Major League Baseball results | Friday
Brewers 11, Orioles 1
BALTIMORE — Freddy Peralta struck out 11 in six outstanding innings, and the Milwaukee Brewers hit three home runs in an 11-1 rout of the Baltimore Orioles that included a bench-clearing incident in the sixth inning Friday night.
Gary Sánchez, Willy Adames and William Contreras went deep for the National League-leading Brewers (9-3), who have scored 47 runs in their last five games. They scored three runs each in the second, fifth and sixth to take the series opener.
Intrigue built for the matchup when Milwaukee traded ace Corbin Burnes to the Orioles for left-hander DL Hall and infielder Joey Oritz just before spring training. Hall pitches Saturday and Burnes takes the mound Sunday.
Ortiz had his first big league three-hit game Friday. That included an RBI triple in the second — shortly after Sánchez opened the scoring with a two-run homer — and a run-scoring single in the ninth.
Rays 2, Giants 1
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Jacob Waguespack and five relievers combined on a six-hitter and Tampa Bay beat San Francisco.
Waguespack gave up one run and four hits over four innings in his first start since Sept. 25, 2019, and fourth appearance this season. Garrett Cleavinger (2-0) followed with 1.2 scoreless innings.
Phil Maton, Colon Poche, Jason Adam and Pete Fairbanks — who worked the ninth to get his third save in as many chances — closed out the Rays’ fifth win in six games. Fairbanks retired his final two batters with a runner on third.
Tampa Bay has five starting pitchers on the injured list and the Rays’ bullpen entered with an AL-worse 6.43 ERA.
Mets 6, Royals 1
NEW YORK — Pete Alonso homered and Luis Severino earned his first win for New York, who snapped Kansas City’s seven-game winning streak.
Brett Baty hit a two-run double and the Mets scored all five of their runs off starter Michael Wacha with two outs. New York reached double digits in hits for the fourth consecutive game and has won six of eight following an 0-5 start.
Coming off a 7-0 homestand that marked the longest winning streak in the majors this season, the surprising Royals (9-5) were looking for their first eightgame winning streak since a nine-game run in July 2017.
Salvador Perez homered for the Royals, making their first visit to Citi Field since June 2016. The year before that, they clinched the club’s second World Series title there.
Pirates 5, Phillies 2
PHILADELPHIA — Bailey Falter allowed one run over five innings to beat his former team, leading Pittsburgh over Philadelphia as Phillies star Bryce Harper broke out of an 0-for-18 slide with two hits.
David Bednar pitched a perfect ninth for his second save in five chances, and Henry Davis doubled, singled and drove in two runs. Bryan Reynolds and Connor Joe also had RBIs for the Pirates, who took advantage of some sloppy play by Philadelphia.
Falter (1-0) allowed one run and four hits and three strikeouts. He had a 4.56 ERA in 24 starts and 26 relief appearances over three seasons for the Phillies before his Aug. 1 trade to Pittsburgh for infielder Rodolfo Castro.
Harper singled in the first and doubled in the sixth in a 2-for-4 night, raising his average from .196 to .220.
Braves 8, Marlins 1
MIAMI — Max Fried pitched six solid innings and Marcell Ozuna homered to lead Atlanta to a win over Miami in their series opener.
Fried (1-0) entered with an 18.00 ERA after a pair of rough starts to open the season, but limited the Marlins to four hits while striking out four and walking one. The 30-year old left-hander was replaced by Pierce Johnson after giving up back-to-back hits in the seventh.
Ozuna blasted a solo shot 446 feet to center field in the ninth for his sixth home run — tying him with Boston’s Tyler O’Neill and the Los Angeles Angels’ Mike Trout for the major league lead — and the second-longest homer hit at loan Depot park this year. Ozuna was 3 for 4 with three RBIs.
Rockies 12, Blue Jays 4
TORONTO — Ryan Feltner pitched five innings for his first win of the season and Colorado had 20 hits in a rout of Toronto.
Ryan McMahon had four of those hits for the Rockies, who won north of the border for the first time after nine consecutive defeats in Canada.
The Rockies hadn’t reached 20 hits since 2022 and not since 2013 in a road game.
Feltner (1-1) allowed two runs and eight hits, walked two and struck out four.
Making his third start of the season, struggling Blue Jays right-hander Kevin Gausman (0-2) allowed six runs and 10 hits in 3.2 innings. His earned run average rose from 9.53 to 11.57.
Reds 11, White Sox 1
CHICAGO — Elly De La Cruz hit a threerun drive for his fourth homer in his last four games, helping Andrew Abbott and Cincinnati beat Chicago.
Tyler Stephenson also homered for Cincinnati, which had dropped three of four. Christian Encarnacion-Strand and Santiago Espinal each had two hits and three RBIs, and Jonathan India walked four times from the leadoff spot.
Abbott (1-1) pitched seven innings of one-run ball in Cincinnati’s longest start so far this season. The left-hander struck out three and walked none.
Chicago finished with four hits in its seventh loss in eight games. It has scored just 30 runs during its 2-11 start.
Robbie Grossman doubled home Zach Remillard in the third to account for the team’s only run in the opener of a sixgame homestand. Chris Flexen (0-3) was tagged for six runs and seven hits in 2.2 innings in his third consecutive loss.
Tigers 8, Twins 2
DETROIT — Mark Canha hit a solo homer in first inning, Tarik Skubal pitched five scoreless innings and Detroit went on to beat Minnesota.
Canha, Spencer Torkelson and Matt Vierling each had two hits and two RBIs, helping Detroit pull away with six runs from the fourth to the the sixth inning.
Skubal (2-0) gave up just two hits and two walks while striking out five. Alex Faedo, Andrew Chafin and Will Vest followed in relief.
Pablo Lopez (1-2) gave up five runs on six hits and three walks over four innings and had seven strikeouts.
Rangers 12, Astros 8
HOUSTON — Jonah Heim homered and drove in four runs, and Texas beat Houston to drop them seven games under .500 for the first time in eight years.
Evan Carter added three hits as the Rangers built a 12-3 lead by the sixth inning.
Houston fell to 4-11. The Astros had not been that many games below .500 since they were 22-29 before a Memorial Day win in 2016, a season in which they fell to 20-29 before a five-game winning streak.
They Rangers umped on J.P. France (0-2) for eight hits and eight runs in just four innings in a third consecutive dismal start for Houston’s pitching staff. Heim’s three-run shot in a six-run third inning put the Rangers up 7-1.
Mariners 4, Cubs 2
SEATTLE — Bryce Miller allowed one unearned run in 6.1 innings, Julio Rodríguez had a key two-out, two-run single and Seattle beat Chicago.
Miller gave up just three hits and quieted Chicago’s bats that entered averaging more than six runs per game, second-best in baseball.
Miller had another solid performance following up on his last outing against Milwaukee when he threw seven shutout innings. He has not allowed an earned run since the fourth inning of his first start on March 31 against Boston. Miller struck out four and left after issuing a four-pitch walk to Nico Hoerner on his 100th pitch.
Michael Busch hit a one-out solo homer off Ryne Stanek in the ninth, but Stanek recorded the final two outs for his second save.
Cardinals 9, Diamondbacks 6
PHOENIX — Nolan Arenado hit a three-run homer, Paul Goldschmidt had the go-ahead RBI single in the seventh inning and St. Louis rebounded from blowing a six-run lead to beat Arizona Diamondbacks.
Lars Nootbaar added a two-run homer for the Cardinals in his return from the injured list. He missed the first 13 games with a left rib contusion suffered during spring training.
The Diamondbacks rallied from a 6-0 deficit, tying it with six runs in the fifth. Eugenio Suárez had the big blow with a tying three-run homer, lifting a fly ball down the right field line off Giovanny Gallegos that just cleared the fence.
The Cardinals shook off the collapse and jumped ahead 7-6 when Goldschmidt leaned across the plate and slapped a single up the middle, scoring Brendan Donovan, who reached on a triple and finished with three hits.
St. Louis stretched the lead to 9-6 in the eighth on an RBI triple for Masyn Winn, followed by a sacrifice fly by Victor Scott II.
Athletics 2, Nationals 1
OAKLAND — Lawrence Butler hit the game-winning RBI single in the 10th inning and had a solo home run to power Oakland to a walk-off win over Washington.
Max Schuemann scored the winning run in his major league debut after entering as the automatic runner on second base to begin the 10th inning. The 26-year-old utility man was called up on Thursday to replace injured outfielder Brent Rooker.
The Nationals tied the game in the top of the ninth inning on a solo shot from Jesse Winker off A’s right-hander Dany Jiménez.
Butler hit a solo shot 445 feet to right field in the third inning with a 113.1 mph exit velocity, his first home run of the season.
Yankees-Guardians ppd.
CLEVELAND — Steady rain and the forecast for strong winds postponed the opener of a three-game series Friday night between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians.
The teams will play a split doubleheader on Saturday, with the first game starting at 12:10 p.m. The second game will start at 6:10 p.m.