Rockies’ McMahon hits walk-off grand slam
Ryan McMahon hit a walk-off grand slam, and the Colorado Rockies rallied from blowing a four-run lead to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 10-7 on Friday in Denver.
McMahon finished with three hits, Ezequiel Tovar homered among his two hits and Kris Bryant also went deep for Colorado. Elias Diaz and Nolan Jones also finished with two hits.
The Rockies trailed 7-6 entering the bottom of the ninth, but Tampa Bay closer Pete Fairbanks (0-1) walked the bases loaded with no outs.
Jason Adam relieved Fairbanks and struck out Bryant, but McMahon homered to right on the first pitch he saw to end it. It was his first of the season.
Colorado starter Austin Gomber allowed two runs on four hits, walked three and struck out seven in four innings of work. Jalen Beeks (1-0) got the final two outs of the top of the ninth.
Harold Ramirez had three hits, including one in the Rays’ five-run ninth inning. Amed Rosario also had three hits and Isaac Paredes and Yandy Diaz added two hits apiece.
Phillies 4, Nationals 0
Aaron Nola and three relievers combined on a two-hitter and visiting Philadelphia beat Washington.
Kyle Schwarber had a two-run single as part of a three-run second inning and walked twice for the Phillies. Bryce Harper had three hits including an RBI single, and JT Realmuto had two hits.
Nola (1-1) went 52⁄3 innings, allowing two hits and four walks. He struck out four.
Relievers Matt Strahm (11⁄3 innings), Seranthony Dominguez (one) and Jose Alvarado (one) didn’t allow a hit the rest of the way while recording one strikeout apiece.
Patrick Corbin (0-1) became the first Nationals starter to go six innings, working six-plus and allowing four runs on nine hits. He struck out six and walked three.
Orioles 5, Pirates 2
Grayson Rodriguez logged 61⁄3 strong innings as Baltimore spoiled Pittsburgh’s home opener.
Rodriguez (2-0) allowed two runs on six hits while walking two and striking out seven. Danny Coulombe got the final two outs of the seventh, Yennier Cano worked a 1-2-3 eighth and Craig Kimbrel followed with a perfect ninth for his first save of the season.
Ryan O’Hearn, Gunnar Henderson, Adley Rutschman and Anthony Santander each had two hits for the Orioles.
Oneil Cruz went 3-for-4 with a home run for Pittsburgh, which lost for just the second time in eight games to start the season. Jared Triolo also homered, while Ke’Bryan Hayes went 2-for-3 with a walk.
Michael A. Taylor saw a seasonopening, seven-game hitting streak come to an end.
Pirates starter Jared Jones (1-1) lasted six innings, giving up two runs and six hits. He didn’t issue a walk and fanned seven.
Baltimore essentially put the game away in the top of the seventh, getting a run-scoring single from Rutschman and an RBI double from Santander to go up 4-1.
Brewers 6, Mariners 5
William Contreras drew a game-ending, bases-loaded walk, giving Milwaukee a victory over visiting Seattle in the opener of a three-game series.
Seattle’s Andres Munoz (0-1) relieved to start the inning and walked Sal Frelick, pinch-hitter Jake Bauers and Brice Turang – the bottom of the order. Rookie Jackson Chourio was called out on strikes, but Contreras drew a five-pitch walk to give Milwaukee its fifth win in six games.
The Mariners tied it 5-5 in the top of the ninth with two runs off Brewers closer Abner Uribe (1-0), who had saved his first three opportunities. Uribe wound up posting his first career win.
Dylan Moore and Samad Taylor opened the Seattle ninth with back-toback singles, putting runners on the corners. Luis Urias drove in Moore with a ground-rule double to right-center. After J.P. Crawford grounded out to the pitcher, Taylor scored from third on Julio Rodriguez’s groundout.
Christian Yelich, who struck out his first two at-bats, put the Brewers up 4-3 with one out in the sixth with his third homer. He lined a 431-foot solo shot to right off Seattle starter Logan Gilbert.
Tigers 5, Athletics 4
Gio Urshela drove in the go-ahead run with a two-out double in the eighth as Detroit defeated Oakland in the Tigers’ home opener.
Matt Vierling and Mark Canha hit solo homers and Spencer Torkelson doubled twice and scored two runs.
Detroit starter Tarik Skubal gave up four runs and four hits while striking out nine in 61⁄3 innings. Jason Foley (2-0) picked up the win with one scoreless inning and Alex Lange notched the save as the Tigers won their sixth game in seven tries to start the season.
Brent Rooker and Abraham Toro homered for the A’s, whose starter, JP Sears, allowed four runs and six hits in 52⁄3 innings.
The only runner Sears allowed in the first three innings was Canha, who was hit by a pitch. Sears had much less success during the second time through the Tigers’ order.
Vierling led off the fourth with his first homer of the season, smacking an 0-1 fastball over the left field wall. Andy Ibanez then reached on an infield single and advanced to second on third baseman Darell Hernaiz’s throwing error.
Torkelson followed with a double to left, knocking in Ibanez. Greene drove in Torkelson with an RBI single to left.
Blue Jays 3, Yankees 0
Ernie Clement opened the seventh inning by hitting his first career pinchhit home run and visiting Toronto recorded a victory over New York.
After left-hander Caleb Ferguson (0-1) replaced Yankees starter Marcus Stroman, Toronto manager John Schneider sent Clement to bat for Cavan Biggio. The move paid off when the right-handed hitting Clement hit Ferguson’s 1-0 fastball into the left field seats. The 407-foot shot was the infielder’s fifth career homer.
Toronto added two runs in the ninth when Nick Burdi threw three wild pitches.
Toronto starter Yusei Kikuchi and four relievers combined to hold the Yankees to six hits. Kikuchi allowed four hits in 51⁄3 innings. He struck out seven and walked two in a 96-pitch outing.
Kikuchi retired Juan Soto three times, getting the new Yankee slugger on a strikeout with a runner on in the third. The left-hander also got inningending strikeouts of Giancarlo Stanton in the first and third, which drew noticeable boos from some fans.
Kikuchi was lifted after his third encounter with Soto and Yimi Garcia (1-0) recorded the final two outs of the sixth ahead of Clement’s homer.
Cubs 9, Dodgers 7
Dansby Swanson and Michael Busch each homered while Seiya Suzuki supplied three RBIs as the Chicago Cubs outlasted the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 9-7 on Friday.
Swanson’s one-out solo shot sparked a five-run second inning that put Chicago
ahead for good. Ian Happ added a two-run triple and Nick Madrigal singled twice for the Cubs in their fifth straight win.
Chicago left-hander Drew Smyly (1-1) struck out five while allowing two runs on one hit over 22⁄3 innings in relief of starter Kyle Hendricks. Julian Merryweather pitched a scoreless eighth and Adbert Alzolay worked around two singles in the ninth to secure his first save and the Cubs’ first 4-0 start at home since 1998.
Shohei Ohtani homered for the second straight game and finished 2-for-5 with a double and two RBIs for the Dodgers. Will Smith had four hits and Teoscar Hernandez notched three singles and four RBIs.
The Dodgers appeared to load the bases with one out in the ninth inning before the Cubs successfully challenged that Swanson’s throw from shortstop to Busch beat Hernandez to first base. Busch then made a diving snag on James Outman’s line drive to end the game.
Los Angeles starter Bobby Miller (1-1), pitching on his 25th birthday about 25 miles from his hometown of Elk Grove Village, Ill., exited after allowing five runs on four hits over 12⁄3 innings.
The Cubs quickly soured Miller’s celebratory day after the Dodgers’ righthander struck out the side in the first inning.
Giants 3, Padres 2
Thairo Estrada gave San Francisco a walk-off win in its home opener, lacing a one-out double to left-center field to score Matt Chapman from first base for a victory over San Diego.
The win completed a happy homecoming for new Giants manager Bob Melvin, the former Padres skipper who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and played three of his 10 big-league seasons with the Giants.
Chapman set the stage for Estrada’s heroics by getting hit on the left elbow on a 1-2 pitch from Padres reliever Enyel De Los Santos (0-1).
Estrada then swung through a change-up before sending a fastball to the wall in left-center, just far enough to allow Chapman to beat Fernando Tatis Jr.’s strong throw to the plate with a head-first slide.
Camilo Doval (1-0), the third Giants pitcher, got the win after escaping a jam in the top of the ninth, striking out HaSeong Kim and Jurickson Profar after a Jake Cronenworth single and Manny Machado walk had put two aboard with one out.
Both starting pitchers threw well enough to win, but neither got a decision.
The Padres’ Dylan Cease limited the Giants to two runs and four hits over six innings, striking out seven and walking two.
Rangers 10, Astros 2
Cody Bradford pitched into the eighth inning, Adolis Garcia and Marcus Semien each hit three-run homers, and host Texas routed Houston in the opener of a four-game series.
Garcia also singled in a run and Semien finished with three hits and three runs scored for Texas, which collected 16 hits and received a stellar outing from Bradford (2-0).
Bradford allowed one run on two hits with no walks and four strikeouts over a career-high 72⁄3 innings in his 10th career start.
Bradford settled in after Jose Altuve singled to begin the game and did not allow another hit until Jeremy Pena singled with two outs in the eighth inning.
Houston scored its lone run with two outs in the eighth inning when Yerry Rodriguez replaced Bradford with Pena at first base and allowed Jake Meyers’ two-run homer to right field.
Braves 6, D-backs 5, 10 innings
Travis d’Arnaud led off the 10th inning with a single that scored pinchrunner Forrest Wall, giving the Braves a come-from-behind win over Arizona in the Braves’ home opener.
The Braves rallied from a 5-2 deficit, scoring once in the eighth and twice in the ninth.
Arizona’s Kevin Ginkel was trying to earn a four-out save when he returned to the mound in the ninth. Austin Riley reached when shortstop Blaze Alexander, who entered the game for defense in the eighth, bobbled a ground ball.
Matt Olson, who finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs, followed with a double off the left field wall that scored Riley. One out later, pinch hitter Jarred Kelenic tied the game by dropping a double into left field to score Olson.
The winning pitcher was Pierce Johnson (2-0), who pitched a scoreless top of the 10th. The losing pitcher was Scott McGough (0-2), whose only batter was d’Arnaud.
Royals 2, White Sox 1
Salvador Perez went 3-for-3 and Brady Singer turned in a sterling pitching performance as host Kansas City edged Chicago.
The Royals hustled to take the lead at 2-1 in the bottom of the eighth against Chicago’s hard-throwing reliever Michael Kopech (0-1).
Perez, the Royals’ eight-time All-Star catcher, drew a one-out walk, and speedster Dairon Blanco came on to pinch run and immediately stole second base.
MJ Melendez then sliced a sinking liner to left for a single and Blanco dashed home to score the go-ahead run.
Will Smith came on to try to get the save for Kansas City but allowed a twoout double to Luis Robert Jr., who appeared to suffer a leg injury. Braden Shewmake was called upon to pinch run for Robert.
Mets 3, Reds 2
Pete Alonso drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded grounder and Jeff McNeil homered to lead visiting New York over Cincinnati.
Alonso, who hit a game-tying solo homer in Thursday’s second game of a doubleheader, came up against Fernando Cruz (0-1) with the bases loaded. He hit a chopper that Elly De La Cruz didn’t handle cleanly, allowing Harrison Bader to score in the seventh.
Drew Smith (1-0) worked his way out of a jam in the sixth inning to earn the win.
Jonathan India reached to open the ninth on a fielding error by Mets closer Edwin Diaz. Spencer Steer then worked a walk. Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit a chopper up the middle that Francisco Lindor tried to turn into a double play but was late stepping on the bag at second but got Encarnacion-Strand at first.
Red Sox 8, Angels 6
Jarren Duran’s solo home run in the eighth inning snapped a tie and helped lift Boston over host Los Angeles.
Duran’s home run was one of five by Boston hitters in the game, including two by Tyler O’Neill. Reese McGuire and Triston Casas also homered.
The Angels, however, made a game of it, thanks to a game-tying grand slam by Logan O’Hoppe in the sixth inning.
The Red Sox did endure a potentially key loss on the night, though. Shortstop Trevor Story left in the fourth inning after injuring his left shoulder. Story ranged into the hole at short to make a diving back-handed attempt to field a sharp grounder by Mike Trout, and he immediately began writhing on the ground in pain.