Yankees' Rizzo belts three homers
Anthony Rizzo homered three times to take over the major league lead, Aaron Judge connected on his birthday and Joey Gallo ended the longest home-run drought of his career as the New York Yankees outslugged the Baltimore Orioles 12-8 Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.
Luis Severino (2-0) pitched a no-hitter into the sixth inning for New York before Jorge Mateo’s one-out single. Anthony Santander followed a few batters later with a three-run homer.
Rizzo floated his sixth, seventh and eighth homers of the season over the short right-field fence for six RBIs, Judge joined Lou Gehrig and Jerry Mumphrey as Yankees to homer on their 30th birthdays and Gallo connected for the first time in 23 games, a slump dating to last season.
Gleyber Torres tacked on a bases-loaded triple in the seventh as the Yankees won for the sixth time in seven games.
BREWERS 12, PIRATES 8 » Willy Adames homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs, and Milwaukee defeated host Pittsburgh.
Adames hit a two-run blast in the first and a three-run drive during a six-run sixth. He added a two-run double in the fifth and finished 4 for 5, raising his batting average 45 points to .239.
Adames had five RBIs in his first 17 games of the season, and no more than one in a game. His previous career high for a game was four.
PADRES 9, REDS 6 » Eric Hosmer hit his first homer of the season and Jake Cronenworth added a bases-loaded triple during an eight-run fourth inning that sent visiting San Diego
The Yankees’ Anthony Rizzo, who hit a three-run homer in the third inning, slugs a two-run shot in the fifth for his second of three home runs against the Orioles on Tuesday night.
past struggling Cincinnati.
The Reds who snapped an 11-game losing streak on Sunday, own baseball’s worst record at 3-14.
Joe Musgrove (3-0), who has worked at least six innings in each of his four starts, allowed two earned runs through six innings.
MARINERS 8, RAYS 4 » Logan Gilbert pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings, Adam Frazier hit a three-run double during a seven-run fourth inning and visiting Seattle beat Tampa Bay for its fourth straight win.
Gilbert (3-0) gave up two hits and three walks while striking out seven. The 24-year-old right-hander has given up one earned run in four starts.
PHILLIES 10, ROCKIES 3 » Odubel Herrera homered, doubled and drove in three runs, Zach Eflin pitched six strong innings and host Philadelphia routed Colorado.
Eflin (1-1) allowed only
C.J. Cron’s single leading off the second and Charlie Blackmon’s one-out homer to right field in the sixth. The right-hander struck out three and walked one. Blackmon also homered in the eighth.
MARLINS 5, NATIONALS 1 » Miami outfielders Jesús Sánchez and Avisaíl García each threw out a runner at the plate in the fourth inning, and Joey Wendle hit his first home run for the visiting Marlins, a threerun shot that helped produce a victory over reeling Washington.
Sandy Alcantara (2-0) extended his shutout streak to 17 innings over his past three starts and ended up giving up one run and six hits over six innings.
BRAVES 3, CUBS 1 » Travis Demeritte hit his first big league homer in nearly three years to back another strong outing by Max Fried, giving Atlanta a home win over Chicago.
The World Series champions won for only the third time in their last eight games. The Cubs have lost six of seven.
Fried (2-2) pitched fourhit ball over six innings. His only big mistake was a changeup that Ian Happ launched into the left-field seats leading off the third to tie the game at 1.
METS 3, CARDINALS 0 » Chris Bassitt pitched six strong innings, and New York won at St. Louis for its franchisebest sixth straight series win to start a season.
Bassitt (3-1) struck out six and allowed two hits and two walks.
ROYALS 6, WHITE SOX 0 » Daniel Lynch pitched six solid innings and Kansas City handed host Chicago its eighth straight loss.
Carlos Santana drove in two runs, helping the Royals stop a four-game slide.
Lynch (2-1) allowed two hits, struck out seven and walked two.