Paul Goldschmidt drove in three runs as the St. Louis Cardinals rolled to a 10-1 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday to snap a three-game losing streak.

Goldschmidt went 2-for-3 with double and a walk to extend his on-base streak to 18 games. Brendan Donovan had two doubles, two walks, two RBIs and three runs.

Cardinals starting pitcher Miles Mikolas (3-1) worked seven innings and allowed one run on four hits and a walk. He struck out three. Jake Walsh blanked the Orioles over the final two innings in his major league debut.

Orioles starting pitcher Spenser Watkins (0-1) allowed seven runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings. He walked two and fanned three.

The Cardinals muscled up in the second inning to take a 3-0 lead. Juan Yepez started the outburst with a solo homer, extending his career-opening hitting streak to seven games.

Doubles by Dylan Carlson, Corey Dickerson and Donovan produced two more runs.

Mikolas retired the first nine batters before the Orioles threatened in the fourth inning. Cedric Mullins hit a leadoff single, then moved to second base on a groundout and third on a flyout.

Third baseman Nolan Arenado robbed Austin Hays of an RBI double with an excellent play on a hard smash down the line, ending the inning.

The Cardinals pushed their lead to 7-0 in the bottom of the frame on a RBI single by Tommy Edman, a two-run double by Goldschmidt and Arenado’s run-scoring double.

The Orioles broke through against Mikolas in the fifth inning when Jorge Mateo reached on a single and raced home on Robinson Chirinos’ pop-fly double to cut the deficit to 7-1.

Goldschmidt’s RBI single in the sixth inning restored the Cardinals’ seven-run lead. In the eighth, run-scoring groundouts by Edman and Kramer Robertson, in his first big league at-bat, made it 10-1.

–Field Level Media

Orlando Arcia hit a two-run walk-off homer to give the Atlanta Braves a 5-3 win over the visiting Boston Red Sox on Wednesday to earn a split of their two-game series.

Ozzie Albies led off the ninth against reliever Ryan Brasier by poking a single to left field. After Adam Duvall flied out, Arcia delivered his first homer of the season into the left-field stands. It was his first homer since June 22, 2021 against Philadelphia and the first walk-off homer of his career.

The winning pitcher was Kenley Jansen (1-0), who worked around a walk to pitch a scoreless ninth inning. It was his first win as a Brave. Brasier (0-1) took the loss.

Neither starting pitcher figured in the decision. Boston’s Nathan Eovaldi worked 6 1/3 innings and gave up three runs on six hits, one walk and six strikeouts. Atlanta’s Ian Anderson pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed three runs on seven hits, one walk and four strikeouts.

The Red Sox got on the board in the second inning on a two-run homer by Trevor Story, his first since coming to Boston.

Boston made it 3-0 in the third inning on an RBI single by J.D. Martinez, who extended his hitting streak to 13 games and on-base streak to 29 games, both the longest current streaks in the major leagues.

The Braves scored three to tie the game in the bottom half of the inning. Travis Demeritte hit a two-run homer, his third, and Matt Olson plated another on an RBI double.

The Red Sox loaded the bases in the sixth, but Kevin Plawecki was called out on strikes to end the inning. Plawecki, who thought the pitch was low and well out of the strike zone, slammed his helmet in anger and was ejected by home plate umpire Adam Beck. Boston manager Alex Cora ran to the scene to argue and was also tossed, his second ejection of the season.

The Braves were without right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr., who sat out with a slight groin strain. Acuna was rested to help avoid a lingering injury.

–Field Level Media

Zach Logue tossed seven scoreless innings, Sean Murphy and Kevin Smith drove in two runs apiece, and the visiting Oakland Athletics thumped the slumping Detroit Tigers 9-0 on Wednesday.

Logue (1-0) held the Tigers to five hits and no walks while striking out six. He earned his first major league victory in his second career start and third appearance.

Oakland’s Christian Bethancourt had three hits, two runs and two RBIs, while Ramon Laureano walked twice, doubled, scored twice and drove in a run.

Sam Moll and Justin Grimm each pitched a scoreless inning to complete the shutout for the A’s, who have won three of the first four games in the five-game series that wraps up Thursday.

The Tigers have lost eight of their past nine games, and they have not scored more than two runs in any of those defeats.

Detroit starter Joey Wentz, making his major league debut, surrendered six runs on seven hits in 2 2/3 innings. The left-hander, who was called up from Triple-A Toledo prior to the game, walked two and struck out one.

Miguel Cabrera had three of Detroit’s seven hits.

The first batter to face Wentz, Tony Kemp, worked out a 12-pitch walk. Kemp moved to third on a wild pitch and groundout. Chad Pinder hit into a fielder’s choice, but Kemp stayed in the rundown long enough for Pinder to reach third. Murphy’s bloop single brought in Pinder.

Wentz gloved Laureano’s one-hopper behind his back and threw him out to escape further damage.

Oakland made it 3-0 in the second. Bethancourt led off with a single and advanced to third on Elvis Andrus’ one-out single. Cristian Pache brought in Bethancourt with another single, and Andrus scored on Kemp’s sacrifice fly.

The A’s knocked around Wentz for three more runs in the third before he was removed. Sheldon Neuse led off with a triple and scored on Murphy’s sacrifice fly. Laureano’s walk, Bethancourt’s single and Smith’s two-run double into the left-center-field gap ended Wentz’s night.

Oakland took a 7-0 lead in the fifth against Wily Peralta when Laureano walked, stole second and scored on Bethancourt’s single to center. The A’s added two runs against Gregory Soto in the ninth.

–Field Level Media

Juan Soto and Nelson Cruz homered to provide the bookends in an eight-run outburst over the first two innings against Tylor Megill Wednesday night as the host Washington Nationals beat the New York Mets 8-3.

The win was the second in the last seven games for the Nationals. The Mets need a win in Thursday’s series finale to remain unbeaten in series this season (8-0-1).

Megill appeared primed to continue his breakout campaign — he started a combined no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies on April 29 and posted a 2.43 ERA in his first six starts — when the Mets raced out to a 3-0 lead against Aaron Sanchez (2-2) in the top of the first.

But the Nationals batted around while scoring five runs in the bottom half against Megill (4-2). Cesar Hernandez led off with a single and scored on Soto’s homer. Megill then hit Josh Bell with a pitch before Bell was forced on a grounder by Cruz, who went to third on Yadiel Hernandez’s double. Keibert Ruiz (single), Maikel Franco (sacrifice fly) and Dee Strange-Gordon (single) followed with RBIs.

Megill remained in the game but got just one out in the second, when Cesar Hernandez and Bell sandwiched singles around a Soto strikeout. Cruz followed with a long homer to center and Megill’s night ended when he walked Yadiel Hernandez.

The eight runs allowed were a career high for Megill, whose ERA rose to 4.41. He is the 11th pitcher this season to allow at least eight runs in a start.

Sanchez recovered from the rough first inning — Brandon Nimmo led off with a double and scored when Franco threw the ball away on Starling Marte’s infield single before Pete Alonso hit a two-run homer — and retired 11 straight before he exited after being hit on the left wrist by an Alonso comebacker with one out in the sixth. Sanchez gave up six hits and walked none while striking out one.

Nimmo finished with three hits for the Mets while Luis Guillorme had two hits. Trevor Williams and Stephen Nogosek combined to allow two hits over the final 6 2/3 innings.

Cesar Hernandez had three hits for the Nationals, who got 3 2/3 scoreless innings of relief from Austin Voth, Victor Arano and Paolo Espino.

–Field Level Media

Vidal Brujan doubled home the go-ahead run in the 10th inning as the Tampa Bay Rays salvaged the finale of their three-game series against the Los Angeles Angels with a 4-2 victory on Wednesday in Anaheim, Calif.

The Rays scored two runs in the top of the 10th off Aaron Loup (0-2). Brujan’s leadoff double scored automatic runner Kevin Kiermaier from second base. Brujan then stole third base and came home on Harold Ramirez’s single to center.

Los Angeles trailed 2-0 with one out in the eighth before tying the game on pinch hitter Taylor Ward’s two-run homer to left field off Andrew Kittredge.

J.P. Feyereisen (3-0) pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the win. The Angels had runners on the corners with two outs in the 10th before Brooks Raley struck out Brandon Marsh for his third save.

Kiermaier homered for Tampa Bay, which snapped its three-game losing streak and bounced back after being no-hit by the Angels’ Reid Detmers in a 12-0 loss on Tuesday.

Before the late-inning drama, the game was highlighted by a pitchers’ duel between the Rays’ Shane McClanahan and the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani.

McClanahan matched a career high by striking out 11 over seven scoreless innings. He allowed three hits with one walk while throwing 100 pitches.

Ohtani yielded one run on two hits over six frames. He walked two and struck out five on 92 pitches.

After being outscored 23-3 in the first two games of the series, Tampa Bay took an early lead on Kiermaier’s two-out solo homer in the second inning.

Neither team was able to push another run across until the eighth, when the Rays’ Taylor Walls hit a leadoff single, stole second base and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt before scoring on Yandy Diaz’s groundout.

Ward then tied the game in the bottom of the eighth with the Angels’ first pinch-hit homer since Jared Walsh accomplished the feat on Sept. 9, 2019. The blast was Ward’s seventh of the season.

Ohtani also singled and recorded his fifth stolen base for the Angels, who saw their three-game winning streak come to an end.

–Field Level Media

It would hardly be odd if the Cincinnati Reds were thrilled to be coming to Pittsburgh to open a four-game series on Thursday against the Pirates.

Not only are the Pirates a fellow National League Central team with a losing record, but the Reds also hadn’t had much success against any team until facing Pittsburgh visited last weekend.

Of Cincinnati’s seven wins, two came last weekend in a three-game set.

The Reds, last in the NL, responded to their first series win last weekend against Pittsburgh by winning another against NL Central leader Milwaukee, taking two of three, including a 14-11 win Wednesday.

“At the beginning of the year there were a lot of challenges. It just builds character,” Reds outfielder TJ Friedl, who was 3-for-4 with three runs scored Wednesday, told MLB on YouTube. “We won our first series against the Pirates, and now we’re building off that momentum.”

Cincinnati has been banged up most of the year but is coming out of its early-season funk.

“We just continue to take it day by day and, once we get healthy, get this thing rolling,” Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson, who was 3-for-5 Wednesday with two doubles and four RBIs, told MLB on YouTube.

The series loss in Cincinnati didn’t seem to dampen Pittsburgh’s desire. The Pirates bounced back to take two of three from the NL’s top team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, including a 5-3 win Wednesday.

“It’s a resilient group,” infielder Josh VanMeter, who homered and tripled and scored twice Wednesday, told AT&T Sportsnet. “That’s a big series win right there, especially after the series in Cincinnati. I think it shows a lot about this group.”

Daniel Vogelbach, who hit a tiebreaking homer Wednesday, stuck up for his Pittsburgh team as well as the Reds.

“I don’t think we necessarily think we played bad in Cincinnati,” he said. “Cincinnati just beat Milwaukee in a series, too. It’s the big leagues. Everybody’s getting paid to play the game. There’s no easy series.

“That’s all it is, is a series win (against L.A.) because we’ve got to come back (Thursday) and we’ve got to play good baseball against a really hot Cincinnati team.”

In the series opener, Cincinnati right-hander Connor Overton (0-0, 2.53 ERA) is scheduled to oppose Pittsburgh right-hander JT Brubaker (0-2, 5.68 ERA).

Overton, a former Pirates prospect, will be making his 12th big-league appearance and sixth start.

It will also be his second straight start — and second of his career — against Pittsburgh. Overton was the beneficiary of an odd set of circumstances in the opening game of Saturday’s doubleheader against the Pirates when Pittsburgh had to resort to VanMeter as its third-string catcher.

Overton pitched 5 1/3 innings Saturday, matching his career high, giving up two runs and a career-high-tying six hits. He also matched a career high of four strikeouts and issued no walks before the Reds scored a comeback win.

Brubaker is riding a string of three straight no-decisions. That includes Saturday in the doubleheader opener at Cincinnati, when he gave up two runs and three hits in five innings, matched his career best of nine strikeouts to go with two walks.

He could easily be seen as the victim of circumstance in that game, given the situation with the catchers. Starter Roberto Perez left with a hamstring injury and backup Andrew Knapp was ejected in the sixth inning and VanMeter struggled as the emergency option.

Against the Reds, Brubaker is 1-2 with a 4.62 ERA in five career starts.

–Field Level Media

San Diego Padres manager Bob Melvin underwent successful prostate surgery, with the club announcing Wednesday the 60-year-old is expected to make a full recovery.

Bench coach Ryan Christenson had been serving as interim manager for select games over the past week as Melvin dealt with symptoms of what the Padres originally referred to as a gastrointestinal problem.

The Padres are set to begin a three-city, nine-game road trip Friday at Atlanta, with Melvin optimistic he can return in less than two weeks. Christenson will serve as manager on the road trip.

“The timetable is, hopefully at the longest, I’d just miss the road trip,” Melvin said Monday, when he rejoined the team for a game. “I hope it’s shorter than that, but that’s probably the timetable. … I hope it’s only Atlanta and Philadelphia (that I miss), but if it’s the entire road trip, it’s the entire road trip.”

Melvin said of the pending operation, “Just want to get it over with.”

Melvin said his doctors did not believe he had prostate cancer. The team did not specify if cancer was found.

“Everybody’s biggest question is Bob’s health, making sure that he’s in a good place here in the next few days and gets some relief,” Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “The diagnosis from the doctors has been good. In terms of the team and the staff, we’ve got a lot of experience, and guys know their responsibilities. I think everybody’s looking forward to stepping up and keeping things going.”

Melvin is in his first season as the Padres’ manager. He spent the past 11 years leading the Oakland A’s before getting permission to move to San Diego in the offseason.

Melvin previously managed the Seattle Mariners and the Arizona Diamondbacks. In 19 years as a major league skipper, he has a 1,366-1,283 regular-season record (.516) and a 10-17 mark in the postseason.

–Field Level Media

Alfonso Rivas hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the eighth inning Wednesday afternoon, leading the visiting Chicago Cubs to a 7-5 victory over the San Diego Padres in the rubber match of a three-game series.

The Cubs loaded the bases with no outs in the eighth against Padres reliever Luis Garcia (0-2) on singles by Willson Contreras and Patrick Wisdom around a walk to Ian Happ. Rivas followed with a line drive to center to score Contreras and Happ.

The Padres had battled back from a 5-2 deficit to tie the game on a bases-loaded, catcher’s-interference call against Contreras in the sixth and a pair of seventh-inning solo homers by Eric Hosmer and Luke Voit. Voit also homered in the second inning to give the Padres a 2-1 lead.

The Cubs had taken a 5-2 lead with a four-run fourth against Padres starter Nick Martinez, the big hit being a tiebreaking, two-run double by Frank Schwindel.

Contreras, who homered in the first to give the Cubs a quick 1-0 lead, drew a walk to open the fourth inning, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on a one-out single by Wisdom. Rivas drew a walk before Martinez struck out Ildemaro Vargas for the second out. But Schwindel followed with double to the wall in center on the 11th pitch of his at-bat to make it 4-2. Jason Heyward then singled home Schwindel.

Voit’s homers were his first two of the season and landed in almost the same spot in the left field stands. The former Yankee came off the injured list Tuesday and was hitting .136 before the first homer.

Mychal Givens (2-0) was credited with the win, with Rowan Wick working two scoreless innings to earn his second save as the Cubs won only their second series of the season.

Cubs shortstop Nico Hoerner left the game in the second inning after injuring his right ankle in a collision with second base umpire Dan Iassogna on a defensive play in the first. Hoerner collided with the umpire when Hoerner ran to center field to take a throw from Heyward after the Padres’ Jurickson Profar tripled. Hoerner stayed in the game and struck out in the second before being replaced by Vargas in the bottom of the inning.

During the game, the Padres announced that manager Bob Melvin had successful prostate surgery Wednesday morning and is expected to make a full recovery.

–Field Level Media