Kershaw shines as Dodgers blank Cubs at Wrigley

Clayton Kershaw dominated over seven innings and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 7-0 in the opener of a split doubleheader on Saturday at Wrigley Field.

Freddie Freeman doubled three times and scored twice, helping the NL West leaders win for the 16th time in 21 games. Austin Barnes homered and drove in three runs.

Kershaw (4-0) gave up five hits, struck out two and walked one. The three-time Cy Young Award winner bounced back from a toughluck loss to Detroit in which he surpassed Hall of Famer Don Sutton as the Dodgers' career strikeout leader.

Barnes hit a solo drive in the fourth against Drew Smyly and added a two-run single in the eighth.

ASTROS 3, TIGERS 2 >> Jose Altuve homered early, and Michael Brantley tripled in a tworun eighth to help host Houston run its winning streak to six games by beating Detroit.

The win was manager Dusty Baker's 2,004th, passing Bruce Bochy (2,003) for 11th on the all-time list.

The Astros trailed 2-1 in the eighth when Altuve singled with one out and scored on a triple to right field by Brantley to tie it. A basesloaded walk to Kyle Tucker scored Brantley to put Houston up 3-2.

Miguel Cabrera doubled in the third to join Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols as the only players in MLB history to have at least 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 600 doubles in their careers.

BLUE JAYS 8-2, GUARDIANS 3-8 >> Owen Miller delivered a two-run double and Franmil Reyes homered and had two RBIs, helping Cleveland beat visiting Toronto and earn a doubleheader split.

Miller's double was part of a three-run first off Ross Stripling (0-1), who gave up four runs in four innings.

Triston McKenzie (2-2) pitched six innings of two-run ball, striking out nine.

In the opener, George Springer and Raimel Tapia each drove in three runs in the first four innings against Guardians ace Shane Bieber.

Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman (3-1) allowed one run and struck out five over 6 1/3 innings. The right-hander issued his first walk of the season against his 137th batter, Reyes in the fourth, after 35 1/3 innings without a free pass.

Bieber (1-2) surrendered a career-high tying seven runs in 3 1/3 innings. He did not have a strikeout for the first time in 86 career starts and 88 total appearances.

WHITE SOX 3, RED SOX 1, 10 INNINGS >> José Abreu hit a go-ahead double in the 10th after Chicago tied it an inning earlier, helping the White Sox beat Boston at Fenway Park for its fifth straight win.

Rafael Devers had an RBI double for Boston, which has lost 13 of 17.