Nolan Gorman and Victor Scott II homered Tuesday night, and Gorman, Jordan Walker and Alec Burleson each knocked in three runs as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals outslugged the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-7.

St. Louis scored multiple runs in four different innings, finishing with 12 hits. The Cardinals were efficient, going 5 of 16 with runners in scoring position and stranding only seven runners. They collected six extra-base hits and reached double figures in runs for the first time this year.

Cardinals starter Kyle Leahy (3-3) scattered nine hits and allowed three runs in 5 1/3 innings. He walked none and fanned seven.

Pirates starter Braxton Ashcraft (1-2) permitted six runs on six hits and three walks while whiffing seven in 4 1/3 innings. Ashcraft and reliever Hunter Barco combined to issue five walks, and Pittsburgh chipped in two errors.

Gorman got the onslaught started in the second with his fourth homer of the year, jumping on a first-pitch fastball and walloping it over the seats in right field. Scott led off the third with his first homer, belting it an estimated 415 feet to right.

Walker tacked on an RBI single later in the inning for a 3-0 edge. St. Louis doubled its lead in the fifth, getting a run-scoring double from Burleson plus sacrifice flies from Walker and Gorman.

Leahy cruised into the sixth inning before the Pirates got back into the game briefly. Oneil Cruz launched a leadoff homer to center, his ninth of the year, and Ryan O’Hearn drilled his fifth homer, a two-run shot with Bryan Reynolds aboard to cut the margin to 6-3.

The Cardinals responded in the seventh with three more runs. Walker’s second RBI single, an infield out from Gorman and Masyn Winn’s RBI single restored a six-run lead.

St. Louis made it 11-3 in the eighth when Burleson laced a two-run double to right-center. Pittsburgh scored three runs in its half of the eighth on O’Hearn’s RBI single and a two-run single by Nick Gonzales.

Rookie shortstop Konnor Griffin homered to lead off the bottom of the ninth for the Pirates, his second.

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Jesus Luzardo allowed just two hits over seven innings as the Philadelphia Phillies topped the visiting San Francisco Giants 7-0 on Tuesday, hours after firing manager Rob Thomson.

With a 9-19 record entering Tuesday that was tied for the worst mark in the major leagues, the Phillies opted to part ways with Thomson, who had managed the squad for nearly four years. Bench coach Don Mattingly was promoted to interim skipper and enjoyed a victorious debut thanks to Luzardo’s gem and a four-run sixth from the Philadelphia offense.

Trea Turner went 4-for-5 with two runs for the Phillies, while Adolis Garcia drove in two runs. Luzardo (2-3) took care of the rest, striking out eight without a walk to help Philadelphia win for just the second time in its last 13 games.

San Francisco starter Tyler Mahle (1-4) allowed five runs and six hits in five-plus innings. He walked three and fanned three. Matt Chapman accounted for four of the 12 strikeouts by the Giants, who had won seven of their last 10 entering the series opener on Tuesday.

After retiring the first six hitters he faced, Luzardo allowed a leadoff double to Heliot Ramos in the third. However, the left-hander rebounded to strike out the next three batters to keep the game scoreless.

Luis Arraez doubled against Luzardo with one out in the fourth, but San Francisco was unable to move him along.

Philadelphia plated the first run of the game in the bottom of the frame. Turner singled and moved to second on a walk by Kyle Schwarber. With one out, Garcia walked to load the bases for Brandon Marsh, who lifted a sacrifice fly to left.

After both teams went down quietly in the fifth, the Phillies broke open the game in the sixth.

An infield single by Turner opened the inning before Schwarber walked and Bryce Harper delivered an RBI double. Garcia’s double then made it 4-0 and ended the night for Mahle, who gave way to Matt Gage.

The left-hander went on to allow Alec Bohm’s two-out RBI double before getting out of the jam.

Luzardo set down the Giants 1-2-3 in the seventh before Orion Kerkering followed suit with a perfect eighth.

After the Phillies tacked on a couple of insurance runs in the eighth, Tim Mayza took the mound in the ninth and completed the two-hit shutout.

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Elly De La Cruz went 3-for-4, drove in four runs and provided a highlight-reel defensive play while Spencer Steer belted a two-run homer as the Cincinnati Reds beat the visiting Colorado Rockies 7-2 on Tuesday.

With his eighth inning two-run shot, De La Cruz now has 10 homers, tied with three others for the most by any switch-hitter before May since 1900.

Cincinnati right-hander Chase Burns (3-1) allowed just two runs in six innings as Cincinnati won for the eighth time in 10 games.

Edouard Julien went 3-for-4 with a solo home run and drove in both runs for Colorado, which went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and had its three-game win streak snapped.

The Cincinnati win was highlighted by three key defensive plays. With one out and a runner at second, Colorado’s Kyle Karros chopped a grounder over the head of third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes. De La Cruz backed up the play and fielded the ball, throwing across his body to retire Karros by a half-step.

The play helped the Reds keep the Rockies off the scoreboard after Cincinnati jumped on Colorado starter Kyle Freeland for three runs in the first, highlighted by Steer’s two-run homer to left-center, his fifth of the year.

Freeland (1-2) was making his fourth start of the season but his first since returning from the injured list earlier in the day. The left-hander, out since April 12 with left shoulder inflammation, allowed four runs on five hits over five innings, striking out four and walking one.

Burns scattered seven hits, striking out nine and walking one. With Burns at 81 pitches entering the sixth, he allowed a leadoff single to TJ Rumfield. But Cincinnati first baseman Sal Stewart fielded Tyler Freeman’s bunt cleanly and threw a strike to De La Cruz to get the lead runner.

The play proved pivotal as Troy Johnston followed with a double to put runners at second and third with one out. Burns followed with a strikeout and a foul popout to escape the jam.

Reds right-hander Graham Ashcraft was the beneficiary of an inning-ending double play in the seventh started by De La Cruz to get out of a first-and-third, one-out bind. Tony Santillan also stranded a pair of runners in a scoreless eighth.

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Shane Baz earned his first pitching victory with the Baltimore Orioles and Pete Alonso smacked a two-run homer in a 5-3 victory against the visiting Houston Astros to open a three-game series Tuesday night.

Baz (1-2), an offseason acquisition who signed a big contract just days before his Orioles debut, held the Astros to one run on six hits and one walk in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out six.

Alonso, another newcomer to the team, connected for his fourth home run with two outs in the fifth inning to stretch the lead to 4-1. It was his second homer in a two-week span.

Adley Rutschman had a pair of run-producing singles and Samuel Basallo, who also had two hits, doubled in a run as the Orioles halted a two-game skid.

Brice Matthews homered among his three hits from the No. 9 spot in the Houston batting order. He drove in a run with an eighth-inning single as the American League-worst Astros pulled within 5-3. Christian Walker and Yainer Diaz both notched two hits for Houston, which is 3-8 across its last 11 games.

Despite producing 11 hits, the Astros went 2-for-14 with runners in scoring position, striking out 10 times in those situations. Houston batters struck out 12 times overall, all within the first eight innings.

Houston’s Kai-Wei Teng (1-2), who drew his first start of the year after 11 relief appearances, was charged with two runs in three innings. Ryan Weiss allowed three runs in 3 2/3 innings of relief.

Baz is a right-hander who had been with the Tampa Bay Rays. He has logged at least five innings in all six starts this year.

Rico Garcia and Andrew Kittredge followed Baz in relief before Anthony Nunez was tagged for two runs in the eighth. Ryan Helsley, who hadn’t pitched in a week, worked the ninth inning for his seventh save.

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Detroit starter Casey Mize left in the third inning of the Tigers’ Tuesday game against the host Atlanta Braves due to right groin tightness and he will undergo an MRI exam on Wednesday.

Mize, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 draft, appeared to grimace after fielding a soft grounder from Atlanta’s Drake Baldwin and tossing an underhanded throw to first to record an out.

Detroit manager A.J. Hinch and the team trainer examined Mize, who was immediately removed from the game.

“He came up pretty tentative and he wanted to throw a pitch, but we’re not going to mess with that in April,” Hinch said after the Tigers’ 5-2 loss. “And just given how he was describing how he was feeling, we took him out of the game. He’ll get checked out. I have no idea the severity or anything like that, yet.”

Mize said the issue first arose in the second inning.

“It wasn’t like a one pitch, like grab thing, it was kind of like a gradual tightening up a little bit. So I made it through that inning. Then we did some tests on it in between innings, and felt like good enough to go back out there, but it kind of just never really went away.”

A first-time All-Star last season, Mize is off to a strong start this season with a 2-2 record and 2.90 ERA through six starts. He took the loss on Tuesday after giving up two runs on three hits, striking out three and walking one in 2 1/3 innings.

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The Athletics placed third baseman Max Muncy on the 10-day injury list with a fractured left hand prior to Tuesday’s game against the visiting Kansas City Royals.

The move is retroactive to Sunday.

The A’s recalled third baseman Brett Harris from Triple-A Las Vegas in a corresponding move.

Muncy, 23, was hit on the left hand by a pitch on April 13 in a game against the Texas Rangers and left that contest. He attempted to play through the injury, but is 3-for-32 since the plunking and his batting average dropped from .317 to .239.

He underwent an MRI exam on Monday and it revealed he had a non-displaced fracture of his fifth metacarpal. A timetable for his return wasn’t revealed Tuesday by the club.

Muncy has two homers and seven RBI in 26 games this season.

Harris, 27, batted .274 with five RBIs in 32 games with the A’s last season. This season, he was batting .274 with two homers and 15 RBIs in 16 games for Las Vegas.

Darell Hernaiz is batting eighth and playing third base in Tuesday’s game against the Royals.

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Jonathan Aranda had an RBI single in the fifth inning and Nick Martinez and three relievers combined on a four-hitter as the visiting Tampa Bay Rays edged the Cleveland Guardians 1-0 on Tuesday night.

Martinez (2-1) worked seven-plus innings, striking out four in lowering his ERA to 1.70. The right-hander walked one and gave up three hits, throwing 13 or fewer pitches in each inning to help Tampa Bay post its sixth consecutive victory.

Ian Seymour and Kevin Kelly worked the eighth, while Cole Sulser tossed the ninth for his first save since 2022 with the Miami Marlins. The Rays are a season-best seven games above .500 at 18-11.

The Guardians loaded the bases with two outs in the eighth against Seymour, prompting Rays manager Kevin Cash to bring in Kelly. Seven-time All-Star Jose Ramirez flew out to the warning track in center field to end the threat.

In the ninth, Sulser gave up a two-out double to Angel Martinez, then intentionally walked Travis Bazzana in his major league debut. Pinch hitter George Valera struck out on three pitches, sending Cleveland to its season-high fourth loss in a row.

Aranda’s two-out single scored Ben Williamson and was his 25th RBI, which ranks second in the American League. Their back-to-back hits matched the Rays’ total output in the first four innings off Guardians starter Tanner Bibee (0-4).

Bazzana went 0-for-2 with a pair of walks in his major league debut. The first overall pick in the 2024 draft, who played for Australia in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, batted seventh and played second base.

Bibee allowed one run on four hits over five innings, but remained winless in seven starts this season as he has received the least run support of any starter in the majors. The right-hander struck out six and walked three.

Rays third baseman Junior Caminero fouled a pitch off the right side of his jaw in the first inning, and he left the game after grounding out. He was diagnosed with a contusion and is listed as day to day.

Daniel Schneemann had a single for the Guardians, extending his career-high on-base streak to 14 games.

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Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio and first baseman Andrew Vaughn are both set to begin rehab assignments with Triple-A Nashville on Wednesday ahead of projected May 4 returns to the major league level, the team announced Tuesday.

Both Chourio and Vaughn have been sidelined since at least Opening Day with broken bones in their left hands.

Chourio was placed on the injured list the day of the first game of the season due to a fractured bone at the base of his middle finger which occurred on a hit-by-pitch during a World Baseball Classic warmup game. He’s hit .272 with 42 homers, 64 doubles and 157 RBIs the last two seasons for the Brewers.

Vaughn sustained a broken hamate bone in Milwaukee’s Opening Day win over the Chicago White Sox. Acquired at the trade deadline last season from Chicago, Vaughn hit .308 with nine homers and 46 RBIs in 64 games with Milwaukee in 2025.

The Brewers, who have won the National League Central each of the last three years, are in last place of the competitive division at 14-13 just over a month into the regular season.

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New York Mets right-handed starting pitcher Kodai Senga was placed on the 15-day injured list on Tuesday with lumbar spine inflammation. The move is retroactive to Monday.

Senga received an epidural, Newsday reported.

In a corresponding move, the Mets recalled right-hander Christian Scott from Triple-A Syracuse to join the rotation.

Senga is 0-4 with a 9.00 ERA in five starts this season. On Sunday against the Colorado Rockies, he allowed three runs in just 2 2/3 innings.

After that start, the Mets’ brass discussed their next move with Senga, according to MLB.com. One option would be to send the right-hander to the minor leagues, but as a veteran in his fourth season, that move would require Senga’s approval.

On Sept. 5, 2025, he accepted such a move, but on Sunday, he said he did not know if he would do so again.

Scott has a 6.75 ERA in one major league start this season. He allowed one run on zero hits with five walks and one strikeout in just 1 1/3 innings in a no-decision. For Syracuse, he had a 5.27 ERA in three starts with an 0-2 record. He pitched a total of 13 2/3 innings, allowing nine runs (eight earned) on 13 hits with two walks and 17 strikeouts.

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The New York Yankees placed designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton on the 15-day injured list Tuesday due to a right calf strain.

The move is retroactive to Saturday. The Yankees recalled infielder Max Schuemann from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take his place on the active roster.

Stanton last played Friday at the Houston Astros and left after the sixth inning when he experienced stiffness in the calf while running the bases. The Yankees have kept him on the bench since then while waiting to see how his calf responded.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said after the team’s 4-2 win at the Texas Rangers on Monday that an MRI revealed nothing more than a strain that didn’t “look too serious.”

The oft-injured Stanton, 36, was limited to 77 games for the Yankees last year due to injuries to both his elbows. The former National League MVP (2017, Miami Marlins) was batting .256 with three home runs and 14 RBIs through 24 games this season.

The Yankees had previously called up outfielder Jasson Dominguez from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and sent right-hander Luis Gil to Triple-A after he started Sunday’s loss to the Astros.

The 23-year-old Dominguez, who played in 123 games last season, began 2026 at Triple-A and batted .326 with three homers, 15 RBIs and eight stolen bases in 24 games.

Schuemann, 28, had a fine spring for the Yankees after they acquired him from the Athletics in February. In 234 games across two seasons with the A’s (2024-25), Schuemann has hit .212 with nine homers, 18 doubles, 47 RBIs and 21 steals.

In 2025 alone, Schuemann made starts at second base, third base, shortstop, left field and center field.

–Field Level Media