Flores drives in six as Giants’ offense wakes up in victory over Cardinals

Wilmer Flores hit a grand slam in the first inning and matched his career high with six RBIs as the San Francisco Giants snapped out of their offensive funk and beat the visiting St. Louis Cardinals 13-7 Saturday night to end a fivegame losing streak.

Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina reached 1,000 career RBIs. Dylan Carlson added a three-run homer, but St. Louis committed three errors and ended its three-game winning streak.

Logan Webb (4-1) struck out seven in five uneven innings to remain unbeaten in his last 17 starts at Oracle Park. He allowed four runs and eight hits.

San Francisco had scored a total of five runs in its previous four games before jumping on Steven Matz (32) for three home runs in the first two innings.

Flores’ first grand slam since 2017 erased a 1-0 deficit and came after Matz walked two of the first three batters. Flores also had a sacrifice fly in the fourth and a bases-loaded walk in the eighth.

Mauricio Dubón and Darin Ruf each hit two-run drives in the second inning.

Matz was rocked by the Giants in his shortest outing of the season. The Cardinals left-hander allowed a career high-tying eight runs and five hits in three innings, raising his ERA to 7.01.

Molina’s single in the second made him the eighth primary catcher in MLB history to reach 2,000 hits and 1,000 RBIs.

ASTROS 3, TIGERS 2 » Jose Altuve homered early, and Michael Brantley tripled in a two-run eighth to help host

Houston run its winning streak to six games with a victory over Detroit.

The win was manager Dusty Baker’s 2,004th, passing Bruce Bochy (2,003) for 11th on the all-time list.

The Astros trailed 2-1 in the eighth when Altuve singled with one out and scored on a triple to right field by Brantley to tie it. The Tigers intentionally walked Yordan Alvarez with two outs before Michael Fulmer (1-1) walked Yuli Gurriel to load the bases. Another walk to Kyle Tucker scored Brantley to put Houston up 3-2.

Miguel Cabrera doubled in the third to join Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols as the only players in MLB history to have at least 3,000 hits, 500 homers and 600 doubles in their careers. MARLINS 8, PADRES 0 » Joe Dunand, the nephew of Alex Rodriguez, homered on the third pitch he saw as a big leaguer and then doubled as visiting Miami beat San Diego to end a six-game losing streak.

Jorge Soler hit his first career grand slam, in the ninth inning, and Pablo López pitched eight strong innings for Miami.

Dunand hit a 1-1 pitch from left-hander Sean Manaea into the first row in left-center with one out in the third just hours after his contract was selected from Triple-A Jacksonville.

The 26-year-old Dunand doubled to left in his second at-bat and scored on Garrett Cooper’s two-run double.

Lopez (4-1) shut down the Padres on five hits while striking out five and walking two. He has a 1.00 ERA after six starts.

Manaea (2-3) allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings, struck out eight and walked one. TWINS 1, ATHLETICS 0 » Jorge Polanco homered off James Kaprielian in the sixth inning and four Minnesota pitchers made it stand up, sending visiting Oakland 1-0 to its eighth straight loss.

Twins pitchers combined to strike out 15 while allowing just three hits.

Polanco’s homer was a towering shot to the suites above the batter’s eye in center field and traveled an estimated 451 feet. Polanco had three of Minnesota’s five hits.

Jhoan Duran struck out five in two innings of relief for his second save, but the electric right-hander escaped after walking and hitting a batter in the ninth.

Sonny Gray returned from the injured list to make the start for the Twins after recovering from a hamstring strain. He pitched four innings, giving up two hits and two walks with seven strikeouts.

Kaprielian (0-2) surrendered three hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings. BLUE JAYS 8-2, GUARDIANS 3-8 » Owen Miller delivered a two-run double and Franmil Reyes homered and had two RBIs, helping Cleveland beat visiting Toronto and earn a doubleheader split.

Miller’s double was part of a three-run first off Ross Stripling (0-1), who gave up four runs in four innings. Reyes hit a solo shot in the third and singled home Amed Rosario in the fifth.

Triston McKenzie (2-2) earned his second straight win with six innings of tworun ball, striking out nine.

In the opener, George Springer and Raimel Tapia each drove in three runs in the first four innings against Guardians ace Shane Bieber.

Blue Jays starter Kevin Gausman (3-1) allowed one run and struck out five over 6 1/3 innings. The righthander issued his first walk of the season against his 137th batter, Reyes in the fourth, after 35 1/3 innings without a free pass.

Bieber (1-2) surrendered a career-high tying seven runs in 3 1/3 innings.

WHITE SOX 3, RED SOX 1, 10 INNINGS » José Abreu hit a go-ahead double in the 10th after Chicago tied it an inning earlier, helping the White Sox beat Boston at Fenway Park for its fifth straight win.

Rafael Devers had an RBI double for Boston, which has lost 13 of 17.

BRAVES 3, BREWERS 2 » Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a fifth-inning homer for the game’s first run, Max Fried outpitched Corbin Burnes and host Atlanta beat Milwaukee.

Fried (4-2) allowed one run on four hits with one walk and eight strikeouts in seven innings to end Milwaukee’s four-game winning streak.

ROCKIES 4, DIAMONDBACKS » Yonathan Daza, José Iglesias and Connor Joe hit consecutive, two-out, run-scoring singles in the ninth inning to help Colorado rally to victory at Arizona.

Colorado trailed 1-0 and pieced together four runs off Arizona closer Mark Melancon (0-3), who had a 1.08 ERA coming into the game. C.J. Cron and Ryan McMahon led off the inning with singles but Melancon retired the next two batters, bringing up Daza.

Daza lined a ball up the middle to tie the game and Iglesias followed with a goahead single. Joe then singled up the middle to send home two runs.