The Boston Red Sox reinstated right-hander Chris Martin from the injured list on Sunday.

The 36-year-old reliever landed on the 15-day IL on April 16 with right shoulder inflammation.

Martin is 0-1 with a 2.57 ERA in seven appearances this season out of the Boston bullpen.

He owns a 9-17 record with nine saves and a 3.80 ERA in 276 games (no starts) with seven teams since 2014.

The Red Sox sent right-hander Kaleb Ort to Triple-A Worcester following their 8-7 win in 10 innings on Saturday.

Ort, 31, is 1-0 with a 7.30 ERA through 12 relief appearances with the Red Sox this season.

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The Toronto Blue Jays acquired catcher Tyler Heineman from the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday in exchange for infielder Vinny Capra.

Heineman, 31, was added to the 40-man roster and optioned to Triple-A Buffalo. He was designated for assignment by the Pirates on April 26 after batting .111 (1-for-9) with one walk in three games this season.

Heineman previously played with the Blue Jays in 2022. He is a career .210 hitter with one homer and 12 RBIs in 85 games with the Miami Marlins, San Francisco Giants, Blue Jays and Pirates.

To make room for Heineman, outfielder Jordan Luplow has been assigned outright to Triple-A.

Capra, who was assigned to Triple-A Indianapolis, has yet to play in the majors this season. The 26-year-old went 1-for-5 with two runs in eight games with the Blue Jays last season.

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The Atlanta Braves and host New York Mets will play a doubleheader Monday following a second straight rainout on Sunday.

Monday’s single-admission twin bill at Citi Field will begin at 1:10 p.m. ET.

Saturday’s postponed contest will be made up in a split doubleheader on Aug. 12.

Atlanta won Friday night’s rain-shortened series opener 4-0 in five innings.

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Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez returned to the starting lineup Saturday following a four-game absence tied to neck discomfort. In true Alvarez fashion, he didn’t miss a beat.

Alvarez finished 2-for-3 with a double and a walk. His production didn’t impact the bottom line for the home Astros, who scored a solo run for a third consecutive game in their 6-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Jeremy Pena homered in a second straight game for Houston.

Alvarez returned to Houston in advance of the Astros’ three-game road series against the Tampa Bay Rays earlier this week. The club avoided placing Alvarez on the injured list, deferring to team medical personnel and Alvarez to provide updates regarding his readiness.

“Depends on the player,” Astros manager Dusty Baker said when asked how he evaluates a player relaying that he’s ready for action. “Depends how truthful the player is. Some guys want to play no matter what and then I have to supercede the situation.

“I was a player too, and I remember what it was like to be hurt or to be injured. And I can tell, I can certainly tell the signs from what I see.”

Right-hander Jose Urquidy (1-2, 5.64 ERA) is the scheduled starter for the Astros on Sunday. He labored in his previous start, allowing six runs on seven hits and two walks while recording three strikeouts in 2 2/3 innings in an 8-3 loss to the Rays last Monday. Urquidy has dropped consecutive decisions, allowing 10 runs on 14 hits and four walks with seven strikeouts over seven innings, since tossing six shutout innings at the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 12.

Urquidy has faced the Phillies once previously. He gave up two runs on two homers in two innings of relief on Oct. 3.

Left-hander Bailey Falter (0-4, 4.50) will start as the Phillies pursue the series sweep. He took the loss in each of his prior three starts, allowing 12 runs (11 earned) on 17 hits and four walks with 14 strikeouts over 17 2/3 innings. Philadelphia has won one of his five starts.

Falter has faced the Astros once previously, allowing two hits over one scoreless inning in the Phillies’ 3-2 road loss on Oct. 5. Falter did not factor into the decision of that game.

Philadelphia placed outfielder Cristian Pache on the 10-day injured list on Saturday after he sustained a right knee meniscus tear in the fifth inning of the series opener on Friday. Pache suffered the injury retreating to second base after taking a secondary lead. His RBI double drove home Edmundo Sosa and delivered the Phillies a 2-1 lead.

Pache was batting .360 with one home run and four RBIs in 18 games. The Phillies recalled outfielder Dalton Guthrie from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to replace Pache on the active roster. Pache will undergo surgery and will be sidelined for an undetermined number of games.

“I feel for him and for the club because he was really playing well and really improving,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. “Dalton Guthrie comes up and takes his spot and we’ll utilize him basically the same way we did Cristian.”

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The Los Angeles Dodgers hope to take advantage of the struggling St. Louis Cardinals at home one more time on Sunday as they try for their first three-game series sweep of the season.

The Dodgers squeaked out a 1-0 victory over the Cardinals on Saturday behind a brilliant performance from Clayton Kershaw. The left-hander gave up just two singles and struck out nine over seven innings.

Kershaw has won each of his past four starts, however getting consistency from anybody else in a Los Angeles uniform has been a challenge. The Dodgers lost three of their previous four series before the Cardinals arrived in town, including home series against the Chicago Cubs and the New York Mets.

Los Angeles avenged its series defeat against the Cubs at Chicago last weekend but dropped two of three on the road to the red-hot Pittsburgh Pirates. A visit from the Cardinals came just in time for the Dodgers.

The Dodgers will send right-hander Noah Syndergaard (0-3, 6.58 ERA) to the mound on Sunday.

“I think the fans, being back home, it’s been a good crowd,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “But with all that said, you still have to get good pitching and timely hitting and (Saturday) was all about Clayton. Now we’re able to sweep a series, go for the jugular. I know Noah has some vinegar in him and we expect that. We’re going to need a good one out of him.”

Syndergaard had his worst outing of the season at Pittsburgh on Tuesday when he gave up seven runs on nine hits over four innings. He is 2-3 lifetime against St. Louis with a 4.10 ERA in six starts.

The Cardinals will counter with right-hander Jake Woodford (1-2, 5.47) on Sunday. He has struggled with the long ball, giving up seven home runs in his five starts.

Woodford does not have a decision against the Dodgers in three appearances (one start) with a 2.45 ERA in 7 1/3 innings.

It has been a rough West Coast road trip for the Cardinals, who are 2-7 in games against the Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants and Dodgers. The finale of the 10-game trip is Sunday before a return home for six games.

In an effort to get something out of the offense, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol batted the struggling Nolan Arenado in the No. 3 spot of the order Saturday for the first time this season. Catcher Willson Contreras was given a day in the designated-hitter spot while batting cleanup. The duo went 1-for-8, with Contreras collecting a single in the ninth inning.

“We see Nolan in and out of feeling good about his swing,” Marmol said. “This is a guy that’s super intentional with his work, highly competitive and obsessive in the way he goes about it. Last year, we saw a version of this in May, and then in June he went off, so it’s a matter of time before we see Nolan doing what we know Nolan can do.”

Arenado saw his batting average drop to .239 while his OPS slid to .603. He has two home runs — but none in his past 15 games — and has just one extra-base hit and one RBI in that stretch.

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Say a little prayer for right-handers Alex Cobb and Yu Darvish.

They will be the starting pitchers on Sunday as the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres complete their historic two-game series in Mexico City.

Not only was the Padres’ 16-11 win on Saturday the first major league game played in Mexico’s capital, it was played at the highest altitude of any game in Major League Baseball history — 7,349 feet.

Not only is that more than 2,000 feet higher than Coors Field in Denver, Mexico City’s Estadio Alfredo Harp Helu ballpark has shorter dimensions than the home of the Colorado Rockies.

Coors Field, which has the iconic mile-high stripe running through the upper deck, is 347 feet to the left-field foul pole, 350 feet down the line to right and 415 feet to center.

Estadio Alfredo Harp Helu is 332 feet to both foul poles and 400 feet to center.

Eleven homers were hit Saturday, two shy of the major league record. Nineteen of the game’s 30 hits went for extra bases.

“Every ball that got up in the air had a chance to get out,” Padres manager Bob Melvin said. “We have some guys who can hit the ball out of the ballpark … and when you get a little help …

“Any time it’s a win, we’ll take it. We expected some home runs, maybe not that many.”

“Let’s say not all those would have been homers in normal circumstances,” Giants manager Gabe Kapler said. “But both teams were dealing with the same situation.”

The Padres scored in seven of the eight innings in which they batted. There were only three 1-2-3 innings in the game — all by San Diego pitchers.

“It was a fun time,” said Padres third baseman Manny Machado, who was the lone player with two homers in the game.

So show some concern for Cobb and Darvish in the series finale.

Cobb (1-1, 1.91 ERA) will make his sixth start of the season on Sunday. The 35-year-old has allowed a .278 opponents’ batting average with 26 strikeouts against four walks in 28 1/3 innings.

Cobb is coming off his best performance of the season. On Monday, he threw a complete-game, six-hit shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals in San Francisco.

Over the last two games, Cobb has allowed one run on 13 hits and two walks with 12 strikeouts over 14 innings. The Giants are 3-2 in games started by Cobb, who sports a 1-1 record with a 4.12 ERA in four career appearances (all starts) vs. the Padres.

Over his last two starts, Darvish (1-2, 3.00) has given up two runs on six hits and seven walks with 17 strikeouts in 12 2/3 innings. He is 2-2 with a 6.29 ERA in nine career games (all starts) against the Giants. He was 0-1 vs. them with a 10.38 ERA in two starts last season, giving up 10 runs on 11 hits in 8 2/3 innings.

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The Arizona Diamondbacks have 20 runs and 26 hits in routing the Colorado Rockies on back-to-back nights.

Arizona will look to serve up another strong offensive effort on Sunday when it attempts to finish a sweep of the three-game series between National League West rivals in Denver.

The Diamondbacks won Friday’s opener 9-1 before following with an 11-4 win on Saturday. Arizona had 16 hits in the latter game while winning for the fourth time in the past five contests.

However, the Diamondbacks could be without one of their best players in the finale after standout rookie outfielder Corbin Carroll sustained a left-knee contusion as he ran into the fence in left-center field.

Carroll was termed day-to-day by Arizona manager Torey Lovullo after Saturday’s game. Lovullo said the team “dodged a bullet.”

Carroll was able to walk off the field in his own power; he hasn’t missed a game this season.

“All the tests have come back very, very positive and he’s day-to-day,” Lovullo said. “He was just trying to make a play, and that’s who he is.”

Carroll, 22, has been one of the reasons for Arizona’s strong 16-12 start, the best mark in the NL West. The rookie is batting .309 with four homers, nine RBIs, eight doubles, one triple and 10 steals in 28 games.

Despite Carroll playing in just 32 major league games prior to this season, the team signed him to an eight-year, $111 million extension in March.

Carroll had an RBI single for Arizona’s first run on Saturday. But there were plenty of other Diamondbacks doing damage against the Rockies, who are in last place in the West.

Geraldo Perdomo went 3-for-5 with a homer and four RBIs, Christian Walker went 3-for-5 with a homer and two RBIs, and Emmanuel Rivera went 3-for-5 with a run scored. Jose Herrera and Josh Rojas each had two hits, two runs and two RBIs, and Alek Thomas had two hits and scored twice.

Meanwhile, the Rockies have lost three straight and 14 of their last 17. Colorado also is struggling at Coors Field with seven straight losses and a 3-9 overall home mark.

Rockies left fielder Randal Grichuk made his season debut Saturday and went 2-for-4. He was sidelined due to sports hernia surgery performed in February.

“It’s frustrating to watch the team struggle and not be able to help or do anything or even be here,” Grichuk told reporters before Saturday’s setback. “It’s good to be back and hopefully, I can contribute.”

The Rockies’ struggles could continue Sunday as they send left-hander Austin Gomber (1-4, 9.28 ERA) to the mound.

Gomber has allowed 29 hits — including five homers — and walked 12 in just 21 1/3 innings. Things have gone poorly in his two home starts as he has allowed 14 runs in 6 2/3 innings for a 18.90 ERA.

However, he pitched well in his most recent outing when he defeated the host Cleveland Guardians on Monday. He allowed three hits and three walks and struck out three in five scoreless innings as he earned his first win of the season.

Gomber is 2-0 with a 5.27 ERA in eight career appearances (four starts) against Arizona.

Arizona will start right-hander Ryne Nelson (1-1, 5-33), who has allowed nine runs in his past two outings after giving up seven in his first three.

Nelson, 25, lost to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday when he gave up four runs and 11 hits in five innings. He struck out three and walked none.

This will be Nelson’s first career start against Colorado.

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The Texas Rangers have survived a relative lack of offense against the New York Yankees because of the way their pitchers have performed.

The Rangers will seek their third straight win Sunday when they host the Yankees in the finale of a four-game series in Arlington, Texas.

Texas has nine runs in this series but earned wins in the past two games after opening the series with a 4-2 loss on Thursday. After evening the set with a 5-2 win Friday, the Rangers needed just 2 hours, 6 minutes to finish off a 2-0 win on Saturday.

The Rangers earned their second straight win following a season-high four-game losing streak thanks to Nathan Eovaldi and former Yankee prospect Ezequiel Duran. Eovaldi retired the final 15 hitters and tossed a 113-pitch three-hitter while Duran hit a two-run homer.

“I think it’s just being able to use all of my pitches at all times,” Eovaldi said. “I was able to get some outs with my slider tonight, which I usually never … I usually hang that pitch, and they end up hitting it.”

New York hopes to avoid its second three-game losing streak of the season. Its other three-game skid occurred last week when it dropped the series finale at home to the Toronto Blue Jays and lost the first two games to the Minnesota Twins.

Those losses are part of a stretch of five losses in the last seven games. The Yankees mustered singles by Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Anthony Rizzo and Willie Calhoun on Saturday and were blanked for the first time this season.

The Yankees were without Aaron Judge for the second straight game due to a hip strain. He will miss the series finale. Judge exited in the fourth inning Thursday, and the team will wait until returning home Monday before deciding if the slugger needs a stint on the injured list.

“We’re going to wait to see (Saturday and Sunday) and see how we’re doing, to see if this is something we want to take a 10-day (IL stint), or if he is ready to play by Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday,” New York manager Aaron Boone said. “It will be something that we just kind of pay attention to here.”

Texas left-hander Martin Perez (3-1, 2.60 ERA) will get the call Sunday. He has allowed three earned runs or less in each of his first five starts, including Tuesday in Cincinnati in which he allowed an unearned run in 6 1/3 innings before the Rangers squandered a six-run lead.

In 14 career appearances (11 starts) against the Yankees, Perez is 2-5 with a 5.80 ERA. He last pitched against New York on Oct. 3 when he allowed one run on five hits in six innings of a 3-1 home loss.

New York will counter on Sunday with left-hander Nestor Cortes (3-1, 3.49), who has allowed three earned runs or less in his past 17 starts. Cortes hopes to rebound from his first loss after allowing four runs (three earned) and five hits in five innings in a 6-2 defeat at Minnesota on Tuesday.

Cortes does not own a decision and has a 5.40 ERA in five career appearances (two starts) against Texas. He last faced the Rangers in New York on May 9 when he came within five outs of a no-hitter and struck out 11 in 7 1/3 innings.

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The major-league-leading Tampa Bay Rays have won nine of their past 11 games, and on Saturday, they shattered an opponent’s no-hit bid by scoring 10 runs in the seventh inning.

As the Rays try to keep the host Chicago White Sox sinking and secure a four-game sweep on Sunday afternoon, Tampa Bay players insist a mastery of the basics is what’s boosting them.

“We’re preparing right,” outfielder Randy Arozarena said through an interpreter. “Pitching, hitting, defense. Everything we’re doing, we’re working hard, and we’re going to continue to work hard.”

Tampa Bay had one baserunner through the first six innings Saturday. By the time the game was over, they had 12 runs on 11 hits, including five home runs, with two coming off the bat of Arozarena.

The Rays have gone deep in each of their 12 road games this season, and on Sunday they will face a pitcher who has struggled by surrendering home runs lately. After allowing no homers in his first three starts, Chicago right-hander Mike Clevinger (2-2, 4.81 ERA) has yielded three homers in his past two.

Chicago has lost 10 games in a row. In the club’s latest defeat, manager Pedro Grifol benched center fielder Luis Robert Jr. for a “mental lapse” after he didn’t run out a first-inning groundout. Robert said he has felt hamstring tightness since Friday’s loss to the Rays but elected not to inform the coaching staff.

“I think my mistake was that I didn’t tell anybody,” Robert said. “I didn’t tell the manager because I knew if I said something to him, he probably wouldn’t let me play.”

Elvis Andrus had a two-run single and Eloy Jimenez added an RBI double to give the White Sox a 3-0 lead for right-hander Lance Lynn, who lost his no-hit bid when Wander Franco opened the Rays’ seventh with a home run.

On Sunday, Rays right-hander Drew Rasmussen (3-2, 3.33) will get the call for the visitors as he eyes a rebound from Tuesday’s 5-0 home loss to Houston.

Rasmussen surrendered five runs in 4 2/3 innings while allowing nine hits. He allowed six hits in a seven-batter span in the fifth inning, including four doubles.

“You miss over the big part of the plate in leverage counts, and damage tends to get done,” Rasmussen said. “They found some holes, and they were able to exploit some bad pitches, and that’s just how this game works. But it is one of those things where we just continued to attack, and unfortunately, it didn’t work out.”

The loss marked the first time the Rays were blanked this season. While they were shut out again the following night, Tampa Bay has responded since coming to Chicago, winning the first three games of the series by a combined score of 29-10.

In two career starts against the White Sox, Rasmussen is 0-1 with a 2.25 ERA and one walk and four strikeouts in 12 innings.

Clevinger has had success against Tampa Bay in limited action, going 1-0 with a 0.00 in two appearances, including one start, covering 7 1/3 innings.

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The Kansas City Royals will seek back-to-back wins for the first time since April 7 and 8 — and just the second time all season — when they finish a four-game road series on Sunday in Minneapolis against the Minnesota Twins.

The Royals scored single runs in the eighth and ninth innings on Saturday to gain a 3-2 win, snapping a three-game skid that included the first two games of this weekend’s divisional series against the Twins.

“It felt really, really good,” Royals relief pitcher Scott Barlow told Bally Sports Kansas City following his team’s win on Saturday.

Barlow recorded his fourth save of the season and has saves in each of Kansas City past three wins.

Of the seven victories the Royals have this season, Saturday’s was the third by one run. The importance of every bit of offense Kansas City could muster in another such close contest underscored the importance of Edward Olivares going 2-for-3, including a double and scoring twice.

Olivares rides an eight-game hitting streak into Sunday’s contest, including three multiple-hit outings in the last four games. He also has delivered extra-base hits in all three of those multiple-hit outings.

To keep that going, Olivares will have to figure out one of the most dominant starting pitchers in the majors through the first month of the season.

Right-hander Sonny Gray (3-0, 0.62 ERA) will take the mound for the Twins, looking to continue an outstanding start to the season. He has allowed just two earned runs in five starts and surrendered only three hits in five scoreless innings his last time facing the Royals on April 1.

That win made Gray 8-2 in his 11 career starts vs. Kansas City. He has a 1.54 ERA and 60 strikeouts against them.

Gray improved to 3-0 in his last start, throwing seven innings Monday against the Yankees. He struck out eight and did not allow a run in a 6-1 Minnesota victory.

Brady Singer (2-2, 6.67) will start Sunday’s series finale for Kansas City. The right-hander pitched six innings and gave up just one run in his last start, Tuesday at Arizona. Singer allowed one earned run in each of his two wins on the season, the first coming April 3 against Toronto.

Singer is just 2-5 in nine career starts against Minnesota but won the most recent one when he went 5 2/3 innings with eight strikeouts last May 28.

Minnesota will look to get back on a roll at Singer’s expense. Prior to Saturday’s loss, the Twins had won five of their last six games. That hinges in part on converting hits — of which the Twins had 10 on Saturday — into runs.

“Over the last week, we have had good at-bats, just like we did today, except two or three times during the game, someone whacks one (into an out) with some guys on base,” Minnesota manager Rocco Baldelli said in his post-game press conference.

Crucial to Minnesota’s offensive production since April 21 has been Jorge Polanco, who has hit safely in every game since joining the Twins’ lineup. He extended his hitting streak to eight outings on Saturday with a 2-for-5 performance but was tagged out on a deep, first-inning knock he believed to be a home run.

–Field Level Media