Trea Turner hits leadoff homer to help Phillies to a win over the Marlins

MIAMI (AP) – Trea Turner hit a leadoff homer and added two singles as the Philadelphia Phillies extended their winning streak to five games with a 5-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series.

Max Kepler also went deep and Alec Bohm had two hits and two RBIs for the Phillies.

Rookie Mick Abel (2-0) threw five innings of one-run ball in his fourth major league start. The 23-year-old right-hander scattered three hits and struck out three. Orion Kerkering closed with a perfect ninth for his first career save.

Kepler snapped a 1-all tie with a solo blast in the fourth. He drove a slider from Miami starter Sandy Alcántara into the seats in right field for his ninth of the season.

Turner’s RBI single in the seventh made it 3-1 before Miami narrowed the deficit on a sacrifice fly Agustín Ramírez in the eighth.

Philadelphia padded its lead in the ninth on Bohm’s two-run single.

Alcántara (3-8) allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner struck out five, moving past Josh Johnson for second on the Marlins’ career strikeout list with 834.

ROCKIES 6, NATIONALS 4

WASHINGTON (AP) – Hunter Goodman homered twice, including a tying shot in the ninth inning, and then Mickey Moniak connected for a two-run drive that gave Colorado a victory over Washington.

Colorado entered with 57 losses this season, tied with the 1932 Boston Red Sox for the most in the modern era (since 1901) through 71 games. Both the Rockies and Red Sox won their 72nd game.

Washington has lost nine straight overall.

Goodman tied it 4-all with a solo shot to left-center – his 13th homer of the season to lead National League catchers.

Moniak, who tripled in the fifth and scored on Michael Toglia’s single for a 3-1 lead, sent a two-run homer into the bullpen in right field to put Colorado ahead with his eighth home run this season.

Seth Halvorsen walked the leadoff batter in the bottom of the ninth before getting a double play and a groundout to earn his fourth save. Victor Vodnik (2-2) pitched a scoreless eighth.

Kyle Finnegan (0-2) was handed his fifth blown save of the season.

RAYS 7, ORIOLES 1

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – Ryan Pepiot had a season-high 11 strikeouts, Jake Mangum went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and Tampa Bay beat Baltimore.

Pepiot (4-6), in his team-leading 15th start, finished one strikeout short of matching his career best. He allowed four hits and one earned run in a 98-pitch effort.

Forrest Whitley made his debut with the Rays in the ninth inning and retired three straight to extend the bullpen’s scoreless streak to 16 2/3 innings.

Tampa Bay has won four straight and gone 19-6 in its last 25 games. The Rays also picked up their eighth straight series-opening victory.

Baltimore, which scored 11 runs on Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels, lost for just the fifth time in 16 games.

ANGELS 1, YANKEES 0, 11 INNINGS

NEW YORK – Nolan Schanuel hit a run-scoring double in the 11th inning and Los Angeles Angels beat Newe York, extending the Yankee’s losing streak to a season-high four games.

Schanuel’s one-out, opposite-field hit to left off Jonathan Loáisiga (0-1) scored automatic runner Christian Moore, a Brooklyn native who tripled in the eighth for his first major league hit.

Ryan Zeferjahn (4-1) pitched a hitless 10th. After the Yankees loaded the bases with two outs against Brock Burke in the bottom half, Hunter Strickland got Anthony Volpe to bounce into a forceout for his first save this year as Los Angeles improved to 5-0 in extra innings and dropped the Yankees to 1-5.

AL East-leading New York has scored five runs in its last five games and has lost four in a row for the first time since last July 2-5. The Yankees went 1 for 18 with runners in scoring position.

Giancarlo Stanton went 2 for 4 in his season debut with a fourth-inning single and a leadoff double in the ninth after missing 70 games because inflammation in the tendons of both elbows. After the double, third baseman Luis Rengifo made a superb play on Volpe’s grounder, tagging Jasson Domínguez and tumbling as the helmet of the pinch runner hit a knee.