Manuel Margot had two homers and a career-high five homers as the Minnesota Twins beat the Seattle Mariners 11-1 on Thursday in Minneapolis.
Max Kepler and Ryan Jeffers each came home and drove in two runs for Minnesota, which won three of the four games in the series. Carlos Santana and Edouard Julián each had one lap.
Twins starter Pablo Lopez (4-2) limited Seattle’s hits to one run with four hits in 6 1/3 innings. Lopez had no walks and struck out 10.
Luke Raley went 2-for-4 with an RBI to lead Seattle. Logan Gilbert (3-1) gave up eight runs on nine hits in four innings.
Brewers 7, Cardinals 1
Rhys Hoskins’ two-run hit in the first inning was one of three home runs by Sonny Gray as Milwaukee handed visiting St. Louis its fifth straight loss.
Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz also hit solo home runs for Gray (4-2), who entered the game with a 0.89 ERA and was in the game allowing just one home run in his first five starts. William Contreras and Christian Yelich each had three hits and an RBI for Milwaukee.
Lars Notebaar has returned to the Cardinals. Gray allowed six runs on seven hits, and allowed one base run, a wild pitch, and a hit in five innings.
Diamondbacks 5, Reds 4
Tucker Barnhart upset his former team, starting a game-winning run with two outs in the eighth inning as visiting Arizona State swept Cincinnati in three games.
Corbin Carroll broke a 4-4 tie with two outs in the eighth inning off Fernando Cruz (1-3), scoring Barnhart to end the Diamondbacks’ season-best four-game winning streak. Joc Pederson hit a two-run homer in Game 1, ending Cincinnati outfielder Hunter Greene’s career-high 14 2/3 no-hitters in a row.
Eli De La Cruz went 2-for-3 with an RBI for Cincinnati, which has lost eight in a row. De La Cruz had two more steals, bringing his steal tally to a league-leading 23 points.
Rockies 9, Giants 1
Brenton Doyle had two hits and Ezequiel Tovar added a triple and a double in the fourth inning to cap off a triple-double and Colorado beat San Francisco in Denver.
Charlie Blackmon had a home run with a triple, a double, a single and two hits, and Elias Diaz had two hits in the Rockies’ fourth inning. Eleven batters were sent to home plate in the seven inning. Carl Quantrill (2-3) pitched six innings of one-run ball to help Colorado go on a four-game skid.
Michael Conforto returned to the Giants, but the Giants’ triple-base effort was unsuccessful. Keaton Wynn (3-5) allowed seven runs in 3 2/3 innings.
Astros 4, Yankees 3
John Singleton hit a 442-foot homer in a three-run first inning to end Houston’s nine-game losing streak against New York.
Singleton hit New York’s 1-0 reliever Marcus Stroman (2-2) at third level in right field to help the Astros. Yordan Alvarez launched the ball 395 feet into the second floor in right field before Singleton exploded.
Anthony Volpe hit a two-run homer over the right field fence in the third inning, but the Yankees’ five-game winning streak was snapped. Aaron Judge hit a 473-foot homer off Ryan Pressley in the eighth inning, but Josh Hader blocked it, added a second and had four saves.
Kings 10, Angels 4
Michael Wacha got a shutout in the seventh inning and Vinny Pasquantino and Dayron Blanco hit home runs, giving Kansas City the win, as Anaheim, Calif., defeated Los Angeles.
Wacha (2-4) wound up working over six innings, allowing three runs and two earned runs. Michael Garcia had three hits, two runs scored, and two runs scored. Pasquantino finished with three hits and three RBIs, and Blanco had three hits, four runs and two RBIs.
Cole Tucker drove in two runs for the Angels, while Reed Detmers (3-4) allowed six runs in five innings.
White Sox 3, Guardians 2
Eric Fede held visiting Cleveland scoreless over six innings to help Chicago win the opener of a four-game series.
Vedder (3-0) allowed six hits, walked four and struck out three. Eloy Jimenez recorded two hits to help Chicago break out of a 4-for-33 slump and win for the fourth time in six games.
Josh Naylor, Will Brennan and Bo Naylor each scored twice for Cleveland, which went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Ben Lively (1-2) allowed three runs in 5 2/3 innings.
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