D-backs send Reds to 8th straight defeat
Tucker Barnhart haunted his former team by starting a game-winning rally with two outs in the eighth as the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks completed a three-game sweep of the Cincinnati Reds, 5-4 on Thursday afternoon.
Corbin Carroll broke a 4-4 tie with a two-out hit off reliever Fernando Cruz (1-3) in the eighth to score Barnhart who played for the Reds in 2014-21 – and give Arizona its season-best fourth straight win. Barnhart had walked and advanced to second on a wild pitch before Cruz walked Pavin Smith.
Kevin Ginkel (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth – recording a strikeout, allowing a single and coaxing a doubleplay flyout to get out of the inning. Paul Sewald pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his first save in his first chance after missing the first month with an oblique injury.
Joc Pederson homered with two outs in the first to snap Cincinnati starter Hunter Greene’s career-high scoreless streak at 142⁄3 innings and stake Arizona to an early 1-0 lead.
Elly De La Cruz went 2-for-3 with an RBI for Cincinnati, which lost its eighth straight and finished its six-game homestand without a win. De La Cruz had two more steals to give him a Major League-leading 23 for the season.
Twins 11, Mariners 1
Manuel Margot doubled and matched a career high with five RBIs, and Minnesota cruised to a win over Seattle in Minneapolis.
Max Kepler and Ryan Jeffers homered and drove in two runs apiece for Minnesota, which won three of four games in the series. Carlos Santana and Edouard Julien each drove in one run.
Luke Raley finished 2-for-4 with an RBI to lead Seattle at the plate. The Mariners managed only one extra-base hit, a double by Mitch Haniger.
Twins right-hander Pablo Lopez (4-2) limited Seattle hitters to one run on four hits in 61⁄3 innings. Lopez walked none and struck out 10, as he threw 61 of 100 pitches for strikes.
Mariners right-hander Logan Gilbert (3-1) endured his worst start of the season. After entering the day with nine runs allowed in 48 innings, he gave up eight runs on nine hits in four innings. He walked two and struck out four.
Rockies 9, Giants 1
Brenton Doyle homered among his two hits, Ezequiel Tovar tripled and doubled in the fourth inning and finished with three hits, and Colorado beat San Francisco in Denver.
Charlie Blackmon tripled, doubled, singled and drove in two runs, Elias Diaz had two hits and Cal Quantrill tossed six strong innings to help Colorado end a four-game skid. The Rockies sent 11 batters to the plate in a seven-run fourth inning. Quantrill (2-3) followed up his best outing with another solid start. Quantrill pitched 72⁄3 shutout innings in a 3-2 win at Pittsburgh on Friday and built on that Thursday. He allowed one run on five hits, walked three and struck out five to earn his second straight win.
Michael Conforto homered among his two hits and Thairo Estrada also had two hits for San Francisco, which was outhit 14-7. Shortstop Nick Ahmed left the game in the fifth with left wrist discomfort.
Both starters were efficient through the first three innings before the Giants ended a scoreless game with Conforto’s leadoff homer in the fourth, his seventh of the season.
Astros 4, Yankees 3
Jon Singleton hit a 442-foot two-run homer to cap a three-run first inning and visiting Houston stopped a ninegame losing streak to New York.
The Astros stopped their four-game skid and avoided getting swept in the season series with New York, which they eliminated from the American League Championship Series in 2017, 2019 and 2022. Houston also improved to 3-11 in the past 14 meetings since sweeping the ALCS in 2022.
Singleton helped the Astros strike early against New York’s Marcus Stroman (2-2) by hitting a 1-0 sinker off an advertisement on the third deck in right field Singleton quickly dropped his bat and admired the blast as the ball landed about halfway in the second deck.
Yordan Alvarez preceded Singleton’s 115.4 mph blast with a 395-foot drive into the second deck in right field that exited his bat at 116.8.
After hitting his eighth homer, Alvarez doubled and scored on Jeremy Pena’s RBI single in the fifth.
White Sox 3, Guardians 2
Erick Fedde held visiting Cleveland scoreless over six-plus innings as Chicago opened the four-game series with a victory.
Fedde (3-0) allowed six hits and no walks while striking out three. Eloy Jimenez broke out of a 4-for-33 slump with two hits for Chicago, which recorded just its 10th win of the season after prevailing for the fourth time in the past six games.
The White Sox also got two hits apiece from Tommy Pham and Bryan Ramos.
Josh Naylor, Will Brennan and Bo Naylor each had two hits for Cleveland, which went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left seven men on base.
Brewers 7, Cardinals 1
Rhys Hoskins’ two-run shot in the first inning was one of three homers off Sonny Gray as Milwaukee handed visiting St. Louis its fifth straight loss.
Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz also had solo homers off Gray (4-2), who entered with a 0.89 ERA and had allowed just one homer in his first five starts.
Ortiz’s third long ball of the year, a 408-foot drive to center with two outs in the fourth, put Milwaukee up 5-1.
The Cardinals loaded the bases off Brewers starter Tobias Myers with no outs in the fifth on single and two walks, but Jared Koenig came on and got a force at home, a foul popout and then an inning-ending flyout.
Royals 10, Angels 4
Michael Wacha continued his mastery of Los Angeles and was supported by home runs from Vinnie Pasquantino and Dairon Blanco in Kansas City’s victory in Anaheim, Calif.
The St. Louis Cardinals selected Wacha in the 2012 draft after receiving the pick as compensation from the Angels for their signing of free agent Albert Pujols. Wacha has made the Angels pay ever since.
Wacha entered with a 3-0 record and a 0.44 ERA against the Angels in his career, including one of his two career shutouts. Despite his struggles this season, Wacha (2-4) was sharp, holding the Angels scoreless until the seventh inning in the opener of a four-game series.
Most of the damage came against Angels starter Reid Detmers, who has hit a rough patch after a strong start to the season. Detmers was 3-0 with a 1.19 ERA in his first four starts, but hasn’t won since, losing each of his last four starts.