Justin Wrobleski pitched eight scoreless innings and Andy Pages hit a three-run homer as the Los Angeles Dodgers opened a three-game home series with a 4-0 victory over the New York Mets on Monday.
Wrobleski (2-0) did not allow a hit until Jorge Polanco singled to right field with one out in the fifth. The left-hander gave up two hits with no walks and two strikeouts.
Miguel Rojas had three hits for the Dodgers. Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-4 but extended his on-base streak to 47 games, tying the second-longest run in the club鈥檚 Los Angeles history.
Leading off the first inning, Ohtani was hit in the right shoulder by a 94 mph sinker from New York left-hander David Peterson but remained in the game. Ohtani is scheduled to pitch on Wednesday.
Peterson (0-3) gave up four runs on five hits over five innings with four walks and seven strikeouts. New York managed just three singles while extending its losing streak to a season-high six games at the start of a six-game road trip.
In his first game of the season for the Mets after signing a minor league deal late in the spring, Tommy Pham went 0-for-3 with a strikeout.
The Dodgers threatened to blow the game open early. Ohtani was hit by Peterson鈥檚 third pitch before Kyle Tucker walked and Will Smith followed with an RBI single. Teoscar Hernandez walked to load the bases before Peterson responded with consecutive strikeouts of Freddie Freeman, Pages and Max Muncy.
In the third inning, Tucker and Hernandez walked in front of Pages鈥� two-out, three-run homer down the left field line. It was the fifth of the season for Pages, who leads the major leagues in batting average (.417) and hits (25). He now leads with 20 RBIs.
Jake Burger, Nathan Eovaldi steer Rangers to rout of A鈥檚
Jake Burger hit two homers and drove in four runs and Nathan Eovaldi pitched seven shutout innings to help the Texas Rangers record an 8-1 victory over the Athletics on Monday night at West Sacramento, Calif.
Josh Smith and Josh Jung each drove in two runs in the eighth inning as the Rangers broke the game open while winning the opener of a four-game series. Joc Pederson had three of Texas鈥� 11 hits.
Eovaldi (2-2) allowed three hits and two walks while striking out seven as the Rangers earned their second straight win and fifth in the past seven. The 36-year-old threw just 84 pitches and lowered his ERA from 7.98 to 5.40.
Lawrence Butler homered in the eighth for the A鈥檚, who had a five-game winning streak snapped.
Luis Severino (0-2) allowed four runs and six hits 鈥� including both of Burger鈥檚 homers 鈥� over six innings to continue his struggles at Sutter Health Park. He struck out seven and walked three.
Severino, who ripped the home ballpark last June, is now 2-10 with a 6.01 ERA in 16 starts at the facility.
Severino issued one-out walks in the first inning to Evan Carter and Corey Seager before Burger came up and ripped a 1-1 sinker over the fence in left-center to give Texas a quick 3-0 lead.
His next time up, leading off the third, Burger went the opposite way with a 1-1 sinker and deposited the ball over the fence in right. It was Burger鈥檚 fourth career homer off Severino and the eighth two-homer game of his career.
Seager nearly had a homer in the fifth inning, but his drive to right-center was caught above the short wall by Butler.
The Rangers were helped by some good fortune during their four-run eighth inning that blew the game open.
Seager led off with a ground-rule double, and one out later, Pederson hit a bouncer up the middle that Athletics shortstop Jack Wilson was in position to field. However, second base umpire Edwin Jimenez was hit by the ball, giving Pederson an infield hit with Seager moving to third.
Twins pummel Crochet, Red Sox early and often
Ryan Jeffers went 3-for-4 with a homer and three RBIs as the Minnesota Twins coasted to a 13-6 win over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night in Minneapolis.
Victor Caratini also homered and drove in three runs for the Twins, who won for the seventh time in their past eight games. Byron Buxton and Ryan Kreidler went deep, too.
Jarren Duran hit a two-run homer to lead Boston at the plate. Wilyer Abreu and Caleb Durbin each added two hits and one RBI.
Twins right-hander Bailey Ober (2-0) allowed four runs on seven hits in six innings. He fanned seven, walked one and hit a batter.
Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet (2-2) surrendered 11 runs (10 earned), both career highs, on nine hits in 1 2/3 innings. He walked three and struck out none.
The Twins pounced on the southpaw for 11 runs in the first two innings. Minnesota started its damage with a four-run first. Austin Martin hit a one-out double, advanced to third on a wild pitch and scored on Luke Keaschall鈥檚 double to left. Moments later, Jeffers singled to drive in Keaschall and make it 2-0.
An error by Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story opened the door for the Twins to make it 4-0. Brooks Lee reached on an RBI infield single that scored Jeffers, and Story鈥檚 errant throw allowed Caratini to sprint home for another run.
If the first inning was bad for Crochet, the second was even worse.
With the bases loaded and no outs, Jeffers produced an RBI single, and Josh Bell delivered a two-run double in the next at-bat. Then Caratini belted a 423-foot, three-run homer to left to put the Twins ahead 10-0.
Kreidler added a solo homer that traveled 438 feet to left to make it 11-0. That marked the final pitch for Crochet, who was replaced by left-hander Jovani Moran.
Boston clawed back for three runs in the third. Durbin drove an RBI double to left, and Duran followed with a two-run shot, his first homer of the season.
Buxton and Jeffers each hit solo home runs in the fifth to make it 13-3. Story drove in a run with a single in the sixth, and the Red Sox pulled within 13-6 in the seventh on back-to-back RBI singles by Andruw Monasterio and Abreu.
After blasting 5 homers, Yankees walk off Angels on wild pitch
Jose Caballero scored on a wild pitch by Jordan Romano as the host New York Yankees snapped a five-game losing streak with a wild 11-10 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.
Trent Grisham homered twice, drove in five and his two-run drive into the right field seats off Romano (0-1) in the ninth forged a 10-10 tie.
After Caballero doubled down the left field line, the Angels pulled their infield in at the corners and the infielder stole third uncontested on a 1-1 pitch to Austin Wells.
Wells walked and Caballero scored the winning run when Romano bounced a slider by catcher Logan O鈥橦oppe as Ryan McMahon walked.
The Yankees snapped their skid on a night when Aaron Judge homered twice for his 47th career multi-homer game. Judge hit a two-run homer in the first off Yusei Kikuchi and then saw his solo shot stayed just fair down the left field line for an 8-7 lead in the sixth.
Judge passed Mickey Mantle for the second-most multi-homer games in team history but his biggest night of the early going nearly was not enough since the Yankees could not get Mike Trout out.
Trout had his 31st career multi-homer game when he hit a three-run homer off Jake Bird to forge a 7-7 tie in the sixth and a two-run blast off Camilo Doval in the eighth to give the Angels a 10-8 lead.
Trout, who also drove in five runs, passed Duke Snider into sole possession of 58th place on the all-time list by hitting his 407th and 408th career homers.
Caballero also hit a two-run homer in the second inning to give the Yankees a 4-0 lead, but the shortstop made a critical error that set up the Angels鈥� four-run fourth. Grisham connected on a pinch-hit homer off reliever Shaun Anderson in the fifth to give the Yankees a short-lived 7-4 lead.
Jorge Soler, Jo Adell and O鈥橦oppe hit RBI singles off Will Warren after Caballero misplayed Trout鈥檚 grounder to start the fourth. Agustin Ramirez drives in 4 as Marlins beat up on Braves
Agustin Ramirez hit a homer and drove in four runs to help the visiting Miami Marlins break out of a slump and beat the Atlanta Braves 10-4 on Monday in the opener of a three-game series.
The Marlins scored only three runs over the weekend while suffering a three-game sweep at Detroit. On Monday, the Marlins banged out 16 hits and scored 10 runs, matching their season high.
Ramirez, who had gone 1-for-12 against the Tigers, turned it around against Atlanta. He went 3-for-4 with a walk. He hit a 418-foot three-run homer, his first, and added an RBI single on an infield grounder in the sixth. The winning pitcher was Andrew Nardi (1-0), who threw one scoreless inning of relief. Atlanta reliever Aaron Bummer (0-1) permitted three runs in his lone inning.
Neither starter figured in the decision. Atlanta鈥檚 Grant Holmes was lifted after throwing 59 pitches in four innings. He allowed three runs on three hits and two walks with three strikeouts. Miami鈥檚 Eury Perez was knocked out of the game after allowing the first two batters to reach in the fifth. He yielded four runs, three earned, on seven hits and two walks with two strikeouts.