Tigers notch combined no-hitter for first time
Three Tigers pitchers combined to no-hit the Blue Jays in a 2-0 win on Saturday in Detroit. It was the first combined no-hitter in Tigers history.
Matt Manning (3-1) pitched 6„ innings and
Jason Foley got four straight outs.
Tigers closer Alex Lange came in for the ninth and struck out Bo Bichette on three pitches. Brandon Belt lined to center field, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. grounded to third on an 0-and-2 pitch.
Manning was replaced after walking Cavan Biggio with two outs in the seventh. He walked three batters and hit one, striking out five. He threw 91 pitches.
Foley retired Whit Merrifield before pitching a perfect eighth.
Toronto starter Kevin Gausman (7-5) allowed two runs in the first inning. Riley Greene singled in his first at-bat since May 30 and scored on
Spencer Torkelson’s one-out double in the first.
Kerry Carpenter followed with an RBI triple.
Four added to NL All-Star roster
The Mets’ Kodai Senga, San Francisco’s Alex Cobb, Philadelphia’s Craig Kimbrel, and Milwaukee’s Corbin Burnes were added to the National League All-Star roster as replacements for pitchers who will be inactive for Tuesday’s game.
Minnesota’s Pablo López joined the American League roster and becomes an All-Star along with the player he was traded for last winter, Miami second baseman Luis Arraez.
Atlanta’s Bruce Elder and Spencer Strider won’t pitch in the game, along with the Cubs’ Marcus Stroman, Milwaukee’s Devin Williams, and Blue Jays’ Kevin Gausman.
Meanwhile, Tampa Bay’s Yandy Diaz will not have to play on the same day as the birth of his son. Diaz, the AL’s starting first baseman, planned to remain in Florida for the birth of his son Tuesday morning, then fly across country to Seattle later that night. But his wife’s C-section was moved to Wednesday.
Yankees stop three-game skid
Giancarlo Stanton hit a homer in the first inning and added a two-run shot after a video review in the fifth, leading the Yankees past the Cubs,
6-3, in New York.
Josh Donaldson hit his 10th homer and Harrison Bader hit a two-run doubleas the Yankees avoided their third four-game losing streak this season. Gerrit Cole (9-2) gave up a two-run homer to former Yankee Mike Tauchman on his final batter and allowed three runs and five hits in 7‚ innings.
Betts is leading man
All-Star Mookie Betts hit his 10th leadoff homer for the Dodgers in a 10-5 win over the Angels in Los Angeles, giving him the most in the first half in major league history.
Betts’s 408-foot solo shot, his 26th of the season, came on the second pitch of the game by Angels starter Reid Detmers.
Betts eclipsed the mark of nine homers set by Houston’s George Springer in the first half of the 2017 season. Betts’s 46th leadoff homer of his career tied Philadelphia’s Jimmy Rollins for seventh all-time.
De La Cruz steals the show
Elly De La Cruz became the first Reds player since 1919 to steal second, third, and home in the same inning, and Cincinnati beat the Brewers, 8-5, in Milwaukee.
De La Cruz broke a 5-5 tie in the seventh inning with a two-out RBI single off Elvis Peguero, then made the reliever’s life miserable in a span of two pitches. He stole second on a 1-and-1 offering. On the next pitch, he swiped third without a throw.
The rattled reliever caught the ball from catcher William Contreras in front of the mound and turned his back as he walked slowly toward the rubber. Pausing only to put his helmet back on, De La Cruz walked down the third base line, broke into a sprint, and easily beat Peguero’s rushed throw to the plate.
Gallegos gets cleaned up
Two years ago, it was Giovanny Gallegos’s hat. This time, it was rosin on his left arm. Gallegos pitched the eighth inning in the Cardinals’ 3-0 victory over the White Sox, but it wasn’t exactly a routine outing.
It all started when plate umpire Lance Barrett saw Gallegos hit his left arm with the rosin bag after he warmed up. Barrett told Gallegos that was illegal and the umpire used a towel to clean off Gallegos’s arm. When the 31-year-old Gallegos did the same thing with two outs, Barrett got a towel and wiped down the reliever’s arm again.
Harper hit on elbow, leaves
Phillies slugger Bryce Harper was struck on his surgically repaired right elbow by a pitch from Marlins starter Braxton Garrett in the third inning, forcing him to leave the Phillies’ 5-3 win after the inning. The two-time MVP returned May 2 from Tommy John surgery . . . Rays starter Drew Rasmussen needs a third elbow surgery and will miss the remainder of the season. Rays manager
Kevin Cash didn’t rule out Rasmussen returning midseason next year. . . The Cubs placed All-Star shortstop Dansby Swanson on the 10-day injured list because of a bruised left foot.