Reds put an end to Phillies' win streak
Elly De La Cruz hit a two-run homer, College Park High graduate Christian Encarnacion-Strand went 3 for 4 with two RBIs and the Cincinnati Reds halted the visiting Philadelphia Phillies' seven-game winning streak with an 8-1 victory on Tuesday night.
The Phillies' seven-game win streak was the franchise's fourth-longest in April. They haven't won eight straight games in April since 1953. The Phillies played without Bryce Harper, who's expected to return from the paternity list on Thursday.
J.T. Realmuto and Alec Bohm hit back-toback doubles in the first for the Phillies' run. Philadelphia's five hits matched a season low.
Phillies starters have been on a roll, but Christopher Sánchez (1-3) lasted only three innings on Tuesday, allowing five runs, one earned.
BRAVES 5, MARLINS 0 >> Max Fried pitched a three-hitter for Atlanta's first nine-inning complete game since 2022, Adam Duvall had a two-run homer and the host Braves blanked Miami for the second night in a row.
After a dismal start, Fried (2-0) has recaptured the form that makes him one of baseball's top starters. It helped to be facing the struggling Marlins, who dropped to 6-19 and have gone 20 innings without scoring a run.
Fried struck out six, didn't walk anyone and needed only 1 hour, 54 minutes to dispatch the Marlins in the major leagues' fourth complete game this season.
DODGERS 4, NATIONALS 1 >> Shohei Ohtani hit a 450-foot homer to the second deck in right field in his first visit to Nationals Park, and Los Angeles defeated Washington.
Ohtani's sixth homer of the season was the hardest-hit of his career at 118.7 mph. The solo shot in the ninth off Matt Barnes made it 4-1 after James Outman and Miguel Rojas drove in runs an inning earlier to put L.A. ahead.
Ohtani has 177 career homers. His previous longball on Sunday gave him the record for homers by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball, surpassing Hideki Matsui. GUARDIANS 4, RED SOX 1 >> Tyler Freeman and Bryan Rocchio had RBIs in the seventh inning when Cleveland finally scored against Boston's Tanner Houck, and José Ramírez homered as the Guardians kept up their scorching start with the home win.
Houck (3-2) threw a three-hit shutout against the Guardians last week. He held them scoreless for six more innings before Freeman hit a run-scoring single and Rocchio added a sacrifice fly off reliever Brennan Bernardino.
The Guardians won their fifth straight to improve the major leagues' best record to 17-6. PIRATES 2, BREWERS 1 >> Andrew McCutchen led off the bottom of the first with a home run for the second straight game and Pittsburgh edged Milwaukee.
McCutchen hit the first pitch of Tobias Myers' major league career down the left-field line for his 12th career leadoff homer and his 100th longball at PNC Park.
TIGERS 4, RAYS 2 >> Riley Greene went deep twice, Mark Canha added a homer and Detroit won at home over Tampa Bay.