Trea Turner hits leadoff homer to help Phillies to a win over the Marlins

MIAMI (AP) — Trea Turner hit a leadoff homer and added two singles as the Philadelphia Phillies extended their winning streak to five games with a 5-2 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday night in the opener of a four-game series.

Max Kepler also went deep and Alec Bohm had two hits and two RBIs for the Phillies.

Rookie Mick Abel (2-0) threw five innings of one-run ball in his fourth major league start. The 23-year-old right-hander scattered three hits and struck out three. Orion Kerkering closed with a perfect ninth for his first career save.

Kepler snapped a 1-all tie with a solo blast in the fourth. He drove a slider from Miami starter Sandy Alcántara into the seats in right field for his ninth of the season.

Turner’s RBI single in the seventh made it 3-1 before Miami narrowed the deficit on a sacrifice fly Agustín Ramírez in the eighth.

Philadelphia padded its lead in the ninth on Bohm’s two-run single.

Alcántara (3-8) allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. The 2022 NL Cy Young Award winner struck out five, moving past Josh Johnson for second on the Marlins’ career strikeout list with 834.

ROCKIES 6, NATIONALS 4

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Goodman homered twice, including a tying shot in the ninth inning, and then Mickey Moniak connected for a two-run drive that gave Colorado a victory over Washington.

Colorado entered with 57 losses this season, tied with the 1932 Boston Red Sox for the most in the modern era (since 1901) through 71 games. Both the Rockies and Red Sox won their 72nd game.

Washington has lost nine straight overall.

Goodman tied it 4-all with a solo shot to left-center — his 13th homer of the season to lead National League catchers.

Moniak, who tripled in the fifth and scored on Michael Toglia’s single for a 3-1 lead, sent a two-run homer into the bullpen in right field to put Colorado ahead with his eighth home run this season.

Seth Halvorsen walked the leadoff batter in the bottom of the ninth before getting a double play and a groundout to earn his fourth save. Victor Vodnik (2-2) pitched a scoreless eighth.

Kyle Finnegan (0-2) was handed his fifth blown save of the season.

RAYS 7, ORIOLES 1

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ryan Pepiot had a season-high 11 strikeouts, Jake Mangum went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and Tampa Bay beat Baltimore.

Pepiot (4-6), in his team-leading 15th start, finished one strikeout short of matching his career best. He allowed four hits and one earned run in a 98-pitch effort.

Forrest Whitley made his debut with the Rays in the ninth inning and retired three straight to extend the bullpen’s scoreless streak to 16 2/3 innings.

Tampa Bay has won four straight and gone 19-6 in its last 25 games. The Rays also picked up their eighth straight series-opening victory.

Baltimore, which scored 11 runs on Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels, lost for just the fifth time in 16 games.

ANGELS 1, YANKEES 0, 11 INNINGS

NEW YORK — Nolan Schanuel hit a run-scoring double in the 11th inning and Los Angeles Angels beat Newe York, extending the Yankee’s losing streak to a season-high four games.

Schanuel’s one-out, opposite-field hit to left off Jonathan Loáisiga (0-1) scored automatic runner Christian Moore, a Brooklyn native who tripled in the eighth for his first major league hit.

Ryan Zeferjahn (4-1) pitched a hitless 10th. After the Yankees loaded the bases with two outs against Brock Burke in the bottom half, Hunter Strickland got Anthony Volpe to bounce into a forceout for his first save this year as Los Angeles improved to 5-0 in extra innings and dropped the Yankees to 1-5.

AL East-leading New York has scored five runs in its last five games and has lost four in a row for the first time since last July 2-5. The Yankees went 1 for 18 with runners in scoring position.

Giancarlo Stanton went 2 for 4 in his season debut with a fourth-inning single and a leadoff double in the ninth after missing 70 games because inflammation in the tendons of both elbows. After the double, third baseman Luis Rengifo made a superb play on Volpe’s grounder, tagging Jasson Domínguez and tumbling as the helmet of the pinch runner hit a knee.

RED SOX 2, MARINERS 0

SEATTLE (AP) — Top prospect Roman Anthony hit his first major league home run and Lucas Giolito struck out 10 in six innings as Boston beat Seattle.

Anthony gave Boston an early advantage during his seventh major league game, turning on a slider from Mariners starter Logan Gilbert — who was making his first appearance since coming off the injured list — for a solo shot in the first. It was Anthony’s second career hit after being promoted to the big leagues June 9.

The Red Sox pushed across another run against Gilbert (1-2) in the third. Jarren Duran smacked a two-out triple and scored on a single from Abraham Toro. Gilbert was otherwise sensational, striking out 10 across five innings while yielding just three hits.

The Mariners, meanwhile, struggled to do anything against Giolito (3-1), who walked one and gave up all three of his hits in the third.

Justin Wilson, Greg Weissert and Aroldis Chapman finished the four-hitter. Chapman fanned all three batters in the ninth for his 13th save.

ATHLETICS 3, ASTROS 1

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Nick Kurtz homered in the ninth inning for the second straight day and the Athletics beat Houston.

Brent Rooker drew a leadoff walk against Bryan Abreu (1-3) to open the ninth and reach safely in 12 straight home games. Kurtz followed with his seventh home run of the season 447 feet over the right-field wall.

Kurtz also hit a ninth-inning homer on Sunday to rally the Athletics to a 3-2 win and a three-game sweep at Kansas City.

The Athletics have won four straight games and are now 7-4 over the last 11 after losing 20 of the previous 21.

The Astros had a five-game winning streak snapped after entering winners in 16 of their last 22.

Athletics reliever J.T. Ginn struck out the side in the eighth and Mason Miller (1-2) added two strikeouts in the ninth. Starter Mitch Spence allowed seven hits and one earned run in five innings.

DODGERS 6, PADRES 3

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani allowed an early run in his pitching debut for Los Angeles Dodgers, but quickly made up for it with two clutch hits and a pair of RBIs in a victory over San Diego.

The two-way superstar averaged 96.8 mph on nine fastballs and threw 28 pitches in the first inning, 21 months after right elbow surgery. It was his first outing since August 2023 with the Angels.

Manny Machado’s sacrifice fly against Ohtani drove in the Padres’ first run.

Ohtani’s RBI double with two outs in the third tied the score at 1. He added another two-out hit, a run-scoring single during the Dodgers’ five-run fourth, when they took a 6-2 lead. He also struck out twice and walked.

Anthony Banda replaced Ohtani on the mound in the second, and Ben Casparius (5-1) got the win with 3 2/3 innings of relief. Kirby Yates worked a perfect ninth for his second save.

Padres starter Dylan Cease (2-6) retired his first six batters, including five straight strikeouts. Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman went down swinging in order in the first.

Cease gave up six runs and eight hits in five innings and struck out nine.