MLB Lines, Scores and Odds

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

Left-hander JP Sears took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and Seth Brown homered and doubled as the visiting Oakland Athletics defeated the Texas Rangers 1-0 in the rubber game of their three-game series Thursday in Arlington, Texas. Sears (1-1) was making just the 46th start of his major league career. He walked three, struck out five and gave up just one hit en route to his 12th career win. Sears threw 88 pitches, 56

Bobby Witt Jr. homered twice, leading the Kansas City Royals over the visiting Houston Astros 13-3 on Thursday afternoon to complete a three-game sweep. The Royals sent 15 batters to the plate in the first inning — scoring nine — capped by Witt’s opposite-field, two-run homer. Vinnie Pasquantino, Nick Loftin and Maikel Garcia delivered two-run singles ahead of Witt’s homer as Kansas City tied a club record with 11 hits in the inning, all against

Tyrone Taylor hit a grand slam and Jeff McNeil drove in three runs as the New York Mets clobbered the host Atlanta Braves 16-4 on Thursday. Taylor’s pinch-hit slam in the ninth inning capped the highest-scoring effort of the young season for the Mets, who took two of three games in the series. McNeil went 2-for-3 with two runs and two walks. Five other players added two hits apiece for New York. Mets starter Jose

Jordan Hicks worked six strong innings, Nick Ahmed collected three hits, including two with runners in scoring position, and the host San Francisco Giants salvaged one win in their three-game series against the Washington Nationals with a 7-1 victory on Wednesday afternoon. Catcher Tyler Fitzgerald also had three hits while Michael Conforto and Matt Chapman contributed two apiece to a 12-hit attack, helping the Giants score more than four runs for the first time since

Eugenio Suarez hit a tie-breaking, two-out double in the top of the ninth inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3 in Denver on Wednesday. Blaze Alexander homered among his two hits, Ketel Marte and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. also had two hits, Joe Mantiply (1-0) got one out for the win and Kevin Ginkel picked up his second save. Justin Lawrence (0-1) walked Marte leading off the ninth, got the next two batters