Edmundo Sosa hit the go-ahead single in the eighth inning and the host Philadelphia Phillies rallied for a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Friday.

Kyle Schwarber had two hits, including a solo home run, and Jake Cave added an RBI single for the Phillies.

Philadelphia leveled the four-game series at one victory apiece by winning for the fourth time in six games. Colorado had snapped an eight-game losing streak with a 5-0 win over the Phillies on Thursday.

Phillies starter Aaron Nola tossed a season-high seven innings and allowed four hits and three runs with three strikeouts and three walks.

Seranthony Dominguez (1-1) earned the win in relief, and Jose Alvarado tossed a 1-2-3 ninth for his third save in four chances. Sosa made a stellar catch for the second out on C.J. Cron’s sharp line drive to third.

Ryan McMahon hit a three-run home run for the Rockies, who managed only four hits.

Rockies starter Noah Davis gave up six hits and two runs, one earned, with five strikeouts and no walks in 4 2/3 innings.

Brad Hand (0-1), who surrendered the single to Sosa, took the loss.

J.T. Realmuto doubled off Hand to open the bottom of the eighth. Realmuto stole third and scored on Sosa’s RBI single to left for a 4-3 lead. Colorado left fielder Jurickson Profar nearly caught the ball and managed to trap it.

Sosa was playing for the first time since April 15, having recovered from a back ailment.

The Rockies went ahead 3-0 in the first inning when McMahon blasted a three-run home run to center field, his fourth long ball of the year.

Rockies manager Bud Black was ejected by plate umpire Alex Tosi in the fourth after Realmuto appeared to be hit by a pitch to load the bases. The Rockies had already used their challenge and it was unclear whether Realmuto was grazed on the elbow.

In the bottom of the fourth, the Phillies closed within 3-2 when Davis was called for a balk to force in a run and Cave added an RBI infield single.

Nola retired the side in order on just 10 pitches in the seventh before exiting.

Schwarber launched a solo homer to right off Dinelson Lamet in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game at 3.

–Field Level Media

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-run homer in the first inning Friday night and the visiting Toronto Blue Jays cruised to a 6-1 victory over the New York Yankees.

Guerrero hit his 11th career homer in his 32nd game at Yankee Stadium. He homered after saying before the game how much he enjoys hitting in Yankee Stadium but also reiterating how he will never play for the Yankees.

Brandon Belt also hit a two-run shot for the Blue Jays, who are 11-5 in their past 16 games. Belt added a two-run double in the eighth inning, three batters after Guerrero reached on an infield hit.

Guerrero also reached when he was plunked on the elbow by Greg Weissert in the ninth. He looked back at Weissert and exchanged words with New York first baseman Anthony Rizzo. The umpires ended it before benches could clear.

Oswaldo Cabrera homered for the Yankees, who dropped their fifth straight series opener.

Toronto’s Yusei Kikuchi (3-0) allowed one run on four hits in six innings. He got two of his three strikeouts on New York slugger Aaron Judge, walked two and threw 90 pitches.

New York’s Domingo German (1-2) was not checked for any sticky substances like on April 15 when he was checked three times while retiring the first 16 hitters. German allowed four runs on five hits in six innings while striking out six and walking two.

George Springer opened the game by doubling on German’s first pitch. After Bo Bichette popped out, Guerrero hit an 0-1 curveball into the Toronto bullpen in left field for his fourth homer of the season.

Cabrera made it 2-1 by lining an 0-1 fastball down the right field line for his first homer in the third, but Kikuchi retired Anthony Volpe with two on to end the inning and allowed two baserunners the rest of the way.

German retired 12 straight until Matt Chapman walked with one out in the sixth. After German retired Daulton Varsho, Belt hit his first homer since joining Toronto as a free agent when he slugged a first-pitch fastball into New York’s bullpen in center field.

After Toronto’s Erik Swanson pitched a 1-2-3 seventh, Belt lined a double that popped out of Cabrera’s glove on the warning track in right to easily score two runs.

–Field Level Media

Brandon Lowe hit a two-run walk-off home run in the ninth inning to lift the Tampa Bay Rays to an 8-7 win against the visiting Chicago White Sox in the opener of their three-game series on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Reynaldo Lopez (0-2) took a two-run lead into the ninth but gave up a leadoff home run to Christian Bethancourt and a two-run blast to Lowe without recording an out.

Harold Ramirez had two hits, including a two-run homer, and scored two runs and Josh Lowe had two hits and two RBIs for the Rays, who are 11-0 at home.

Rays starter Calvin Faucher allowed three runs and five hits in two innings. He struck out three and didn’t walk a batter.

Kevin Kelly (2-0) threw two innings of scoreless relief to earn the win.

Andrew Benintendi had two hits and an RBI, Yasmani Grandal had two hits and two runs and Eloy Jimenez homered for Chicago.

White Sox starter Michael Kopech allowed five runs and six hits in five innings. He struck out nine and walked four before departing with a 7-5 lead.

Josh Lowe lined a two-run double into the right field corner in the first inning for a 2-0 lead. Ramirez hit the next pitch over the center field fence to make it 4-0.

It marked the 20th straight game the Rays have homered, tying the 2019 Seattle Mariners for the longest streak in major league history.

The White Sox answered with three runs in the second inning on a run-scoring infield single by Oscar Colas and RBI singles by Elvis Andrus and Benintendi to cut the lead to 4-3.

The White Sox scored three more runs in the third inning without putting a ball in play.

Jalen Beeks replaced Faucher and walked five batters to force in two runs and give Chicago a 5-4 lead.

Cooper Criswell replaced Beeks and threw a wild pitch to yield another run and make it 6-4.

Tampa Bay’s six total walks in the inning set a team record, and were also the most in an inning for the White Sox since at least 1969.

The White Sox sent 10 straight batters to the plate without putting a ball in play before Jimenez homered with one out in the fourth to extend the lead to 7-4.

Yandy Diaz delivered a two-out RBI single in the fourth to trim the lead to 7-5.

–Field Level Media

Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell may miss the rest of the season after an MRI revealed significant labral damage to his left shoulder.

The injury will likely require surgery, but Mitchell will seek a second opinion Monday. If the second opinion suggests the same course of action of surgery, he will have the procedure Tuesday.

On Tuesday night in Seattle, the 24-year-old Mitchell felt his shoulder separate on a slide into third base.

“Obviously, it’s a freak accident,” Mitchell said. “There’s nothing I could’ve done to change what happened. If I had to redo that play 100 times, I would do it the exact same way. The amount of times I’ve had to dive into a bag is more times than I can count in my career, so I wouldn’t change what I did.

“It’s unfortunate it happened that way, but I wouldn’t have changed what I did.”

Mitchell remained in the game and made a throw to home plate the following half-inning that aggravated the injury.

Mitchell, 24, was off to a strong start in his first full season, hitting .259/.306/.466 through 16 games. Making his major league debut in 2022 with the Brewers, he has hit .286 with five homers and 15 RBIs in 44 games (33 starts).

–Field Level Media

Mark Mathias drove in two runs Friday as the Pittsburgh Pirates won their fifth game in a row, 4-2, over the visiting Cincinnati Reds.

Carlos Santana added an RBI double, and Connor Joe was 3-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored for the Pirates.

Pittsburgh starter Mitch Keller (2-0) allowed two runs and four hits in six innings, with five strikeouts and a walk. It was the team’s 11th straight quality start.

David Bednar pitched the ninth for his seventh save.

Nick Senzel had an RBI single for the Reds, who have lost four in a row and five of six.

Cincinnati starter Graham Ashcraft gave up two runs and three hits in five innings, with four strikeouts and three walks.

Derek Law (0-3) yielded an unearned run and two hits in the sixth.

Pittsburgh took a 2-0 lead in the second. Joe singled to left with one out. Jack Suwinski walked. With Mathias at the plate, an Ashcraft balk moved the runners to second and third. Mathias then singled to center to drive in Joe and Suwinski.

In the fifth, Tyler Stephenson got Cincinnati’s first hit, a leadoff single to right. After Wil Myers struck out, Jason Vosler walked. Senzel’s base hit to right drove in Stephenson and moved Vosler to third. Vosler scored on Jose Barrero’s sacrifice fly to center to tie it 2-2.

The Pirates regained the lead in the sixth. Against Law, Joe singled to right and went to second on a wild pitch. He moved to third on Suwinski’s groundout. Mathias reached on Barrero’s fielding error at shortstop, with Joe scoring to make it 3-2. Mathias stole second. Rodolfo Castro walked. What looked like a base hit by Austin Hedges turned into a fielder’s choice as left fielder TJ Friedl threw out Mathias at home.

In the seventh against Reds reliever Ian Gibaut with two outs, Andrew McCutchen walked. He came around to score on Santana’s double to center to give the Pirates a 4-2 lead.

–Field Level Media

New York Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson will be spending more time on the injured list after suffering a Grade 1 hamstring strain during his rehabilitation assignment in the minor leagues.

Donaldson will be out a couple more weeks, Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters Friday.

“He’s doing pretty well,” Boone said. “He’s getting around well, but there’s something there.”

Donaldson last played for the Yankees on April 5 when he had a right hamstring strain and was placed on the 10-day IL on April 8.

He was on rehab assignment on Tuesday with Double-A Somerset but left a game after five innings and three at-bats (one hit) after experiencing tightness.

He underwent an MRI upon returning to the Yankees and a “Grade 1-plus strain” was revealed, Boone said.

“Everything was progressing really nice,” Donaldson said Wednesday. “Obviously, I’m bummed out that I felt like it was gonna be any day now. But just kind of take it day by day and hopefully, this gets ironed out.”

Donaldson, 37, is batting .125 (2-for-16) with one home run and one RBI through five games this season. The three-time All-Star and 2015 American League MVP is a career .264 hitter with 267 homers and 791 RBIs over 13 seasons with six teams.

–Field Level Media

The Cleveland Guardians’ home game Friday night against the Miami Marlins was postponed about 40 minutes before the scheduled first pitch due to inclement weather.

The Guardians and Marlins instead will play a traditional doubleheader on Saturday starting at 3:10 p.m. ET.

Thunderstorms in the Cleveland area Friday night caused the first game of a three-game interleague series to be wiped out; there was also a 100 percent chance of rain forecast for Saturday.

Starting pitching changes were not immediately known. Right-hander Zach Plesac (1-0, 6.92 ERA) was set to take the bump for Cleveland opposite Miami lefty Braxton Garrett (0-0, 3.38).

Saturday’s original game was slated to be a duel between former Cy Young Award winners — Shane Bieber (1-0, 2.88) for the Guardians and Sandy Alcantara (1-2, 5.47) for the Marlins.

–Field Level Media

Drew Smyly took a perfect game into the eighth, allowed one hit and struck out 10 over 7 2/3 innings while Nico Hoerner and Patrick Wisdom clubbed three-run homers during a seven-run fifth as the Chicago Cubs routed the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 13-0 on Friday.

Smyly (2-1), who also beat the Dodgers on Sunday in Los Angeles, fanned six straight at one point. The only baserunner he allowed in 24 batters faced came when David Peralta reached on a broken-bat infield single, which barely made it halfway down the third-base line, to open the eighth.

That was the only hit for the Dodgers, who managed three baserunners all day.

Hoerner had four hits with four RBIs, and Trey Mancini homered for one of his three hits and three RBIs for Chicago.

Ex-Dodger Cody Bellinger also went deep for the Cubs, who, according to Marquee Sports Network, tied a franchise record by scoring at least 10 runs in six of their first 19 games. After managing six hits during Thursday’s 6-2 loss to the Dodgers, Chicago recorded 17 to win for the 11th time in 15 games.

Los Angeles starter Julio Urias (3-2) allowed five runs, seven hits (including two homers) and two walks in 3 1/3 innings. Seven of Urias’ 10 earned runs allowed this season have come against Chicago.

The Cubs opened the scoring in the first on Seiya Suzuki’s two-run double. After Urias threw 31 pitches in the first, Chicago added on in the second with Hoerner’s RBI single.

Bellinger made it 4-0 in the third when he homered off Urias for the second time in less than a week. Mancini immediately followed by going deep to left field against Urias.

With Jake Reed pitching and two on in the Cubs’ fifth, Wisdom pulled the ball well over the left-field wall for his ninth homer. Bellinger followed with a double and scored on Mancini’s single to make it 9-0. Hoerner belted Chicago’s second three-run homer in the fifth, this one off Andre Jackson.

Mancini added an RBI single in the sixth.

–Field Level Media

The Minnesota Twins reinstated infielder Jorge Polanco from the 10-day injured list on Friday.

Polanco made his season debut Friday against the visiting Washington Nationals, starting at second base and batting fifth. Polanco missed the Twins’ first 19 games after opening the season on the IL due to left knee inflammation.

The Twins also recalled right-handed pitcher Simeon Woods Richardson from Triple-A St. Paul and optioned infielder Edouard Julien and right-hander Jorge Alcala to Triple-A.

Polanco, 29, batted .231 during his rehab assignments at Low-A Fort Myers and Triple-A. In 752 career games with the Twins since his 2014 debut, Polanco is a .270 hitter with 98 home runs, 399 RBIs and 47 stolen bases. He was an All-Star in 2019.

Woods Richardson, 22, made his major league debut last October and scattered three hits, two walks and three runs (two earned) over five innings in a loss to Detroit.

Julien, who turns 24 next week, made his big-league debut during Polanco’s absence, playing eight games and getting seven starts at second base for Minnesota. He batted .222 with a pair of homers and four RBIs in that time.

Alcala, 27, had a 4.50 ERA in six relief appearances without a decision this season. He has a career 3.50 ERA and a 5-7 record with one save in five seasons (85 games), all with the Twins.

–Field Level Media

Kansas City Royals left-hander Kris Bubic will have season-ending Tommy John surgery, the team said Friday.

The typical recovery time for ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction on the elbow is one year.

The Royals placed the 25-year-old starter on the 15-day injured list Sunday with a left forearm flexor strain.

Bubic went 0-2 with a 3.94 ERA in three starts this season. He struck out 16 and walked two in 16 innings. He was roughed up for five runs on 10 hits in five innings in his most recent start April 15 against Atlanta.

Bubic is 10-28 with a 4.85 ERA in 70 games (60 starts) since making his debut with the Royals in 2020.

–Field Level Media