MILWAUKEE \u2014 Paul Skenes had a perfect game into the seventh inning, Konnor Griffin hit his first career home run on his 20th birthday and drove in three runs to help Pittsburgh beat Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
Skenes (4-1), the NL Cy Young winner, didn\u2019t allow a base runner until Jake Bauers\u2019 sharp single to right with two outs in the seventh. He was vying to become the first pitcher to throw a perfect game in American Family Field, previously known as Miller Park, which opened in 2001. There have been two no-hitters.<\/p>\n
Skenes gave up one hit over seven shutout innings. He struck out seven and didn\u2019t walk a batter. He threw 93 pitches \u2014 62 for strikes.<\/p>\n
Mason Montgomery and Isaac Mattson completed the one-hitter.<\/p>\n
TORONTO \u2014 Angel Mart\u00ednez went deep twice for his first career multi-homer game, Daniel Schneemann added the first leadoff homer of his career and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-6 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
All three home runs came off Toronto\u2019s Max Scherzer (1-3), who allowed seven runs and six hits in 2 1\/3 innings, his fourth straight winless outing. It\u2019s the third time in five starts this season that Scherzer has failed to complete three innings.<\/p>\n
Guardians right-hander Gavin Williams (4-1) allowed six runs and seven hits in six innings for his fourth win in five starts. He walked two and struck out four.<\/p>\n
Hunter Gaddis pitched the seventh, Erik Sabrowski worked the eighth and Cade Smith finished for his sixth save in eight chances.<\/p>\n
ATLANTA \u2014 Michael Harris II delivered a two-run double as a pinch-hitter after being scratched from the starting lineup with an ailing quad, and Atlanta piled more misery on Philadelphia with a victory that sent the Phillies to their 10th straight loss.<\/p>\n
Despite homers from Trea Turner and\u00a0Bryce Harper, the two-time reigning NL East champion Phillies dropped 10 1\/2 games behind the first-place Braves with the season not even a month old. Atlanta has won nine of 10 for the best record in the majors (19-8).<\/p>\n
Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.\u00a0hit a two-run homer for the Braves, but it was Harris who delivered the biggest hit on a night when it appeared he wouldn\u2019t play at all.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Junior Caminero and Jonathan Aranda each hit two home runs, and Tampa Bay beat Minnesota to take the first game of the series.<\/p>\n
Caminero hit his seventh of the year, a solo shot to center field in the second inning. He added a two-run homer in the seventh to make it 6-1.<\/p>\n
Aranda\u2019s home runs came in the fourth and sixth innings. Chandler Simpson and Nick Fortes both scored runs.<\/p>\n
Brooks Lee hit a home run for the Twins in the fifth.<\/p>\n
BALTIMORE \u2014 Adley Rutschman hit two of Baltimore\u2019s six homers and drove in six runs as the Orioles routed Boston.<\/p>\n
Baltimore hit five of its homers off Boston starter Brayan Bello.<\/p>\n
Coby Mayo homered for a career-best third straight game. Gunnar Henderson and Dylan Beavers also went deep during a three-homer, four-run first inning for the Orioles.<\/p>\n
Samuel Basallo added a third-inning solo shot as part of 13 Baltimore hits in 3 1\/3 innings against Bello (1-3), who had never allowed more than three homers or 10 hits in 104 previous MLB outings.<\/p>\n
Wilyer Abreu homered for the Red Sox, Marcelo Mayer doubled in a run and Cedanne Rafaela added an RBI groundout.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK \u2014 Michael Lorenzen induced three double-play grounders in seven efficient innings and Colorado held off New York.<\/p>\n
Jake McCarthy hit a tiebreaking double off starter Freddy Peralta (1-3) in the sixth, and Troy Johnston added a two-run single against Sean Manaea in the seventh to help Colorado end an eight-game losing streak to the Mets.<\/p>\n
New York had won two in a row following a 12-game skid that was the team\u2019s longest since August 2002.<\/p>\n
Brett Baty had a two-run single that shaved New York\u2019s deficit to 4-3 in the eighth, but Mark Vientos lined into an inning-ending double play with two runners aboard.<\/p>\n
KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Isaac Collins had two hits and two RBIs and Kansas City used a five-run outburst in the fourth inning to beat Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Noah Cameron (2-1) worked 6 1\/3 innings, striking out six and allowing eight hits and three runs for his first quality start of the season. Royals starters have combined for 14 quality starts, tied for second in MLB with Seattle.<\/p>\n
Starling Marte knocked in the first run of the game on a fielder\u2019s choice in the fourth. Collins drove in another, and beat the throw home to score on Elias D\u00edaz\u2019s two-run double. Michael Massey drove in D\u00edaz to cap the inning.<\/p>\n
ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Carlos Cortes had two home runs, including one of three hit off Texas starter Nathan Eovaldi in the first seven pitches of the game, and the Athletics beat the Rangers.<\/p>\n
Cortes\u2019 first-inning shot was sandwiched between first-pitch homers launched by leadoff batter Nick Kurtz and Tyler Soderstrom. Cortes added a three-run shot in the fifth, also off Eovaldi, and Zack Gelof added a two-run homer in the ninth off Cal Quantrill.<\/p>\n
Luis Severino (1-2) allowed one run on six hits in 6 2\/3 innings in the opener of a three-game series between teams that shared the AL West lead going into Friday. Josh Jung\u2019s fourth-inning ground-rule double scored Corey Seager for Texas\u2019 run.<\/p>\n
CHICAGO \u2014 Munetaka Murakami hit his 11th homer of the season, and reliever Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez struck out two in the ninth inning as Chicago beat Washington.<\/p>\n
The White Sox have won four of their last five games. Munetaka has hit a home run in six of the last seven games and moved into a tie with Houston\u2019s Yordan Alvarez for the MLB lead.<\/p>\n
Munetaka\u2019s latest homer was a 415-foot shot to center field in the fourth inning.<\/p>\n
ST. LOUIS \u2014 George Kirby won his third consecutive start, Josh Naylor hit a solo home run and Seattle beat St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Kirby (4-2) allowed five hits and two runs in six innings. He was lifted after giving up leadoff single in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz, an All Star in 2025, worked the ninth for his fourth.<\/p>\n
The Mariners have played 10 one-run games this season, going 4-6. St. Louis fell to 11-3 in games decided by two runs or fewer in 2026.<\/p>\n
Seattle has won five consecutive games and six of its seven games against the Cardinals.<\/p>\n
HOUSTON \u2014 Jazz Chisholm Jr., Ryan McMahon, Ben Rice and Jos\u00e9 Caballero homered and New York extended their winning streak to seven games with a win over Houston.<\/p>\n
Chisholm, who had 4 RBIs and scored three runs, hit a two-run single to cap a three-run first inning and added his second homer of the season in the fourth. He had an RBI single in the seventh.<\/p>\n
McMahon hit a solo home run in the second, and Rice, who had two RBIs and scored three runs, added a solo shot, his ninth of the season, in the seventh. Caballero, who had an RBI single in the sixth, hit a solo homer in the four-run seventh.<\/p>\n
Will Warren (3-0) allowed two runs on seven hits with six strikeouts in six innings. Warren has allowed two runs or fewer in five of his six starts this season.<\/p>\n
Lance McCullers Jr. (1-2) allowed seven runs \u2014 five earned \u2014 on six hits with four walks and three strikeouts in five innings. McCullers has yielded at least four runs in each of his last three starts.<\/p>\n
CINCINNATI \u2014 Nathaniel Lowe hit a two-out, two-run walk-off homer off Kenley Jansen to lift Cincinnati to a wild win over Detroit.<\/p>\n
The Reds were down to their last strike when Spencer Steer singled against Jansen. Lowe, who replaced Eugenio Suarez in the lineup due to back pain, followed with his second homer of the night to end it.<\/p>\n
The Tigers homered four times, including Kerry Carpenter\u2019s go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth.<\/p>\n
The game was paused in the top of the seventh due to rain and delayed one hour and 49 minutes.<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES \u2014 Dansby Swanson hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the ninth inning to cap a four-RBI performance from the No. 9 spot, rallying Chicago past Los Angeles for their 10th consecutive victory.<\/p>\n
Craig Counsell reached 899th managerial victories.<\/p>\n
Swanson\u2019s 413-foot shot off Tanner Scott (0-1) landed in the left-field pavilion, scoring Pete Crow-Armstrong who singled leading off.<\/p>\n
The Cubs trailed 4-0 against Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan, who allowed one earned run over 6 1\/3 innings and tied his career high with 10 strikeouts. The right-hander struck out seven of the first nine batters he faced.<\/p>\n
Then, Chicago got to the Dodgers\u2019 bullpen.<\/p>\n
The Cubs scored six consecutive runs off the erratic trio of Alex Vesia, Blake Treinen and Scott.<\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Liam Hicks and Connor Norby each hit home runs as Miami defeated San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Xavier Edwards, Otto Lopez, and Kyle Stowers each added three hits for the Marlins, and Graham Pauley had two. The Marlins collected 16 total hits.<\/p>\n
Sandy Alcantara (3-2) went six innings, allowing nine hits and three runs while fanning four. Lake Bachar worked two innings, allowing two hits and one run, and John King threw a hitless ninth with one strikeout.<\/p>\n
For the Giants, Jung Ho Lee was 3 for 4 with a home run, and Luis Arraez had three singles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Paul Skenes had a perfect game into the seventh inning, Konnor Griffin hit his first career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-629763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}