Hunter Goodman hit a career-best three home runs and tallied five RBIs, leading the Colorado Rockies to an 8-5 win over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday in Minneapolis.
Kyle Karros added a two-run homer and Jake McCarthy finished 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs for the Rockies, who have alternated wins and losses for seven games.
Michael Lorenzen (3-9) broke a 10-start winless drought and picked up his first victory since April 24. He limited the Twins to two runs on seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. Jimmy Herget got the final two outs for his third save.
Trevor Larnach went 3-for-5 with a three-run double to lead Minnesota, which took its fourth defeat in five games. Mike Paredes (0-1) allowed three runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 innings.
Giants 5, Braves 0
Logan Webb continued his brilliant pitching in the month of June, Rafael Devers launched two home runs and San Francisco evened the score with visiting Atlanta in their three-game series with a shutout victory.
The Giants limited the Braves to one hit. The hosts grabbed a lead they’d never relinquish when Devers led off the second inning with a solo shot off Atlanta starter Bryce Elder (5-6). Webb (5-5) limited the Braves to one hit in seven innings.
Atlanta’s lone hit off Webb came when Mauricio Dubon doubled with one out in the second. Elder lasted just four innings, charged with all five San Francisco runs on five hits.
Red Sox 4, Yankees 1
Rookie Jake Bennett allowed one run over 6 1/3 innings and Masataka Yoshida and Anthony Seigler poked solo homers as host Boston defeated New York for the third straight day.
Bennett (2-3), who did not allow his first hit until two outs in the fifth, left to a standing ovation after surrendering just three hits and two walks to go with three strikeouts. Seigler, the Yankees’ first-round pick in the 2018 draft, cracked his first major league homer in the second inning to give the Red Sox a 2-0 lead.
New York’s Gerrit Cole (2-3) permitted four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Max Schuemann stroked a solo homer for the Yankees, who lost for the sixth time in eight games to fall into a share of the AL East lead with the Tampa Bay Rays.
Astros 8, Tigers 6
Isaac Paredes delivered a go-ahead two-run double in the eighth and visiting Houston rallied for a win over Detroit.
Jeremy Pena, who had a game-tying hit earlier in the eighth, finished with three hits, two runs and two RBIs for the Astros. Christian Walker supplied four hits, and Cam Smith delivered a two-run homer. Houston reliever AJ Blubaugh (4-2) threw two scoreless innings, and Josh Hader pitched the ninth for his seventh save.
Framber Valdez, facing his former team for the second time this season, started for Detroit and gave up four runs on eight hits over six innings. Kerry Carpenter hit the Tigers’ first grand slam of the season. Hao-Yu Lee also homered before Will Vest (3-5) blew a late lead.
Rangers 7, Blue Jays 4
Jake Burger produced three hits and two RBIs as Texas defeated host Toronto for the third day in a row.
Corey Seager added a solo home run while Alejandro Osuna and Elias Diaz drove in two runs apiece for the Rangers. Starter Cal Quantrill threw four scoreless innings, and Peyton Gray (3-0) struck out four in his 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.
Yohendrick Pinango popped a two-run homer for the Blue Jays and Alejandro Kirk added a solo shot. Starter Dylan Cease (4-4) struck out 10 but surrendered four runs, four hits and five walks over his 4 2/3-inning stint.
White Sox 2, Royals 1
Jacob Gonzalez delivered a one-out, walk-off single as Chicago claimed a franchise-record 10th straight home series win with a victory over Kansas City.
Colson Montgomery, Chase Meidroth and Braden Montgomery all singled for their second hits to open the ninth inning against Daniel Lynch IV (2-2). Facing John Schreiber, Gonzalez lined a 3-2 fastball past shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. in a five-man infield as the first-place White Sox improved to 4-1 on their six-game homestand.
Grant Taylor (3-1) pitched two perfect innings with four strikeouts for the win. Kansas City’s Michael Massey was 2-for-2 with a walk, but the Royals managed just six hits.
Mets 6, Phillies 2
Francisco Lindor and A.J. Ewing each had two-run hits in the sixth inning for host New York, which ended a seven-game skid with a come-from-behind victory over Philadelphia.
The Mets didn’t get a runner beyond first over the first five innings against Tim Mayza and Alan Rangel (0-1) before they rallied from the 2-0 hole by batting around in the sixth. New York starter Christian Scott, who was activated from the 15-day injured list prior to the game, allowed two runs on three hits over 4 1/3 innings.
Bryce Harper was the only Philadelphia player with multiple hits, finishing 2-for-4 with a two-run homer as the Phillies saw their four-game winning streak end. Rangel surrendered four runs on four hits in four innings.
Guardians 4, Mariners 3
Kahlil Watson had an RBI double in the fourth inning and fellow rookie Cooper Ingle followed with his first major league hit, a two-run single, as Cleveland beat visiting Seattle.
Slade Cecconi (4-6) earned his first home victory of the season with six-plus scoreless innings as the Guardians recorded their fourth win in 11 games since All-Star Jose Ramirez broke his left wrist. Cade Smith allowed two runners in the ninth but escaped for his 25th save.
Randy Arozarena belted a three-run homer in the eighth to pull Seattle within 4-3. Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (6-5) worked seven innings, giving up four runs on seven hits.
Reds 9, Pirates 7
With the Reds down to their last strike, Eugenio Suarez hit a go-ahead three-run home run in the top of the ninth to lift Cincinnati to a comeback win over host Pittsburgh.
Suarez’s eighth homer gave the Reds back-to-back wins. Chase Burns struck out a season-high 10 batters, matching a career high, but had his team-record streak of 12 consecutive outings allowing two runs or fewer snapped. Burns gave up five runs on nine hits in six-plus innings.
Brandon Lowe led the Pirates with four RBIs and Jared Triolo had three hits. Gregory Soto (4-2) served up Suarez’s homer, which made a winner of Caleb Ferguson (1-0). Chase Petty pitched a hitless ninth inning for his first career save.
Rays 4, Diamondbacks 2
Jonathan Aranda’s two-run homer broke a tie and Junior Caminero also homered as Tampa Bay defeated Arizona in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Caminero opened the Rays’ scoring with his sixth homer in the past five games. Michael Grove (1-0) was the pitcher of record in his Tampa Bay debut, allowing a hit over three scoreless innings.
Katel Marte homered for the Diamondbacks, who have scored just three runs while losing the first two games of the series. Arizona starter Jose Cabrera (0-1) gave up four runs and seven hits in five-plus innings in his second major league start.
Nationals 4, Orioles 3 (10 innings)
Daylen Lile singled in the tiebreaking run with the first at-bat in the 10th inning and visiting Washington held on to halt a four-game losing streak with a victory against Baltimore.
The Orioles loaded the bases with two outs in the 10th before Justin Lawrence notched his first save since 2024 on Samuel Basallo’s groundout. Washington starter Foster Griffin held the Orioles to one unearned run over seven innings. Luis Garcia Jr. homered among his four hits for Washington.
Baltimore tied the game with two runs in the eighth inning on Pete Alonso’s RBI double and Basallo’s pinch-hit single. Orioles starter Brandon Young gave up two runs on seven hits across five innings. Ryan Helsley (0-4) took the loss.
Cubs 8, Brewers 2
Ian Happ hit a three-run homer in a four-run sixth inning as visiting Chicago leveled the three-game series with a win over Milwaukee.
Seiya Suzuki and Michael Conforto also homered for the Cubs. David Peterson (4-6), acquired in a trade Wednesday with the Mets, allowed a homer in his first pitch for Chicago but settled in to give up five hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings.
Brewers starter Kyle Harrison allowed two runs on three hits over five innings before Chad Patrick (5-4) yielding four runs in two-thirds of an inning. Jackson Chourio began the bottom of the first with a homer.
Marlins 5, Cardinals 1
Xavier Edwards went 3-for-5 with an RBI single, Kyle Stowers drove in two runs and visiting Miami beat St. Louis for its fourth straight victory.
Javier Sanoja had three hits, an RBI and two stolen bases for the Marlins, who improved to a major-league-best 18-5 in June. Ryan Gusto tossed 3 1/3 scoreless innings before giving way to John King (6-1), who threw 1 1/3 shutout frames against his former team.
Masyn Winn singled in a run and JJ Wetherholt and Lars Nootbaar had two hits apiece for the Cardinals, who have lost four straight and seven of their past nine. Andre Pallante (9-5) allowed a career-high 11 hits and five runs over 6 2/3 innings, snapping his five-decision winning streak.
Dodgers 15, Padres 3
Kyle Tucker, Dalton Rushing and Mookie Betts smashed homers in a massive sixth inning as visiting Los Angeles routed San Diego.
A 1-1 game through five innings was broken wide open with a nine-run frame that saw 12 batters come to the plate. Tucker finished with three of the Dodgers’ 17 hits and four RBIs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto (8-5) allowed five hits and two runs over six innings.
Gavin Sheets homered and had an RBI single for the Padres. Bulk reliever Randy Vasquez (6-6) was tagged for eight hits and seven runs, five of them earned, in 3 1/3 innings.
Angels 5, Athletics 2
Jo Adell hit a two-run triple and Denzer Guzman delivered a tiebreaking single to help Los Angeles record a victory over the Athletics at Anaheim, Calif.
Oswald Peraza and Logan O’Hoppe also had RBI singles as the Angels won for the fifth time in seven games. Starter Reid Detmers worked 5 2/3 innings and gave up two runs and four hits. Ryan Zeferjahn (4-3) struck out two in the seventh.
Jonah Heim rang in his 31st birthday with a 445-foot homer for the A’s, who fell for the fifth time in seven outings. The Athletics played without shortstop Jacob Wilson (shoulder) for the third straight game, and left fielder Tyler Soderstrom (left hip tightness) exited after 2 1/2 innings.
–Field Level Media
