Hip discomfort sits Judge, but strong Cole gets Yankees right

Gerrit Cole got his fifth win after setting a career-long scoreless streak, DJ LeMahieu and Gleyber Torres hit backto-back home runs, and the Yankees beat the Texas Rangers, 4-2, in Arlington despite Aaron Judge departing injured.

Judge, playing his first game at the Rangers’ home since hitting his 62nd home run there in October, struck out in his only two at-bats before getting replaced in right field in the bottom of the fourth inning because of right hip discomfort.

Cole’s scoreless streak reached 25„ innings before the Rangers scored on Jonah Heim’s fielder’s choice grounder in the sixth.

BC product Michael King pitched the final 2‚ innings for his first save.

Braves lose big hat

Atlanta has been told they need to stop their “big hat” home run celebration, having run afoul of New Era, the manufacturer of the official on-field cap.

More than Sports, an area sports memorabilia collector, tossed the hat to Atlanta’s Ozzie Albies and A.J. Minter during opening weekend, according to WSB-TV. Dubbing it the “homer hat,” it got plenty of airtime as Atlanta hit 40 home runs in the season’s first 25 games, trailing only Tampa Bay and the Dodgers entering Thursday’s play.

That caught the attention of New Era, the league’s official cap supplier since 1993. WSB confirmed that the company spoke to Braves officials, who then told the players the unofficial hat would have to go. It last appeared Sunday, on the head of Kevin Pillar after his first home run with the team.

Marlins shock Braves

Garrett Cooper came through with a two-out, two-run double that capped a stunning five-run ninth inning by the Miami Marlins, who avoided a sweep with a 5-4 victory in Atlanta.

Kyle Wright and four relievers held Miami scoreless until the ninth, but the Marlins overcame a 4-0 deficit against Braves closer A.J. Minter.

Uneven day for Ohtani

Shohei Ohtani earned another win on the mound despite giving up five runs in a nightmare fourth inning, and he also tripled, doubled, and singled in the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-7 victory over the Oakland Athletics.

Ohtani (4-0) had his rockiest start in recent memory, yielding at least five runs and two homers for the first time in 18 starts since last July while also hitting a career-high three batters with pitches. He also fell just short of becoming the first starting pitcher in modern major league history to hit for the cycle. He came up in the eighth with a chance to homer, but Esteury Ruiz caught his 389-foot drive at the warning track.

Orioles stay hot

Anthony Santander’s two-run homer capped a five-run seventh inning in which the Baltimore Orioles rallied for a 7-4 win over the Tigers in Detroit. Baltimore improved to 9-1 in its last 10 games. Detroit, which fell to 1-12 against AL East teams, left 15 runners onbase... Isaac Paredes had a careerhigh five RBIs, and the Tampa Bay Rays handed the White Sox their eighth straight loss, 14-5, in Chicago. Brandon Lowe homered and drove in three runs for Tampa Bay; he, Yandy Díaz, Luke Raley, and Josh Lowe each had three hits. Paredes’s bases-loaded double in the Rays’ five-run sixth inning helped put it away . . . Matt Strahm, the former Red Sox reliever who sought to start, pitched scoreless ball into the sixth inning and was a 1-0 winner over Seattle in Philadelphia on a Kody Clemens RBI single.