Kenley Jansen earns 478th save as Tigers beat Marlins 2-0

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s Kenley Jansen put Miami down in order in the ninth inning and moved into a tie for third in MLB history with his 478th save, Javier Baez homered and the Detroit Tigers beat the Miami Marlins 2-0 on Friday night to end a five-game skid.

Jansen struck out one and moved into a tie with Hall of Famer Lee Smith (1980–97) on the saves list. The 38-year-old right-hander picked up his second save of the season.

Baez sent a line drive to left field that hit the top of the wall and went out to make it 2-0 in the fifth for his second homer of the season.

Detroit’s Keider Montero (1-1) struck out seven and allowed two hits and a walk over six innings.

The Tigers entered having lost nine of their last 11 games since opening the season with a pair of wins in San Diego.

Detroit had three hits in a row to start the bottom of the second, and Spencer Torkelson put the Tigers on the board with a single to left field. Then, the Tigers loaded the bases with two outs before Owen Caissie made a sliding catch in right field to end the inning.

Miami, which entered with 12 hits in back-to-back games, took until the eighth inning before getting the leadoff man on base. But, then Graham Pauley lined into a double play.

Miami starter Chris Paddack (0-2) allowed seven hits and two earned runs in six innings.

PIRATES 2, CUBS 0

CHICAGO (AP) — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer and Carmen Mlodzinski pitched six-hit ball into the sixth inning, helping Pittsburgh beat Chicago.

Pittsburgh was shut down by Shota Imanaga before breaking through against Caleb Thielbar in the seventh. Ryan O’Hearn hit a leadoff single for the Pirates’ first hit of the chilly afternoon, and Reynolds drove Thielbar’s next pitch deep to left for his third homer.

Pittsburgh won for the seventh time in nine games since its 1-3 start.

Chicago went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and left 11 runners on base. Ian Happ had two of the team’s six hits.

Cubs slugger Seiya Suzuki went 1 for 3 with a fourth-inning single in his first game this season. He had been sidelined by a sprained right knee.

Imanaga struck out nine and walked one in six innings. The Japanese left-hander threw 68 of 100 pitches for strikes.

DIAMONDBACKS 5, PHILLIES 4

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Mike Soroka struck out 10, closer Paul Sewald retired Trea Turner to end the game and strand the tying run at third base, and Arizona beat Philadelphia.

Sewald gave up a two-out triple off the top of the right-field wall to rookie Justin Crawford. Sewald recovered to get Turner — last season’s NL batting champion — on a flyball to end the game and earn his fourth save.

The NL East champion Phillies opened a nine-game homestand with their third straight loss and fourth in five games. They struck out 16 times against four Diamondbacks pitchers.

Phillies starter Jesús Luzardo — who struck out 11 without a walk in his last start in Colorado — took a no-hitter into the fifth and was staked to a 4-0 lead.

Eight batters later, he was yanked as Arizona lead 5-4.

Ketel Marte started the scoring with a two-RBI single and Ildemaro Vargas added a run-scoring single to make it 4-3. Brandon McCann, who took over catching duties in the third after Gabriel Moreno left with lower-back tightness, lined a two-RBI double to right for the 5-4 lead that chased Luzardo (1-2)

The Phillies were outscored 11-0 in consecutive games by San Francisco and had been scoreless in 20 straight innings overall to end their six-game road trip.

BRAVES 11, GUARDIANS 5

ATLANTA (AP) — Matt Olson gave Atlanta the lead with a long two-run homer off Slade Cecconi in a six-run sixth inning and the Braves beat Cleveland in a matchup of first-place teams.

The Guardians led 2-1 before Ronald Acuña Jr. hit a tying homer off Cecconi in the sixth. Following a single by Drake Baldwin, Olson pulled the 441-foot homer off the top of the Chop House restaurant roof in right field for a 4-2 lead.

The blast was Olson’s fourth of the season. With Cleveland right-hander Matt Festa on the mound, Dominic Smith had a run-scoring single before Michael Harris II capped the six-run inning with another two-run homer over the Braves’ bullpen in right-center.

The Braves had seven hits, including three homers, in the big inning and finished with 15 hits.

Cecconi (0-2) allowed five runs, four earned, on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings. Tyler Kinley (2-0) pitched a perfect sixth for Atlanta.

ROYALS 2, WHITE SOX 0

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kris Bubic struck out a career-high 11, Carter Jensen hit his fourth home run and Kansas City beat Chicago.

Bubic needed just 88 pitches, 59 for strikes, to get through seven innings. The 28-year-old left-hander allowed two hits and a walk and eclipsed his previous high of nine strikeouts, which he accomplished five times. Matt Strahm worked a hitless eighth inning and Lucas Erceg earned his fourth save.

Davis Martin (2-1) was the hard-luck loser for Chicago. The 29-year-old righty allowed two runs on seven hits in seven innings. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out three. Duncan Davitt made his MLB debut in relief in the eighth.

While Bubic (2-1) was shutting down the White Sox, the Royals were wasting offensive chances. Salvador Perez led off the second with a single, but was doubled off first on a line drive by Michael Massey. Isaac Collins had a one-out single in the third but was thrown out trying to stretch it to a double.

The Royals broke through in the fourth as Maikel Garcia led off with a single and Bobby Witt Jr. followed with an RBI double, ending a 17-inning scoreless streak for the Royals.

ANGELS 10, REDS 2

CINCINNATI (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a grand slam in a five-run eighth inning, Zach Neto and Josh Lowe also homered, and Los Angeles beat Cincinnati to snap a seven-game losing streak at Great American Ball Park.

Jack Kochanowicz (2-0) only allowed one run and two hits over seven innings.

Soler also had a two-out double in the third before scoring on Yoan Moncada’s infield single for a 2-0 lead.

Neto’s fifth home run of the season made it 4-0 and Lowe, who was batting .091 (3 for 33) coming in, homered over the left-field wall in the sixth for a 5-1 lead.

Los Angeles improved to .500 or better after 14 games for a sixth straight season, and eighth of nine.

Cincinnati’s Chase Burns (1-1) gave up five earned runs, seven hits and four walks over 5 1/3 innings.

ATHLETICS 4, METS 0

NEW YORK (AP) — Jeff McNeil had two hits in his return to Citi Field, including a run-scoring single in a three-run ninth inning that helped the Athletics beat New York.

Mets starter Clay Holmes left after 5 1/3 innings with left hamstring tightness. New York has three runs and 20 hits during a three-game losing streak.

McNeil, traded to the A’s in December after spending his first eight big league seasons with the Mets, received a warm ovation before his first at-bat and tipped the bill of his helmet twice. The 2022 NL batting champion doubled in the fourth and at second base robbed Carson Benge of a hit to end the fifth.

Shea Langeliers had an RBI single in the third off Holmes (2-1) and Denzel Clarke hit a two-run single in the ninth for the Athletics, who have pitched 25 straight scoreless innings against the Mets and Yankees dating to Tuesday night.

Jack Perkins (1-0), the third of five pitchers, allowed three hits over 2 1/3 innings in relief of J.T. Ginn, who gave up one hit over four innings in his first start this season.

BLUE JAYS 10, TWINS 4

TORONTO (AP) — Brandon Valenzuela hit his first MLB home run, Daulton Varsho also connected and Toronto beat Minnesota to halt it’s four-game win streak.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had three hits and an RBI to help Toronto win its second straight after losing the previous six.

Davis Schneider had two hits, scored twice and drove in a run as the Blue Jays set a season high in runs and matched a season high in hits. Nine of Toronto’s 14 hits were for extra bases, including seven doubles.

Valenzuela gave Toronto its first lead, 5-4, with a two-out drive off Simeon Woods Richardson in a five-run fourth inning. His homer followed RBI doubles by Jesús Sánchez and Schneider, and an RBI single by Andrés Giménez.

Varsho made it 6-4 with a leadoff homer off Anthony Banda in the fifth, his first of the season and the 100th of his career.

The Twins came in having swept a four-game series against Detroit. Minnesota is 2-5 on the road.

GIANTS 6, ORIOLES 3

BALTIMORE (AP) — Landen Roupp pitched six sharp innings, Willy Adames and Jung Hoo Lee homered and San Francisco beat Baltimore for its season-high third straight victory.

Adames hit a solo shot in the third inning and Lee hit a two-run drive to make it 6-1 in the seventh. The last-place Giants, who came in with a major league-low five homers, just missed a potential third long ball when Taylor Ward made a leaping grab at the left-field wall to rob Harrison Bader in the eighth.

It’s been a roller-coaster season thus far for San Francisco, which has endured skids of three and four games under rookie manager Tony Vitello. During their current winning streak, however, the Giants have outscored the opposition 17-3.

Roupp (2-1) gave up one run and five hits to earn his first win since July 22. The right-hander finished the 2025 season on the injured list with a bruised left knee.

RAYS 5, YANKEES 3

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Yandy Díaz sparked a comeback with a tying, two-run homer in the first inning off Luis Gil, who made his first big league start this season, and Tampa Bay beat New York to extend it’s losing streak to three.

Steven Matz (3-0) and three relievers combined on a five-hitter with 12 strikeouts.

Since their first three batters got hits against the A’s on Wednesday, Yankees hitters are 7 for 86 (.081). New York had a 22-batter stretch without a hit.

New York batters failed on two robot umpire challenges and have succeeded on two of their last 13 attempts.

Playing at Tropicana Field for the first time since July 11, 2024, New York took a 2-0 lead in the first. Aaron Judge singled, stole a base and scored on Cody Bellinger’s sacrifice fly, and Amed Rosario tripled on a one-hopper that went past left fielder Chandler Simpson and bounced to the wall.

Gil, the 2024 AL Rookie of the Year, was left at Triple-A early this season when the Yankees didn’t need a fifth starter because of off days. Given the early lead, he walked Jonathan Aranda with two outs in the a 32-pitch first and gave up Diaz’s 377-foot homer on a slider over the middle of the strike zone.

CARDINALS 3, RED SOX 2

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dustin May pitched six strong innings, Ramón Urías hit a double and scored twice, and St. Louis beat Boston in the opener of a three-game series.

Jordan Walker hit a one-out single and, after Urías walked, scored on a single by Thomas Saggese.

Urías and Saggese moved into scoring position on a wild pitch by Zach Kelly before José Fermín hit a sacrifice fly that drove in Urías and gave the Cardinals a 3-2 lead in the fifth inning.

Masataka Yoshida had an RBI groundout and Trevor Story stole home when Marcelo Mayer swiped second on a double steal in the fourth inning for the Red Sox runs. Wilyer Abreu had two hits.

Victor Scott II’s sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the second inning drove in Urías opened the scoring.

May (1-2) allowed two runs — one earned — on four hits with four strikeouts in six innings. Riley O’Brien pitched a 1-2-3 ninth and earned his fourth save.

NATIONALS 7, BREWERS 3

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jorbit Vivas and Drew Millas drove in runs with two of Washington’s three successful bunts in a four-run ninth inning that lifted the Nationals over Milwaukee.

Washington reached base three times on bunts in the inning after attempting just one bunt in its first 12 games. Milwaukee entered the night leading the major leagues with six sacrifice bunts.

With the score 3-3, Trevor Megill (0-2) hit CJ Abrams with a pitch leading off the ninth. Joey Wiemer reached on a bunt single to the third-base side and Luis García hit an RBI single up the middle for a 4-3 lead.

Vivas bunted back to the mound, and Megill’s underhand flip went to the backstop as runners wound up at the corners on what was scored a sacrifice and an error.

Two pitches later, Millas bunted back to the mound for another sacrifice and pinch-runner Nasim Nuñez slid home ahead of Megill’s throw for a 6-3 lead.

Easton McGee replaced Megill, who didn’t get an out, and James Wood hit an RBI double.

PJ Poulin (1-0) got three straight groundouts in the eighth inning and Clayton Beeter closed with a perfect ninth to hand the Brewers their third consecutive loss.