Arrieta’s debut for S.D. results in painful loss
Freeman hits for cycle in Braves’ win
DENVER — Jake Arrieta got clobbered by Colorado and left with an injury in his Padres debut as the Rockies beat San Diego 7-5 Wednesday.
C.J. Cron had two hits and three RBIs and Trevor Story homered for the Rockies, who scored five runs in 3 1/3 innings against Arrieta before he departed with an injured left hamstring.
Arrieta (5-12) was signed Monday after being placed on waivers by the Chicago Cubs. He allowed seven hits and let his ERA rise to 7.13 on Dom Núnez’s solo homer before grabbing his hamstring and exiting the game.
“I’ve had two of these in the past that were significantly worse than this one,” Arrieta said. “Testing the strength with the trainers postgame, all the tests were good. Strength is at a pretty high level, which was something that wasn’t the case with the two previous hamstrings that I had, and I came back pretty quick from those two.”
Wil Myers homered twice for the slumping Padres. San Diego has lost seven of eight but still leads Cincinnati by 1 1/2 games for the second NL wild card.
BRAVES 11, MARLINS 9: In Miami, Freddie Freeman hit for the cycle for the second time as Atlanta beat Miami.
He doubled in the first, tripled in the fourth, singled in the fifth and hit his 27th homer, a two-run blast, in the sixth.
He went 9 for 13 in the threegame series sweep against Miami.
CUBS 7, REDS 1: In Cincinnati, Michael Hermosillo homered for the first time since 2018, and Ian Happ and Sergio Alcántara also went deep as Chicago beat Cincinnati, taking two of three from their playoff-contending NL Central rivals.
Frank Schwindel and Rafael Ortega also drove in runs for the Cubs, who ended a 12-game skid a day earlier. Schwindel, Chicago’s regular first baseman since Anthony Rizzo was dealt to the Yankees, had six hits in the series and is batting .329.
METS 6, GIANTS 2 (12): In San Francisco, Kevin Pillar hit a three-run home run in the 12th inning, lifting New York over San Francisco hours after the team’s owner called out its hitters for a lack of production.
With his club stuck in a fivegame skid, Mets owner Steve Cohen tweeted Wednesday morning that “it’s hard to understand how professional hitters can be this unproductive. The best teams have a more disciplined approach. The slugging and OPS numbers don’t lie.”
The barbs hardly seemed to inspire New York early on. Six Giants pitchers combined to blank the Mets until the ninth inning, when J.D. Davis provided a tying sacrifice fly.
YANKEES 5, RED SOX 2 : In New York, Andrew Heaney pitched seven smooth innings and Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run single in his return from COVID-19 as New York beat Boston for its sixth straight victory.
Shortstop Andrew Velazquez delivered a pair of RBI singles from the No. 9 spot in the batting order and combined with Rizzo on a terrific defensive play for the final out.
DODGERS 9, PIRATES 0: In Los Angeles, Max Muncy slugged two homers and drove in five runs to highlight a power performance by LA.
The Dodgers earned their sixth straight win and moved within three games of the NL West-leading San Francisco Giants.
ROYALS 3, ASTROS 2: In Kansas City, Mo., Hunter Dozier hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh as KC earned its third straight win over Houston.
Dozier homered off reliever Blake Taylor to help the Royals post their 31st come-from-behind victory of the season.
MARINERS 3, RANGERS 1: In Arlington, Texas, Kyle Seager hit a two-run homer on the game’s third at-bat, Marco Gonzales pitched 5 1/3 shutout innings and Seattle beat Texas.
Gonzales (5-5) held the Rangers to six hits and one walk.
NATIONALS 8, BLUE JAYS 5: In Washington, Josh Bell hit a threerun homer off ex-teammate Brad Hand in Washington’s win.
Juan Soto and Carter Kieboom also connected for Washington.
TWINS 8, INDIANS 7 (11): In Minneapolis, Jorge Polanco drove in the game-ending run for the third time in four games, lining a bases-loaded single in the 11th inning to give Minnesota a win.
Danny Coulombe (3-1), Minnesota’s eighth pitcher, got the win.
ANGELS 3, TIGERS 1: In Detriot, Shohei Ohtani hit his 40th homer and pitched eight sharp innings, helping Los Angeles beat Miguel Cabrera and Detroit.
Ohtani became the first major leaguer to hit 40 homers in a season in which he pitched at least 15 games. The previous record was 29 by Babe Ruth in 1919.
DIAMONDBACKS 4, PHILLIES 2: In Phoenix, Humberto Castellanos earned his first major league win on the mound and added two hits at the plate to push Arizona past slumping Philadelphia, which has lost six of eight after an eight-game winning streak.
RAYS 8, ORIOLES 4: In St. Petersburg, Fla., Ryan Yarbrough worked five scoreless innings as Tampa Bay handed the Orioles their 14th consecutive loss.
Baltimore, which also had a 14-game skid from May 18-31, joined the Boston Braves as the only teams to have a pair of 14-game or longer losing streaks in the same season since 1901.
WHITE SOX 3, ATHLETICS 2: In Chicago, Luis Robert had three hits and two RBIs, Eloy Jiménez drove in a run with a double and Chicago beat Oakland.
The A’s, who lost their fourth straight, learned before the game that ace Chris Bassitt has a broken bone in his cheek and needs surgery to repair it. He sustained no eye damage after being struck on the side of the head by a line drive on Tuesday and appears to have a clear path to recovery.
BREWERS 6, CARDINALS 4 (10): In St. Louis, Jackie Bradley Jr. scampered home from third base on a wild pitch in the 10th inning, and Avisail Garcia hit two homers to help Milwaukee defeat St. Louis.
Notes
BAUER HEARING: In Los Angeles, Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination and will answer no questions in the case of a woman seeking a five-year restraining order against him, his attorney said in court Wednesday.
Bauer’s lawyer Shawn Holley told a judge the only questions he will answer are “his name and what he does for a living,” and cited a pending criminal investigation by police in Pasadena, California.
The legal team seeking the order for a woman who says Bauer choked her into unconsciousness and punched her in two sexual encounters said that Bauer was the last remaining witness they intended to call at the hearing.