Matt Vierling had four hits, including a two-run home run in the 11th inning, to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 7-6 win over the host Houston Astros on Monday.

Vierling broke a 5-5 tie with a blast to center off Houston reliever Hector Neris (0-1).

The Astros scored a run in the bottom of the 11th on a fielder’s choice groundout by Yordan Alvarez, but Detroit reliever Garrett Hill got Jose Abreu to pop out to end the game with a runner on first. It was Hill’s first save of the season. Trey Wingenter (1-0) earned the win.

Detroit led 5-4 going into the ninth but Houston rallied. Alex Bregman reached on a one-out single off Detroit closer Alex Lange. Alvarez then hit a ground ball directly to Detroit first baseman Spencer Torkelson, who quickly touched first to retire Alvarez.

But Torkelson’s throw to second in an attempt to double up Bregman and end the game hit Bregman in his back, allowing him to reach second with two outs. Abreu followed with a game-tying double off the wall in left that was just beyond the reach of Detroit left fielder Austin Meadows.

Trailing 4-0 going into the bottom of the fifth inning, the Astros scored four times.

Jeremy Pena drove in one run on a fielder’s choice, and Alvarez blasted a three-run homer to right-center field off Detroit reliever Jose Cisnero to tie the game.

The Tigers took a 2-0 lead on Eric Haase’s two-out single to right with the bases loaded.

Detroit added two more runs in the fifth on an RBI single by Javier Baez and a walk with the bases loaded by Torkelson.

Matthew Boyd started for the Tigers, allowing two hits, two runs, walking three and striking out three in 4 1/3 innings. Mason Englert threw three scoreless innings of relief for Detroit.

Hunter Brown got the start for Houston, allowing six hits, four runs, striking out five and walking three in 4 2/3 innings.

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Gunnar Henderson and Jorge Mateo delivered solo home runs, four pitchers combined to throw a one-hitter and the Baltimore Orioles picked up a 2-0 victory over the Texas Rangers on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series in Arlington, Texas.

Baltimore’s bullpen had to step up after starter Kyle Bradish exited the game in the second inning due to a foot injury. A trio of relievers picked up the slack, with Orioles pitchers retiring the final 14 batters of the game. Tyler Wells, who was scheduled to start on Tuesday night, retired the final 11 batters he faced before closer Felix Bautista had a 1-2-3 ninth inning.

Bradish exited with two outs in the second after taking Jonah Heim’s 104-mph liner off his right foot. Bradish was diagnosed with a right foot contusion and X-rays were negative, the Orioles said. He will undergo further evaluation and testing.

Baltimore turned to left-hander Danny Coulombe (1-0) to replace Bradish. Coulombe threw 1 1/3 scoreless innings of relief, although a scary moment unfolded when he faced Rangers left fielder Josh H. Smith to start the bottom of the third inning.

Coulombe’s 88.5-mph sinker hit Smith in the face. Smith, who walked off under his own power, went to an area hospital for further scans and testing on his face and jaw, the Rangers announced.

Baltimore first struck on Henderson’s blast in the top of the fourth inning, and made it 2-0 when Mateo cracked a 433-foot shot to left-center field in the fifth.

Rangers starter Jon Gray (0-1) took the loss, allowing two runs on four hits with two walks and seven strikeouts over 6 1/3 innings.

Josh Jung delivered the Rangers’ only hit — a one-out infield single in the second inning off Bradish. Texas entered the game with the highest-scoring offense in the major leagues.

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Ronald Acuna Jr. went 3-for-4 with a three-run homer and two runs to power the visiting Atlanta Braves past the St. Louis Cardinals 8-4 Monday.

Ozzie Albies hit a two-run homer and Austin Riley had a solo shot for the Braves, who have won three of four games to start the season.

Atlanta starter Charlie Morton (1-0) allowed three runs on nine hits and two walks in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out one.

St. Louis starter Jake Woodford (0-1) gave up six runs on seven hits, including three homers, in 4 1/3 innings. He walked three and fanned three.

Paul Goldschmidt went 2-for-4 with a walk and a solo homer for the Cardinals.

Riley’s 473-foot homer to left-center field in the first inning put the Braves up 1-0.

The Cardinals tied the game in the bottom of the frame. Alec Burleson and Goldschmidt hit singles before Nolan Arenado drove in a run with a fielder’s-choice grounder.

The Braves grabbed a 6-1 lead with a five-run outburst in the second inning. Albies followed Michael Harris II’s single with his two-run homer, then Eddie Rosario’s single and Orlando Arcia’s double set the stage for Acuna’s three-run shot.

St. Louis cut the deficit to 6-3 in the fourth inning. Nolan Gorman hit a leadoff single, moved to third on Tyler O’Neill’s single and scored on Jordan Walker’s single.

One out later, Brendan Donovan hit a run-scoring groundout.

Atlanta pushed its lead to 8-3 in the seventh inning when Acuna led off with a double, Matt Olson hit an RBI single, and Travis d’Arnaud smacked a one-out RBI double.

Goldschmidt’s solo homer in the bottom of the inning cut the deficit to 8-4.

The Cardinals threatened in the eighth inning when O’Neill hit a leadoff single and Tommy Edman drew a one-out walk. But Collin McHugh retired Donovan on a fielder’s choice before striking out Burleson to end the inning.

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MJ Melendez had a double and a two-home run and the Kansas City Royals defeated the visiting Toronto Blue Jays 9-5 on Monday night for their first win of the season.

Bo Bichette hit the first homer of the season for the Blue Jays, who have lost three straight after winning on Opening Day.

Royals starter Brady Singer (1-0) allowed one run, two hits and three walks and struck out three in five innings.

His counterpart, Jose Berrios (0-1), allowed eight runs, nine hits and two walks while striking out seven in 5 2/3 innings.

The Royals, who were coming off a three-game sweep at the hands of the Minnesota Twins, scored three runs in the first inning and never looked back.

Melendez led off with a double to right and scored on Bobby Witt Jr.’s one-out single. Michael Massey’s single put runners at the corners. Kyle Isbel followed with an RBI single, and the third run scored on Hunter Dozier’s soft groundout to shortstop.

The Blue Jays could not score in the second despite Alejandro Kirk’s walk and the first of two doubles by Matt Chapman.

Kansas City added four runs in the fourth. Dozier and Jackie Bradley Jr. singled, setting up Nicky Lopez’s two-run triple. Vinnie Pasquantino later doubled in a run and Witt hit an RBI single. Witt was out trying to advance to third when the throw toward the plate hit the mound.

Toronto loaded the bases in the fifth with none out, but scored only once. Brandon Belt walked, Chapman doubled again and Cavan Biggio walked. Belt scored when Kevin Kiermaier grounded into a double play.

Ryan Yarbrough replaced Singer to start the sixth and pitched around a single and a walk.

In the bottom of the inning, Lopez walked against Berrios, and Melendez greeted Zach Pop with a bomb to right-center field.

In the seventh, Yarbrough allowed consecutive one-out singles to Biggio, Kiemaier and George Springer to score one run. Bichette singled to load the bases. Jose Cuas replaced Yarbrough but walked Vladimir Guerrero Jr. to force in a run.

Dylan Coleman came on in the eight for the Royals and allowed one run on a walk to Chapman, a single by Biggio and a wild pitch.

Taylor Clarke allowed Bichette’s leadoff homer in the top of the ninth.

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Baltimore Orioles starter Kyle Bradish took a 104 mph comebacker off his right foot in the second inning, ending his night early in a road start at the Texas Rangers on Monday night in Arlington, Texas.

Bradish sustained the injury during an at-bat against Rangers catcher Jonah Heim. The ball ricocheted off Bradish’s leg to first baseman Ryan Mountcastle, who made the out at first.

Bradish threw one warmup pitch before limping off.

Bradish was making his first start of the season, throwing 1 2/3 scoreless innings. He allowed one hit and one walk while striking out two. Orioles left-handed reliever Danny Coulombe replaced Bradish on the mound.

In the third inning, Rangers outfielder Josh Smith was hit in the face with an 89 mph pitch from Coulombe. Smith exited under his own power but was taken to a local hospital.

“Rangers LF Josh Smith has been taken to an area hospital for further scans and testing on his face and jaw,” the Rangers said in a statement.

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Center fielder Bryan Reynolds hit two home runs to help the Pittsburgh Pirates end a two-game losing streak with a 7-6 victory over the host Boston Red Sox on Monday night.

Reynolds hit solo homers in the second and fourth innings. He collected three hits in the win.

Reynolds has three home runs in Pittsburgh’s first four games. He homered 27 times in 145 games last season.

Rafael Devers, Masataka Yoshida and Triston Casas homered for the Red Sox.

The Pirates, coming off back-to-back losses against Cincinnati, also received a solo home run from catcher Jason Delay.

Neither starting pitcher had much success. Boston’s Kutter Crawford (0-1) allowed eight hits and seven runs in four innings. He struck out six, walked two and allowed three home runs. Pittsburgh’s Johan Oviedo was pulled with two outs in the fifth after he gave up five runs (four earned) on six hits, walked four and struck out four.

Duane Underwood Jr. (1-0) earned the win for tossing 1 1/3 innings of scoreless relief.

The Pirates scored three runs in the first inning, when they sent eight hitters to the plate. Reynolds scored on a Ke’Bryan Hayes single before a Canaan Smith-Njigba double to left scored Ji Man Choi and Hayes.

Boston hit three home runs to take a 5-3 lead in the bottom of the first. After Devers hit a solo shot, Yoshida and Casas followed with two-run homers.

Reynolds hit his first home run in the top of the second to trim Boston’s lead to 5-4, and a single by Jack Suwinski scored Hayes to tie the game in the top of the third. Delay’s home run put the Pirates up 6-5 in the fourth, and Reynolds increased the lead to 7-5 when he hit his second home run later that inning.

Boston was within a run after Adam Duvall singled home Alex Verdugo to make it 7-6 in the sixth, but the Red Sox stranded two runners in scoring position in the eighth and left a runner on first in the ninth.

Verdugo led Boston with three hits.

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Luke Raley homered twice, and the Tampa Bay Rays remained perfect through four games by defeating the host Washington Nationals 6-2 on Monday night.

Drew Rasmussen threw six shutout innings in what became a combined four-hitter among four pitchers for the Rays, who have allowed a total of five runs this season.

Tampa Bay’s Isaac Paredes also homered in the opener of the three-game series. The Rays scored in five different innings in their first road game of the year.

Washington’s Jeimer Candelario smacked a solo home run in the ninth inning.

Both of Raley’s homers came with two outs, a two-run blast in the first inning off Washington starter Trevor Williams and a solo shot in the eighth off reliever Mason Thompson. Raley homered only once in 61 at-bats with Tampa Bay last year, when he was back and forth to the minor leagues, and he had none in his first three games this year.

Paredes and Josh Lowe also finished with two hits apiece for the Rays. Dominic Smith had two hits for the Nationals.

Paredes’ first homer of the season came in the fourth inning and stretched the Rays’ lead to 4-0.

Williams (0-1) lasted five innings, dinged for four runs (three earned) on six hits. He walked one and struck out three.

Rasmussen (1-0) fanned seven without a walk, delivering only 16 balls among 66 pitches. He yielded two hits.

Combined with Jeffrey Springs’ six no-hit innings Sunday vs. Detroit, the past two Tampa Bay starters have gone 12 scoreless innings and given up only two hits.

Rays reliever Garrett Cleavinger surrendered an unearned run in the seventh before Jason Adam and Calvin Faucher and finished the deal.

Washington’s first run came on Lane Thomas’ RBI groundout in the seventh.

The Nationals have lost three of four games, failing to score more than two runs in any of the defeats. The homer by Candelario was just his second hit in 14 at-bats this season.

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Anthony Rizzo ignited a five-run fifth inning with a two-run homer and the host New York Yankees cruised to an 8-1 victory over the visiting Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night.

Gleyber Torres hit his 100th career homer and drove in a run with an infield single early in the game before the Yankees produced their biggest inning of the young season.

Rizzo’s drive off Yunior Marte just stayed fair and reached the second deck down the right field line. Franchy Cordero hit a two-run double and Jose Trevino added an RBI single later in the inning as the Yankees sent the Phillies to their first 0-4 start since 2016.

New York’s first run came in the first when DJ LeMahieu led off with a triple and scored on Giancarlo Stanton’s bases-loaded groundout against Philadelphia starter Taijuan Walker (0-1).

New York’s Nestor Cortes (1-0) allowed one run on seven hits in five innings after his spring training was slightly delayed by a strained right hamstring. He struck out three and walked none, and threw 80 pitches.

Cortes also made a key defensive play in the fifth moments before the Yankees pulled away. With Brandon Marsh on second after a leadoff double, J.T. Realmuto hit a two-out single to right. When the throw home sailed high over the head of the catcher Trevino, Cortes was backing up the play, caught the throw and fired to third to nail Marsh before he could get back to the bag.

In the bottom of the inning, Rizzo lifted a 2-1 fastball from Marte for his first homer of the season. After two walks, Cordero hit his double, and two batters later, Trevino singled to center.

Edmundo Sosa had an RBI single and Alec Bohm collected three hits for the Phillies.

Walker allowed four runs on four hits in 4 1/3 innings in his Philadelphia debut. He struck out five and walked three.

New York scored twice without leaving the infield to go ahead in the first.

LeMahieu’s triple went past Marsh in center field. After Stanton drove him in, Torres followed with a single that caromed off Walker’s glove.

In the third, Torres hit a full count offering from Walker to right field for his milestone homer. Bohm doubled and scored on Sosa’s hit in the fourth to get Philadelphia within 3-1.

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Joey Gallo slugged a three-run homer and Tyler Mahle struck out seven batters, leading the Minnesota Twins to an 11-1 win over the host Miami Marlins on Monday night.

Max Kepler also homered for the Twins, but he was removed in the fourth inning due to soreness in his right knee. Kyle Farmer took his place after Kepler beat out an infield single.

Gallo’s homer in the second inning was his third in three at-bats, counting two he hit against Kansas City on Sunday. His hot bat has helped the Twins to a 4-0 start. It’s Minnesota’s best start since 2017.

Trevor Larnach also had a big game for the Twins, going 2-for-5 with a homer, a triple and three RBIs.

Mahle (1-0) allowed five hits, one walk and one run in five innings, earning his first win since Aug. 12.

Johnny Cueto (0-1) made his Marlins debut, retiring just three batters and allowing three hits, one walk and four runs. He was removed three batters into the second inning due to tightness in his right biceps. His last pitch was the home run ball to Gallo.

Ironically, this was the 15th-year anniversary of Cueto’s MLB debut. Cueto, 37, was much better in that 2008 game, beating Arizona by allowing just one hit and one run in seven innings, striking out 10.

The Marlins were also without shortstop Joey Wendle, who was scratched due to oblique soreness. Jon Berti took his place.

Miami, just 1-4 on its season-opening homestand, was led by ex-Twins second baseman Luis Arraez, who extended his hitting streak to 14 games dating back to last season. Arraez, who won a batting title for the Twins last year, went 2-for-5 with one RBI, and he is now hitting .524.

Minnesota took a 1-0 lead on the fourth pitch of the game as Kepler — who had gone 0-for-13 in the Twins’ opening series — smashed a 2-1 changeup for his home run.

The Twins made it 4-0 in the second as Jose Miranda walked, Nick Gordon singled and Gallo pulled his homer on a 112 mph liner to right.

Minnesota extended its lead to 6-0 in the third on Larnach’s RBI triple to the right-field corner and Miranda’s run-scoring single.

The Twins made it 8-0 in the fourth on Carlos Correa’s two-run double to the left-center gap before Miami finally got on the board in the fifth on Arraez’s run-scoring single.

Larnach’s two-run homer in the seventh gave Minnesota a 10-1 lead.

Miami used catcher Jacob Stallings on the mound in the ninth, and he allowed a home run to Ryan Jeffers.

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