Jake Odorizzi twirled five shutout innings, Aledmys Diaz clubbed a grand slam and the Houston Astros capped a sweep of their seven-game homestand with a 5-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Sunday.

Alex Bregman slugged his fifth home run of the year and Astros right-handed relievers Cristian Javier and Hector Neris completed the one-hit shutout.

Odorizzi (3-2) needed just 34 pitches to complete one trip through the Detroit lineup. When he ran into trouble with one-out walks to Robbie Grossman and Miguel Cabrera in the fourth, Odorizzi recovered with flyouts off the bats of Jeimer Candelario and Jonathan Schoop.

Odorizzi allowed one hit and two walks while posting five strikeouts to continue what has been an exceptional three-start stretch. He has surrendered one run on six hits and four walks with 12 strikeouts over 17 2/3 innings during that span.

The Tigers started reliever Wily Peralta as the opener for their bullpen day. He scuffled over his two innings yet kept the Astros off the scoreboard despite walking three batters and surrendering a leadoff single to Diaz in the second. Diaz struck a far bigger blow in his second at-bat, driving a 1-0 fastball from Tigers right-hander Drew Hutchinson (0-3) out to left-center.

Hutchinson surrendered a leadoff single to Jose Altuve before issuing walks to Bregman and Yordan Alvarez with one out. Hutchinson rallied to strike out Kyle Tucker but Diaz followed with his second home run this season and third career grand slam as Houston took a 4-0 lead.

Bregman followed with his solo shot in the fifth inning off Tigers right-hander Joe Jimenez.

Per Elias Sports Bureau, the Astros completed a homestand of at least seven games unbeaten for the first time since May 2003, when they swept the Florida Marlins and Pittsburgh Pirates in succession. Houston blanked the Seattle Mariners twice before winning the finale of that three-game series 7-2 on May 4.

The Tigers mustered only six runs while dropping all four games of this weekend series. They finished 1-for-30 with runners in scoring position in the series.

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The Los Angeles Angels placed infielder David Fletcher on the 10-day injured list, one of a series of Sunday transactions.

Fletcher, 27, has a left hip strain. He is batting .158 with two RBIs in 14 games this season.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Fletcher will see a specialist in Philadelphia on Monday and surgery apparently is “on the table.”

Infielder/outfielder Jose Rojas also landed on the injured list with no injury designation, which generally indicates COVID-19.

Rojas, 29, is batting .130 with one RBI in seven games with the Angels this season.

The team also recalled infielder Luis Rengifo from Triple-A Salt Lake, selected the contract of outfielder Aaron Whitefield from Double-A Rocket City and optioned left-hander Kenny Rosenberg to Salt Lake.

Rengifo, 25, is batting .313 with four homers and 15 RBIs in 24 games at Salt Lake.

Whitefield, 25, is hitting .301 with five homers, 17 RBIs and 13 stolen bases in 24 games at Rocket City.

Rosenberg, 26, made his MLB debut on April 18 and allowed one run on two hits in one inning of relief at Houston.

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Light-hitting outfielder Oscar Mercado drove in the go-ahead run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning to propel the Cleveland Guardians to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.

The Guardians reached the .500 mark by winning their seventh game in the past nine contests. They won three of four games in the series.

Cleveland pushed across two runs in the eighth inning, which started with a solo home run by second baseman Owen Miller to the left-field bleachers off reliever Tim Mayza. It was his third home run of the season.

Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo brought in reliever Adam Cimber to face the red-hot Franmil Reyes, who lined a single to left.

Cimber (4-2) allowed his first walk of the season to Andres Gimenez, setting the stage for Mercado. He is batting just .191, yet drilled a single into center field, which drove home Reyes with the winning run.

Reyes was 3-for-4 on the day.

Closer Emmanuel Clase recorded his sixth save with a scoreless ninth inning.

Set-up man Bryan Shaw (1-0) earned the victory with a hitless eighth inning for the Guardians.

Toronto snapped a 2-2 tie in the seventh. Santiago Espinal led off the inning with a double down the right-field line. He moved to third on a fly ball and scored on a sacrifice fly by George Springer for a 3-2 lead.

Right-hander Eli Morgan pitched 3 1/3 innings of solid relief. He allowed just one hit — Espinal’s 10th double of the season — one run and no walks. He struck out three.

The Blue Jays jumped on rookie Konnor Pilkington, making his first major league start, for two runs in the top of the first inning.

The big hit was a two-run single by Teoscar Hernandez that drove in Springer and Bo Bichette for a 2-0 advantage.

Cleveland got to Toronto starter Alek Manoah in the third. Steven Kwan blooped a double down the right-field line and scored on a triple by Jose Ramirez. Ramirez is leading the majors with 30 RBIs.

Miller knocked in the Guardians’ second run with a sacrifice fly.

Both starting pitchers left with no-decisions. Pilkington, called up from Triple-A Columbus to make the start, pitched 3 2/3 innings and allowed three hits, two runs and three walks. He struck out six batters.

Manoah pitched five innings and allowed five hits, two runs and one walk. He struck out three. He threw 95 pitches, 61 for strikes.

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Charlie Morton rediscovered his form with five shutout innings and William Contreras drove in four runs to spark the Atlanta Braves to a 9-2 win over the visiting Milwaukee Brewers in the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday.

It was only the second series win of the season for the Braves, who improved their record in day games to 3-8.

Morton (2-3) broke a three-game losing streak. He allowed only two hits, walked three and struck out five. The veteran had allowed 17 runs (16 earned) over 18 1/3 innings in his previous four starts. It was his first win over Milwaukee since Sept. 11, 2015, when he was with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Contreras drove in one run with a bases-loaded walk in the second inning and hit a three-run homer, his third, to left-center in the fifth inning that put the game away.

The losing pitcher was Aaron Ashby (0-3), who pitched four innings and allowed six runs on six hits, four walks and three strikeouts. He also had a wild pitch and committed an error. Ashby’s ERA soared from 2.33 to 4.24.

Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. was 2-for-4 with a double, one RBI and one run scored.

Acuna singled to open the game and extended his streak of reaching base to 23 straight games, the longest in the National League. Acuna’s streak goes back to June 25, when he suffered a season-ending knee injury. He has reached safely in all nine games played this year.

The Braves scored four times in the second inning. After Contreras walked with the bases loaded, the Braves scored on Acuna’s fielder’s choice and Matt Olson’s two-run double.

Atlanta made it 5-0 on Adam Duvall’s solo homer, his second, in the third and struck again for a run in the fourth when Dansby Swanson scored on a wild pitch.

Milwaukee scored twice against reliever Tyler Matzek in the eighth inning. Pinch-hitter Michael Brosseau had an RBI single and the Brewers scored again when Christian Yelich grounded into a double play.

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Colin Moran victimized his former team for a go-ahead grand slam and a two-run homer to rally the Cincinnati Reds past the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 7-3 on Sunday afternoon.

Down 2-0 entering the sixth inning, Moran’s grand slam came two batters after Tommy Pham worked a bases-loaded walk. It was the fifth bases-loaded home run of his career.

The come-from-behind victory gave Cincinnati its first series win in nine tries. The Reds split their season-opening series then lost their last seven series before taking two of three from Pittsburgh. It was Cincinnati’s third win in 24 games.

Moran followed up his sixth inning slam with a two-run homer in the eighth to give him a career-high six RBIs.

Michael Perez and Bryan Reynolds hit home runs for the Pirates, who ended their five-game road trip with a 2-3 mark and lost for the eighth time in 11 games.

Right-hander Art Warren (1-1) entered in the sixth for the Reds and pitched two scoreless innings for the second win by a Reds reliever this season.

The Pirates managed just one hit off Reds starter Tyler Mahle in five innings, but it was a big one. After a leadoff walk to Yoshi Tsutsugo in the second inning, Mahle retired the next two batters. Perez then ended a nine-pitch battle by driving a 94-mph fastball to the seats in right-center for a 2-0 Pittsburgh lead.

Perez was playing his first game since being promoted from Triple-A Indianapolis after Roberto Perez (hamstring) went on the injured list after he was hurt in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader.

Mahle was pulled after five innings and 106 pitches, keeping the Reds as the only team in the major leagues without a starter to go at least six innings this season. The right-hander struck out six while walking three.

Pirates starter Zach Thompson also was effective. He allowed just two hits while striking out six over five shutout innings with no walks. Still Pirates manager Derek Shelton chose to pull his starter after only 79 pitches.

Shelton went to lefty Dillon Peters (3-1), who had not allowed a run in 16 2/3 innings this season. The reliever, who didn’t allow a hit in the first 21 batters faced this season, yielded a bloop hit to right to Brandon Drury, and then walked the next three batters to force in the Reds’ first run. Peters did not retire a batter before Shelton went to former Reds closer Heath Hembree.

Hembree was brought on to face the bases loaded, none out jam and promptly struck out Kyle Farmer. But Moran drilled a 92-mph fastball into the seats in right for Cincinnati’s first grand slam this season.

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Gleyber Torres homered to lead off the ninth inning, lifting the New York Yankees to a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in the opener of a doubleheader Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium.

Torres won it when he hit a 3-1 sinker from John King (1-1) into the right-field seats. The home run gave the Yankees their 12th win in 13 games.

New York ace Gerrit Cole allowed a run and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. He struck out 10, walked one and threw a season-high 114 pitches.

Cole allowed three hits in the first two innings, when he threw 47 pitches. After allowing his only walk, Cole retired 14 of 15 hitters before Kole Calhoun homered in the seventh.

Texas’ Dane Dunning took a no-hitter into the sixth and wound up allowing one run and two hits in six innings. He struck out five, walked three and did not throw any of his 100 pitches over 90.8 mph.

Calhoun ended Cole’s bid for a third straight scoreless start when he lined a full-count 97.6 mph fastball to the short porch and just inside the foul line with one out in the seventh. It was the only fastball Cole threw in the inning.

Jonathan Loáisiga followed Cole with 1 2/3 scoreless innings for the Yankees, and Clay Holmes (3-0) stranded Mitch Garver in the ninth before Torres came through.

Dunning lost his no-bid in the sixth, on his 86th pitch, when Aaron Judge hit an infield single to third baseman Brad Miller and easily beat the throw. Anthony Rizzo’s single moved Judge to third, and Giancarlo Stanton’s fly ball to left gave the Yankees a 1-0 lead.

Before getting the first hit, the Yankees couldn’t capitalize on two errors in the fifth.

Joey Gallo reached when first baseman Andy Ibáñez committed a throwing error on the toss to Dunning. Three batters later, Kyle Higashioka reached when Miller bobbled his grounder on a ball that slightly hopped up on him, but Dunning struck out Aaron Hicks to end the inning.

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Michael Taylor’s RBI single in the ninth inning was the difference as the Kansas City Royals beat the host Baltimore Orioles 6-4 in the opener of a Mother’s Day doubleheader on Sunday.

Taylor’s single to left field off Baltimore’s Jorge Lopez with two outs scored Nicky Lopez with the go-ahead run. Salvador Perez’s single to right field off Cionel Perez then scored Taylor, padding the lead for Kansas City.

Taylor Clarke and Scott Barlow combined for two shutout innings to close the game for the Royals.

Jordan Lyles started on the mound for the Orioles, allowing seven hits and three earned runs while striking out five in 7 1/3 innings. He notched the 900th strikeout of his career in the first inning when he got Edward Olivares to swing and miss on a high fastball.

Olivares fared better in his next at-bat, though, singling to center to score Kyle Isbel in the top of the third, tying the game at 1-1. Cedric Mullins had driven in Jorge Mateo in the bottom of the second to open the scoring for Baltimore.

The Royals continued to score in the fifth inning when Nicky Lopez hit into a fielder’s choice that was bungled by the Orioles. Ryan Mountcastle made a nice pick on the ground ball but rifled his throw into Isbel’s helmet. The error paved the way for Bobby Witt Jr. to score. Andrew Benintendi then hit a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Isbel to give the Royals a 3-1 lead.

Zack Greinke got the start for the Royals, striking out three while allowing 10 hits and two runs in 5 2/3 innings. Greinke (0-2) is winless in six starts this season.

Mountcastle doubled off Greinke in the bottom of the fifth, scoring Austin Hays and cutting the Royals’ lead to 3-2. When the ball left Mountcastle’s bat, many thought it was a home run. The ball banged off the top of Camden Yards’ new left-field wall and bounced back into play.

The Orioles briefly led 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh, after Rougned Odor’s double scored Mountcastle and Hays. The Royals responded a half-inning later with Benintendi scoring on Ryan O’Hearn’s sacrifice fly.

Hays went 4-of-4 and is 9-of-15 in his last four games. It was his ninth multi-hit game of the season.

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Bryce Harper hit a home run and drove in two runs to lift the host Philadelphia Phillies past the New York Mets 3-2 in the first game of a doubleheader on Sunday.

Harper, Jean Segura, Alec Bohm and Kyle Schwarber each had two hits each for the Phillies, who snapped a four-game losing streak as the teams played for the first time since Thursday after consecutive rain postponements.

The Phillies’ victory came three days after they blew a 7-1 lead in the ninth inning and fell 8-7 to the Mets.

Phillies starter Kyle Gibson (3-1) tossed six innings and allowed two runs on six hits with three strikeouts and no walks.

Corey Knebel pitched a scoreless ninth to earn his fifth save in six opportunities.

Francisco Lindor produced an RBI double, while Starling Marte and Brandon Nimmo had two hits apiece for the Mets.

Mets starter Max Scherzer (4-1) gave up three runs on 10 hits over six innings. Scherzer, who had a 15-game winning streak halted, struck out seven and walked none. Scherzer’s streak started in June of last season when he was a member of the Washington Nationals and carried over into his two-month stint with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Phillies went ahead 1-0 when Harper lined a solo homer to right field with two outs in the first inning.

Harper added an RBI single in the third for a 2-0 advantage.

Philadelphia’s Bryson Stott snapped an 0-for-19 slide and connected for an RBI single with two outs in the fourth for a 3-0 lead.

The Mets had two hits through the first five innings, singles from Marte and Nimmo.

The Mets placed runners on first and third with no outs in the sixth and closed within 3-1 when James McCann grounded into a 5-4-3 double play. After a Nimmo single, Lindor lofted an RBI double off the wall in right to cut the deficit to 3-2.

Seranthony Dominguez walked the first two Mets batters in the seventh and then struck out the side.

In the ninth, Alonso struck out, Escobar popped out to shortstop and Smith struck out to end the game against Knebel.

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The Seattle Mariners promoted their top pitching prospect, right-hander George Kirby, from Double-A Arkansas on Sunday.

Losers of 10 of their past 11 games entering the day, the Mariners hope Kirby can give them a boost.

Kirby, 24, started Sunday’s series finale against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays.

Baseball America ranks Kirby as the No. 11 overall prospect, making him the highest-rated pitching prospect to debut with the Mariners since Felix Hernandez in 2005.

Hernandez, who won a Cy Young Award with the Mariners, was the No. 2 overall prospect, according to Baseball America.

Kirby, a native of Rye, N.Y., was scratched from his planned start in Arkansas on Saturday. He was the No. 20 overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft from Elon.

In five starts in the Texas League this season, Kirby is 2-0 with a 1.82 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 24 2/3 innings.

In a corresponding move, the Mariners optioned right-hander Riley O’Brien to Triple-A Tacoma. O’Brien, 27, made his Seattle debut in Saturday night’s 8-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, throwing one scoreless inning with one hit, a walk and a strikeout.

The Mariners recalled him from Tacoma on Thursday.

In another transaction, Seattle transferred right-hander Ken Giles to the 60-day injured list with a right middle finger sprain. The 31-year-old hasn’t pitched in a game since September 2020 with the Toronto Blue Jays.

He missed the 2021 season because of Tommy John surgery.

The Mariners close their series against Tampa Bay on Sunday and host the Philadelphia Phillies for three games beginning Monday.

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The New York Mets officially released veteran second baseman Robinson Cano on Sunday.

The eight-time All-Star was designated for assignment on May 2 with about $40 million remaining on his contract.

Cano, 39, passed through waivers unclaimed and now becomes a free agent.

He posted a video of himself in the batting cage and taking groundballs Sunday on Twitter with the caption: “Never stop. Never settle.”

Never stop. Never settle. #training pic.twitter.com/70aiwoRUNH

— Robinson Cano (@RobinsonCano) May 8, 2022

Cano, who missed the 2021 season following a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs, batted .195 with one homer and three RBIs in eight games this season.

Cano has 2,632 career hits, third among active players behind Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera, both members of the 3,000-hit club. A five-time winner of the Silver Slugger award, he has 335 career home runs and 1,305 RBIs in 2,246 games with the New York Yankees (2005-13), Seattle Mariners (2014-18) and Mets.

He signed a 10-year, $240 million deal with Seattle in December 2013, and the Mariners traded him to the Mets in December 2018 as part of a six-player swap.

–Field Level Media