Báez homers twice on 10th anniversary as a major leaguer as Tigers beat Pirates

DETROIT (AP) – Javier Báez hit two of the Detroit Tigers’ four home runs in a 7-3 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night.

Báez hit solo homers in the fifth and seventh innings on the day he reached 10 years of major league service. Wenceel Pérez and Riley Greene also homered for Detroit.

Casey Mize (7-2) got the win, allowing three runs – two earned – on five hits in six innings. He struck out four without walking a batter.

Pittsburgh took a 1-0 lead in the second when Spencer Horwitz singled and scored on Adam Frazier’s groundout, but the Tigers scored twice in the bottom of the inning on Pérez’s homer.

Alexander Canario’s two-run single put the Pirates back in front 3-2 in the third, but Báez tied the game with a homer in the fifth. Canario replaced Bryan Reynolds in right field in the second inning after his wife went into labor.

Pérez gave the Tigers a 4-3 lead with an RBI triple in the sixth and Báez made it a two-run game with a leadoff homer in the seventh. Greene hit a 436-foot home run to right later in the inning, making it 7-3.

Carmen Mlodzinski (1-5) allowed four runs in two innings of relief.

MARLINS 8, PHILLIES 3

MIAMI (AP) – Eric Wagaman and Jesús Sánchez homered as Miami snapped a five-game home skid with a win over Philadelphia.

Xavier Edwards had three hits and Javier Sanoja tripled and singled for the Marlins.

Nick Castellanos was benched by Phillies manager Rob Thomson on Tuesday for “an inappropriate comment” the outfielder made after he was pulled for a defensive replacement in the series opener Monday. The benching ended Castellanos’ streak of 236 consecutive starts.

Edwards’ RBI single capped a three-run sixth that put Miami ahead 5-3. Phillies reliever Tanner Banks inherited two base runners from starter Jesús Luzardo and allowed an RBI groundout by Kyle Stowers and Sanoja’s run-scoring triple.

Sánchez connected off reliever Joe Ross with a solo blast in the seventh inning, his seventh homer of the season.

Freddy Tarnok (1-0) pitched the top of the sixth and earned the win.

ROCKIES 10, NATIONALS 6

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Rockies hit a franchise record-tying seven home runs, including two from Michael Toglia, and Antonio Senzatela won his second game of the season, as Colorado held off Washington.

Colorado hit seven homers in a game for the third time in franchise history, matching April 1997 at Montreal and against Cincinnati in May 2016. The Rockies have won three in a row for the second time this season.

It was the second multihomer game of Toglia’s career. He hit three homers on July 14 last season against the Mets.

Four of the homers came in the six-run seventh, highlighted by a three-run shot from Hunter Goodman and a solo shot by Ryan McMahon off Nationals reliever Cole Henry.

The Rockies last hit four or more homers in one inning on June 20, 2021 against Milwaukee.

Thairo Estrada, Sam Hilliard and Mickey Moniak also homered for the Rockies.

Senzatela (2-10) allowed one unearned run on three hits and three walks in five innings. The right-hander also defeated the Nationals on April 20.

Washington’s Michael Soroka (3-5) pitched six innings, striking out a season-high nine batters, but allowed five hits and three runs.

ANGELS 4, YANKEES 0

NEW York (AP) – Kyle Hendricks and three relievers combined on a four-hitter as Los Angeles beat New York to hand the Yankees their third straight shutout.

New York manager Aaron Boone tinkered with his lineup – batting rookie Jasson Domínguez first and dropping Paul Goldschmidt to sixth – but it didn’t yield results for the Yankees, who were 0 for 10 with runners on and got just three to second base.

Aaron Judge went 0 for 4 with three strikeouts and heard boos following whiffs in the sixth and eighth. He is 2 for 19 with 12 strikeouts in his last five games.

The Yankees, who haven’t scored in 29 innings since the ninth inning of a 4-3 loss at Boston on Saturday, were last blanked in three consecutive games from Sept. 22-24, 2016. They have never been shut out in four straight games.

Hendricks (5-6) allowed four hits and walked one while striking out nine – his most since he whiffed 10 for the Chicago Cubs on Sept. 18, 2020. Ryan Zeferjahn, Reid Detmers and Hunter Strickland tossed a hitless inning apiece for the Angels, who threw consecutive shutouts for the first time since Aug. 26-27, 2022.

BLUE JAYS 5, DIAMONDBACKS 4

TORONTO (AP) – Bo Bichette and Addison Barger hit back-to-back home runs off Shelby Miller in the ninth inning and Toronto rallied to beat Arizona.

Jeff Hoffman (6-2) pitched one inning for the win as Toronto snapped a three-game skid.

Toronto trailed 4-3 heading to the final frame before Bichette tied it with a one-out drive to left, his ninth of the season. Barger followed with a game-winning shot to right, his eighth.

For Miller (3-2), the blown save was his fourth in 11 chances.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his ninth homer of the season and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays, who were swept at Philadelphia over the weekend.

The Diamondbacks came in having won five of six. Arizona failed to hit a home run for the first time in 11 games.

REDS 6, TWINS 5

CINCINNATI (AP) – TJ Friedl hit a decisive two-out, two-run double in the sixth inning and Cincinnati rallied for a over Minnesota.

Cincinnati has won eight of its last 11 games to climb within two games of the third NL wild-card spot.

Byron Buxton’s solo homer off Andrew Abbott put the Twins ahead 1-0 in the third.

David Festa held Cincinnati hitless until the fourth when Will Benson’s two-run double put the Reds ahead 2-1.

Festa left the game in the fourth with a right hand contusion after allowing four runs, two earned.

Jake Fraley drove in two more runs with a single to make the score 4-1.

A throwing error by Reds third baseman Christian Encarnacion-Strand opened the door for a Twins rally in the sixth. Harrison Bader’s three-run homer caromed over the wall off Fraley’s glove to put them ahead 5-4.

Abbott allowed five runs, but only one earned, dropping his ERA to 1.84. He struck out five and didn’t walk a batter.

ROYALS 6, RANGERS 1

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) – Salvador Perez homered twice, Bobby Witt Jr. went deep in his hometown team’s ballpark for the first time and Kansas City stopped a six-game losing streak with a victory over Texas.

Seth Lugo struck out a season-high nine for his first win since May 1 as all three active Kansas City All-Stars from last year’s Midsummer Classic at Globe Life Field returned to Texas and had a hand in ending the team’s five-game skid against the Rangers.

Lugo (4-5), who threw a scoreless inning in the American League’s 5-3 victory last July, gave up three hits and a run over six innings in his return to Arlington.

With the Royals coming off an 0-6 homestand that matched their longest losing streak of the season, Perez hit a two-run shot for a 3-0 lead in the first inning. After adding an RBI double in the fourth, Perez connected for his eighth homer of the year, a solo shot that made it 6-1 in the sixth.

Witt also homered off Jack Leiter in a matchup between sons of former major league pitchers. Witt grew up in the Dallas area, where Bobby Witt settled after spending 11 of his 16 big league seasons with the Rangers.

Leiter (4-4) is the son of Al Leiter, who had a 19-year major league career. The rookie right-hander gave up eight hits and six runs – both matching season highs – in 5 2/3 innings.

CARDINALS 12, WHITE SOX 2

CHICAGO (AP) – Brendan Donovan had four hits and Iván Herrera drove in four runs to back a strong start by Matthew Liberatore as St. Louis handed Chicago their sixth straight loss.

Alec Burleson went 3 for 5 for St. Louis, including his sixth home run, a solo shot in the seventh that made it 9-2. Victor Scott II – in the midst of a 5-for-35 slump – hit a two-run homer off Chicago position player Vinny Capra in the ninth.

Donovan drove in a run, hit his 21st double and scored twice in his third four-hit game this season and the fifth of his career.

Herrera had a two-run single in a five-run second inning. Michael A. Taylor took a home run away from Herrera leading off the fifth, but he came back to drive in a pair with a sixth-inning single.

Liberatore (4-6) gave up two runs on five hits in six innings for his first win since beating the Pirates on May 6.

ORIOLES 5, RAYS 1

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Colton Cowser hit a go-ahead homer and Baltimore beat Tampa Bay.

Jordan Westburg and Dylan Carlson each had three hits for the Orioles, who have won 12 of 17. Ramón Laureano drove in two runs.

Westburg fell inches shy of a second-inning homer when his flyball bounced off the top of the left-center fence. After a replay review upheld the double, Westburg scored the first run on Laureano’s single.

Eight of nine starters had at least one hit for Baltimore.

Rays starter Zack Littell (6-7) had retired 10 straight until Cowser launched a slider into the right-field seats for a solo shot that broke a 1-all tie in the fifth.

Baltimore starter Dean Kremer (6-7) allowed one run and four hits over five innings, leaving with a 2-1 lead. Four relievers combined to shut out the Rays over the final four innings, improving the bullpen’s ERA to 1.76 since May 24.