, pitching for the first time since signing a $102 million, three-year contract, debuted in Dodger blue with two scoreless innings. He gave up one hit, struck out two, walked none and threw a wild pitch.

Bauer won the NL Cy Young Award with Cincinnati last year. The righthander threw sharp curveballs for his pair of strikeouts.

“All my pitches are pretty much where I want them to be,” Bauer said.

Los Angeles reliever Kenley Jansen struck out two in an inning.

Colorado starter Dereck Rodriguez allowed two runs in two innings.

Angels 4, White Sox 4 (5 innings)

Albert Pujols went 2 for 2 and drove in two runs, Shohei Otani got two hits and scored twice and Mike Trout had a hit and walk for Los Angeles. Angels newcomer Alex Cobb pitched a scoreless first.

Adam Eaton had a double and sacrifice fly for Chicago.

Braves 5, Red Sox 3 (7 Innings)

Atlanta rookie catcher William Contreras, brother of Cubs two-time All-Star catcher Willson Contreras, drove in three runs and Ozzie Albies scored twice.

Boston newcomer Garrett Richards allowed two runs on three hits and two walks in two innings. He was pulled with one out in the first after loading the bases and walking in a run and throwing 23 pitches -this spring, teams can end an inning after a pitcher has thrown 20 pitches. Richards came back for the second inning.