Jays’ Springer’s 2 homers stymie former team
George Springer homered twice against his former team, leading José Berríos and the host Toronto Blue Jays over Houston 2-1 Saturday and snapping the Astros’ season-long winning streak at four.
Springer’s leadoff homer in the first was the 46th of his career. Starting at DH, Springer connected again in the third, the 19th multi-homer game of his career.
Springer was hit by a pitch in his next at-bat and stole second.
Of Springer's six home runs this season, three have come against Houston. He was the MVP of the 2017 World Series when the Astros won their only championship.
Berríos (2-0) gave up seven hits, struck out five and walked two.
Yordan Alvarez homered off Berríos to begin the fourth, his sixth. But that was all Houston managed against the Blue Jays right-hander.
Adam Cimber pitched one inning, Tim Mayza went 1 ⁄3 innings and
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Jordan Romano threw a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 11 chances.
Both of Springer's homers came off Luis Garcia (1-1), who allowed five hits in six innings.
Toronto improved to
8-2 in one-run games.
The Blue Jays have not lost back-to-back games since Sept. 24, 2021, an MLB-best 29-game stretch.
Diamondbacks 2, Cardinals 0: Merrill Kelly threw seven shutout innings and Ketel Marte and Nick Ahmed each homered in the eighth inning, lifting Arizona to a win at St. Louis.
“I felt like it was going to be a race to two or three runs in this game and the first team to get there would win,” Arizona
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Marte led off the eighth by taking a 1-1 curveball off Miles Mikolas (1-1) into the right field bullpen for his first homer of the season. It snapped his 24-game homerless streak dating back to Oct. 2, 2021.
One out later, Ahmed sent a 1-1 fastball into the left field bullpen for his second homer.
Kelly (2-1) pitched seven scoreless innings. Twins 9, Rays 1: Kyle Garlick hit two home runs off Tampa Bay starter Shane McClanahan to lead visiting Minnesota.
The second homer, Garlick's third of the season, came with Carlos Correa on base in the sixth inning and broke a 1-1 tie.
Correa had three hits
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Guardians 3, Athletics 1: Pinch-hitter Richie Palacios delivered a twoout, two-run double in the ninth inning and Cleveland took advantage of a key error to win at Oakland.
The RBI were the first of Palacios’ career after the rookie infielder was called up from the minors Monday.
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Mets 3, Phillies 0: New York starter Tylor Megill and four relievers combined on the first no-hitter of the MLB season, teaming up to throw a whopping 159 pitches and shut out the Phillies at Citi Field.
Megill was pulled after five innings and 88 pitches. The bullpen took over from there, with Drew Smith, Joely Rodriguez, Seth Lugo and Edwin Diaz completing the second no-hitter in Mets
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Diaz finished it off in style, striking out Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto in the ninth. Mets pitchers combined to fan 12 and walk six.
“Team game,” Megill said. “I’m ecstatic. It’s crazy.”
Johan Santana threw the Mets’ only previous nohitter on June 1, 2012, when he struck out eight and needed 134 pitches in an 8-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets began play as an expansion team in 1962 and this was their 9,499th regular-season game.
Nationals 14, Giants 4: Juan Soto homered and Washington pounded out a season-high 22 hits, ending an eight-game losing streak by beating virus-ravaged San Francisco.
Jason Vosler and Joey Bart homered for the Giants, who played without several regulars due to a COVID-19 outbreak.
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