MLB Lines, Scores and Odds

Salvador Perez homered and finished with four RBIs Saturday afternoon for the visiting Kansas City Royals, who beat the New York Mets 11-7 in the middle game of a three-game interleague series. Bobby Witt Jr. finished 2-for-5 with four runs scored for the Royals, who have won eight of nine. Nick Loftin was 2-for-3 with three RBIs while Hunter Renfroe had two hits and two RBIs. Nelson Velazquez had two hits and an RBI, Garrett

The Minnesota Twins scored seven runs in the top of the 12th, including Matt Wallner’s three-run homer, as they defeated the host Detroit Tigers 11-5 in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday afternoon. Austin Martin drew a bases-loaded walk off Alex Lange (0-1) to give the Twins a 5-4 lead. After Lange struck out the next two batters, Ryan Jeffers hit a grounder on the 12th pitch of the at-bat that third baseman

Oswaldo Cabrera clubbed a two-run homer in the sixth inning, and the visiting New York Yankees stayed hot with a 3-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians in the opener of Saturday’s split doubleheader. Cabrera, in his third major-league season, had homered 11 times entering this year. However, his third home run of 2024, with a man on in a 1-0 game, was the difference as the Yankees improved to 11-3 — and 7-1 away from

Harold Ramirez went 3-for-4, scored twice and stole a base as the Tampa Bay Rays won for the third straight time, edging the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla. Ramirez scored on a bases-loaded walk to Yandy Diaz in the second inning and on a third-inning double by Amed Rosario, who went 2-for-4. Rays right-hander Jacob Waguespack opened, tossed four innings and allowed one unearned run on four hits. He

Jackson Merrill singled home the go-ahead run in the 11th inning as the San Diego Padres edged the host Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Friday, winning a slugfest that featured a history-making moment for the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani. The teams combined for eight home runs on the night, six of them in the first three innings. One of the long balls was the 175th of Ohtani’s career, which tied Hideki Matsui’s MLB record for homers

Nolan Arenado hit a three-run homer and Lars Nootbaar blasted a two-run shot as the St. Louis Cardinals outlasted the Arizona Diamondbacks 9-6 Friday night in Phoenix. Brendan Donovan (3-for-4 with a triple, two runs, RBI) and Masyn Winn (2-for-4, triple, two runs, RBI) also had big games for the Cardinals. St. Louis starting pitcher Steven Matz allowed four runs, one earned, on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings. Reliever Giovanny Gallegos (2-0) earned the

Lawrence Butler hit a game-winning single with one out in the 10th inning to go with an earlier home run as the Oakland Athletics defeated the visiting Washington Nationals 2-1 on Friday night. Athletics pitcher Paul Blackburn remained unscored upon through three starts and Oakland won despite managing only three hits on offense. It was the first home game for the Athletics since the announcement more than a week earlier that the team, following this

Bryce Miller allowed just an unearned run over 6 1/3 innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Friday in the opener of a three-game interleague series. Ty France went 2-for-4 and Julio Rodriguez hit a two-run single for the Mariners, who won back-to-back games for only the second time this season. Michael Busch doubled and homered for the Cubs, who managed just four hits. Chicago lost for the third time

Mark Canha homered and drove in two runs, Tarik Skubal pitched five scoreless innings and the host Detroit Tigers cruised past the Minnesota Twins 8-2 on Friday night. Skubal (2-0) allowed only two hits and struck out five. Spencer Torkelson and Matt Vierling had two hits and two RBIs apiece. The game was delayed for more than an hour due to inclement weather. Twins starter Pablo Lopez (1-2) gave up five runs and six hits