MIAMI (AP) — Hunter Goodman homered twice, including a go-ahead two-run shot in the fifth inning, and the Colorado Rockies beat the Miami Marlins 6-4 on Monday night to snap their fourth eight-game losing streak of the season.
It was the 10th win against 50 losses for the Rockies, who had already wrapped up the worst 60-game start in the modern era (since 1901). The 1904 Washington Senators and 1932 Boston Red Sox both opened 11-49.
Goodman had a two-out single in the first off Max Meyer, and Thairo Estrada followed with an RBI double to give Colorado the lead.
Goodman was charged with an error in the bottom half when he dropped a throw at home plate, allowing the tying run to score. Otto Lopez added an RBI single off Germán Márquez, and a sacrifice fly by Eric Wagaman gave Miami a 3-1 lead.
Jesús Sánchez’s run-scoring double made it 4-1 in the second.
Goodman homered in the third, and Tyler Freeman’s two-out RBI single in the fourth got the Rockies within a run.
Ezequiel Tovar singled leading off the fifth and Goodman followed with his ninth homer for a 5-4 advantage.
Keston Hiura doubled leading off the ninth for his first hit with Colorado, and Sam Hilliard’s one-out double drove in an insurance run.
BREWERS 3, REDS 2
CINCINNATI (AP) — Christian Yelich hit his fourth home run in six games and Milwaukee extended their winning streak to eight games, beating Cincinnati.
Yelich — named the National League Player of the Week earlier in the day — connected on a full-count slider from Brady Singer (6-4) and drove it 417 feet to straightaway center and off the batter’s eye to put Milwaukee on top in the third inning.
Sal Frelick had a pair of hits for the Brewers, who have their longest winning streak since running off nine straight in August 2023.
Aaron Civale (1-1) picked up his first win of the season in his third start since missing nearly two months due to a strained left hamstring. The right-hander, who went 5 1/3 innings, rebounded after allowing two runs in the first and struck out five.
Trevor Megill retired Cincinnati in order in the ninth for his 12th save in 13 opportunities.
ANGELS 7, RED SOX 6
BOSTON (AP) — Mike Trout had three hits, including a three-run, 454-foot homer off the left-center field light stanchion in the Angels’ six-run first inning and Los Angeles held on to beat Boston Red Sox.
Zach Neto homered to lead off the game, and the Angels opened a 5-0 lead before before Red Sox starter Richard Fitts (0-3) recorded his first out. Jo Adell also homered in the first and added another solo shot in the sixth after Boston cut the lead to 6-5.
Jarren Duran had three hits for Boston, including a double to start the four-run fifth inning. Ceddanne Rafaela homered to make it 7-6 in the eighth.
Ryan Zeferjahn (3-1) was credited with the win, pitching a scoreless seventh inning and striking out two. Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for his 11th save, getting Romy Gonzalez on a line drive to the warning track in right to end it.
Boston scored four in the fifth to make it 6-5 and loaded the bases in the sixth before reliever Reid Detmers got cleanup hitter Carlos Narváez on a slow chopper to third to end the inning.
TIGERS 13, WHITE SOX 1
CHICAGO (AP) — Kerry Carpenter hit a career-high three homers and drove in five runs to help Detroit pound the Chicago.
Dillon Dingler and Wenceel Pérez also went deep as Detroit became the first major league team to reach 40 wins this season. Parker Meadows had two hits and scored three times in his season debut after being sidelined by an arm injury.
Jack Flaherty (4-6) pitched six innings of one-run ball in his second straight win. The right-hander allowed four hits, struck out four and walked one.
The Tigers improved to 22-9 in their last 31 games. It was their 11th consecutive win at the White Sox dating to Sept. 1, 2023, matching a franchise record for the longest such streak in an opponent’s ballpark.
Chicago finished with five hits in its seventh loss in eight games. Chase Meidroth singled and scored on Vinny Capra’s groundout in the sixth, accounting for the team’s only run.
Carpenter hit a two-run drive in Detroit’s three-run first against Jonathan Cannon (2-7). He connected for another two-run shot in the fourth and a solo drive in the sixth for his 13th homer on the season.
PADRES 1, GIANTS 0, 10 INNINGS
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jose Iglesias hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th to break a scoreless tie, scoring automatic runner Jake Cronenworth as San Diego beat San Francisco.
Tyler Wade’s sacrifice bunt started the inning against Ryan Walker (1-3).
Robert Suarez (1-1) gave up Patrick Bailey’s leadoff single in the ninth but got out of it unscathed and finished for the win.
Logan Webb struck out seven and didn’t walk a batter over eight scoreless innings and outdueled Stephen Kolek for much of the game but didn’t have a win to show for it as San Francisco squandered scoring chances.
Jeremiah Estrada entered for San Diego with a runner aboard and two outs in the seventh then walked Tyler Fitzgerald. After a mound visit, Heliot Ramos walked to load the bases but Jung Hoo Lee struck out on three pitches.
Kolek pitched into the sixth in his sixth major league start. He retired pinch-hitter Jerar Encarnacion on an inning-ending groundout after Encarnacion came off the 60-day injured list earlier Monday following a hand fracture in spring training that required surgery.
Manny Machado went hitless for only the seventh time in his last 28 games for the Padres, who are in a stretch playing 26 games in 27 days through June 25 — all of those games against the NL West.
TWINS 10, ATHLETICS 4
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Byron Buxton matched his career high with five RBIs and Minnesota extended the Athletics’ losing streak to seven games.
Buxton had a two-run double with two outs in a six-run second inning. He drove in two more with a bases-loaded single in the sixth and added a sacrifice fly in the ninth.
Lawrence Butler hit a three-run homer for the Athletics (23-38), who have lost 18 of 19 overall. They fell to 9-20 at Sutter Health Park, their temporary home for at least the next three seasons.
In the opener of a four-game series, the Twins went down in order in the first against Luis Severino before batting around in the second. Ty France singled in the first two runs and Buxton made it 4-0. Trevor Larnach had an RBI single before Brooks Lee doubled in the final run of the inning.
Lee added an RBI single in the eighth.
Butler walked, went to third on Jacob Wilson’s double and scored on Brent Rooker’s hard comebacker to Twins starter Joe Ryan in the third for the Athletics’ first run. Butler hit his ninth homer — a two-out shot to center field in the fourth — to get the A’s within 6-4.
Ryan (6-2) loaded the bases with no outs in the fifth but escaped unscathed. He gave up four runs and six hits in five innings.
Buxton’s two-run single chased Severino (1-5), who allowed eight runs and nine hits in 5 2/3 innings.
METS 4, DODGERS 3, 10 INNINGS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Francisco Alvarez drove in his first run in four weeks with a double leading off the 10th inning, and New York overcame Shohei Ohtani’s 23rd homer and tying sacrifice fly for a victory over Los Angeles.
Francisco Lindor had a leadoff homer and a 10th-inning RBI single for the Mets, who opened this National League Championship Series rematch series with their eighth win in nine games.
Ohtani hit a 424-foot shot off Max Kranick in the seventh, getting his fifth homer in seven games to tie Seattle’s Cal Raleigh for the major league lead with 23.
Tommy Edman singled and stole second to open the ninth before scoring on Ohtani’s flyout to deep left. Mets closer Edwin Díaz (3-0), pitching for the third time in four days, was handed his first blown save of the season.
After Alvarez and Lindor delivered, José Castillo walked Freddie Freeman and gave up an RBI single to Andy Pages to open the 10th.
Castillo struck out Max Muncy and Freeman got to third on pinch-hitter Will Smith’s flyout before José Buttó gloved Edman’s sharp grounder back to the mound to secure his first save of the season.
