Kumar Rocker put together a solid excursion to win his first career victory when Texas Rangers lowered the sinking Los Angeles Angels 5-3 to finish a three-game-sweep in Arlington, Texas.
The previous No. 3 Overall draft allowed three runs on five hits over seven rounds to improve to 1-2 in the season for Texas. He knocked out eight and did not give a walk while throwing only 78 seats.
Leody Taveras had a two-run double and Adolis Garcia and Corey Seager met Solo-Hemalids when Rangers won his ninth straight at home and set a franchise record with his eighth victory in a row over Angels. Texas is an al-Best 9-1 at home.
Texas ends the angels 11-5 with Seager, Dustin Harris and Kyle Higashioca recording two hits.
Jack Kochanowicz (1-2), the first of four Los Angeles jugs, lasted in 4 2/3 rounds and gave up four runs on eight hits with a strike and a walk. No Angels player had more than one hit when Los Angeles dropped his fourth straight.
Mets 4, Cardinals 1
Griffin Canning threw six solid innings and combined with three relief on a three-hitter when worth New York defeated St. Louis in the opener of a four-game series.
Mark Ventos hammered for Mets. Francisco Lindor had three singles, including an RBI hit, while Brett Baty had a driving single. Canning (2-1), which was scheduled to start Wednesday but was scratched with a disease, gave up a run on three hits and two walks while he knocked out a season high eight.
Brendan Donovan had an RBI single for the cardinals, which has lost two of three. Donovan beats .460 (23-of-50) during a 13-match strip. St. Louis-Starter Andre Pallante (2-1) took the loss after giving up four runs on seven hits and no walks while he knocked out two over six rounds.
Mariners 11, reds 7 (10 rounds)
Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena clubbed Back-to-Back-Homers in the ninth to bind the game and Arozarena drove two more in a four-run 10th to rally Seattle past host Cincinnati in the rubber game in the series.
Reds closer to Emilio Pagan had been 4-for-4 in rescue chances, but Raleigh took him deep to the right to open the ninth and Arozarena tied it with a shot to the left. The sailors took the lead on the 10th when JP Crawford singled with no one out and runners in the corners against Graham Ashcraft (0-1). Arozarena doubled a couple and Mitch Garver made a field error by Elly de la Cruz.
Seattle Right Hander Casey Legumina (1-0) came for the ninth and retired to win the victory against his former team. Andres Munoz struck a speechless 10th for the sailors in a non-rescue situation.
Pirates 1, citizen 0
Left -hander Andrew Heaney walked 7 1/3 shut -off rounds and Oneil Cruz blasted a management home run to drive worth Pittsburgh to Victory over Washington.
Cruz’s first career Leadoff Home Run and the fourth season was a 442-foot blast deep to the right-midfield outside the Washington starter Trevor Williams. Heaney gave up five hits in 95 places for Pirates, who took up three wins in four matches against the citizens.
Nathaniel Lowe had a double among its two hits because citizens gathered only five hits in total.
Phillies 6, Giants 4
Cristopher Sanchez knocked out a career high 12 over seven rounds when Philadelphia nipped visited San Francisco to earn a split of his four-game series.
Sanchez (2-0) used his prey to record 11 strikes as part of a star performance where he allowed three runs (two earned) and four hits with just one walk. Phillies got five runs on five hits in the first round against Jordan Hicks (1-2), but they only succeeded one hit after the opening frame.
Matt Chapman and Tyler Fitzgerald hammered for Giants, who knocked out 14 times. San Francisco had won five of its previous seven matches.
Diamondbacks 6, Marlins 4
Pavin Smith hammered, doubled and drove in two runs when Arizona swept a series of three games from host Miami.
Arizona has won seven out of eight, including five straight. Josh Naylor, an earlier Marlin’s first round, home for the third straight game. Arizona stole six bases, including three of Corbin Carroll, who did twice.
Arizona’s Eduardo Rodriguez (1-2) lasted in 5 1/3 rounds, which allowed 10 hits, zero walks and three runs (one served) while he knocked out nine. Marlins Starter Edward Cabrera (0-1) gave up four hits, three walks and five runs in four rounds, and knocked out six. Miamis Rob Branty went 3-for-3 with an RBI.
ATHLETICS 8, White Sox 0
JP Sears beat six speechless innings, Brent Rooker went 3-for-5, including a two-run home run, and the visiting athletics settled for an 8-0 victory over Chicago. The A’s won all three matches in Chicago and earned their first sweep since taking three matches against Los Angeles Angels from July 2-4, 2024.
Sears (2-2) allowed only three hits with two strikes and two walks. Lawrence Butler, JJ Bleday and Tyler Suderstrom also blasted home. Sderstrom Homer was his MLB best ninth.
Davis Martin (1-2) handed over four runs on eight hits over 5 1/3 rounds for Chicago, which lost his fourth straight match. Lenyn Sosa went 2-for-3 with a walk for White Sox.
Orioles 6, Guardians 2
Ryan O’HEARN belt a continuous three-run in the third round of Baltimore’s victory against Cleveland and helped the host Orioles to post Back-to-back victories for the first time this season.
Gunnar Henderson (two hits) and Heston Kjerstad also hammered to support Baltimore-Starttomotomyuki Sugano (2-1), who delivered seven strong rounds to pass a victory with three games.
Daniel Schneemann and Austin Hedges hammered for Guardians, who have lost three of their last four matches.
Tigers 6, Royals 1
Spencer Torkelson drove in three runs and host Detroit opened a series of four games with a victory over Kansas City.
Riley Greene broke out of a downturn with three hits and two RBI, while Kerry Carpenter had three hits and got twice. Reese Olson (2-1) lasted five rounds to win the victory and Tommy Kahnle got the last six outs for his third rescue.
Maikel Garcia drove in a run for Kansas City, who went 1-for-12 with runners in score mode. Michael Lorenzen (1-3) allowed four runs in 4 2/3 rounds.
Yankees 6, Rays 3
Oswaldo Cabrera met a solo home and Ben Rice had four hits and two RBI when visited New York opened a four-game series against Tampa Bay with a victory.
Tim Hill (2-0) got the victory with two speechless rounds of relief. Ian Hamilton followed 1 2/3 rounds before Devin Williams retired for the rays in the ninth for his fourth rescue. New York has won four straight and six of the last eight.
Junior Caminero met a two-run Homer and Richie Palacios had three hits in her season debut for Tampa Bay, who lost his third straight.
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