Syndergaard struggles in his return to NY
Another Clemens reaches big leagues
NEW YORK — Noah Syndergaard was rocked in his return to New York, giving up Matt Carpenter’s two-run homer in a four-run first inning that propelled the Yankees over the reeling Los Angeles Angels 9-1 Tuesday night.
Starting a high-profile threegame series against Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout & Co., New York improved the American League’s best record to 34-14 and sent the Angels (27-23) to their season-worst sixth straight loss.
Jordan Montgomery (1-1) pitched four-hit ball for seven innings, allowing Luis Rengifo’s seventh-inning homer on a hanging curveball.
Aaron Judge, the 6-foot-7 AllStar, helped out with his glove, jumping to get his glove above the 8-foot-5 center-field wall to deny Ohtani a possible home run in the first.
Syndergaard (4-3) got just one swinging strike among 45 pitches, averaging 94 mph with his fastball. He allowed five runs, seven hits and a walk, his ERA rising from 3.08 to 4.02.
METS 10, NATIONALS 0: In New York, Mark Canha led off with the first of his four hits, Starling Marte followed with a homer against Patrick Corbin and New York rolled from there, totaling 17 hits in a blowout of Washington.
The NL East-leading Mets have won a season-best five straight, all during this sixgame homestand, which ends Wednesday against the Nats. They have at least 16 hits in consecutive games for the second time in a week.
TWINS 8-0, TIGERS 2-4: In Detroit, Jonathan Schoop homered and drove in four runs as the Tigers, with Kody Clemens making his major league debut while his famous father watched from a suite, beat Minnesota 4-0 to split a doubleheader.
Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens saw his 26-year-old son go 0 for 3, striking out twice and drawing a walk. Flawless in the field at second base, Kody Clemens handled a grounder for the final out of the game.
Max Kepler had three hits and drove in three runs and Gary Sanchez hit a three-run homer to help the Twins to an 8-2 win in the first game.
In the second game, Schoop hit a two-run homer in the first inning and added a two-run single off second baseman Jorge Polanco’s glove.
RANGERS 3, RAYS 0: In Arlington, Texas, Martín Pérez retired all 16 batters after taking a 97 mph liner off his right leg, lowering his majors-leading ERA with seven scoreless innings in Texas’ victory over Tampa Bay.
Corey Seager homered for Texas’ first hit in the fourth inning, with Adolis García adding a two-run shot two batters later as the Rangers won for the first sixth time in seven games and reached .500 (24-24) for the first time this season.
GIANTS 7, PHILLIES 4 (11 INN): In Philadelphia, Joc Pederson’s two-run homer in the 11th inning helped power San Francisco past struggling Philadelphia.
Former UNM Lobo Luis Gonzalez had a career-high four hits as San Francisco won its third straight overall and second consecutive extra-inning game.
A fielding error by Jeurys Familia allowed Wilmer Flores to score in the 10th to give San Francisco a 4-3 lead. Philadelphia tied it when Alec Bohm’s two-out grounder up the middle hit the second base bag, bouncing over Thairo Estrada and allowing pinch-runner Roman Quinn to score. But the Giants scored three times in the 11th and sent the Phillies to their fifth straight loss.
CARDINALS 3, PADRES 2 (10 INN): In St. Louis, Albert Pujols hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning and St. Louis beat San Diego.
Tommy Edman began the 10th as the Cardinals’ automatic runner at second. After Paul Goldschmidt was intentionally walked by Taylor Rogers (0-2) and Nolan Arenado fouled out, Edman stole third. Pujols followed with his second sacrifice fly of the game, lifting a ball to left that easily scored Edman.
MARINERS 10, ORIOLES: 0: In Baltimore, George Kirby allowed four hits in six innings for his first big league win, and Taylor Trammell had three hits and four RBIs to help Seattle to the rout.
Trammell hit an RBI double in the second when his grounder up the middle caromed off second base and into shallow center field. Shortstop Jorge Mateo appeared to be in decent position to field the ball before the bizarre bounce. Seattle added two more runs that inning and then four in the third.
REDS 2, RED SOX 1: In Boston, Luis Castillo struck out 10 while pitching six innings of one-hit ball, and Cincinnati earned its first victory at Fenway Park since Game 7 of the 1975 World Series.
Joey Votto twice doubled off the top of the outfield wall — once to left, once to right and each perhaps an inch from a home run — and Cincinnati scored both runs on Boston throwing errors.
Reds outfielder Tommy Pham was scratched from the lineup about two hours before the first pitch with a sore left calf. He had just finished a three-game suspension for slapping Giants outfielder Joc Pederson over a fantasy football dispute
GUARDIANS 8, ROYALS 3: In Cleveland, Austin Hedges hit a three-run homer and rookie Oscar Gonzalez doubled in two runs, sending the Guardians over Kansas City.
Hedges’ third-inning drive, which barely cleared the 19-foot wall in left, scored Ernie Clement and Oscar Mercado to extend Cleveland’s lead to 6-2. The Guardians put 11 men on base in the first three frames against Daniel Lynch (2-4).
Gonzalez, who is 9 for 21 through five games in the majors, tacked on a two-run double in the sixth off Dylan Coleman.
CUBS 8, BREWERS 7: In Chicago, Patrick Wisdom hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the eighth inning, Willson Contreras and P.J. Higgins also went deep, and Chicago beat Milwaukee.
Wisdom unloaded on a 3-2 pitch from Brad Boxberger (1-1), sending a long drive to left for his 11th home run.
Contreras connected in his second straight game, smacking a solo drive in the first against Milwaukee starter Eric Lauer. Contreras now has eight homers to lead all MLB catchers, and also hit an RBI double and scored in a four-run sixth.
POSTPONED: The game between the Miami Marlins and the host Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night was postponed due to rainy weather.
It will be made up Wednesday as part of a traditional doubleheader. The opening game will be at 1:10 p.m. and the second one no more than 45 minutes later. Miami is scheduled to start lefty and Carlsbad native Trevor Rogers in game one.
The Rockies are slated to throw Antonio Senzatela in the first game and Germán Márquez in the second. The Marlins hadn’t announced a starter for Tuesday.