Daily Local News (West Chester, PA)
Reds ride extra-base barrage to rout of Giants
Adam Duvall, Patrick Kivlehan and Eugenio Suarez each hit a solo home run in the first three innings, and the Cincinnati Reds set a season high in runs for the second straight game with a 14-2 rout of the San Francisco Giants on Saturday night.
Nine players drove in at least one run for the Reds, who got 18 hits and have scored 27 runs over a two-game span for the first time since May 2010 against Houston. Nine of Cincinnati’s 18 hits went for extra bases.
Cincinnati sent 11 batters to the plate during a six-run third inning that left the Reds up 10-2. Seven had hits, including Suarez’s RBI double and Kivlehan’s first homer of the season.
Mike Leake won his fourth straight decision, Matt Carpenter and Matt Adams homered as St. Louis beat Atlanta.
Aledmys Diaz went 3 for 4 and drove in two runs to help the Cardinals improve to 12-5 since beginning the season 3-9.
Leake (4-1) allowed three hits, three runs, two walks and struck out two in seven innings.
Josh Harrison singled home Gift Ngoepe with one out in the 10th inning to lift Pittsburgh over Milwaukee.
Ngoepe led off the inning with a single against Carlos Torres (1-3), advanced to second on a wild pitch and took third on pinch-hitter Jose Osuna’s fly ball. Harrison drove a ball over the head of right fielder Domingo Santana for his seventh career walk-off hit. Rick Porcello pitched seven sharp innings and got some rare run support to win his first start since opening day, and Chris Young homered twice to lead Boston over Minnesota.
After equaling last season’s loss total in less than a month, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner finally got to pitch with a lead again when Boston took advantage of a costly Minnesota error and scored eight two-out runs in the second. Porcello (2-4) cruised the rest of the way, allowing only Robbie Grossman’s homer in the third.
Logan Morrison and Colby Rasmus hit two-run homers and Jake Odorizzi pitched seven strong innings for Tampa Bay in a victory over Toronto.
Carlos Santana and Francisco Lindor hit backto-back homers with two outs in the ninth inning to lift Cleveland over Kansas City. the playoffs last season by converting all 47 of his save chances and compiling a 0.54 ERA. This year, he’s 5 for 5 in save opportunities with a 1.00 ERA.
Jameson Taillon has been placed on the 10-day disabled list by the Pirates with groin discomfort. Pittsburgh says this injury is not related to the hernia surgery he had in 2015 while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery.
Boston ace David Price could return to the rotation by the end of May, provided his continues to feel good in his recovery from a strained left elbow.
Price, who was 17-9 last season and pitched a major-league leading 230 innings, has been doing well throwing simulated games, and manager John Farrell said his next simulated session — scheduled for Tuesday — would ideally be his last before beginning a rehab assignment.