BALTIMORE (AP) — Pete Alonso homered to cap a six-run third inning against Bryan Woo, and the Baltimore Orioles withstood three homers by the Seattle Mariners in a 7-5 victory Thursday night.
Adley Rutschman drove in three runs and Colton Cowser hit a solo shot to help the Orioles salvage a split of the four-game series with the AL West-leading Mariners.
Cole Young, Luke Raley and Dominic Canzone homered for Seattle. All three drives were off Kyle Bradish, who hadn’t given up more than two homers in his previous 80 major league starts.
Bradish lasted only four innings. He was replaced by Tyler Wells (1-1), who pitched three hitless innings.
Grant Wolfram retired Colt Emerson with two on and two outs in the eighth, and Andrew Kittredge worked the ninth for his first save.
Young started the slugfest by hitting the third pitch of the game over the right-field wall, his first career leadoff homer.
Woo (5-5) retired the first six Baltimore batters before Cowser went deep leading off the third. After Woo let in a run with a bases-loaded wild pitch, Rutschman hit a two-run double and Alonso sent Woo’s next pitch deep into the left-field seats for a 6-1 lead.
MARLINS 2, DIAMONDBACKS 0
MIAMI (AP) — Tyler Phillips allowed two hits in five innings to get his first win of the season and lead Miami to a victory against Arizona.
Phillips (1-1) struck out five and walked two on 70 pitches. Relievers Michael Petersen, Anthony Bender and Calvin Faucher combined to strike out six, and Pete Fairbanks earned his eighth save of the year after striking out two more.
Otto Lopez stole third in the first inning and was originally ruled out. After the review, the call was overturned, and Xavier Edwards hit a sacrifice fly to send him home and take an early lead. Jakob Marsee hit an RBI single in the fourth to send Kyle Stowers home.
Merrill Kelly (5-5) pitched six innings for the Diamondbacks, giving up both runs on four hits. He struck out one and walked two.
Ketel Marte, LuJames Groover and Jorge Barrosa had Arizona’s three hits.
METS 5, CARDINALS 4
NEW YORK (AP) — Juan Soto hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning and New York earned a win over St. Louis.
Soto’s shot off JoJo Romero (0-2) allowed the Mets to avoid being swept for the sixth time this season.
Soto’s 14th homer of the season was the sixth of the game.
Alec Burleson opened the scoring with a two-out blast in the first before the Mets responded with Bo Bichette’s two-run shot and Jared Young also went deep in the bottom half to give New York a 3-1 lead.
St. Louis answered with Lars Nootbaar’s solo shot and Jimmy Crooks’ two-run homer in the second to give the Cards a 4-3 lead on an afternoon in which the first-pitch temperature was 91 degrees and the wind was blowing out to right at 8 mph. Every homer Thursday except Bichette’s went to right field.
Young accounted for the game’s only non-homer RBI with a game-tying fifth-inning single.
Mets starter Christian Scott gave up four runs and struck out six in 4 2/3 innings. The Cardinals’ Hunter Dobbins allowed three runs with five strikeouts in 4 1/3 innings.
Brooks Raley (2-1) threw a hitless seventh. Devin Williams earned his ninth save with a perfect ninth.
TIGERS 11, TWINS 0
DETROIT (AP) — Spencer Torkelson hit one of Detroit’s six homers and the Tigers rolled to a win over Minnesota.
Colt Keith, Gleyber Torres, Riley Greene, Zach McKinstry and Wenceel Pérez also went deep for Detroit.
Leading 2-0, Torkelson hit a two-run shot in the fourth inning for his 10th of the season.
Torres made it 5-0 in the fifth before Keith hit a two-run shot for his first of the year in the sixth.
Greene in the seventh and McKinstry added solo shots before Pérez capped the surge with a two-run shot to left-center in the eighth.
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Kevin McGonigle hit a leadoff double in the first and scored on Greene’s sacrifice fly.
Tigers starting Keider Montero (3-4) allowed four hits, struck out four and walked one in 6 1/3 innings.
Zebby Matthews (2-4) gave up nine hits, including three homers, and seven runs. He struck out four and walked one.
CUBS 9, ROCKIES 3
DENVER (AP) — Seiya Suzuki hit his third career grand slam, Alex Bregman added a two-run homer and Chicago snapped a three-game skid with a win over Colorado.
Chicago, which had scored three or fewer runs in seven of its last nine games before Thursday, had its highest run total since beating Pittsburgh 10-4 on May 27.
Cubs manager Craig Counsell was ejected in the top of the sixth by home plate umpire Louis Krupa after arguing Moises Ballesteros’ double-play grounder appeared to hit off his shin guard and should have been ruled a foul ball.
Brett Sullivan hit two home runs and Cole Carrigg, who made his MLB debut Tuesday night, added a solo shot for Colorado.
Rockies starter Ryan Feltner (2-2) retired the first nine batters he faced before Pete Crow-Armstrong led off the fourth with a single. The Cubs added another single and walk to load the bases before Suzuki lined a sinker down the left-field line for his 10th homer of the season and first slam since September of last season.
The Cubs added two more runs in the fifth, Bregman hit his sixth homer in the seventh, and Carson Kelly capped the scoring with a solo shot, his third, in the eighth.
RANGERS 4, ROYALS 2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Corey Seager homered and singled to lead Texas to a victory over Kansas City.
The Rangers took two of three from the Royals and have won nine of 12 games and four straight series to reach .500 — at 34-34 — for the first time since May 1.
Texas jumped ahead 2-0 on Brandon Nimmo’s RBI double in the first inning and Elias DÃaz’s squeeze bunt single in the second.
Leading off the third, Seager hit his ninth home run into the right field bullpen off Royals starter Michael Wacha.
Kansas City loaded the bases to open the fourth against Kumar Rocker and scored a pair of runs on a double-play grounder and Kameron Misner’s RBI single, his first hit with the Royals.
Rocker left with two outs in the fifth after allowing two runs and five hits. Jacob Latz (2-1), the last of three Texas relievers, struck out three in two hitless innings.
Evan Carter’s RBI single in the sixth capped the scoring.
Joc Pederson remained out of the Rangers’ lineup after leaving Wednesday’s game with left hip discomfort.
DODGERS 8, PIRATES 6
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani hit his 13th homer of the season before leaving the game due to left knee inflammation and Los Angeles beat Pittsburgh.
The reigning NL MVP hit a solo homer in the third inning. He also had a single and walked twice, reaching base in all four of his plate appearances before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning.
It was not immediately clear when Ohtani began feeling discomfort in the knee.
Dodgers starter Justin Wrobleski left the game in the fifth inning with a left hamstring contusion. The left-hander was hit by a line drive off the bat of Bryan Reynolds. The ball ricocheted off Wrobleski to first baseman Freddie Freeman. Wrobleski collided with Reynolds while taking Freeman’s toss at first base.
Andy Pages also had two hits for the NL West-leading Dodgers, who took two of three in the series. Kyle Tucker hit a two-run single, and Miguel Rojas drove in two more runs.
Pirates rookie Rafael Flores Jr. hit his first MLB home run, and Brandon Lowe also went deep. Flores, Nick Gonzales and Spencer Horwitz had two hits apiece.
Wrobleski allowed four runs in 4 2/3 innings. Mitch Keller (5-4) was tagged for five runs in four innings.
Jack Dreyer (3-1) pitched a scoreless seventh inning and Tanner Scott got the last four outs for his seventh save.

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