DETROIT (AP) — Riley Greene homered and Kevin McGonigle drove in two runs as the Detroit Tigers beat Gerrit Cole for the first time in 10 years, winning 5-3 against the New York Yankees on Monday night.
Framber Valdez (4-5) outpitched Cole, giving up one run on four hits and two walks in six innings. The left-hander struck out eight as the Tigers won their fourth straight game.
Cole (2-2) entered 10-1 with a 1.84 ERA in 14 career starts against Detroit, with his only loss coming as a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 14, 2016. But the 2023 AL Cy Young Award winner wasn’t very sharp this time, allowing five runs and nine hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out five.
Minus injured slugger Aaron Judge, the Yankees have lost three in a row and four of five. They still have the best record in the American League at 46-31.
ROYALS 2, RAYS 1
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Michael Wacha allowed one run over seven strong innings while Lane Thomas and Carter Jensen had RBIs to push Kansas City past Tampa Bay.
Wacha (5-5) allowed six hits, walked one and struck out five. The former Rays pitcher held Tampa Bay to 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and didn’t allow a run until Yandy Díaz’s two-out double in the fifth plated Richie Palacios from first.
Kansas City got on the board in the second when Michael Massey drew a walk, just the second issued over a four-start stretch by Rays starter Drew Rasmussen (6-4). Massey scored from first on a double by Thomas.
Rasmussen then sat down 10 in a row before Jensen’s fifth-inning single drove in Nick Loftin, who’d singled and stole second. After Jensen’s hit, Rays pitchers retired the final 14 in order but Tampa Bay couldn’t touch Wacha. The right-hander leads the American League with 11 quality starts this season.
Wacha got 10 ground-ball outs and Kansas City earned its fourth win in five games.
RANGERS 4, MARLINS 3
MIAMI (AP) — Brandon Nimmo had three hits and walked once, Alejandro Osuna hit a go-ahead RBI double and Texas beat Miami.
Ezequiel Duran homered and Joc Pederson singled twice for the Rangers in the opener of a 10-game road trip.
The loss snapped the Marlins’ eight-game home win streak.
For the second time in two weeks, the Tartan Army made its presence felt at a major league game that featured the Rangers. Scotland fans are in Miami for the national team’s World Cup match against Brazil on Wednesday and many attended Monday’s series opener bumping the attendance to 20,008. The lively atmosphere in the stands, including the popular chant, “No Scotland, No Party,” resembled the Rangers-Red Sox game at Fenway Park on June 14.
Nimmo doubled against Marlins reliever Calvin Faucher (4-4) to lead off the eighth and Jake Burger followed with a walk. Osuna then hit a one-out line drive to right that scored Nimmo and snapped a 2-all tie. Burger advanced to third and raced home scored on Elias Diaz’s sacrifice fly.
Robby Ahlstrom (2-0) pitched a perfect seventh for the win.
NATIONALS 4, PHILLIES 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Curtis Mead and Luis Garcia Jr. homered, Foster Griffin pitched 7 1/3 strong innings and the Nationals beat the Phillies in the opener of a four-game series between the division rivals.
Dylan Crews, James Wood and Keibert Ruiz each had a double and a single for Washington, which had lost three of four.
Griffin (8-2) gave up a run on four hits and struck out nine without a walk. He has gone five or more innings and allowed one earned run in each of his past four starts.
Clayton Beeter pitched the ninth for his sixth save.
BLUE JAYS 4, ASTROS 2
TORONTO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Myles Straw drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning with one of Toronto’s three sacrifice flies, and Kazuma Okamoto homered to help the Blue Jays beat Houston.
Louis Varland issued a leadoff walk to Yainer Diaz in the ninth, but Joey Loperfido grounded into a double play two pitches later. Varland then struck out pinch-hitter Taylor Trammell to secure his 16th save.
Toronto (39-39) got back to .500 for the first time since May 29 at the start of a 10-game homestand, the team’s longest this season.
Jeremy Peña singled on the first pitch from Blue Jays starter Dylan Cease and scored on a one-out single by Isaac Paredes to put the Astros up 1-0 in the first. Cease loaded the bases before getting a double-play grounder from Diaz to limit the damage in a 26-pitch inning.
Cease allowed two runs and three hits with four walks in 5 2/3 innings. The right-hander struck out eight and retired 14 in a row before issuing one-out walks to Yordan Alvarez and Christian Walker in the sixth. Paredes lined out to left field, but Jose Altuve tied it at 2 with a two-strike single on Cease’s 110th and final pitch.
Braydon Fisher (3-2) entered and retired Diaz on a comebacker. Fisher got four outs on six pitches to earn the win.
BREWERS 2, REDS 1, 10 INNINGS
CINCINNATI (AP) — Brandon Woodruff took a perfect game into the sixth inning in his return and Joey Ortiz’s sacrifice fly in the 10th drove home the go-ahead run as first-place Milwaukee beat Cincinnati.
In the 10th, Garrett Mitchell walked then Sal Frelick bunted Mitchell and designated runner Jake Bauers into scoring position. Ortiz’s sacrifice fly drove home Bauers with the game’s first run and Mitchell scored on a wild pitch by Tony Santillan (1-4) to make the score 2-0.
Joel Kuhnel allowed one run in the 10th on a groundout but notched his fifth save. Trevor Megill (2-2) got the win for Milwaukee.
Woodruff, who was making his first start since April 30, allowed one hit with no walks and 10 strikeouts. He retired the first 16 batters before Tyler Stephenson singled with one out in the sixth.
The 10 strikeouts were two shy of his career-high, which he’d done three times. He has fanned 10 or more batters 21 times in his career, most recently on July 12, 2025, against the Washington Nationals.
DODGERS 2, TWINS Q
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff home run, Freddie Freeman also went deep to break a sixth-inning tie and Los Angeles beat Minnesota.
Eric Lauer (3-5) pitched six hitless innings for Los Angeles after opener Will Klein allowed Byron Buxton’s homer in the first. Freeman’s 13th of the season helped the Dodgers win after losing back-to-back games for the first time since May 11-12.
Tanner Scott converted his 10th save in 11 chances, but Los Angeles lost outfielder Kyle Tucker and catcher Dalton Rushing during the game. Tucker left in the second with low back spasms, and Rushing was pulled in the third to get checked for a concussion.
Ohtani didn’t take long to give the large contingent of Dodgers fans reason to celebrate, hitting the second pitch of the game deep into the plaza in right field. An 87 mph changeup in the middle of the zone from Minnesota starter Zebby Matthews left Ohtani’s bat at 112.8 mph and cleared the right-field seats at Target Field.
Ohtani has four homers and 10 RBIs in 13 career games at the ballpark. It was his sixth leadoff homer this season and seventh in 17 games in June.
WHITE SOX 6, GUARDIANS 5
CHICAGO (AP) — Sam Antonacci had a walk-off two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning after Cleveland scored twice in the top half to take the lead and Chicago beat the Guardians.
Rookie Braden Montgomery drew a one-out walk off Cade Smith (2-1) to start the White Sox rally and Tristan Peters followed with a double. Smith struck out pinch hitter Jacob Gonzalez before Antonacci delivered Chicago’s sixth walk-off win of the season, tied for most in the majors.
Chicago (40-37) snapped a three-game losing streak and pulled into a first-place tie with Cleveland (41-38) in the AL Central. The Guardians have lost 11 of their last 16 games.
CARDINALS 3, DIAMONDBACKS 2
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Rookies JJ Wetherholt and Nathan Church each had two hits, sparking St. Louis to a victory over Arizona.
Andre Pallante (9-4) allowed six hits and one run in six innings to secure the victory.
Pallante has earned wins in his last four starts and has given up two runs or less in five of his last six outings. St. Louis has won all five of those games.
Riley O’Brien, the fifth Cardinals pitcher, notched his 19th save in 23 opportunities by working the ninth.
Merrill Kelly (5-7) pitched six innings, giving up three runs on seven hits.
ROCKIES 3, RED SOX 2
DENVER (AP) — Jake McCarthy hit a three-run triple down the left-field line in the ninth inning and Colorado rallied to beat the Boston.
The Rockies started the inning with three straight singles off All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman (0-3) before McCarthy sent a liner that hit off the wall and bounded away from left fielder Jarren Duran. The carom allowed Cole Carrigg to slide in headfirst with the winning run.
Soon after, McCarthy was swarmed by excited teammates.
Colorado’s rally offset a pair of baserunning blunders that ended the eighth. The Rockies had a runner thrown out at home and another get tagged out after being caught between second and third base when a runner in front of him stopped at third.
McCarthy’s ninth-inning heroics spoiled a stellar outing by Red Sox rookie Jake Bennett, who threw six sharp innings while striking out nine. He allowed four hits.
Colorado starter Ryan Feltner threw six solid innings, allowing two runs. Victor Vodnik (2-2) earned the win by pitching two scoreless innings.
ORIOLES 6, ANGELS 1
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Bradish pitched eight shutout innings, Taylor Ward hit a leadoff home run against his former team and Baltimore extended their winning streak to three games Monday night with a victory over Los Angeles.
Coby Mayo hit a three-run homer and Bradish (5-7) struck out nine as the Orioles improved to 4-3 on a nine-game trip.
Bradish allowed six hits and one walk. He has 21 strikeouts over his last two starts.
Baltimore was already without second baseman Jackson Holliday (groin) when third baseman Blaze Alexander (knee) exited in the third — leaving outfielder Leody Taveras to play third for the first time in seven seasons. Taveras finished with two hits.
Jorge Soler homered late for the Angels in his return from the injured list, but Sam Aldegheri (2-3) gave up five runs and five hits over 4 2/3 innings. Los Angeles had scored 27 runs over its previous three games.
Ward, playing his first game at Angel Stadium as a visitor following an offseason trade, hit the fourth pitch from Aldegheri 419 feet over the wall in center field. It was his 56th career home run at Angel Stadium.
PADRES 1, BRAVES 0
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Braves lost for the eighth time in 11 games and were overtaken by NL West-leading Los Angeles for the best record in the majors. The Padres, coming off a 4-5 trip through Baltimore, St. Louis and Texas, face the Braves for three games before hosting the Dodgers for three games this weekend.
Machado homered into the Padres’ bullpen beyond the center-field fence leading off the fourth against Grant Holmes (4-4). Machado came in hitting just .179 but connected for his team-leading 14th homer and 43rd RBI.
Machado also doubled leading off the eighth for San Diego’s fourth hit. Ten of his last 13 hits have been for extra bases.
King (5-6) held the Braves to six singles while striking out five and walking none. The Braves had runners on second and third with two outs in the second before King retired Jorge Mateo.
Mason Miller pitched the ninth for his NL-leading 21st save. He put two runners on with two outs before striking out Mike Yastrzemski to end it.
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