Overview
- Max Scherzer worked six innings for career win No. 220 in Toronto’s 7-3 victory at Pittsburgh, with Alejandro Kirk delivering three hits and a two-run homer as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. sat after an MRI showed no major damage to his left hamstring.
- The Yankees hammered nine home runs to match a franchise record in a 13-3 rout of the Rays, with Aaron Judge hitting his 40th and Giancarlo Stanton and Cody Bellinger going deep twice each.
- Detroit outlasted Houston 1-0 in 10 innings on a bases-loaded walk by Gleyber Torres, while Tarik Skubal fanned 10 to become MLB’s first pitcher to 200 strikeouts this season as the Astros were shut out for a third straight game.
- Philadelphia topped Seattle 6-4 on J.T. Realmuto’s late two-run shot, a night after the Phillies piled up 21 hits in a 12-7 opener powered by Trea Turner’s four-hit game and two Bryce Harper homers.
- Warming Bernabel’s ninth-inning single lifted the Rockies past the Dodgers 4-3, snapping Colorado’s 10-game skid against Los Angeles and pushing their winning streak to four.