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Bellinger hits 2 homers as Yankees roll past Orioles 9-4
NEW YORK (AP) — Cody Bellinger went 4 for 4 with two homers and four RBIs, leading the New York Yankees over the Baltimore Orioles 9-4 on Saturday for their 12th win in 14 games.
Bellinger hit a pair of solo homers on sliders, putting the Yankees ahead in the second off Kyle Bradish (1-4) and boosting the lead to 6-1 in the fifth against Keegan Akin for his 21st multi-homer game, his second this season. He hit a RBI double in a two-run third and a RBI single in the seventh.
Trent Grisham hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Jazz Chisholm Jr. had a run-scoring single in the seventh as the Yankees moved a season-high 11 games over .500 at 22-11.
Ryan Weathers (2-2), hoping to remain in the rotation when Carlos Rodón and Gerrit Cole return from injuries, allowed three runs — one earned — three hits and two walks in five-plus innings. Yankees starters have a big league-best 2.62 ERA.
Baltimore lost its third straight and dropped to 0-7 against left-handed starters. The Yankees had to pause their end-of-game celebration for a few seconds while Blaze Alexander unsuccessfully appealed a called third strike.
Peter Alonso homered for the second straight day in his first trip to New York since leaving the Mets for the Orioles. His sixth home run this season was his fourth in nine games.
BLUE JAYS 11, TWINS 4
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kazuma Okamoto hit his third home run in two days, Brandon Valenzuela homered in an eight-run eighth inning and Toronto beat Minnesota.
Lenyn Sosa and Myles Straw also went deep for Toronto, which scored a season high in runs while winning for the sixth time in eight games, but saw George Springer leave with an injury.
Byron Buxton homered for the Twins for the third straight game and fifth in six outings, but the beleaguered Minnesota bullpen cost the team again.
Eight Blue Jays scored against Luis García (0-1) and Anthony Banda before an out was recorded in the eighth inning. Okamoto and Sosa had RBI singles, and Davis Schneider ended an 0-for-27 skid with a two-run double before Valenzuela’s three-run shot.
In the past six games, Twins relievers have allowed 20 runs in 20 1-3 innings.
Springer left the game in the third inning after being hit by a pitch on the left foot. The four-time All-Star came off the 10-day injured list Wednesday after fouling off a pitch and breaking his left big toe on April 11 in another game against the Twins.
CUBS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 0
CHICAGO (AP) — Shota Imanaga pitched seven crisp innings and Chicago ended Ildemaro Vargas’ 27-game hitting streak while blanking Arizona.
Ian Happ homered, tripled and doubled for the Cubs, who extended their winning streak at Wrigley Field to 10 games, their longest at home since 2008.
Vargas had hit safely in 24 games to start this season and three to end last season. He went 0 for 4, grounding out against Ben Brown in his final opportunity as the Diamondbacks lost their third straight.
Imanaga allowed four hits, struck out five and walked one on 87 pitches in his second scoreless appearance of six innings or more this season. Brown retired all six batters he faced for his first save.
Happ led off the second with a 399-foot homer to right field into a stiff breeze off Ryne Nelson (1-3), his eighth this season. He extended his on-base streak to 23 games, the longest active streak in the majors.
Happ added a double in the sixth and a triple in the eighth, the only player to record more than one hit. Seiya Suzuki drove in Happ in the eighth with a sacrifice fly off Juan Morillo.
Nelson allowed one run on four hits in 5 2/3 innings.
MARLINS 4, PHILLIES 0
MIAMI (AP) — Max Meyer and two Miami relievers combined on a one-hitter, Xavier Edwards homered and the Marlins beat Philadelphia.
Meyer (2-0) struck out seven in a career-high seven innings. He gave up a single to Garrett Stubbs in the third and walked Alec Bohm in the fifth for the only baserunners he allowed. His outing ended after 83 pitches.
Anthony Bender and Andrew Nardi each pitched a perfect inning to help snap the Phillies’ four-game winning streak under interim manager Don Mattingly.
Edwards also singled for the Marlins and Otto López and Connor Norby each had two hits and drove in a run.
Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber has struck out in each of his nine plate appearances in the first two games of the series. For Schwarber, who fanned four times Saturday, the strikeout skid at loanDepot Park is at 11 games, including his last two at-bats against Venezuela in the final of the World Baseball Classic on March 17.
Philadelphia catcher J.T. Realmuto went 0 for 3 in his return from the injured list. He was sidelined since April 22 because of back spasms.
BREWERS 4, NATIONALS 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kyle Harrison worked in and out of trouble for six innings, Brandon Lockridge drove in two runs and Milwaukee beat Washington.
Harrison (3-1) allowed at least one baserunner in each inning, giving up one run on seven hits. He struck out five and walked one. The left-hander has allowed two earned runs or fewer in each of his six starts and lowered his ERA to 2.12.
Abner Uribe worked the ninth for his third save, getting out of a jam after the first two batters reached via a single and an error.
James Wood had two hits for the Nationals, who have lost the first two games of the series and fell to 3-12 at home.
Washington’s Foster Griffin (3-1) allowed three unearned runs on three hits over six innings.
PIRATES 17, REDS 7
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Carmen Mlodzinski had a career-high 10 strikeouts, Pittsburgh tied the MLB record for consecutive walks in an inning, and the Pirates beat Cincinnati.
The Pirates drew seven consecutive walks in their five-run second inning, tying the mark set by the Chicago White Sox (Aug. 28, 1909) and Atlanta Braves (May 25, 1983). Pittsburgh’s first four runs in the inning came without putting a ball in play before Henry Davis grounded into an RBI force out to cap the inning and make it 10-3.
The Pirates set season highs for runs (17) and hits (19), and each of Pittsburgh’s starters in the lineup had at least one RBI.
Mlodzinski (2-2) gave up five runs, eight hits and walked two in 5 1/3 innings.
Ryan O’Hearn, Marcell Ozuna and Konnor Griffin each had an RBI double in the first inning and the Pirates led 5-2 going into the second.
O’Hearn and Ozuna had three RBIs apiece and Griffin was 4 for 5 with a triple, a double and two RBIs. Spencer Horwitz and Nick Gonzales each drove in two runs. Brandon Lowe walked four times, the most by a Pirates player this season, and scored three runs.
Cincinnati starter Rhett Lowder (3-2) allowed eight runs and five hits in 1 1/3 innings.
ASTROS 6, RED SOX 3
BOSTON (AP) — Brice Matthews hit a three-run homer and made a leaping catch at the center-field wall to rob Willson Contreras of a hit that spoiled a potentially big inning, leading Houston to a victory over Boston.
Houston’s Christian Walker added a solo homer, three hits and two RBIs before leaving the game in the ninth inning after getting hit in the head by a fastball from Tyler Samaniego. Walker walked to the dugout after being hit and after the game was checked by a doctor and said he expects to be in the lineup on Sunday.
The Astros rebounded from a loss in the series opener Friday for just their third win in eight games.
Houston starter Spencer Arrighetti (4-0) gave up a run over five innings. He’s allowed two or fewer runs in each of his four starts since being called up from Triple-A on April 15.
Bryan King pitched the ninth for his second save.
GUARDIANS 14, ATHLETICS 6
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — José Ramírez stole his 300th career base, David Fry and Kyle Manzardo both hit home runs and Cleveland used a four-run fifth inning to rally past the Athletics.
Ramírez hit a two-run double in the fifth that gave the Guardians their first lead at 4-3 before he stole third base. He became the second player in franchise history with 300 or more stolen bases, joining Kenny Lofton. Ramírez also joined Starling Marte, Jose Altuve and Trea Turner as the only active players to reach the mark.
Shea Langeliers hit two homers for the Athletics, a two-run shot in the first and a solo blast in the fifth.
Nick Kurtz was 2 for 5, but had his streak of consecutive games with a walk end at 20, tied for the second-longest in MLB history.
After Rhys Hopkins scored Ramírez on a sacrifice fly to put the Guardians up 5-3 in the fifth, Fry added his second homer of the season in the sixth. Rookie Travis Bazzana got his first major league hit and RBI on a two-run single in the seventh and immediately stole his first base.
Manzardo added insurance in the top of the eighth with a three-run homer. Brayan Rocchio and Steven Kwan had RBIs in the ninth to cap Cleveland’s win.
RAYS 5, GIANTS 1
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan Aranda hit a two-run single in Tampa Bay’s three-run fifth inning and the Rays defeated San Francisco.
Cedric Mullins and Jake Fraley also drove in a run for the Rays, who became the second AL team to reach 20 wins, joining the New York Yankees.
Tampa Bay, which has won eight of its last 10 games, took a 1-0 lead on Fraley’s RBI single in the fourth. The Rays then broke it open in the fifth when Mullins drew a bases-loaded walk and Aranda followed with his two-RBI single to make it 4-0.
Heliot Ramos’ flyout in the second inning appeared to first hit the catwalk at Tropicana Field and the Giants challenged that it should’ve been ruled a home run. But the call on the field stood and San Francisco pitcher Adrian Houser, who wasn’t in the game, and director of pitching Frank Anderson were ejected for arguing the call from the dugout.
San Francisco ended a 16-inning scoreless stretch in the sixth after Luis Arraez doubled and later scored on Rafael Devers’ two-out double to score the Giants’ only run.
TIGERS 5, RANGERS 1
DETROIT (AP) — Dillon Dingler hit a three-run homer, Keider Montero pitched into the seventh inning and Detroit beat Texas.
Dingler’s sixth longball of the season was a 443-foot shot to left in the first inning off Kumar Rocker (1-2). Kevin McGonigle and Gleyber Torres each had RBI singles in the second for the Tigers.
Montero (2-2) worked 6 2/3 innings and needed just 85 pitches in his longest start this season. He allowed Jake Burger’s homer in the fourth among five hits, walked two and struck out two.
Drew Anderson got the final seven outs.
Rocker was done after two innings, allowing five runs on six hits and throwing 43 pitches in his shortest outing of 2026.
Wenceel Pérez and McGonigle stole bases against Rocker in the second. Pérez swiped another bag in the eighth as the Tigers stole four bases in a game for the first time since May 28, 2023.
CARDINALS 3, DODGERS 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jordan Walker homered and Michael McGreevy shut out punchless Los Angeles for six innings as St. Louis won its sixth straight game.
The Dodgers have lost a season-high four in a row and have gone five straight games without a home run for the first time since May 2015.
After back-to-back doubles by Iván Herrera and Alec Burleson to start the third inning, Walker smashed a hanging split-fingered fastball from Roki Sasaki (1-3) just over the left-field wall for a 3-0 St. Louis lead. The 372-foot shot was Walker’s 10th home run and gave him a hit in seven consecutive plate appearances.
McGreevy (2-2) benefited from double plays in four of the first five innings. Second baseman JJ Wetherholt started one by laying out to catch Shohei Ohtani’s line drive in the third, then he ranged far to his left on Teoscar Hernández’s grounder in the fourth to create another.
McGreevy gave up three singles and a season-high three walks while striking out three. The Dodgers went without an extra-base hit.
BRAVES 9, ROCKIES 1
DENVER (AP) — Drake Baldwin homered and drove in four runs, Chris Sale allowed one run in seven innings and Atlanta rolled past Colorado.
Austin Riley and Matt Olson also homered for the Braves, who won for the 14th time in 17 games and improved their MLB-best record to 24-10.
Sale (6-1) gave up three hits and struck out 11 batters while earning his MLB-leading sixth win. In his last four starts, the nine-time All-Star has allowed just three earned runs with 33 strikeouts and seven walks over 26 innings.
Braves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. left in the second inning with left hamstring tightness. He was attempting to run out a grounder before he pulled up about halfway down the base path and grabbed at his left hamstring. He was examined by team medical personnel before walking gingerly off the field and back to the Atlanta dugout. There was no immediate update on his condition. He was replaced by Eli White in right field.
Baldwin matched his single-game career high with three hits and finished a triple shy of the cycle.
Olson’s homer, a 414-foot moonshot to right field in the ninth inning, was his team-high 11th. Ozzie Albies added two hits, including his eighth double of the season, to extend his hitting streak to 14 games.
WHITE SOX 4, PADRES 0
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Miguel Vargas hit a two-run single with two outs in the sixth inning and Chicago beat San Diego to win its season-high fifth straight game and for the 10th time in 14 games.
The Padres loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth against Grant Taylor, but he struck out Gavin Sheets and then Seranthony Domínguez came on to get the final two outs for his eighth save.
The Padres were shut out for the first time at home since last May 31 against Pittsburgh, a span of 69 games that was the longest active streak in the majors.
Sean Burke (2-2) allowed only four hits and struck out eight against one walk in six innings as the White Sox handed the Padres their fourth straight loss. The Padres lost two of three to the Cubs in their previous series.
The White Sox broke through against Michael King (3-2) in the sixth and then chased the Padres’ top starter in the seventh.
