Yankees set team record with 9 homers in 20-9 victory over Brewers
New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge (99) hits an RBI double during the sixth inning of the baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Saturday, March 29, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)
NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge combined with Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to go deep on the first three pitches from Nestor Cortes, then hit two more homers as the New York Yankees set a team record with nine home runs in a 20-7 rout of the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday.
Judge hit a solo homer, his ninth career grand slam and a two-run drive in his 40th multihomer game and third with three homers. He finished with a career-high eight RBIs.
He came up just short of becoming the 19th player to hit four homers in a game when his sixth-inning fly fell on the right-field warning track for a run-scoring double. He flied out in the eighth against Jake Bauers, an outfielder and first baseman.
Goldschmidt, Bellinger and Judge homered starting the first on the unusually warm 78-degree afternoon. Major League Baseball said this was the first time a team homered on its first three pitches since tracking of pitch counts began in 1988.
Austin Wells, Anthony Volpe, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Oswald Peraza also homered.
Traded from the Yankees in December, Cortes (0-1) gave up eight runs, six hits and five walks over two innings in his Brewers debut.
CARDINALS 5, TWINS 1
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lars Nootbaar had two hits and two RBIs, helping Erick Fedde and St. Louis beat Minnesota.
Nolan Arenado, Iván Herrera and Victor Scott II also had two hits apiece for St. Louis, which beat Minnesota 5-3 on Thursday on opening day.
Fedde (1-0) permitted one run and two hits in six innings. He retired his last 10 batters.
The Cardinals scored three runs in the sixth to open a 4-1 lead. Arenado doubled off the shoulder of Jorge Alcala (0-1) and Alec Burleson drew a walk. Herrera singled home Arenado and Louis Varland relieved.
After a walk, Varland struck out two before Nootbaar singled to center to drive in Burleson and Herrera.
Arenado singled home Nootbaar in the first, but the Twins tied it on Willi Castro’s RBI double in the second.
Minnesota starter Joe Ryan pitched five innings of five-hit ball. He struck out five and walked none.
ANGELS 1, WHITE SOX 0
CHICAGO (AP) — Yoán Moncada hit an RBI single against his former team in the eighth inning, the Los Angeles blanked Chicago.
Jorge Soler walked with two outs in the eighth and advanced to third on Mike Clevinger’s wild pitch. Catcher Matt Thaiss had trouble locating the ball as Soler scampered around the bases.
Moncada then drove in Soler with a grounder back up the middle that went off Clevinger (0-1) for an infield single. Moncada played for the White Sox for the previous eight seasons before signing with the Angels in free agency.
Los Angeles right-hander José Soriano (1-0) pitched seven innings of two-hit ball. He struck out five and walked two.
Soriano made 20 starts and two relief appearances for Los Angeles last year, going 6-7 with a 3.42 ERA. He was shut down in August because of right arm fatigue.
Ben Joyce worked the eighth and Kenley Jansen earned his first save of the season, finishing a two-hitter.
ORIOLES 9, BLUE JAYS 5
TORONTO (AP) — Jordan Westburg hit two solo homers for his first career multihomer game, and Baltimore beat Toronto.
Colton Cowser also connected for Baltimore, and Ramón Urías hit a three-run double. The Orioles finished with 12 hits after they had three in Friday’s 8-2 loss.
Three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer left his debut start with the Blue Jays after three innings because of soreness in his right lat muscle.
Scherzer allowed two runs and three hits, including two solo drives in the first. He threw 45 pitches, 28 for strikes.
Cowser put Scherzer in an early hole with a 417-foot shot to center on the second pitch of the game. Westburg added a two-out drive.
Westburg went deep again in the seventh, a 402-foot shot off Chad Green.
Westburg finished with four hits and scored three times. He also connected for a solo shot on Thursday on opening day.
Orioles right-hander Dean Kremer (1-0) allowed five runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out six and walked two.
REDS 3, GIANTS 2
CINCINNATI (AP) — Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit a go-ahead solo homer, Matt McLain had two extra-base hits and an RBI and Cincinnati won to spoil the San Francisco debut of three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander.
McLain, who missed the entire 2024 season with a shoulder injury, got the Reds on the board with a solo homer in the third inning and scored from second base on an RBI single by Elly De La Cruz in the fifth, tying the game at 2.
Reds left-hander Nick Lodolo (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits in six innings. He finished with one strikeout and settled in, forcing a number of groundouts.
Two days after losing the season opener due to shaky relief pitching, Tony Santillan, Graham Ashcraft and Emilio Pagán worked three scoreless innings to seal the win.
ROYALS 4, GUARDIANS 3
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Bobby Witt Jr. hit a go-ahead RBI double in the seventh inning after Maikel Garcia tied it with a homer four batters earlier to help lead Kansas City over Cleveland.
Garcia led off the seventh with a 405-foot homer off Paul Sewald (0-1). Cavan Biggio followed with a single and was replaced by pinch-runner Dairon Blanco, who stole second. With two outs, Witt lined a double to left to score Blanco with the go-ahead run.
Guardians six-time All-Star José Ramírez left in the sixth inning with a sprained right wrist after he was hurt in the third inning while attempting to steal second base. Gabriel Arias replaced Ramírez at third base.
Bo Naylor gave the Indians a 1-0 lead on an RBI single in the second, and Carlos Santana scored Steven Kwan on a sacrifice fly in the third.
Kwan’s solo homer in the fifth put Cleveland up 3-1.
Royals starter Seth Lugo threw five innings and allowed three earned runs and four hits and struck out four with three walks. Daniel Lynch IV (1-0) followed Lugo and threw two perfect innings for the win. Carlos Estévez walked one and struck out one in the ninth to earn his first save for Kansas City.
ROCKIES 2, RAYS 1
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Brenton Doyle and Kyle Farmer each hit an RBI single to help Colorado beat Tampa Bay.
Doyle drove in Nick Martini with a grounder back up the middle in the third inning. Farmer’s liner to right in the seventh brought home Hunter Goodman for a 2-0 lead.
Tampa Bay finished with 12 hits in its second regular-season game at the spring training home of the New York Yankees. But the Rays went 2 for 10 with runners in scoring position and left 12 runners on base.
Tampa Bay is playing at Steinbrenner Field after Hurricane Milton destroyed the Tropicana Field roof on Oct. 9.
PHILLIES 11, NATIONALS 6
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kyle Schwarber’s three-run shot — his second homer in two games — was the big blow in a five-run sixth inning, and Brandon Marsh’s three-run drive in the seventh that drew “Let’s go, Phillies!” chants at Nationals Park lifted Philadelphia to a win over Washington.
Jesús Luzardo (1-0) struck out 11 in five innings in his Phillies debut. The only scoring he allowed came on Keibert Ruiz’s two-run homer in the second.
The Phillies tied it on Bryson Stott’s two-run shot in the fourth off Jake Irvin, who also lasted five innings.
Colin Poche (0-2) entered in the sixth and loaded the bases with one out. He gave way to Lucas Sims, who walked in the go-ahead run and threw a wild pitch that scored another, stretching Philadelphia’s lead to 4-2.
Schwarber, who led off after batting fourth Thursday, then deposited a 1-2 pitch to right-center to make it 7-2, a lead that grew to 11-3.
MARLINS 5, PIRATES 4, 12 INNINGS
MIAMI (AP) — Dane Myers’ RBI single in the 12th inning drove in Otto Lopez to give Miami a win over Pittsburgh, their second walk-off victory in three days.
Myers threw out Tommy Pham at home from right field in the top of the inning, then delivered his opposite-field drive to right-center off Tim Mayza for the winning run. Kyle Stowers gave the Marlins a 5-4 win on opening day with a ninth-inning RBI.
Myers, Stowers and Lopez had three hits apiece with Derek Hill adding two. George Soriano (1-0), the seventh Marlins pitcher, got the win despite giving up two hits in the 12th.
Bryan Reynolds had two hits for the Pirates. Joey Wentz (0-1) pitched two innings before leaving in the 12th after intentionally walking Lopez to open the inning. Oneil Cruz dropped Jonah Bride’s flyball near the wall in right-center to load the bases. Xavier Edwards was forced out at home before Myers’ game-winner.
The teams were tied at 3 after seven innings and each scored in the 11th.
PADRES 1, BRAVES 0
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Yuli Gurriel singled with two outs in the seventh inning to score Jake Cronenworth, who was aboard on an unusual ground-rule double, and San Diego beat Atlanta to take their third straight win in the four-game series.
Cronenworth’s liner hit reliever Aaron Bummer (0-1) on the bottom of his right foot and caromed into the Braves’ dugout for a ground-rule double. Bummer intentionally walked Xander Bogaerts and made way for Daysbel Hernández, who allowed Gurriel’s hit to left field that brought in Cronenworth.
Cronenworth hit a go-ahead homer in Friday night’s 4-3 win.
This series is a rematch of last season’s wild-card playoff won by the Padres in a two-game sweep.
Braves starter Spencer Schwellenbach allowed one hit in six shutout innings while striking out four and walking one.
San Diego’s Randy Vásquez permitted four hits in six shutout innings.
RANGERS 4, RED SOX 3
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Adolis García put Texas ahead to stay with his first homer of the season after an earlier two-run double and they beat Boston.
García went deep leading off the fourth for a 3-2 lead. His 414-foot drive to left field came on a 79-mph sweeper pitch from Walker Buehler (0-1).
Kristian Campbell led off the Red Sox fourth with his first career homer. The rookie, starting in left field after his first two games at second base, almost prevented García’s two-run double in the first inning. He made diving play in the left-center gap and had the ball in his glove, but it rolled out after he hit the ground.
Hoby Milner (1-0), the third of six Texas pitchers, worked 1 1/3 innings for the win. Chris Martin, the Arlington native who pitched for Boston the past two seasons, pitched a perfect ninth with two strikeouts for his first save.
ASTROS 2, METS 1
HOUSTON (AP) — Jeremy Peña homered and Yordan Alvarez got his first hit this season, a tiebreaking double in the sixth inning that lifted Houston to a win over New York.
Houston took two of three in a season-opening series between 2024 playoff teams.
Spencer Arrighetti (1-0) allowed just one hit, a first-inning double to Juan Soto, and one run with five strikeouts in six innings. Astros closer Josh Hader walked Soto to start the ninth before retiring the next three batters for his second save, completing the one-hitter.
The game was tied with two outs in the sixth when Alvarez knocked a double off the wall in center field to send Isaac Paredes home from first base, putting Houston on top 2-1.
Griffin Canning (0-1) gave up four hits and two runs over 5 2/3 innings in his Mets debut.
CUBS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 3
PHOENIX (AP) — Kyle Tucker hit his first home run with Chicago, leading his new team to a victory over Arizona.
Shota Imanaga pitched seven effective innings as Chicago bounced back from Friday’s 8-1 loss to Arizona. Ryan Pressly worked a rocky ninth inning for his first save with the Cubs.
Tucker had three hits. With one out in the fifth and Jon Berti aboard after a leadoff single, Tucker hit a drive to right off Brandon Pfaadt to give Chicago a 3-1 lead.
Tucker was acquired in a December trade with Houston.
Rookie Matt Shaw added his first major league homer for the Cubs, a pinch-hit drive to left in the seventh off Jalen Beeks.
Imanaga (1-0) allowed one run and three hits in his second start of the season.
Chicago had its lead cut to 4-3 on Eugenio Suárez’s two-run drive off Pressly in the ninth. It was Suárez’s major league-high fourth homer this season.
DODGERS 7, TIGERS 3
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman had a homer and an RBI double, Teoscar Hernández delivered a tiebreaking two-run double in the fifth inning, and Los Angeles extended their perfect start to the season with a victory over Detroit.
Will Smith and Tommy Edman also homered for the defending World Series champions, who are 5-0 after beating the Cubs twice in last week’s Tokyo Series before sweeping Detroit in Chavez Ravine. The Dodgers are off to their best start since 1981, when they opened 6-0 and eventually won the World Series.
Los Angeles overcame a second shaky start by touted right-hander Roki Sasaki, who couldn’t get out of the second inning after yielding four walks, three singles and two runs. Detroit scored on Manuel Margot’s bases-loaded dribbler and a 10-pitch walk to Trey Sweeney.
Anthony Banda (1-0) pitched the fifth. Six Dodgers relievers combined for 7 1/3 innings of three-hit ball.
ATHLETICS 4, MARINERS 2
SEATTLE (AP) — Shea Langeliers hit a two-run homer, Osvaldo Bido pitched five solid innings and the Athletics defeated Seattle.
Miguel Andujar and Brent Rooker each had an RBI single for the Athletics. Mason Miller struck out three in a scoreless ninth for his first save of the season.
Langeliers’ first homer came against starter Bryce Miller (0-1), who allowed three runs and six hits over 5 2/3 innings.
Bido (1-0) yielded three hits and two runs — one earned — with four walks and four strikeouts.
Seattle took a 1-0 lead when Rowdy Tellez scored on a throwing error by Langeliers in the second. The catcher’s throw to second on Ryan Bliss’ stolen base sailed into center field, allowing Tellez to score from third.
After Langeliers put the A’s ahead with his 357-foot drive in the fourth, Andujar hit an RBI single off Bryce Miller in the sixth to make it 3-1.