BALTIMORE (AP) – J.D. Martinez came off the COVID-19 list and hit three home runs, powering the Boston Red Sox past the Baltimore Orioles 14-9 Sunday for their sixth straight win. Martinez got a chance at a record-tying fourth homer in the ninth inning and struck out swinging. He is the last of 18 major leaguers to homer four times in a game, doing it in September 2017 for Arizona. The 33-year-old Martinez went 4 for 6 with four RBIs and four runs, one day after being placed on the COVID-19 injured list because of cold symptoms. Rafael Devers homered twice, and Alex Verdugo added a three-run shot to finish the three-game sweep. Nick Pivetta (2-0) allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings.
Jorge López (0-2) allowed eight runs and seven hits over four innings.
DODGERS 3, NATIONALS 0
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Clayton Kershaw pitched six innings of five-hit ball to win an outstanding duel with Max Scherzer as the Dodgers finished a three-game sweep over Washington.
Rookie Zach McKinstry homered and drove in all three runs for the defending World Series champion Dodgers, who are off to a significant league-best start of 8-2 despite playing this series without injured former MVP outfielders Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger.
Kershaw (2-1) struck out six with no walks. Scherzer (0-1) also went six innings and allowed one run on three hits.
Kenley Jansen pitched a flawless ninth for his second save.
DIAMONDBACKS 7, REDS 0
PHOENIX (AP) – Luke Weaver retired the first 17 batters he faced, and Eduardo Escobar homered for the fourth straight game for Arizona.
The 27-year-old Weaver (1-0) took a no-hitter into the seventh inning before giving up a broken-bat single to Eugenio Suárez, whose ground found a hole up the middle. Cincinnati went into the game, batting .312 as a team, tops in the majors.
Rookie Matt Peacock pitched the final two innings to complete the two-hitter.
José De León (0-1) allowed six runs over 4 1/3 innings.
YANKEES 8, RAYS 4
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Rougned Odor snapped a 10th-inning tie with his first hit as a Yankee, Gio Urshela homered and drove in three runs, and New York rallied to avoid a weekend sweep.
Odor went 0 for four before singling in his first game since the Yankees acquired him from Texas. Urshela hit a two-run homer in the third inning and had four hits, including a two-out single in the 10th off Collin McHugh (0-1).
Aroldis Chapman (1-0) pitched a scoreless ninth, and Albert Abreu got three outs.
INDIANS 5, TIGERS 2
CLEVELAND (AP) – Logan Allen (1-1) recovered from a bumpy first inning to get his first win with the Indians, allowing one run and two hits in five innings as Cleveland completed a three-game sweep.
Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera was placed on the 10-day injured list before the left biceps strain.
Emmanuel Clase, throwing over 100 mph on nearly every pitch, worked the ninth for his second save.
Jake Bauers and César Hernández drove in early runs against José Ureña (0-2), who has given up nine walks in 7 2/3 innings this season.
PIRATES 7, CUBS 1
PITTSBURGH (AP) – JT Brubaker (1-0) allowed one run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings and had the first three RBIs. His two-run single down the right-field line capped a three-run second inning and gave the Pirates a 3-1 lead.
Pittsburgh’s Bryan Reynolds had the third four-hit game of his career.
Trevor Williams (1-1) was struck in his return to Pittsburgh, where he spent the first five seasons of his career before being released in November. He was tagged for five runs and ten hits in 3 1/3 innings.
BREWERS 9, CARDINALS 3
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Avisaíl García homered for the second day in a row, with Daniel Ponce de Leon (1-1) in a four-run first, and Travis Shaw and Manny Piña also connected. Austin Dean had a two-run double for the Cardinals, who have lost two in a row after a four-game winning streak. Brett Anderson (1-1) allowed one run and four hits in five innings for Milwaukee, which has won four of five.
MARINERS 8, TWINS 6
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Kyle Seager hit his second homer of the game, a three-run drive in the ninth off Alex Colomé (0-1) as Seattle overcame a 6-0, sixth-inning deficit. Colomé blew a save for the second time in four chances. Drew Steckenrider (1-1) pitched a scoreless eighth, and Rafael Montero earned his second save with a 1-2-3 ninth. Seager had four hits, and Taylor Trammell also homered for Seattle, which won a road series for the first time since Sept. 11-13, 2019, at Arizona. Byron Buxton has eight hits in three games to increase his batting average to .500. His 1.231 slugging percentage is tops in the majors.
ROYALS 4, WHITE SOX 3
CHICAGO (AP) – Michael A. Taylor scored when Garrett Crochet (0-1) misplayed Andrew Benintendi’s bunt in the 10th for Chicago’s second error of the day and ninth in nine games this season.
Greg Holland (1-1) pitched two scoreless innings, and Kyle Zimmer worked a perfect 10th for his first career save.
Chicago had won 17 straight games when its opponent started a left-handed pitcher, one shy of the major league record set by Atlanta from 2004-05.
