ATLANTA (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed only one hit through six scoreless innings, Mookie Betts hit a home run and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Friday night for their sixth consecutive win.
Austin Riley doubled with two outs in the sixth inning for Atlanta’s first hit off Yamamoto (4-2). The right-hander lowered his ERA to 0.90, the best mark in the major leagues. He left the game with a 2-0 lead.
Matt Olson led off the seventh with a homer off Dodgers right-hander Kirby Yates. Right-hander Evan Phillips walked Olson with two outs in the ninth before ending the game on Sean Murphy’s grounder to the mound for his first save.
There was a rain delay of 1 hour, 13 minutes in the ninth.
Yamamoto walked Marcell Ozuna on 11 pitches in the first inning and walked Ozuna again in the fourth for Atlanta’s only baserunners before Riley’s double.
The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead against right-hander Grant Holmes (2-2) on Will Smith’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly to right field in the fourth inning. The fly ball drove in Betts, who reached on an infield hit off the back of Holmes upper left leg.
Holmes set a career high with nine strikeouts while allowing two runs on four hits in six-plus innings.
Betts’ fifth homer in the sixth extended the Dodgers’ lead to 2-0.
ORIOLES 3, ROYALS 0
BALTIMORE (AP) — Dean Kremer allowed three hits in seven innings, Ryan O’Hearn hit a go-ahead, two-run homer and Baltimore beat Kansas City for a rare low-scoring victory in their first shutout this season.
Last-place Baltimore improved to 2-16 when scoring three or fewer runs and won back-to-back games for only the second time this year.
Kremer (3-4) and Michael Wacha (1-4) battled for six scoreless innings before Adley Rutschman led off the Baltimore seventh with a double. O’Hearn followed with a drive to left-center field for his sixth home run of the year.
Emmanuel Rivera, playing because infielder Ramón Urías was scratched with right hamstring tightness, added an RBI single later in the inning.
Kansas City lost for just the second time in 11 games. Bobby Witt Jr. went 0 for 4, ending his 22-game hitting streak, as the Royals were blanked for the fourth time.
Yennier Cano pitched the eighth, and Félix Bautista finished the four-hitter for his sixth save in six chances.
Wacha allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings.
PHILLIES 3, DIAMONDBACKS 2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber and Max Kepler hit solo homers in the seventh inning to lead Philadelphia to a victory over Arizona.
Schwarber moved into a tie for the major league home run lead when he hit his 10th of the season off Arizona reliever Jose Castillo (0-1) to tie the game 2-2.
One out later, Kepler hit a home run into the right-field seats to put the Phillies ahead. It was his fourth homer this season and his first off a left-handed pitcher this year.
Schwarber also had an RBI double in the first inning to give Philadelphia an early lead.
Tanner Banks (1-0) earned the win in relief by pitching a 1-2-3 seventh. Jose Alvarado pitched the ninth for his sixth save for Philadelphia.
Jesús Luzardo pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on nine hits for the Phillies, who have won five of their last six.
YANKEES 3, RAYS 0
NEW YORK (AP) — Max Fried combined with two relievers on a one-hitter to become the major leagues’ first six-game winner and lead New York over Tampa Bay.
Aaron Judge hit his second triple of the season and doubled in the sixth ahead of Paul Goldschmidt’s three-run homer to raise his major league-leading average to .430 and extend his on-base streak to 28 games.
Nearly two weeks after a no-hit bid against the Rays ended in the eighth inning with a retroactive scoring change, Fried (6-0) allowed a clean single to José Caballero with one out in the fifth.
Fried struck out six, walked two and got 10 groundball outs as he won his sixth straight start and helped the Yankees improve to 7-0 in his outings. He lowered his AL-leading ERA to 1.01 in his third scoreless start this season. Fried is 4-0 with a 0.00 ERA following Yankees losses.
Goldschmidt hs third homer of the season in the fifth after left-hander Mason Montgomery relieved Ryan Pepiot (2-4).
Devin Williams threw eight pitches in a perfect eighth in his third straight hitless outing since he was dropped as New York’s closer. Luke Weaver struck out two in a perfect ninth for his third save.
BLUE JAYS 5, GUARDIANS 3
TORONTO (AP) — Nathan Lukes hit a two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning to snap a tie and give Toronto a win over Cleveland.
Guardians star José Ramírez left in the third inning because of a sprained right ankle. The six-time All-Star was struck in the back by a throw from pitcher Chris Bassitt as he ran out an infield single and stumbled awkwardly over first base before ending up in the dirt.
Lukes lined the winning hit off right-hander Jakob Junis (0-1) to end Cleveland’s three-game winning streak.
Brendon Little (1-0) pitched 1 2/3 innings and Jeff Hoffman finished for his seventh save in seven chances. Hoffman retired Gabriel Arias to end it, stranding runners at second and third.
Toronto won its third straight game after losing eight of its previous nine.
Cleveland’s Carlos Santana hit a leadoff homer in the second, but Alejandro Kirk answered with a two-run single in the third.
Guardians catcher Bo Naylor tied it with a solo homer in the fourth.
George Springer restored Toronto’s lead with a solo shot in the fifth, but Santana knotted it again in the sixth, chasing Bassitt with an RBI single.
Bassitt allowed three runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
ATHLETICS 6, MARLINS 1
MIAMI (AP) — Gunnar Hoglund won his major league debut by allowing one run over six innings to lead the Athletics over Miami and extend its losing streak to six.
A 25-year-old right-hander who pitched at the University of Mississippi, Hoglund (1-0) struck out seven, walked none and allowed six hits, including Dane Myers’ leadoff home run in the sixth.
Hoglund was selected by Toronto 19th overall in the 2021 amateur draft and was among the prospects acquired by the A’s in the March 2022 trade that sent third baseman Matt Chapman to the Blue Jays.
Hogland threw 81 pitches, including 34 four-seam fastballs that averaged 93.6 mph. He got six swings and misses on fastballs, three on changeups and two on sinkers.
JJ Bleday, who played for the Marlins as a rookie in 2022, hit his third home run. His solo shot in the third boosted the lead to 3-0 against Valente Bellozo (0-2), who allowed five runs, four hits and four walks in 4 2/3 innings.
RED SOX 6, TWINS 1
BOSTON (AP) — Rafael Devers broke a seventh-inning tie with a two-run single and Boston defeated Minnesota as Triston Casas appeared to sustain a serious left knee injury.
Casas left the game due to a lower-body injury in the second inning and was replaced by Romy Gonzalez. The 25-year-old first baseman fell awkwardly while trying to beat out a slow roller up the first-base line and was carried off on a stretcher.
Boston’s David Hamilton finished three hits with two stolen bases while Alex Bregman homered as part of a two-hit night. Gonzalez doubled in a run as part of a three-run eighth.
Bregman hit a home run in the first inning, his eighth of the season to give the Red Sox a 1-0 lead.
Ryan Jeffers hit a solo shot for Minnesota in the top of the third. Louis Varland (1-3) took the loss after allowing back-to-back hits in the seventh.
Boston starter Brayan Bello gave up a run on four hits over 6 2/3 innings and was replaced Justin Wilson (1-0). Two two pitches later, Edouard Julien was caught stealing second to end the top of the seventh and Greg Weissert took over for Wilson to start the eighth.
The Red Sox finished with 13 hits and has recorded at least 10 hit in a game 11 times this season — all wins.
CUBS 10, BREWERS 0
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Michael Busch hit his first career grand slam and Pete Crow-Armstrong added two solo shots as the Chicago Cubs beat Milwaukee.
This marked the first matchup of the season between the NL Central-leading Cubs and the Brewers, who won this division each of the last two seasons.
Chicago took the lead for good by scoring two runs in the first inning off Tyler Alexander (1-3), who served as the Brewers’ opener before giving way to Quinn Priester. The Cubs scored seven runs against Priester in the second to break the game open.
Busch sent an 0-2 curve over the wall in left-center field for his sixth homer of the season, giving Chicago an 8-0 advantage. Two batters later, Crow-Armstrong delivered a 418-foot blast to center on a 1-2 changeup.
Crow-Amstrong went deep again in the seventh inning, hitting a 399-foot shot to right on a 2-1 slider from Joel Payamps for his eighth homer of the season.
Cubs starter Ben Brown (3-2) struck out four in six innings while allowing four hits and no walks. Chris Flexen worked the final three innings for his third career save, and first since 2022.
WHITE SOX 7, ASTROS 3
CHICAGO (AP) — Luis Robert Jr. homered and Edgar Quero added two hits and two RBIs as the Chicago White Sox beat Houston.
Jonathan Cannon (2-3) allowed two runs on nine hits with five strikeouts in six innings as the AL-worst White Sox won consecutive home games for the second time this season and improved to 9-23.
White Sox rookie infielder Chase Meidroth singled and scored on a one-out double by Quero for a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Robert, who had reached on a walk was thrown out at the plate on the play. Chicago took a two-run lead in the second when Meidroth’s two-out hit scored Bobby Dalbec, who had singled.
Houston got a run back in the fourth on consecutive doubles by Christian Walker and Yainer Diaz.
Robert hit his fifth home run — a two-out solo shot for his 500th career hit — and Quero added an RBI single to make it 4-1 in the fifth.
Diaz singled and scored on a Jake Meyers’ single in the sixth and later added a solo homer, his third of the season, in the eighth as Houston closed within 4-3.
Chicago broke it open with three runs in the eighth off Astros relievers Tayler Scott and Bennett Sousa.
Houston starter Framber Valdez (1-4) allowed four runs on seven hits with six strikeouts and two walks in five innings.
REDS 6, NATIONALS 1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Hunter Greene struck out 12, the second-highest total of his big league career, while allowing two hits over six innings and leading Cincinnati over Washington.
Tyler Stephenson hit a two-run double in his season debut after recovering from a left oblique strain sustained during spring training.
Greene (4-2) averaged 99 mph with his fastball and got 21 swings and misses among 114 pitches — four more than any other major league pitcher had thrown in a game this season.
He started 16 of 22 batters with strikes and threw 83 strikes in all, lowering his ERA to 2.53. He walked two.
Greene’s only game with more strikeouts was when he fanned 14 against Minnesota on Sept. 20, 2023.
Reds pitchers matched their season high with 17 strikeouts, which set a season high for Nationals batters.
MARINERS 13, RANGERS 1
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Cal Raleigh hit a grand slam among his two homers, bringing his season total to a major league-leading 12, and Bryan Woo allowed only one single over 6 1/3 innings as Seattle beat struggling Texas.
Raleigh gave Seattle a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning and his grand slam highlighted a seven-run fifth.
Woo (4-1) retired the first 14 batters before Jonah Heim singled on a first-pitch fastball to center field with two out in the fifth. He struck out eight and walked none, throwing 87 pitches.
Julio Rodríguez hit a two-run homer to straight-away center in the sixth inning.
The AL West-leading Mariners have won five consecutive games, their longest winning streak since an eight-game run in August 2023.
The Rangers have lost eight of their last 10 games and dropped below .500 for the first time since their Opening Day loss to Boston. Last in the AL with 104 runs, they were shut out for 22 consecutive innings until Josh Smith’s solo homer with two out in the ninth.
Jack Leiter (2-1) gave up six runs on eight hits in 4 1/3 innings.
METS 9, CARDINALS 3
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Pete Alonso and Brandon Nimmo homered and New York beat St. Louis to avoid its first three-game losing streak this season and win its ninth straight game against the Cardinals.
Francisco Alvarez added three singles and three RBIs to back Clay Holmes (4-1), and New York got its first win over Sonny Gray (3-1), who had been 4-0 against the Mets.
Alonso put the Mets ahead 4-3 with his eighth homer, a two-run drive on an 0-2 changeup he drove 417 feet into the center-field bleachers.
Nimmo homered leading off the seventh against John King, his seventh home run, and the Mets finished with 17 hits for their second-highest total this season.
New York swept a four-game series from the Cardinals at home last month. The Mets’ previous best streak against the Cardinals was an eight-game run in 1986.
Holmes allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings. He was struck on the right ankle by Alec Burleson’s comebacker in the second inning.
Gray gave up five runs — four earned — nine hits and three walks in a season-low 4 1/3 innings.
PADRES 9, PIRATES 4
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Luis Arraez had three hits and drove in three runs to help San Diego beat Pittsburgh for its third straight victory.
Arraez is 6 for 12 since returning from a concussion. Fernando Tatis Jr. left the game in the third after being hit on the left forearm by a pitch from Mitch Keller. The Padres announced that initial X-rays were negative.
Oneil Cruz drew a two-out walk from Padres starter Dylan Cease in the third, stole second and scored on a single by Bryan Reynolds for a 1-0 lead.
Gavin Sheets homered — his fourth of the season — leading off the fourth against Keller (1-3), Xander Bogaerts singled and scored on a Taylor Wade hit to give the Padres the lead. Alexander Canario drew a bases-loaded walk to make it 2-2 in the bottom half.
Oscar Gonzalez singled and scored on an Arraez double to give the Padres the lead for good in a three-run fifth. Brandon Lockridge drove in a run with a two-out single in the eighth and Arraez followed with a two-run single for an 8-4 lead. Jason Heyward had a sacrifice fly in the ninth.
Cease threw 91 pitches to get through four innings. He allowed two runs on three hits and three walks. Jeremiah Estrada (1-1) struck out the side in the seventh for the win.
Keller gave up five runs — four earned — on eight hits in five innings.
TIGERS 9, ANGELS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Riley Greene homered to open the top of the ninth inning and capped an eight-run outburst with a three-run shot to lead Detroit to a win over Los Angeles.
Colt Keith had a solo homer and Javier Báez hit a two-run shot in the inning against Angels closer Kenley Jansen, who opened the season with eight scoreless innings but was pitching for the first time in eight days.
With his three-run shot off left-hander Jake Eder, Greene became the first Tigers player to homer twice in an inning since Magglio Ordonez against the Oakland Athletics on Aug. 12, 2007.
Tyler Holton (2-2) pitched a scoreless eighth inning to pick up the win.
Jansen (0-1) gave up six runs and six hits in the ninth, as the Angels lost their seventh straight and 15th in the last 19 games.
Angels shortstop Zach Neto crushed Detroit left-hander Tarik Skubal’s first pitch of the game for his fourth homer. The Tigers tied the score 1-1 in the seventh on Trey Sweeney’s homer off reliever Ryan Johnson.
Angels starter Jose Soriano allowing six hits in six innings, striking out five and walking one.
Skubal, the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, allowed one run and four hits in six innings, striking out eight and walking one.
GIANTS 4, ROCKIES 0
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robbie Ray held Colorado to two singles over seven shutout innings and San Francisco ended a three-game losing streak with a victory.
Ray (4-0) struck out eight, walked two and allowed only one runner to get into scoring position. The 2021 AL Cy Young Award winner with Toronto needed only 86 pitches.
Hayden Birdsong gave up one hit over the final two innings to complete the first shutout of the season for San Francisco’s pitching staff. Colorado fell to 6-26 and was blanked for fourth time in 2025.
The Giants got to Antonio Senzatela (1-5) for three runs in the second inning. The key hit was an RBI double by LaMonte Wade Jr., who entered the game with a .123 batting average.
San Francisco third baseman Matt Chapman was in a 6-for-44 slump when he came to the plate in the third. Chapman took Senzatela deep to left for a solo home run, his sixth homer of the season.
The game lasted only 2 hours and 2 minutes.
The Associated Press
