MLB ROUNDUP: JACOB DEGROM, RANGERS STYMIE ORIOLES
Jacob deGrom took a no-hitter into the eighth inning while Josh Jung drilled a two-run homer and drove in three runs as the Texas Rangers defeated the host Baltimore Orioles 7-0 on Wednesday.
Colton Cowser’s eighth-inning single marked Baltimore’s only hit.
deGrom (8-2) carried a perfect game into the seventh, but Jackson Holliday worked a leadoff walk on seven pitches. With two outs in the inning, Ryan O’Hearn drew another walk.
Cowser hit deGrom’s third pitch of the eighth to right field for a single, which led to a pitching change. deGrom, who improved to 4-0 in June, finished with seven strikeouts. Jonah Heim homered as the Rangers captured the rubber game of the three-game series to finish a 4-2 road trip.
Brewers 4, Pirates 2
Rookie Jacob Misiorowski threw five shutout innings to outduel 2024 National League Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes and spark Milwaukee to a victory over visiting Pittsburgh.
Misiorowski (3-0) struck out eight while scattering two singles and two walks in his third major league start. Skenes (4-7), who entered the game with a big-league-best 1.85 ERA, allowed four hits and four runs with four strikeouts and two walks over four innings.
The Brewers batted around in the second to score their runs as they strung together Joey Ortiz’s RBI groundout, Eric Haase’s RBI double, Sal Frelick’s run-scoring fielder’s choice and Christian Yelich’s RBI single.
Padres 1, Nationals 0
Nick Pivetta scattered three singles and struck out a season-high-tying 10 over seven innings as San Diego registered its 13th shutout of the season to defeat visiting Washington.
For the fourth time this year, Pivetta (8-2) fired seven shutout innings. Jonathan Estrada and Adrian Morejon closed with perfect innings as the Padres allowed no runners into scoring position.
Luis Arraez’s two-out single in the second drove in Tyler Wade with the game’s only run. Nationals starter MacKenzie Gore (3-8), who was traded from San Diego to Washington in the 2022 Juan Soto deal, gave up one run and five hits over six innings.
Yankees 7, Reds 1
Max Fried allowed one unearned run over seven innings to help New York salvage the finale of a three-game series at Cincinnati.
Fried (10-2) struck out seven as he became the majors’ first 10-game winner. Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered and Trent Grisham and Jasson Dominguez had four hits apiece for the Yankees.
Elly De La Cruz produced two hits for the Reds, who had their three-game win streak snapped. Brady Singer (7-6) yielded four runs on six hits over five innings, fanning nine.
Astros 2, Phillies 0
Jeremy Pena scored following his leadoff double in the first inning and Victor Caratini added a critical insurance run with an eighth-inning homer as Houston topped visiting Philadelphia.
Left-hander Colton Gordon (3-1) threw four innings for the Astros, and four more lefties completed the shutout. Josh Hader recorded his 21st save with a perfect ninth.
Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh had two hits apiece for the Phillies, who were shut out by the Astros for the second straight night. Zack Wheeler (7-3) allowed four hits and one run in six innings.
Athletics 3, Tigers 0
Nick Kurtz hit a three-run homer, Jacob Lopez pitched seven strong innings and the visiting Athletics blanked Detroit.
Kurtz had three of the Athletics’ seven hits. Lopez (2-4) allowed just three hits and walked one while striking out six in seven innings. Mason Miller got the last three outs for his 15th save.
Detroit starter Jack Flaherty (5-9), who gave up the homer, lasted six innings. He allowed five hits and four walks and struck out seven.
Marlins 8, Giants 5 (10 innings)
Rookie Heriberto Hernandez drove in four runs, including two on a double in the four-run 10th, helping visiting Miami defeat San Francisco.
Otto Lopez had three hits and three RBIs for the Marlins, who have won three in a row to match their longest winning streak of the season. Calvin Faucher (3-2) gave up two runs to blow a ninth-inning lead but still got the win.
Mike Yastrzemski led off the first inning with a homer for the Giants. Camilo Doval (3-2) allowed four runs, three earned, while getting two outs in the 10th.
White Sox 7, Diamondbacks 3
Lenyn Sosa went 3-for-4 with two homers and four RBIs and Andrew Benintendi also homered as host Chicago avoided a sweep against Arizona.
Sosa’s two-run homer off Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen (5-9) snapped a 2-2 tie in the fourth. Gallen allowed eight hits and five runs over 5 1/3 innings. Josh Naylor went 2-for-3 with a two-run homer in the first.
White Sox starter Sean Burke (4-7) posted a season-high-tying seven strikeouts in his five-inning stint while giving up five hits and two runs. Luis Robert Jr. exited due to left hamstring tightness in the first inning.
Angels 5, Red Sox 2
Yusei Kikuchi had a season-high 12 strikeouts and Travis d’Arnaud went 3-for-4 with a home run to help Los Angeles complete a three-game sweep of Boston in Anaheim, Calif.
Kikuchi (3-6) surrendered two runs (none earned) and three hits over seven innings. Jo Adell added a solo shot to open the scoring for the Angels, who won for the fourth time in five games. He and d’Arnaud drove in two runs each, and Ryan Zeferjahn secured his second save.
Trevor Story had two RBIs for the Red Sox, who lost their fifth game in a row. Richard Fitts gave up two runs on four hits while striking out six in four innings. Luis Guerrero (0-1) allowed two runs in the fifth inning.
Guardians 5, Blue Jays 4 (10 innings)
Jose Ramirez singled home the winning run in the 10th inning for his eighth career walk-off hit, giving Cleveland a victory over visiting Toronto.
Blue Jays reliever Mason Fluharty (3-2) allowed Ramirez’s sharp no-out single to left. Rookie and cancer survivor Nic Enright (1-0) worked a scoreless 10th for his first win in the majors, allowing Cleveland to even the three-game series at one victory apiece.
Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer, activated earlier in the day, pitched five innings and allowed three runs on six hits. The 40-year-old struck out four and walked three over 83 pitches in his first appearance since his Toronto debut March 29. Vladimir Guerrero hit a solo home run and George Springer had two hits and two RBIs.
Mets 7, Braves 3
Juan Soto hit two homers for host New York, which ended its drought against Atlanta by cruising to a victory in the third game of a four-game series.
Soto notched the 27th multi-homer game of his career — the most multi-homer games in MLB history for a player before turning 27. Soto broke a record he held with Jimmie Foxx. Ronny Mauricio homered among his three hits for the Mets, who entered the game 0-5 against the Braves since June 17.
Drake Baldwin homered in the fourth and Ronald Acuna Jr. had a two-run single in the ninth for the Braves. Didier Fuentes (0-2), a 20-year-old who is the youngest player in the majors, gave up six runs on eight hits over 3 1/3 innings.
Rays 3, Royals 0
Drew Rasmussen and four Tampa Bay relievers held reeling Kansas City to just three hits and sent the host club to a ninth consecutive home defeat.
Brandon Lowe, Josh Lowe and Chandler Simpson each had two hits for the Rays, whose 11 hits were all singles. Tampa Bay has won five straight road games and 24 of its past 33 contests overall. Rasmussen (7-5) yielded two hits and two walks while striking out five over five innings.
The Royals have managed just one run in the first two games of the current three-game set and have been outscored 39-12 while going 0-9 at home in June. The Royals are on their longest home losing streak since a 10-game slide in 2023.
Twins 2, Mariners 0
Joe Ryan struck out eight batters over six scoreless innings, and Minnesota held on for a win over Seattle in Minneapolis.
Kody Clemens hit a solo home run for Minnesota, which snapped a five-game losing streak and won for only the second time in its past 13 games. Willi Castro also drove in a run. Ryan (8-3) allowed three hits and no walks.
Seattle managed only three singles. Cal Raleigh, who leads the big leagues with 32 home runs, finished 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. Mariners right-hander George Kirby (1-4) limited Twins hitters to one run on three hits in six innings.
Cubs 8, Cardinals 0
Ian Happ hit a homer and drove in three runs as visiting Chicago rolled past St. Louis.
Reese McGuire hit a two-run homer and Kyle Tucker added a solo shot for the Cubs, who won for the second time in their past seven games. Michael Busch (2-for-5, two runs, RBI) and Dansby Swanson (2-for-5, two runs) also had productive games for Chicago.
Cubs starter Matthew Boyd (7-3) blanked St. Louis on three hits over six innings. Cardinals starter Erick Fedde (3-7) allowed seven runs on eight hits in 3 2/3 innings.
Dodgers 8, Rockies 1
Max Muncy hit a grand slam and drove in six runs as Los Angeles earned a rain-delayed win over Colorado in Denver.
Michael Conforto and Muncy each had a homer and a single for Los Angeles, which has won nine straight against Colorado. The Dodgers have a three-game overall winning. Starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-6) tossed five shutout innings, giving up one hit and one walk while striking out six.
Tyler Freeman singled twice to extend his hitting streak to 12 games for the Rockies, who are 1-4 on their six-game homestand. Chase Dollander (2-8) was charged with three runs on three hits in 5 2/3 innings.
FAN BANNED AFTER HECKLING DIAMONDBACKS’ KETEL MARTE TO TEARS WITH COMMENTS ABOUT LATE MOTHER
CHICAGO (AP) — A 22-year-old fan who heckled Arizona Diamondbacks second baseman Ketel Marte during a game against the Chicago White Sox at Rate Field on Tuesday night has been banned indefinitely from the South Side ballpark.
Marte was seen in tears on the field after the spectator yelled a derogatory comment about Marte’s late mother during a seventh-inning at-bat in Arizona’s 4-1 win over Chicago.
According to a White Sox spokesperson, the security staff at the ballpark relayed that the fan was “very apologetic and remorseful after the fact, and admitted to being very inappropriate and stupid with his comments.”
Arizona manager Torey Lovullo and bench coach Jeff Banister asked for the fan to be removed from the game. Before Wednesday’s series finale, Lovullo said he “had little bit of an interaction with the fan” as he was yelling at Marte.
“He wasn’t getting it and was very pompous, and it didn’t sit right with me,” Lovullo said. “It was just a gross comment you wouldn’t say about anybody, let alone someone who lost their mom.
“We need better baseball fans. Baseball deserves better.”
Marte’s mother, Elpidia Valdez, died in a car accident in the Dominican Republic in 2017. Marte, who hit a solo home run in the first inning Tuesday night, was seen visibly upset during a pitching change in the bottom of the seventh as Lovullo put his arm around his player and consoled him.
“I just reacted as a dad would when I went out to change pitchers,” Lovullo said, according to the Arizona Republic. “I could see he was sobbing. It hurt.”
“(I told him): ‘I love you and I’m with you, and we’re all together and you’re not alone. No matter what happens, no matter what was said or what you heard, that guy is an idiot. It shouldn’t have an impact on you.’”
Marte declined to comment on the incident through a team official. Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo said the fan “should be banned, for sure” and called for Major League Baseball to intervene.
“That can’t happen,” Perdomo said. “We can’t continue to do that … here in MLB.”
BLUE JAYS ACQUIRE RHP ROBINSON PINA FROM MARLINS
The Toronto Blue Jays acquired right-hander Robinson Pina from the Miami Marlins on Wednesday.
The Marlins received minor league pitcher Colby Martin in exchange for Pina, who was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.
Pina, 26, surrendered a solo homer in one inning of work against the Atlanta Braves on Friday in his MLB debut. He was designated for assignment the following day.
He is 4-3 with a 3.47 ERA in 13 appearances (11 starts) with Triple-A Jacksonville this season.
Martin, 24, is 0-1 with a 1.54 ERA and five saves in 21 relief appearances this season between Low-A Dunedin and High-A Vancouver.
CARDINALS PLACE OF JORDAN WALKER ON 10-DAY IL WITH APPENDICITIS RETROACTIVE TO MONDAY
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have placed outfielder Jordan Walker on the 10-day injured list retroactive to Monday with appendicitis, the team announced Wednesday.
The team also recalled infielder José Fermín from Triple-A Memphis.
Walker was first examined by the team’s medical staff after feeling discomfort before batting practice on Tuesday, Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol said.
“They wanted to rule out appendix,” Marmol said. “They sent him to go get some imaging and it came back as early signs of it. They felt like holding him overnight was important to make sure that they can have a good assessment of if antibiotics treatment over having to go in and get it, and that’s the route that was taken.”
Walker is expected to be able to resume baseball activities in four to five days.
The 23-year-old Walker is hitting .210 with three home runs and 23 RBIs in 55 games in his third major league season.
Fermín has played parts of the last two seasons for the Cardinals and is hitting .308 with five home runs and 34 RBIs with Memphis this season.
FORMER SEATTLE PILOTS AND MARINERS RIGHTHANDER DIEGO SEGUI DIES AT 87
SEATTLE (AP) — Diego Segui, a pitcher who appeared in the first game in franchise history for the Seattle Pilots and was the starter for the Seattle Mariners in their first game, has died. He was 87.
The Mariners said Segui died Wednesday. No additional details were released.
Segui played for the Pilots in their first game on April 8, 1969, against the California Angels. He was the starter for the Mariners in their opener on April 6, 1977, in the Kingdome against the Angels.
“Our thoughts are with the Segui family, including David, Diego’s son, who the Mariners know well from his time with us in 1998 and 1999,” Mariners president of business operations Kevin Martinez said in a statement. “Diego was always generous with his time, visiting us in Seattle to help us celebrate milestones, including his last trip here for Hispanic Heritage Day in 2012.
“I also have fond memories of Diego’s grandson Cory throwing the final pitch in Kingdome history, a fitting finale for the Kingdome after Diego’s historic first pitch.”
Segui pitched in 15 major league seasons with the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, Washington Senators, St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox, in addition to both Seattle franchises.
The 6-foot, 190-pound right-hander from Holguin, Cuba, led the American League in ERA in 1970, and finished his career with a 92-111 record and a 3.81 ERA in 639 games.
After wrapping up his major league career, Segui pitched in the Mexican Professional League until 1984. He is a member of both the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum and the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame.
In 2024, he was honored by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum with its Negro Leagues Beisbol Lifetime Achievement Award.
RED SOX PITCHER KUTTER CRAWFORD’S OFF-FIELD ‘ACCIDENT’ REQUIRES SEASON-ENDING WRIST SURGERY
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Kutter Crawford had an off-field “accident” that requires season-ending surgery on his right throwing wrist, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said on Wednesday, adding that the 29-year-old wasn’t doing anything “irresponsible.”
“It hasn’t been a great year for him,” Cora said. “It (stinks) that it happened this way, but it’s just an accident.”
Crawford has been sidelined all season by a right-knee injury that he initially suffered in his third game of 2024, a season in which he went 9-6 with a 4.36 ERA in 33 starts, tied for the most starts in the American League.
“It (stinks) because we were talking about how deep we were in spring training, and the options that we had in the rotation,” Cora said before the series finale against the Los Angeles Angels. “And now it’s getting thinner and thinner.”
Crawford was one of baseball’s most durable pitchers in 2024 despite pitching most of the season with patellar-tendon discomfort, leading the Red Sox with 183 ⅔ innings pitched and 175 strikeouts, but he also gave up a major league-high 34 homers.
Crawford hoped to recover with a full winter of rest and rehabilitation, but he suffered a setback during the offseason and was unable to pitch in spring training. He was placed on the 60-day injured list in March.
Cora also said that third baseman Alex Bregman, who has been out since May 23 because of a quadriceps injury, probably won’t return until after the All-Star break.
Bregman, who was batting .299 with a .938 OPS, 11 homers, 17 doubles, 35 RBIs and 32 runs in 51 games when he suffered the injury, has been running but has not resumed baseball activities.
