Machado, Smith homers rally Orioles past Yankees
BALTIMORE >> Manny Machado and Seth Smith homered, and the Baltimore Orioles rallied from a fourrun deficit to beat the New York Yankees 6-5 Friday night.
Machado hit a three-run drive in the fifth inning to make it 5-4, and Smith completed the comeback in the seventh with a two-run shot off Tyler Clippard (0-1).
Donnie Hart (1-0) earned his first major league victory by getting the final out in the New York seventh. Brad Brach struck out the side in the eighth and Zach Britton got three straight outs for his second save.
After sweeping Toronto in their opening series, the Orioles are 3-0 and alone atop the AL East.
Matt Holliday homered and had three RBIs for New York, Gary Sanchez hit a two-run drive and Brett Gardner had three hits and scored three runs.
Signed as a free agent in December, Holliday hit his first home run with the Yankees with a runner on in the third inning, and Sanchez connected in the fifth for a 5-1 lead. Both drives were off Ubaldo Jimenez.
Machado homered off Yankees starter Luis Severino, who was seeking his first win as a starter since September 2015. The 23-yearold was 0-8 with an 8.50 ERA in 11 starts last year. RANGERS 10, ATHLETICS 5 >> Nomar Mazara hit his first grand slam and had a career-high six RBIs to lead Texas over Oakland for the Rangers’ first victory of the season.
Mazara is hitting .588 through four games, including 3 for 5 in this one. Rougned Odor hit his third homer of the season and had two hits. Texas was swept by Cleveland in its three-game opening series, also at home. TWINS 3, WHITE SOX 1 >> Phil Hughes pitched six strong innings for his first win in almost a year and Minnesota beat Chicago for the Twins’ first 4-0 start since 1987.
Miguel Sano hit an RBI goahead double in the sixth, and Chris Gimenez added an RBI double in the seventh for the Twins, who led the majors with 103 losses last season after opening 0-9.
Hughes (1-0) made his first start since June 9, 2016, and allowed one run and five hits, struck out three and walked none. The right-hander’s season was cut short last year after he suffered a broken bone above his left knee and underwent surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome. RAYS 10, BLUE JAYS 8 >> Evan Longoria homered during a five-run first inning against wild Francisco Liriano and Tampa Bay went on to outscore Toronto.
Liriano faced only eight batters, walking four and giving up three hits before getting pulled. The Blue Jays rallied for a 7-6 lead, but Tampa Bay overtook them by scoring three times in the sixth inning, two on a double by Steven Souza Jr. REDS 2, CARDINALS 0 >> Amir Garrett pitched two-hit ball for six innings to win his major league debut, a sharp start for the former St. John’s basketball player as Cincinnati beat St. Loui.
Garrett struck out four, walked two and needed only 78 pitches to record 18 outs. The 6-foot-5 lefty played two seasons of hoops for St. John’s while already a Reds minor leaguer. MARLINS 7, METS 2 >> Zack Wheeler lasted just four innings in his return from Tommy John surgery, giving up Derek Dietrich’s goahead, two-run triple and Christian Yelich’s two-run homer in New York’s loss to Miami.
Winning pitcher Wei-Yin Chen (1-0) reached on an infield single in the fourth, ending an 0-for-51 slump at the start of his career, the fourth-longest for players who debuted in 1900 or later, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. PADRES 7, GIANTS 6 >> Rookie Manuel Margot hit his first two big league homers and Yangervis Solarte had a go-ahead two-run double in the seventh inning, helping San Diego beat San Francisco in the Padres’ home opener. TIGERS 7, RED SOX 6 >> JaCoby Jones capped a wild eighth inning with a bases-loaded walk, and Detroit outlasted Boston to win its ninth straight home opener.
The Tigers blew a 4-0 lead in the eighth, when Pablo Sandoval gave the Red Sox the lead with a threerun homer off Francisco Rodriguez (1-0). PIRATES 5, BRAVES 4 >> David Freese and Francisco Cervelli hit back-toback home runs and Pittsburgh won its home opener in snow flurries, beating Atlanta.
Freese and Cervelli went deep off reliever Josh Collmenter leading off the fifth inning. That gave Ivan Nova the cushion he would need at PNC Park, where the game time temperature was 37 degrees. ROCKIES 2, DODGERS 1 >> Kyle Freeland allowed one run in six solid innings in his major league debut, leading hometown Colorado past Los Angeles.
The Denver native became the first starting pitcher to make his big league debut in his team’s home opener in the state in which he was born since 1966.