CHICAGO (AP) — Carson Kelly homered twice, Kyle Tucker hit a go-ahead two-run homer in a six-run eighth inning, and the Chicago Cubs outslugged the Arizona Diamondbacks 13-11 on Friday.
Ian Happ hit a grand slam. Seiya Suzuki went deep and the Cubs pulled out a wild win after Arizona scored 10 runs in the eighth.
Chicago was sailing along with a 7-1 lead thanks to Kelly’s two-run drive against Diamondbacks starter Corbin Burnes in the second and Happ’s grand slam off Ryne Nelson in a five-run seventh. But just when it looked as if the Cubs were on their way to a lopsided win, things took a wild turn.
Eugenio Suárez cut it to 7-5 in the eighth with a grand slam against Porter Hodge. Randal Grichuk gave Arizona an 8-7 lead when his chopper scooted under third baseman Gage Workman’s glove for a two-run double. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. added a three-run drive, making it 11-7, but the Cubs answered in a big way in the bottom half.
Bryce Jarvis hit Nico Hoerner leading off and walked Pete Crow-Armstrong before Kelly drove a three-run homer to center. After Happ singled with one out, Tucker and Suzuki hit back-to-back drives against Joe Mantiply to give the Cubs a 13-11 lead.
Ryan Pressly (2-1) recorded the final three outs, and the Cubs opened the weekend series on a winning note. Arizona had won five straight.
PHILLIES 7, MARLINS 2
PHILADLEPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber homered, Zack Wheeler struck out 13 in seven innings and Philadelphia beat Miami.
Harper hit a two-run home run in the first inning off Sandy Alcantara. Schwarber hit a solo shot in the fifth, his National League-leading seventh of the season.
Wheeler (2-1) allowed five hits, two runs and no walks. He struck out the side in the seventh to finish his day at 96 pitches.
Eric Wagaman hit a two-run home run off Wheeler in the sixth. Xavier Edwards extended his hitting streak to a career-high 11 games as the Marlins lost their fourth straight game.
Alcantara (2-1), making his fourth start since Tommy John surgery in October 2023, needed 61 pitches to get six outs, allowing four hits, six earned runs, two walks and throwing two wild pitches. His ERA rose to 7.27.
He allowed a walk and back-to-back singles to start the second. Alec Bohm and Johan Rojas hit RBI singles, Bryson Stott hit a sacrifice fly and Rojas scored on a wild pitch for a 6-0 lead.
BLUE JAYS 3, MARINERS 1
TORONTO (AP) — Bowden Francis pitched six innings to win for the first time in three starts, George Springer had two hits and scored twice and Toronto beat Seattle for its third straight victory.
Anthony Santander and Alan Roden drove in runs with sacrifice flies and catcher Alejandro Kirk hit an RBI single to help the Blue Jays improve to 8-3 at home.
Francis (2-2) allowed one run and five hits, walked one and struck out five. Jeff Hoffman finished in the ninth for his fifth save in five chances.
Springer returned to the lineup after not starting the previous three games to rest his sore left wrist. He singled and scored on Roden’s sacrifice fly in the second inning, then doubled and scored on Kirk’s hit in the third.
Mariners right-hander Bryan Woo (2-1) allowed three runs and a season-high seven hits in seven innings in his first losing start of 2025.
RED SOX 10, WHITE SOX 3
BOSTON (AP) — Trevor Story went 3 for 4 with two homers and six RBIs, Hunter Dobbins pitched six strong innings, and Boston beat Chicago.
Story had his 20th career multi-homer game. Both were three-run shots and came with Rafael Devers and Alex Bregman — the two players directly ahead of him in Boston’s lineup — on base.
Dobbins (2-0) allowed two runs — one earned — and four hits while striking out six in his second career big-league start. The right-hander didn’t walk anyone and didn’t allow a hit until the fourth inning.
Ceddanne Rafaela hit his first homer of the season for the Red Sox, winners of three straight, and Carlos Narvaez got his first career home run.
Former Red Sox outfielder Andrew Benintendi accounted for Chicago’s first run with a solo homer in the fourth. The White Sox managed six hits against Dobbins and two Red Sox relievers en route to their fifth straight loss.
White Sox starter Martin Perez (1-1) endured a long bottom of the first and was lifted after three innings due to left forearm soreness. Three of the four runs he allowed came on Story’s blast in the first inning.
TIGERS 7, ROYALS 3
DETROIT (AP) — Tomás Nido and Andy Ibáñez hit solo homers and rookie Jackson Jobe pitched five strong innings to lead Detroit to a victory over Kansas City.
Spencer Torkelson delivered a two-run double in the seventh for his AL-leading 13th extra-base hit for the Tigers.
Kansas City’s Bobby Witt Jr. doubled in the first to extend his hitting streak to 11 games, scoring on Vinnie Pasquantino’s double for a 1-0 lead.
Nido, who went 3 for 4, homered for the first time with the Tigers to tie it in the second. Ibáñez’s solo shot leading off the fourth put them ahead for good.
Jobe (2-0) allowed one run on five hits.
Riley Greene and Trey Sweeney had RBI singles in a three-run fifth to chase Royals starter Cole Ragans (1-1), whose team record-tying streak of three straight starts with 10-plus strikeouts ended. Ragans gave up five runs on six hits in four innings, striking out eight for a major league-best 39.
GUARDIANS 10, PIRATES 7
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bo Naylor had a solo home run and two-run double among his three hits and Luis L. Ortiz pitched five innings and beat his former team as Cleveland defeated Pittsburgh.
Naylor homered leading off the third inning to pull the Guardians into a 1-all tie, and his two-run double sparked a three-run fourth that put Cleveland ahead for good at 5-2. The catcher entered the game hitting .162.
Ortiz (2-2) had eight strikeouts in winning his second straight start. Acquired from the Pirates in a three-way trade with Toronto in December, Ortiz gave up two runs, five hits and three walks.
The Pirates scored three runs in the seventh and two in the ninth before Emmanuel Clase got the last out for his third save in four chances, striking out Jack Suwinski with runners on first and second.
The Guardians had 14 hits, including two each by Steven Kwan, Lane Thomas, Jose Ramirez and Gabriel Arias. Johnkensy Noel and Arias hit consecutive two-run doubles in a four-run seventh that pushed the lead to 10-2.
YANKEES 1, RAYS 0
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Paul Goldschmidt had three of New York’s five hits and scored on Trent Grisham’s RBI single, Carlos Rodón limited Tampa Bay to two hits in six innings and the Yankees beat the Rays at Steinbrenner Field for their fifth straight victory.
Grisham’s broken-bat looper in the second scored Goldschmidt from second base with two outs. Goldschmidt also made three important defensive plays at first base.
Rodón (2-0) snapped a personal three-game losing streak and had a season-best nine strikeouts. Three Yankees relievers combined to preserve the shutout, with Luke Weaver retiring the side in the ninth for his second save. It was New York’s first 1-0 victory since June 24, 2003, against Texas.
A pair of baserunning miscues kept the Rays scoreless. Leading off the seventh in a 1-0 game, Jonathan Aranda blasted a pitch off the wall in center, but was thrown out trying to stretch a double into a triple.
Earlier, Jose Caballero doubled to lead off the fifth but, after advancing to third on a groundout, was caught in a rundown against a drawn-in infield. He made up for it when he robbed Ben Rice of a two-run homer in the eighth, leaping over the right-field wall.
METS 5, CARDINALS 4
NEW YORK (AP) — Francisco Lindor homered off Ryan Fernandez leading off the ninth inning, and the New York Mets survived a late blown lead to beat St. Louis.
Brendan Donovan had homered off Huascar Brazobán (1-0) starting the the top of the ninth, tying it at 4 with a drive off the netting of the right field foul pole.
Lindor drove a cutter on the third pitch from Fernandez (0-2) into the right field second deck for his 250th homer and his first walk-off homer with the Mets.
Torrens had tied the score with an RBI double in the eighth, his fifth hit in 13 at-bats with runners in scoring position.
St. Louis batters struck out 15 times.
Juan Soto, in a 3-for-31 slide, capped a two-run fifth with a tying RBI single that drove in Tyrone Taylor, who had tripled in the Mets’ first run.
REDS 8, ORIOLES 3
BALTIMORE (AP) — Elly De La Cruz and Matt McLain each hit three-run home runs and Cincinnati began their first nine-game road trip of the season with a victory over Baltimore.
Jeimer Candelario also connected off Orioles left-hander Cade Povich (0-2), who allowed seven runs and six hits with five walks in 3 1/3 innings.
Andrew Abbott (2-0) struck out 11 over six innings, giving up one run and two hits, in his second start since returning from the injured list following a rotator cuff strain.
Jose Trevino had three hits and walked once, and Austin Hays had two hits in his first game in Baltimore since the Orioles traded him to Philadelphia last July.
Heston Kjerstad homered for a second consecutive night, and Cedric Mullins hit his team-leading fifth as the Orioles failed in their first bid for three straight wins.
BRAVES 6, TWINS 4
ATLANTA (AP) — Michael Harris II had two hits and two RBIs, Drake Baldwin delivered a game-winning pinch-hit single in the eighth inning, and Atlanta rallied to beat Minnesota.
Enyel De Los Santos (1-0) earned the win with 1 2/3 innings of relief, and Raisel Iglesias pitched a perfect ninth for his third save.
Jarred Kelenic homered and Ozzie Albies had two hits and drove in a run for the Braves.
Griffin Jax (0-2) was charged with all four runs in one-third of an inning.
Minnesota’s Chris Paddack had his second straight strong start, allowing one run and three hits over five innings.
Trevor Larnach hit a solo home run and Calos Correa had two hits and scored a run for the Twins, who fell to 7-13 on the season.
The Braves trailed 4-1 in the eighth, but six straight batters reached base with one out as Atlanta put together a four-run rally.
Braves starter Bryce Elder gave up four runs in five innings. His ERA stayed at 7.20 through three starts.
DODGERS 3, RANGERS 0
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Yoshinobu Yamamoto matched his career high with 10 strikeouts over seven innings after Tommy Edman led off the game with a home run and Los Angeles beat Texas.
Los Angeles was without superstar Shohei Ohtani, who remained in California with his wife and was put on MLB’s paternity list for the birth of his first child.
With Ohtani absent, Edman moved into the leadoff spot and went deep on the second pitch of the game thrown by two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom (0-1). It was Edman’s seventh homer.
Yamamoto (3-1) held Texas to five hits and walked none in the opener of a three-game series matching the last two World Series champions.
DeGrom struck out seven and walked one in seven innings. The right-hander allowed only two singles after Edman’s homer, one of those to Edman leading off the sixth inning before he was caught stealing.
Kirby Yates, the Texas closer last season, and Tanner Scott each pitched an inning to close out the Dodgers’ second shutout this season. Scott finished it for his seventh save in eight chances despite allowing two singles.
ASTROS 6, PADRES 4
HOUSTON (AP) — Rookie Cam Smith homered on his first two at-bats and had a career-best four RBIs to power Houston to a win over San Diego.
Smith connected off Kyle Hart (2-1) on a three-run homer in the second inning to put the Astros on top and added a solo shot off the lefty in the fourth that made it 5-2.
San Diego’s Luis Arraez, who had three hits, sent a high fastball from Bryan King into the first row in right field for a two-run homer that cut the lead to 5-4 in the seventh.
Jake Meyers tied a season high with three hits for the Astros, capped by a run-scoring single in the eighth to give them some insurance.
Houston starter Ryan Gusto (2-1) gave up nine hits and two runs in five innings. Josh Hader pitched a perfect ninth for his fifth save.
The Padres went 2 for 10 with runners in scoring position.
BREWERS 5, ATHLETICS 3
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Christian Yelich drove in three runs and Caleb Durbin had two hits in his major league debut to lead Milwaukee to a victory over the Athletics.
Freddy Peralta (2-1) threw 93 pitches and allowed seven hits in five shutout innings for the Brewers.
Jackson Chourio had an RBI double before scoring on a single by Yelich to put the Brewers up 2-0 in the fourth off Athletics starter J.T. Ginn (1-1).
Brice Turang had a two-out single, stole second and scored on a base hit by Yelich to make it 3-0 in the fifth.
JJ Bleday drew a walk off Nick Mears and scored on a forceout by Gio Urshela to get the A’s within two in the sixth.
Durbin led off with a single in the seventh and scored his first run on a groundout by Yelich.
Bryan Hudson allowed two runs in the ninth before Trevor Megill got the final two outs for his second save.
ANGELS 2, GIANTS 0
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Tyler Anderson gave up three hits and struck out six over six innings, Zach Neto hit an RBI double in his first at-bat of the season, and Los Angeles beat San Francisco.
Brock Burke, Ryan Zeferjahn and Kenley Jansen each threw scoreless innings in relief of Anderson (2-0), with Jansen getting his 452nd career save. as the Angels snapped a four-game losing streak.
Logan Webb (2-1) struck out 12 while giving up four hits and walking none over six innings, but he stumbled after whiffing Jorge Soler and Logan O’Hoppe to open the second.
Nolan Schanuel roped a double to right-center field, and Neto — who missed the first three weeks of the season while rehabilitating his surgically repaired right shoulder — rifled a 106-mph one-hopper past shortstop Willy Adames and into left-center for an RBI double and a 1-0 lead.
The Associated Press
