Anderson, Turner power Dodgers
Goldschmidt walks off Toronto with 10th-inning grand slam
WASHINGTON — Tyler Anderson pitched eight shutout innings, Trea Turner had three RBIs in his first game against his former team and the Los Angeles Dodgers routed the Washington Nationals 10-1 on Monday night.
Anderson retired his first 16 batters before César Hernández’s one-out double in the sixth.
“He joked with me and said it seems like every time he pitches, I tell him we needed that outing,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “And we have needed it. He’s given us length and today it was just complete command of his arsenal.”
Turner, who played with Washington for seven seasons before his trade to Los Angeles last July, extended his hitting streak to 15 games with a two-run single in the sixth. He also had an RBI groundout in his first at-bat.
The Dodgers have won eight of nine and own the best record in the National League at 28-13. Washington fell to 5-16 at Nationals Park, the worst home record in the majors.
Turner was a key figure on Washington’s 2019 championship team, and he and reliever Daniel Hudson — who got the last out of the World Series that year for the Nationals — were introduced to applause before the lineups were announced. But Anderson (5-0) quickly made it his night.
METS 13, GIANTS 3: In San Francisco, Pete Alonso hit an early three-run homer moments after Francisco Lindor’s tying, tworun double, and New York kept slugging all game long to rout the stumbling Giants.
Jeff McNeil added a two-run homer in the eighth inning and Mark Canha followed with a solo drive in his return to the Bay Area after playing for the Oakland Athletics. That was the second time the Mets connected for backto-back homers this year, also on April 15 against Arizona.
Brandon Crawford put the Giants on the board first with a two-run homer in the second off lefty David Peterson (2-0), pitching in Max Scherzer’s place with the ace righthander sidelined by an oblique strain.
J.D. Davis broke out of a slump with four hits for the NL East-leading Mets, who are in a grueling stretch with 16 games in as many days. They won for the fifth time in six games, and were certainly thrilled with sunny skies and warm San Francisco temperatures — at least until the late innings — after coming from a Colorado snowstorm.
CARDINALS 7, BLUE JAYS 3 (10 inn.): In St. Louis, Mo., Paul Goldschmidt hit a walkoff grand slam in the 10th inning, lifting the Cardinals.
St. Louis native David Phelps (0-1) began the 10th and a wild pitch sent pinch-runner Lars Nootbaar — who was on second as the automatic runner — to third. After striking out two, Phelps walked Tommy Edman. Ryan Borucki, the sixth Toronto pitcher, came in and walked pinch-hitter Edmundo Sosa.
Goldschmidt, who sat out Sunday, struck out three times and hit into a double play in his previous four at-bats.
Goldschmidt sent a 1-2 pitch over the left field fence for his seventh homer. It was his seventh career grand slam, his seventh career winning homer and his seventh extra-inning home run. It extended his hitting streak to 15 games.
PIRATES 2, ROCKIES 1: In Pittsburgh, Ke’Bryan Hayes had three hits and scored the tiebreaking run on Yoshi Tsutsugo’s infield single in the eighth inning as the Pirates beat Colorado.
Hayes singled to lead off the eighth against Tyler Kinley (1-1), stole second base and advanced to third on Daniel Vogelbach’s groundout. Tsutsugo then beat out a slow bouncer to second base, enabling Hayes to score.
Josh VanMeter added two hits for the Pirates, who had lost three straight games. Connor Joe had two hits for the Rockies.
The Rockies have lost 10 of their last 11 road games and eight of their last 12 games against the Pirates.
ORIOLES 6, YANKEES 4: In New York, Ramón Urías hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning off Gerrit Cole and Baltimore withstood Aaron Judge’s two home runs to beat the Yankees and send New York to its season-high third straight loss.
Urías started Baltimore’s four-run third with a double down the left field line, then snapped a 4-all tie by lining an 0-1 fastball to the short porch in right field off Cole (4-1).
The Yankees, who began the day with the best record in the majors, are on their first three-game losing streak since dropping seven straight last September. Before getting swept in Sunday’s doubleheader to the White Sox and losing their second straight to the Orioles, the Yankees had won 24 of 29.
Judge upped his major league-leading home run total to 17, five ahead of Houston slugger Yordan Alvarez and Angels star Mike Trout.
Cole entered the game with a 1.67 ERA in his previous five outings and allowed a season-worst five runs and seven hits in eight innings. He struck out 11 for his 49th career double-digit strikeout game.
Robinson Chirinos hit an RBI double, Austin Hays hit a two-run single that gave Baltimore its first lead and Ryan Mountcastle capped the third-inning rally with an RBI groundout.
MARINERS 7, ATHLETICS 6: In Seattle, prized rookie Julio Rodríguez homered at home for the first time, a three-run shot to give Seattle an early lead, and the Mariners beat Oakland for their 13th straight win over the Athletics.
Cal Raleigh and Eugenio Suárez each added a two-run homer as the Mariners extended their domination of the A’s dating to last season. Seattle went 15-4 against Oakland last year and hasn’t lost to the A’s since July 22, 2021.
After a rough first couple of weeks, Rodríguez has been one of Seattle’s best hitters for more than a month. He had his fifth multi-hit game in the past nine, adding a sharp single to go along with his fourth home run.
GUARDIANS 6, ASTROS 1: In Houston, José Ramírez homered with four RBIs and Triston McKenzie pitched seven sharp innings to help Cleveland.
It was the fourth consecutive quality start for the 24-year-old who has a 2.07 ERA with 20 strikeouts in that span.
CUBS 7, REDS 4: In Cincinnati, Ian Happ added a three-run homer and an RBI double to his impressive body of work at GABP, powering the Cubs to a win.
The Pittsburgh native now has 14 homers among 24 extra-base hits and 29 RBIs in 35 games at Great American.
Happ is hitting .383 in his last 15 games, pushing his season average to .286.
TWINS 5, TIGERS 4: In Minneapolis, Max Kepler hit an early grand slam, and Gio Urshela’s infield single in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Twins a victory.
Urshela hit a grounder toward Tigers shortstop Javier Báez, who couldn’t make a play. That allowed Kepler — who launched his slam in the first inning — to score the winning run.
It’s the second time this season the Twins have walked off the Tigers at Target Field. Minnesota won in walk-off fashion on a bizarre series of plays April 26 against Detroit.
PHILLIES 7, BRAVES 3: In Atlanta, Zack Wheeler is rounding into the form that helped him finish second in the Cy Young Award voting last year. He pitched 6⅔ strong innings with a season-high 10 strikeouts, Rhys Hoskins knocked in three runs with an early double and Philadelphia beat the Braves.
The teams began the day tied for second in the division, eight games out of the lead, and hadn’t met since Sept. 30 when the defending World Series champion Braves won to clinch their fourth consecutive NL East title.
Note
BAUER HEARING: In New York, the hearing on Trevor Bauer’s attempt to overturn his unprecedented two-year suspension under Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy began Monday before an arbitrator.
Bauer was suspended by Commissioner Rob Manfred on April 29, a penalty that if unchanged will cost the Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher just over $60 million of his $102 million, three-year contract.
Arbitrator Martin Scheinman is the independent member and chair of a three-person arbitration panel that includes one representative each from MLB and the players’ association.
A complicated grievance can take five to 10 hearing days plus additional time for the submission of briefs. The independent member of the panel then drafts a decision.
Bauer’s lawyers and MLB declined to comment on the session.
Under the domestic violence policy agreed to by MLB and the union in 2015, “a player may be subjected to disciplinary action for just cause by the commissioner for a violation of this policy in the absence of a conviction or a plea of guilty to a crime involving a covered act.”
MLB has the burden of proof of proving a player “committed a covered act” and discipline must be “for just cause.”
A San Diego woman, whom the pitcher had met through social media, has alleged Bauer beat and sexually abused her last year. She later sought but was denied a restraining order. Los Angeles prosecutors said in February that there was insufficient evidence to prove the woman’s accusations beyond a reasonable doubt.
Bauer, who hasn’t played since the allegations surfaced last summer and MLB began investigating, repeatedly has said that everything that happened between the two was consensual. The pitcher has said the two engaged in rough sex at his Pasadena home at her suggestion and followed guidelines they agreed to in advance. Each encounter ended with them joking and her spending the night, he said.