Wander Franco drove in three runs as part of a 10-run seventh inning that also featured back-to-back homers from Randy Arozarena and Josh Lowe as the visiting Tampa Bay Rays cruised to a 12-3 win against the skidding Chicago White Sox on Saturday night.

Chicago entered the top of the seventh with a 3-0 lead and a no-hit bid for right-hander Lance Lynn, but left the inning with a deficit it couldn’t overcome on the way to a 10th straight defeat. The Rays won for the ninth time in 11 games while improving to 6-0 against the White Sox this season.

Franco opened the seventh with an opposite-field home run to left, spoiling Lynn’s pursuit of a no-hitter while giving the Rays a homer in each of their 12 road games to start the season. Franco also had a two-run single during the surge.

To that point, Lynn had retired 17 consecutive Rays after walking Franco with one out in the first inning. Tampa Bay stayed aggressive against Lynn and two relievers, collecting nine hits and two walks in the seventh while sending 14 men to the plate.

Lowe and Isaac Paredes joined Franco with two hits in the inning.

Elvis Andrus provided the White Sox with an early lead, grounding a two-run single to center field with one out in the second.

Chicago capitalized on wildness from Rays opener Calvin Faucher, who walked Eloy Jimenez and Jake Burger around a wild pitch to start the inning. Faucher’s throwing error on a Yasmani Grandal grounder loaded the bases.

Jimenez delivered an RBI double against Yonny Chirinos in the sixth, the lone blemish against a Rays bullpen that saw four relievers combine for 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball.

Chirinos (1-0) led the charge, scattering one run and three hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out three and didn’t issue a walk.

Lynn (0-4) spaced four runs and three hits in 6 1/3 innings with two walks and 10 strikeouts. Aaron Bummer allowed three runs and two hits in one-third of an inning, and Jimmy Lambert followed by allowing three runs and four hits in one-third of an inning.

Francisco Mejia homered for the Rays in the eighth, while Arozarena added a second round-tripper in the ninth.

White Sox center fielder Luis Robert was removed in the second inning as a managerial decision. Robert grounded out in his first-inning at-bat and appeared to run gingerly out of the box.

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Corbin Burnes settled in after an early jam to pitch six effective innings and the Milwaukee Brewers capitalized on walks and an error for a 7-5 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Angels on Saturday.

The Brewers, who were outhit 11-5, tallied three unearned runs and also scored two runs on bases-loaded walks to build a 7-1 lead.

Mike Trout hit a pair of two-run homers to pull the Angels within 7-5. He homered in the eighth off Elvis Peguero and hit his seventh in the ninth off Bryse Wilson. Trout also had a sacrifice fly for five RBIs.

Burnes (3-1) allowed one run on five hits, striking out five and walking one. Devin Williams got the final out for his fifth save.

Brewers manager Craig Counsell was ejected in the sixth after arguing a clock violation strike assessed against Willy Adames, and Adames was tossed after being called out on strikes to end the inning.

Reid Detmers struck out five of the first six hitters before the Brewers broke through for three runs in the third. Victor Caratini walked and Owen Miller doubled. Caratini scored on Joey Wiemer’s groundout.

Miller advanced on a groundout and scored on Adames’ single that popped out of Trout’s glove on a diving attempt in center. Adames advanced on a passed ball and William Contreras drove in the unearned run with a double to left-center.

The Angels made it a 3-1 deficit in the fifth on singles by Gio Urshela and Chad Wallach and Trout’s sacrifice fly.

Milwaukee answered with four runs in the bottom half. The Brewers loaded the bases with no outs on a walk, Wiemer’s single and an error. Contreras drew a one-out walk to make it 4-1, chasing Detmers.

Pinch hitter Jesse Winker greeted reliever Andrew Wantz with a two-run single. Caratini drew another bases-loaded walk with two outs for a 7-1 lead.

Detmers (0-2) allowed seven runs (four earned) on four hits with three walks in 4 1/3 innings.

Burnes worked out of a first-inning jam after the first two hitters singled. Shohei Ohtani bounced into a double play and, after Anthony Rendon walked, Burnes retired Hunter Renfroe on a foul pop behind the plate.

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Nathan Eovaldi fired a three-hitter and the host Texas Rangers recorded a 2-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Saturday night in Arlington, Texas.

Texas won its second straight following a season-high four-game losing streak thanks to Eovaldi and a two-run homer by former Yankee minor leaguer Ezequiel Duran off New York starter Jhony Brito

Eovaldi (3-2), who pitched two seasons with the Yankees, allowed a single in the third to Isiah Kiner-Falefa along with infield base hits to Anthony Rizzo and Willie Calhoun in the fourth and fifth. Calhoun’s hit was originally scored an error but later changed to a hit.

Eovaldi faced two above the minimum, struck out eight, walked none and threw a season-high 113 pitches. Eovaldi retired the final 15 hitters and tossed his third career complete game but first career nine-inning complete shutout.

The right-hander entered the ninth at 99 pitches and ended the game at two hours, six minutes when Rizzo flew out to left field.

The Yankees played a second straight game without slugger Aaron Judge. Manager Aaron Boone said Judge has a mild hip strain and will determine by Monday if the slugger will land on the injured list after exiting Thursday’s game with discomfort.

New York also lost newcomer Jake Bauers to a right knee contusion after the first inning. Bauers, promoted from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes Barre, crashed into the left-field fence at full speed after sliding to make a running catch on Adolis Garcia for the final out, walked off the field with a slight limp and was replaced in left field by Aaron Hicks.

The Yankees lost for the sixth time in nine games and were blanked for the first time this season.

Brito (2-3) allowed two runs on four hits in five innings. The rookie right-hander struck out five and walked one.

The Rangers had second and third with no outs in the third but did not score when Hicks made a leaping catch on Nathaniel Lowe after cutting in front of center fielder Kiner-Falefa.

Texas went ahead in the fifth when Robbie Grossman singled and Duran followed by blasting a 1-0 changeup into the second deck in left. The Rangers nearly expanded the lead by putting two runners on the sixth before Ron Marinaccio ended the threat.

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Manny Machado’s second home run of the game was a go-ahead, two-run shot in the seventh and Nelson Cruz capped the scoring with a two-run single on his fifth hit — tying a career high — Saturday as the San Diego Padres defeated the San Francisco Giants in a 16-11 slugfest in the first Major League game played in Mexico City.

Sixteen of the game’s 27 runs scored on 11 homers in a game played at the highest elevation (7,349 feet) in Major League history at Alfredo Harp Helu Stadium.

Each team had two sets of back-to-back homers. The Padres finished with six homers to the Giants’ five. San Diego also out-hit the Giants 17-13, with San Diego also drawing 10 of the 15 walks issued in the game.

But the most notable stat of the game might have been turned in by Padres reliever Nick Martinez, who retired all six hitters he faced — striking out five, including whiffing the side in the ninth to close out the game — to hand left-hander Tom Cosgrove a win in his big league debut. Cosgrove retired the only hitter he faced to end the seventh.

The Giants were leading 11-10 in the bottom of the seventh when Fernando Tatis Jr. doubled leading off against Tyler Rogers (0-1). Machado followed with an opposite-field homer.

Trent Grisham hit a two-run double to increase the Padres’ lead to 14-11 in the eighth. Cruz then hit his two-run single to cap his 5-for-6 game with four RBIs. Machado had three hits with three RBIs and four runs, while Thairo Estrada had four hits and three RBIs for the Giants.

Mitch Haniger’s first homer of the season, a 456-foot, three-run shot ignited a six-run Giants fourth that erased a 5-2 Padres lead. Haniger’s homer was the third off Padres starter Joe Musgrove, who gave up back-to-back shots to Brandon Crawford and LaMonte Wade Jr. in the third. Musgrove was tagged for seven runs on six hits and a walk with three strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings.

Juan Soto and Xander Bogaerts hit back-to-back homers in the bottom of the fourth off Giants reliever Jakob Junis. An inning later Tatis (two-run shot) and Machado went back-to-back off the right-handed Junis as the Padres scored in a fifth straight inning to regain the lead at 10-8.

But the Giants jumped back on top 11-10 when Blake Sabol (two-run home run) and David Villar hit consecutive blasts off Padres reliever Steven Wilson in the top of the seventh.

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Jack Suwinski hit his first career grand slam and Vince Velasquez pitched six scoreless innings as the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates swept a doubleheader from the Washington Nationals with a 16-1 win in the nightcap on Saturday.

Suwinski went 3-for-6 with a run-scoring double to finish with a career-high five RBIs, while Carlos Santana went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two runs for the Pirates.

Miguel Andjuar hit a three-run homer, while Bryan Reynolds, Jason Delay and Ke’Bryan Hayes each had two hits and three runs for the Pirates.

Drew Maggi went 2-for-2 as a pinch hitter and collected his first career hit and RBI with a seventh-inning single for the Pirates.

Velasquez (4-2) allowed just five hits with five strikeouts and no walks in six innings for Pittsburgh, which won for the 11th time in its past 12 games to improve to a National League-best 20-8. The Pirates won the first game 6-3 on Saturday.

Leading 4-0 in the second game, the Pirates put it away with a four-run fourth inning.

After the Pirates loaded the bases with one out, Reynolds’ single to right scored Tucupita Marcano, with Delay crossing the plate on Dominic Smith’s fielding error to make it 6-0. Andrew McCutchen’s sacrifice fly scored Hayes, and Santana’s infield single that scored Reynolds pushed the advantage to 8-0.

Suwinski’s grand slam off Hobie Harris in the sixth made it 12-0.

Maggi’s pinch-hit single made it 13-0 in the seventh before Andujar’s three-run shot pushed it to 16-0.

Nationals starter Chad Kuhl (0-2) allowed eight runs on seven hits with four strikeouts and four walks in just 3 2/3 innings.

The Pirates took a 1-0 lead in their first at-bat in the nightcap.

After Hayes led off with a double to right and took third on McCutchen’s flyout to right, he crossed the plate on Santana’s sacrifice fly to center.

Pittsburgh made it 2-0 in its next at-bat. Delay’s sacrifice fly to center scored Connor Joe, who had drawn a leadoff walk and advanced to second on Rodolfo Castro’s single before taking third on Marcano’s sacrifice bunt.

The Pirates pushed their lead to 4-0 in the third, when Santana and Suwinski hit consecutive run-scoring doubles off Kuhl.

Smith went 2-for-4 with a solo homer in the ninth, while Joey Meneses also added two hits for the Nationals.

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Zack Wheeler logged his first scoreless outing of the season, and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies recorded eight extra-base hits in their 6-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday.

Wheeler (3-1) allowed three hits and one walk while recording seven strikeouts over six innings. He surrendered one extra-base hit, a leadoff double to Yordan Alvarez in the fourth inning, and allowed just one additional baserunner to reach scoring position when Corey Julks followed his two-out single in the second with a steal of second base.

Wheeler retired the side in order only once, doing so in the third. However, two of the three hits he allowed came with two outs and the bases empty, and Wheeler did not surrender more than one baserunner in any frame.

After walking Alvarez with one out in the sixth, Wheeler responded with strikeouts of Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker to cap his stellar outing.

Offensively, the Phillies taxed Astros right-hander Cristian Javier (2-1), who twirled six hitless innings in Philadelphia as part of a combined no-hitter in Game 4 of the 2022 World Series.

Of the seven hits the Phillies recorded against Javier, six went for extra bases, including five doubles. Brandon Marsh and Alex Bohm doubled off Javier in the fourth, but not until Nick Castellanos broke a scoreless tie with a line-drive homer to left field with one out in the frame.

Castellanos’ fourth home run of the season carried 416 feet. Marsh doubled one batter later, advanced to third base on a Javier wild pitch and scored when J.T. Realmuto sent a sacrifice fly to right field.

Shortly after Realmuto doubled with one out in the sixth off Javier, Phillies first baseman Kody Clemens greeted Astros reliever Phil Maton with a two-run home run to right, extending the lead to 4-0. Maton had not allowed a run in his prior 10 appearances this season.

Javier allowed three runs on seven hits and one walk with six strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings.

Bohm and Jake Cave each notched two doubles for Philadelphia. Clemens’ homer was his second of the season.

Jeremy Pena provided Houston’s lone run with a solo homer in the eighth.

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Rookie Grayson Rodriguez pitched five shutout innings for his first career victory and the Baltimore Orioles gained a split of Saturday’s doubleheader by defeating the host Detroit Tigers 6-4 in the second game.

Rodriguez, a 23-year-old right-hander who is one of the top pitching prospects in the game, made four previous starts without a decision this year. He allowed two hits and struck out nine with one walk.

Ryan McKenna homered and drove in three runs as the Orioles have won 10 of their last 12 games.

The Tigers won the opener of the twin bill, never trailing in a 7-4 result. The doubleheader was needed after Friday’s postponement.

Trailing 6-0, Detroit scored four runs in the sixth before the Orioles recorded an out, capped by pinch hitter Tyler Nevin’s three-run home run against his former team. That long ball came off Mike Baumann, who replaced Keegan Akin. Akin didn’t retire any of the three batters he faced.

The Tigers had only one base runner across the final three innings, coming on Matt Vierling’s leadoff single in the seventh. Baltimore relievers retired the final nine batters, with Felix Bautista recording his seventh save by working a perfect ninth.

Detroit was limited to five hits in the game after producing 16 hits in the game earlier in the day. There were seven Baltimore pitchers used in the second game.

Matthew Boyd (1-2) was the losing pitcher, giving up six runs and eight hits in 5 2/3 innings.

McKenna, Joey Ortiz and Austin Hays had run-scoring singles in Baltimore’s second inning. Neither McKenna nor Ortiz had a hit in the first game of the day, both going 0-for-2.

Boyd’s wild pitch turned the second inning into a four-run burst for the Orioles. McKenna added a two-run blast for his first homer of the season in the sixth.

Adley Rutschman and Hays both joined McKenna with two hits.

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Alex Verdugo hit a walk-off single through the left side as the Boston Red Sox walked off with an 8-7, 10-inning win over the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Saturday.

Cleveland had erased a 6-1 deficit after six innings, scoring four times in the seventh, tying the game against Boston closer Kenley Jansen in the ninth, and jumping ahead on Mike Zunino’s two-out single in the 10th.

Christian Arroyo and Connor Wong both went 3-for-4 for the Red Sox, who totaled a season-high 16 hits. Verdugo, Rafael Devers and Ramiel Tapia all had two hits apiece.

Arroyo scored twice, including the game-winner after hitting a leadoff single and advancing on Wong’s sacrifice and a passed ball during the extra frame.

Josh Naylor, Steven Kwan and Jose Ramirez all had three hits for Cleveland. Emmanuel Clase (1-2) took the loss after blowing his second save of the season.

Naylor’s three-run double was the key hit of Cleveland’s seventh, while Ramirez lined a two-on, one-out single in the ninth against Jansen, who had converted his previous 14 regular-season save opportunities, including six to start his Boston tenure.

Cleveland reliever Eli Morgan stranded the bases loaded in the ninth to force extras.

Brayan Bello could not win despite striking out six over five innings of one-run ball for the Red Sox. The victory went to Brennan Bernardino (1-0) after fanning two in the 10th.

Verdugo ripped the first pitch of the opening frame for a double to left. Masataka Yoshida walked to put two runners aboard for Devers, who crushed a three-run homer inside Pesky’s Pole in right to snap an 0-for-12 skid.

The Guardians got a run back when Josh Bell led off the second with a homer to deep center, but Bello bounced back to retire the next six.

Boston’s lead ballooned to 5-1 after four consecutive one-out hits ended Guardians starter Zach Plesac’s outing. Enmanuel Valdez’s wall-ball double and Arroyo’s single up the middle brought home runs.

Plesac was charged with five runs on eight hits in 3 1/3 innings.

The Red Sox added another run in unusual fashion in the sixth. Wong singled before executing the front end of a double steal that allowed Arroyo to cross the plate.

Cleveland’s four-run seventh began with Gimenez knocking a solo shot off the right-field pole.

Richard Bleier got two outs before walking Ramirez to load the bases, and John Schreiber allowed all three inherited runners to score on Naylor’s line double that kicked off the side wall and into right.

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Edward Cabrera struck out 12 batters in five innings, and the host Miami Marlins — who scored five runs in the first inning — held on for a 7-6 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday afternoon.

The Marlins, who got a scoreless ninth inning and a save from Tanner Scott, are 9-0 this season in one-run games.

Jesus Sanchez went 2-for-4 with a game-high three RBIs for the Marlins. Miami also got three hits each from Luis Arraez and Jazz Chisholm Jr. Arraez leads the majors with a .442 batting average.

Patrick Wisdom led Chicago with a two-run homer in the second inning, and Cody Bellinger drilled a solo shot in the sixth. It was Wisdom’s team-high 10th dinger of the season.

Cabrera (2-2), who threw a career-high 109 pitches, allowing three hits, five walks and two runs. He walked the first three batters in the third, but he escaped with no runs allowed.

Cubs rookie Caleb Kilian, making his 2023 MLB debut, took the loss. He lasted 3 1/3 innings, allowing 10 hits, two walks and seven runs. The Cubs are 0-4 when Kilian pitches, dating to last year.

Miami sent 11 batters to the plate in the first, and Kilian needed 40 pitches to complete the inning.

The biggest hit of the inning was Sanchez’s two-run, two-out, ground-rule double to left. The Marlins then scored on a wild pitch and closed the inning with Jacob Stallings’ RBI single and Chisholm’s run-scoring hit by pitch.

Chicago got on the board in the second as Trey Mancini singled and Wisdom blasted his two-out, two-run homer to left. Wisdom’s homer traveled 418 feet.

The Marlins extended their lead to 6-2 in the third as Garrett Hampson stroked a two-out double and scored on Chisholm’s single.

Miami made it 7-2 in the fourth on three singles, in order by Arraez, Yuli Gurriel and Sanchez (RBI).

Chicago cut its deficit to 7-4 in the sixth. Bellinger led off by smacking a 0-1 slider 411 feet to right. The Cubs then loaded the bases by stringing together three straight singles — by Mancini, Eric Hosmer and Wisdom. Nico Hoerner hit a sacrifice fly, but Hosmer was doubled up between second and third to end the threat.

The Cubs scored two more runs in the eighth as Marlins reliever Steven Okert walked the bases loaded with one out before being removed. The Cubs cashed in with Yan Gomes’ run-scoring infield single and Hoerner hit an RBI groundout.

Marlins reliever Matt Barnes got a huge out as Dansby Swanson hit a pop-up to first, and Scott worked around a single in the ninth for his second save of the year.

–Field Level Media