Giants tee off on Mets rookie pitcher in home rout
Evan Longoria homered twice and Joc Pederson hit his fourth in two games as the San Francisco Giants went deep four times in the first two innings off rookie Thomas Szapucki and routed the visiting New York Mets 9-3 Wednesday.
Mike Yastrzemski also homered off Szapucki, a 25-year-old left-hander making his first major league start and second appearance after the Mets summoned him from the minors due to a string of injuries.
New York lost two of three in San Francisco, the Mets’ second series loss in their first 14 series this season.
The Mets also lost consecutive games for the first time since April 10 and 11. New York overcame an 8-2 deficit Tuesday to take leads of 11-8 and 12-11 before losing 13-12. That was the Mets’ first loss in the 181 games in their history in which they scored 12 runs or more. Pederson hit three homers and drive in eight runs.
Szapucki, who had been at Triple-A Syracuse, got the start because of injuries to Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer and Tylor Megill. Szapucki allowed nine runs, seven hits and three walks in 1 1/3 innings.
BREWERS 2, PADRES 1 » Rowdy Tellez doubled off Yu Darvish to bring in the tying run in the seventh, Tyrone Taylor followed with a sacrifice fly and Milwaukee took two of three in San Diego.
Darvish (4-2) held the Brewers to one hit through six innings, but they broke through in the seventh.
San Diego got an unearned run off Aaron Ashby, who pitched 5-2/3 innings and struck out five. The pitcher’s uncle, former San Diego pitcher Andy Ashby, watched from the second row near the Padres dugout.
YANKEES 2, ORIOLES 0 » JP Sears pitched five innings to win his first career start and the no-name relievers left in New York’s banged-up bullpen finished a five-hitter as the Yankees beat Baltimore at Yankee Stadium.
Aaron Judge doubled and scored on a single by Miguel Andújar. New York added a second run in the fourth on an error.
Fill-in closer Clay Holmes struck out Jorge Mateo with runners at the corners to end it.
Sears (2-0) worked around a leadoff walk and an error in the first inning,
The Giants’ Joc Pederson homers in the first inning against the Mets on Wednesday for his fourth long ball in two days.
then pitched out of trouble again in the second. The 26-year-old lefty, recalled from Triple-A before the game, allowed three hits and two walks while striking out five in a spot start. WHITE SOX 3, RED SOX 1 » Jake Burger hit a three-run homer off Rich Hill, Lucas Giolito overcame a shaky first inning and Chicago snapped visiting Boston’s six-game winning streak.
Burger, recalled Tuesday from Triple-A Charlotte after Luis Robert was placed on the COVID-19 injured list, hit an 0-2 breaking pitch in the fifth that traveled
an estimated 444 feet.
Giolito (3-1) threw 27 pitches in the first but still allowed fewer than two runs for the fourth time this season.
Hill (1-2) held the White Sox hitless through four innings but lost his lead quickly.
PIRATES 10, ROCKIES 5 » Jack Suwinski hit a tying threerun home run in the sixth and Josh VanMeter followed with a three-run homer in the seventh to break open the game as Pittsburgh rallied past visiting Colorado.
The drive increased Suwinski’s home run total to five, tops among National League rookies.
Ben Gamel gave the Pirates their first lead in the seventh with an RBI single off Justin Lawrence (11) and VanMeter followed two batters later with his third home run of the year.
C.J. Cron hit his 12th home run for the Rockies to pull him into a tie for the National League lead with Dodgers star Mookie Betts. TIGERS 4, TWINS 2, 10 INNINGS » Jeimer Candelario hit the tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th after Harold Castro went deep twice earlier, and Detroit won on the road against Minnesota.
Candelario knocked a firstpitch fastball from Trevor Megill (0-1) into the grass berm behind center field to drive in the automatic runner and give the Tigers their first lead of the series.
The Twins, who had their six-game winning streak stopped, loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom half. Michael Fulmer struck out Carlos Correa before yielding to Andrew Chafin, who struck out Max Kepler and retired Gary Sánchez on a foul pop.
Castro hit solo home runs in the sixth and eighth innings, after going deep only nine times in his first 799 major league at-bats. His first homer off Twins starter Dylan Bundy stopped a 16-inning scoreless streak for the Tigers, who have only 25 homers in 43 games for the fewest in baseball.
ATHLETICS 4, MARINERS 2 » Seth Brown and Elvis Andrus both homered off reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Robbie Ray (4-5), dropping host Seattle into last place in the AL West.
Oakland took two of three in the series and leapfrogged the Mariners in the division standings. Seattle (18-27) has lost eight of 10.
Ray tied his season high with 10 strikeouts, but allowed a home run for the fifth straight start.
Paul Blackburn (5-0) allowed one hit over 5 1/3 innings.
REDS 4, CUBS 3 » Joey Votto had a solo homer in the second inning off Kyle Hendricks (2-5) and a two-run triple in the third as Cincinnati edged visiting Chicago.
RAYS 5, MARLINS 4 » Harold Ramírez capped a five-run first inning with a two-run homer, Colin Poche struck out Jesús Aguilar to strand the bases loaded in the ninth and host Tampa Bay held on for a win over Miami.