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While Max Fried's first month with the New York Yankees is going well, Devin Williams is experiencing a rough time in his initial weeks for his new team. Fried will be on the mound Saturday afternoon when the Yankees host the Toronto Blue Jays. Now, if there is a save situation for New York, whoever is on the mound in the ninth inning will be a storyline. The Yankees are 1-3 in their past four games, and they took a 4-2 loss on Friday when Williams did not retire a batter and allowed a go-ahead two-run double to Alejandro Kirk in the ninth. Williams, acquired in December from the Milwaukee Brewers for Nestor Cortes, blew his first save in five chances and has an 11.25 ERA in his first 10 appearances. "Truthfully, I don't know," Williams said. "It's something I've been battling for most of the season. So it's getting pretty frustrating." Following the defeat, New York manager Aaron Boone declined to say if he was considering a change at closer. He has a readymade option if he wants to make a switch: Setup man Luke Weaver has two saves and a 0.00 ERA through 11 outings this year, and he handled the closer role in the final month of last season. "We'll kind of talk through that stuff," Boone said. "This is raw right now. We want to do everything we can to get (Williams) right because we know how good he is and how valuable he's going to be for us." Fried (4-0, 1.42 ERA) is rolling in the opening weeks of eight-year, $218 million contract with the Yankees. Since allowing six runs (two earned) over 4 2/3 innings in a no-decision against the Milwaukee Brewers on March 29, Fried is 4-0 with a 1.00 ERA in his past four outings. Fried turned in his second scoreless outing this season when he allowed two hits in a season-high 7 2/3 innings against the host Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday. He got a season-high 13 groundball outs and threw 102 pitches. Fried is 2-0 with a 0.95 ERA in three career starts against Toronto. He last faced the Blue Jays last Sept. 6, when he allowed one run, which was unearned, on five hits in seven innings in a game when he fanned eight and got 16 groundball outs. The Blue Jays stopped a season-high, five-game losing streak by getting enough hits after going 9-for-90 and getting swept in a three-game series at Houston. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered on Friday, and Kirk, Addison Barger and Nathan Lukes each had two of Toronto's nine hits. "It feels great. I needed it and the team needed it," Kirk said through an interpreter after his sixth multi-hit game of the season. "I'm very happy, just very happy about it." Toronto's Kevin Gausman (2-2, 3.16 ERA) starts on Saturday in the middle game of a three-game series. He is coming off allowing a season-worst four runs on six hits in six innings during a 7-0 loss at Houston on Monday. Gausman struck out six, and he has fanned 22 in his past three outings after not getting a strikeout April 4 against the Mets in New York. Gausman is 10-9 with a 3.63 ERA in 35 career appearances (29 starts) against the Yankees. Last season, he went 0-2 with a 9.98 ERA in four starts against the Yankees, who slugged five homers against him in 15 1/3 innings. --Field Level Media

Alejandro Kirk hit a two-run double with no outs in the ninth inning for the visiting Toronto Blue Jays, who stopped a season-worst five-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Friday night. Devin Williams (0-2) blew his first save in five chances by not getting an out in the ninth with the Yankees nursing a 2-1 lead. He allowed a single to George Springer and hit Andres Gimenez with a pitch. Kirk then gave Toronto a 3-2 lead by hitting a 1-0 changeup over center fielder Trent Grisham's head, and Williams gave way to Mark Leiter Jr. Williams was charged with a third run when Addison Barger added an RBI single off Leiter. Williams has an 11.25 ERA in his first 10 appearances with the Yankees, and he heard loud boos when exiting the mound. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered in the sixth off Tim Hill for a 1-0 lead for the Blue Jays, who had nine hits -- matching their total from a three-game sweep in Houston. Oswaldo Cabrera hit a tying single in the seventh through a drawn-in infield as the Yankees lost for the third time in four games. New York had 10 hits, went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position and stranded 11 in its first of nine straight games against AL East opponents. The Yankees then seized a 2-1 lead when Austin Wells hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly with the bases loaded in the eighth off eventual winning pitcher Mason Fluharty (1-0). Fluharty kept the deficit at 2-1 by retiring Cabrera to end the inning. Jeff Hoffman allowed a two-out double to Ben Rice before converting his sixth save in as many chances by retiring Paul Goldschmidt on a popout. Toronto's Jose Berrios allowed five hits in 5 1/3 scoreless innings. He struck out four and walked two. New York's Carlos Carrasco allowed three hits in five scoreless innings. He fanned two and issued a pair of walks. --Field Level Media

The Cleveland Guardians succumbed to the New York Yankees in last season's American League Championship Series, but already got a measure of redemption in 2025. Looking for a sixth straight win, the Guardians aim to sweep this three-game set from the visiting Yankees on Wednesday. The Guardians have made the most of their chance to modestly avenge losing the 2024 ALCS to New York in five games. Following Monday's 6-4 victory, the Guardians overcame a 2-0 deficit by scoring three runs in the sixth to win 3-2 on Tuesday. Cleveland is 11-3 after losing six of its first nine and 7-1 at home. "Let's keep it rolling," said Guardians star Steven Kwan, who had two hits Tuesday and is batting .341 in 2025. Kwan opened the sixth Tuesday with a single and eventually scored from second on Mark Leiter Jr.'s wild pitch amid a double steal. Kyle Manzardo then tied things with an RBI double and scored on Angel Martinez's looping liner over second base. "Like we say, it's always good to create chaos," said Cleveland's Tanner Bibee, who allowed two runs over six innings Tuesday. Scheduled Cleveland starter Luis Ortiz (2-2, 5.48 ERA) looks for a fourth consecutive solid outing. After yielding seven runs, nine hits and four walks over 4 2/3 innings at San Diego in his season and Guardians debut, the right-hander has yielded 12 hits and walked five while going 2-1 with a 3.24 ERA in his last three outings. "He's got a bunch of pitches going in a bunch of different directions, to put it simply," catcher Bo Naylor told the Guardians' official website. "When you're in the zone with multiple pitches, as well, it doesn't allow the hitter to be able to eliminate as much as they would like to." Facing his former team Friday at Pittsburgh, Ortiz gave up three of those walks and four hits, but just two runs and struck out eight in five innings of a 10-7 victory. Ortiz is 0-1 with a 4.66 ERA in two starts against the Yankees, but has not faced them since 2023. Batting .371 this season, New York's Paul Goldschmidt is 5-for-7 with a double versus Ortiz. Meanwhile, teammate Aaron Judge is batting an MLB-leading .411 after going 4-for-4 on Tuesday. However, Judge is 0-for-3, but walked three times against Ortiz. The Yankees have lost three of four after winning five in a row, but scheduled starter Carlos Rodon (2-3, 4.34) is 8-5 with a 2.81 ERA in 21 appearances (19 starts) versus Cleveland. The left-hander allowed 14 runs (13 earned), 10 hits and 10 walks over 17 1/3 innings while losing three straight starts before he overcame four walks, by yielding just two hits and striking out nine in six innings of Friday's 1-0 win at Tampa Bay. "I think it's just one of those things where I can't give in," said Rodon, who didn't allow a home run for the first time this season Thursday. "Just conviction in the pitch I'm throwing and competing." Including the postseason, Kwan is 1-for-8 versus Rodon. Teammate Carlos Santana is 0-for-16 with six strikeouts in the last four games, but batting .385 with two homers against Rodon. --Field Level Media

The Cleveland Guardians and New York Yankees competed in a tight five-game American League Championship Series about six months ago, and both teams are off to decent starts to create a possibility of postseason trips. For the first time since Juan Soto hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the 10th inning of Game 5 of the ALCS, the Yankees head to Cleveland for the start of a three-game series. The Yankees have started their first AL pennant defense since 2009 by winning 14 of their first 22 games and are on their best run of the early weeks. After dropping five of seven on April 6-13, the Yankees are 6-1 in their past seven games. New York is off to a strong start with outfielder Soto playing across town for the Mets, fellow slugger Giancarlo Stanton out indefinitely with elbow injuries and ace pitcher Gerrit Cole out for the season following Tommy John surgery on his elbow. Without Cole, the Yankees' rotation owns a 4.50 ERA this season, but in the past seven games, New York's starters are pitching to a 2.70 ERA. On Sunday, Max Fried allowed two hits in 7 2/3 innings of a 4-0 win over the host Tampa Bay Rays at Steinbrenner Field, where the Yankees won three of four in their spring training home ballpark. Fried allowed an infield single that was originally ruled an error by first baseman Paul Goldschmidt and gave up another hit in the eighth shortly after the initial scoring call was changed. Cody Bellinger, Trent Grisham and Austin Wells homered for the Yankee while Aaron Judge reached base for the 18th straight game, though he had a homer ruled to be a foul ball. "We're playing really good as a team right now," Bellinger said. "It's fun to be a part of." The Yankees will be without Grisham on Monday after he was placed on the paternity list, while infielder Jorbit Vivas was recalled. Cleveland went 3-6 on a season-opening nine-game road trip against the Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Angels but is 9-3 over its past 12 contests. Seven of those wins are by three runs or less, including a 5-4 win against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the finale of a six-game road trip on Sunday. Kyle Manzardo hit a two-run homer and added the tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the 10th after closer Emmanuel Clase allowed three runs in the ninth. Steven Kwan also hit a two-run homer as the Guardians homered for the 19th time in their past 15 games. "We have been playing good ball," Cleveland starter Logan Allen said. "We're happy to get out of here with a sweep, and we're excited to go back home and keep it rolling." Cleveland's rotation holds a 2.77 ERA in its past 12 games and Gavin Williams (1-1, 4.58 ERA) opens the series with the Yankees. Williams earned his first win this season when he held the White Sox to one run in five innings on April 10. However, on Wednesday he was tagged for five runs in 6 2/3 innings of a 9-1 loss at Baltimore. Williams allowed three runs in 4 1/3 innings during his only previous start against the Yankees, a 6-0 loss on Aug. 22, 2024, in New York. He also allowed three runs in 2 1/3 innings when the right-hander started Game 4 of the ALCS, which New York won 8-6 though Williams got a no-decision. Clarke Schmidt (0-0, 4.76) will make his second start after opening the season on the injured list with a shoulder injury. Schmidt allowed three runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings and took a no-decision Wednesday against the Royals. The right-hander is 1-0 with a 3.52 ERA in four career appearances (three starts) against Cleveland. He also has an 0-1 record in three postseason appearances (one start) against the Guardians, including a start in Game 3 of last season's ALCS when he allowed two runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings of a no-decision. --Field Level Media

Over six months ago, the New York Yankees beat the Kansas City Royals in a competitive four-game division series en route to their first World Series appearance since 2009. Both teams hold aspirations of eventually reaching the postseason again. In the early going, the Royals and Yankees are hovering around .500 entering the opener of a three-game series Monday night in New York. The Yankees started defense of their American League pennant by winning six of their first eight games, hitting 25 homers and scoring 72 runs. Since then, New York is 2-5, has scored 23 runs and hit three homers. New York has played in mostly cold conditions with several games being played with first-pitch temperatures of 50 degrees or lower. The Yankees split a pair of rainy games with the San Francisco Giants before blowing an early three-run lead and taking a 5-4 setback on Sunday when the weather was in the low 50s. Aaron Judge reached three times but struck out for the final out. Paul Goldschmidt, JC Escarra and Ben Rice had run-scoring hits before Jazz Chisholm Jr. broke an 0-for-24 skid with a homer in the eighth. "That's probably the coldest I've ever played in this past week," Chisholm said. "But at the end of the day, this is my job, and this is what I get paid to do." Chisholm is among several Yankees whose bats have cooled off lately. Cody Bellinger has five hits in his past 30 at-bats, Anthony Volpe is in a 1-for-17 slide and Jasson Dominguez has three hits over his past 19. The Royals are at .500 for the sixth time this season after getting a 4-2 road victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Sunday. Salvador Perez hit a two-run homer and Maikel Garcia hit a tiebreaking two-run double as part of a three-hit showing. The Royals lead the AL with a 3.14 ERA after getting 7 2/3 standout innings from Cole Ragans. They will open the series Monday with Seth Lugo (1-1, 3.24 ERA), who has a 13-inning road scoreless streak and was among the best in baseball during road games last season. "This is a fun group to be a part of, just like last year," Ragans said. "We feed off each other and we pull for each other and we push each other to be better than the day before." Last season, Lugo went 9-3 with a 2.62 ERA on the road, matching Yankees right-hander Luis Gil and San Diego's Michael King for the most in the majors. Lugo has not allowed a run in a road game since allowing a homer to Ben Gamel in the third inning in Houston on Aug. 30. He tossed seven innings with 10 strikeouts and held the Yankees to three hits Sept. 10 in New York, and it was among 13 times Lugo completed seven innings last season when he was a 16-game winner. Lugo last pitched on Wednesday in a 4-0 home loss to the Minnesota Twins, when he allowed two runs on five hits in 5 2/3 innings. The right-hander is 5-2 with a 2.55 ERA in 14 appearances (four starts) against the Yankees. He also allowed two runs in five innings in Game 3 of the Division Series in Kansas City on Oct. 9. Carlos Carrasco (1-1, 7.71) opens the series for the Yankees, whose ERA from starting pitchers is an MLB-worst 5.40. In Tuesday's 5-0 loss at Detroit, he allowed four runs and six hits, including three homers in 4 1/3 innings. The veteran right-hander is 12-9 with a 3.95 ERA in 28 career appearances (23 starts) against the Royals. --Field Level Media

The Yankees are playing through frigid conditions, and their bats matched the weather for four games until Saturday. After producing one of their biggest innings in the early going, the Yankees hope to enjoy another productive day at the plate Sunday afternoon when they host the San Francisco Giants in forecasted slightly better weather, with a projected game-time temperature of around 50 degrees. After playing in freezing weather in three afternoon games against the Detroit Tigers, the Yankees returned home and played in rainy conditions the first two games against the Giants. They took a 9-1 rain-shortened loss Friday when the game-time temperature in a heavy downpour was 44 degrees and earned an 8-4 win Saturday while playing through light rain and a game-time temperature of 41 degrees. Cody Bellinger, who entered Saturday in a 3-for-21 slump, had an RBI triple in a two-run first inning and a tiebreaking RBI single in a five-run fifth. Jasson Dominguez snapped an 0-for-15 skid with a two-run single to cap the inning as the Yankees finished with 11 hits, marking the sixth time they've had at least 10 hits. "We did a great job of obviously starting the game hot and adding pressure," Bellinger said. Paul Goldschmidt added an RBI double while Ben Rice homered and reached base three times and is hitting .333 in five games out of the leadoff spot. "It's great," Rice said. "I think that's how our lineup goes. I mean it's contagious." The Giants allowed their second-most runs all season and struck out 12 times. It was the sixth time they have struck out at least 10 times in a game, and Mike Yastrzemski struck out three times in his second start as a leadoff hitter. Wilmer Flores continued to wield a hot bat by driving in all four runs. He hit a two-run homer along with a two-run double and has 19 RBIs and a .302 average through the first 14 games. "He's just into his legs," San Francisco manager Bob Melvin said of Flores, who was limited to 71 games in 2024. "Last year with the knee issue he had, he really couldn't drive the ball. "It's just a different guy right now. He's always been a guy (who has) gotten big hits, and he's had huge hits for us this year." Logan Webb (1-0, 1.89 ERA) will make his 150th career appearance for the Giants after completing seven innings in consecutive starts. Webb has completed seven innings 17 times since the start of last season and took a no-decision Monday when he struck out 10 in seven scoreless innings of a 2-0 loss to the visiting Cincinnati Reds. Webb has allowed three runs or fewer each time out so far and 12 of his past 14 starts since July 25. Webb is 0-2 with a 5.54 ERA in two career starts against the Yankees. He allowed four runs in seven innings last June 1 in San Francisco and four runs in six innings March 30, 2023, in New York when he also struck out 12. Carlos Rodon (1-2, 5.19 ERA), who has allowed nine runs over his past two outings, starts for New York. Rodon allowed six runs (five earned) on four hits in six innings in Monday's 6-2 loss to the Detroit Tigers. He allowed a three-run homer with two outs in the third. Rodon won 14 games in his only season with the Giants before signing with the Yankees following the 2022 season. He has never faced the Giants, and the only hitters to ever face him are Willy Adames (3-for-14) and Matt Chapman (0-for-3). --Field Level Media

Hours before the San Francisco Giants continued their best start since 2003 at Yankee Stadium, manager Bob Melvin made lineup changes by moving Mike Yastrzemski up to the leadoff slot and switching LaMonte Wade Jr. from leadoff to sixth. The move worked out for the Giants, who will attempt to maintain their strong start Saturday afternoon when they visit the suddenly struggling New York Yankees. At 10-3, the Giants are off to their best 13-game start since the 2003 team bolted out to a 13-1 record and won 15 of its first 17 contests. The Giants used Wade for nine games at leadoff but he batted .125, while Yastrzemski hit well while batting lower in the lineup. On Friday, Yastrzemski sparked a five-run first inning with a double on the game's first pitch and is hitting .343 overall. Wade snapped an 0-for-17 skid with a two-run double after Jung Hoo Lee hit a three-run homer in the frame. "We try to stay consistent," Melvin said prior to Friday's 9-1 romp, called after six innings due to rain. "We've obviously won some games and have a good flow to our lineup. LaMonte is struggling just a little bit for him, and Yaz is swinging good. When you have someone as hot as him, you want to try to get him up there. He's led off before, so he's used to it." The Yankees lost for the fourth time in five games on Friday and mustered just two hits, including an RBI double by Austin Wells. New York has scored 11 runs in its past five games and has one homer in those games after hitting 25 in its first eight. New York also is struggling on the mound of late, and even with Max Fried's dominant seven innings on Wednesday in Detroit, its starters have an MLB-worst 5.46 ERA. On Friday, Marcus Stroman allowed five runs while getting two outs in a 46-pitch outing and then was sent for X-rays on his left knee. "We've got to do better," New York manager Aaron Boone said. "Obviously we're coming off a great start with Max, but we've struggled to this point. It's 13 games in but, night in and night out, pitch a little bit better to put us in a good situation. We'll keep working at it." Stroman's short start led the Yankees to use four relievers (Ryan Yarbrough, Ian Hamilton, Tim Hill and Yoendrys Gomez), although the game being stopped after six innings saved them from burning further through their bullpen. Right-hander Will Warren (0-0, 6.00 ERA) will get the start on Saturday after experiencing mixed results in his first two outings. After allowing two runs in five innings against the Arizona Diamondbacks on April 1, Warren yielded four runs and six hits in four innings Sunday versus the Pittsburgh Pirates. Warren has never faced the Giants. Right-hander Jordan Hicks (1-0, 2.38 ERA) is scheduled to take the mound Saturday for San Francisco. Hicks pitched six scoreless innings in a 7-2 win on March 31 at Houston and then allowed three runs and six hits, including homers to Seattle's Julio Rodriguez and Cal Raleigh, in 5 1/3 innings during a no-decision Sunday. The Giants won 5-4. Hicks is 0-1 with a 3.27 ERA in six career appearances against the Yankees. In his only start against New York, Hicks allowed five runs (four earned) on seven hits in 5 1/3 innings in a 6-2 loss last May 31 in San Francisco. --Field Level Media

Considering all the rotation injuries they've dealt with, the New York Yankees need Max Fried to have a big year. His last outing provided a glimpse of what Fried could do every fifth game. Fried held Pittsburgh to one run in 5 2/3 innings on Friday. He'll look to at least duplicate that start against streaking Detroit in the finale of a three-game series Wednesday afternoon. The Tigers have won five straight, including a 5-0 shutout on Tuesday. Fried signed a hefty eight-year, $218 million contract as a free agent in mid-December. With ace Gerrit Cole out for the season and Luis Gil sidelined for at least a chunk of the season, Fried will need to carry the starting staff. His Yankees debut against Milwaukee on March 29 didn't go well. He gave up six runs and seven hits in 4 2/3 innings, though only two of the runs were earned. His outing against the Pirates, which included six strikeouts, was more to his liking. "I just felt like it was a little bit more of my game," Fried said. "I was able to execute some pitches. The fastball down and in was really good (Friday). When I'm throwing that fastball in, it just opens up everything else." Fried (1-0) got a no-decision against the Brewers as his teammates scored 20 runs. The Yankees won Friday's contest, 9-4. "It takes a lot off me, where I know I can be a little more aggressive and go after guys," Fried said of the run support. "At that point, when they're swinging the bats well, your job is just to try getting into the dugout as quick as possible." Fried has faced the Tigers just once in his career; he held them to one run in 5 1/3 innings last June. Jack Flaherty (1-0) will make his third start of the season for Detroit. His last outing was similar to Fried's second start, as he limited the Chicago White Sox to one run and three hits in 5 2/3 innings Friday. Flaherty also recorded seven strikeouts in Detroit's home opener. Flaherty re-signed with the Tigers after being traded last season to the Los Angeles Dodgers and earning a World Series ring. "It was great to be back here," Flaherty said. "These (fans) showed up and it was awesome. Gave me some goosebumps with the pregame intros. It was great to be back on this side." Flaherty has faced the Yankees just once in the regular season in his career, tossing six shutout innings in July 2023. He faced them twice in the World Series last fall, holding them to two runs in 5 1/3 innings in Game 1. He got just four outs in Game 5 while giving up four runs, including two homers. Aaron Judge had one of those long balls, but he has gone the last four games without a homer after blasting six in the first seven games. Detroit has hit five homers in the series, including four on Tuesday. "It was nice that our guys got the ball in the air to the pull side," manager A.J. Hinch said. --Field Level Media

Tarik Skubal pitched six scoreless innings and his Detroit teammates blasted four home runs as the host Tigers stretched their win streak to five games by blanking the New York Yankees, 5-0, on Tuesday afternoon. Skubal (1-2), the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, held the Yankees to four hits and struck out six without a walk. Brant Hurter completed the shutout while striking out three in the last three innings. Spencer Torkelson, Zach McKinstry and Dillon Dingler homered in the fourth inning against Yankees starter Carlos Carrasco (1-1). That trio had two hits apiece, with Torkelson scoring two runs and McKinstry driving in a pair. Kerry Carpenter also homered for the Tigers, who have won seven of their last eight games. Carrasco gave up four runs on six hits in 4 1/3 innings. Paul Goldschmidt had three hits for the Yankees, who have lost three straight. The first two batters of the game, Goldschmidt and Ben Rice, singled. Skubal retired the next three batters, including a pair of strikeouts. Skubal also had two strikeouts in the second, then got a lead to work with from his offense. Torkelson smacked a ground-rule double and moved to third on Colt Keith's single. McKinstry's sacrifice fly knocked in Torkelson. Dingler followed with a single but Carrasco escaped further damage by getting Trey Sweeney to bounce into a double play. Torkelson jumped on Carrasco's first pitch in the fourth, pounding a slider over the left-center field wall for his third homer of the season. One out later, McKinstry blasted his first homer to right-center and Dingler hammered his second homer beyond the left-center field wall. Carpenter made it 5-0 with his solo shot off Ryan Yarbrough with one out in the fifth. Goldschmidt had a single and Aaron Judge reached on a two-out single in the sixth. Skubal then set down Jazz Chisholm on a popup. The Yankees had two baserunners in the ninth. Hurter finished off the shutout by getting Austin Wells to bounce into a double play. --Field Level Media

Aaron Judge hit a three-run homer in the first inning for his 500th career extra-base hit as the host New York Yankees raced out to a big lead and earned a 9-7 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday night. Judge homered in his 999th career game, becoming the third-fastest player in team history to reach 500 extra-base hits behind Lou Gehrig (874 games) and Joe DiMaggio (853 games). Judge added an RBI single in New York's three-run fourth and finished his first homestand of the season with five homers and 15 RBIs. Jazz Chisholm Jr. added a two-run homer and Trent Grisham contributed three hits and drove in three. Grisham hit a two-run homer and an RBI single. Carlos Carrasco (1-0) allowed three runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings. The veteran right-hander struck out five and walked two for his first win since June 21. Geraldo Perdomo hit Arizona's second grand slam of the series when he connected off Ryan Yarbrough in the seventh. Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit an RBI single and Alek Thomas had a pair of run-scoring groundouts in the first four innings for Arizona. Merrill Kelly (0-1) was tagged for a career-high nine runs on nine hits in 3 2/3 innings. Red Sox 8, Orioles 4 Alex Bregman, Kristian Campbell and Triston Casas each slugged a two-run home run, and Boston strung together back-to-back victories for the first time this season. Bregman, who added a run-scoring double in the ninth, finished with three hits. Cedric Mullins homered for the Orioles, who dropped back-to-back games for the first time this season. Zack Kelly (1-0), the first of four relievers, was the winning pitcher with one inning of relief for the Red Sox. Boston starter Tanner Houck went four innings, giving up three runs on five hits with six strikeouts. Phillies 3, Rockies 1 Taijuan Walker logged six scoreless innings as Philadelphia completed a three-game sweep of visiting Colorado. Coming off a season in which he had a 7.10 ERA, Walker (1-0) allowed only three hits and a walk while striking out four in his 2025 debut. Kyle Schwarber homered, and J.T. Realmuto recorded three hits for Philadelphia, which has won five of its first six games. Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela (0-1) allowed just an unearned run, scattering 10 hits over 5 1/3 innings. Colorado has lost five of six to kick off the campaign, scoring a total of 11 runs in the process. Brewers 1, Reds 0 Nestor Cortes bounced back from a historically bad start with six innings of one-hit ball, combining with three relievers to pace Milwaukee to a shutout victory over Cincinnati in the opener of a four-game series. It was the third consecutive 1-0 loss for the Reds, while the Brewers have won three straight after opening with four losses. Reds starter Nick Lodolo (1-1) retired the first nine hitters before the Brewers got on the board with an unearned run in the fourth. Cortes (1-1) struck out six and walked two in an 86-pitch outing. Elvis Peguero and Bryan Hudson each followed with a scoreless inning and Joel Payamps finished with a perfect ninth for his first save. Astros 5, Twins 2 Brendan Rodgers went 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs, and Houston held on for the win over Minnesota in Minneapolis. Christian Walker and Jeremy Pena each homered for Houston, which snapped a three-game losing streak. Victor Caratini finished 2-for-4 with a double. Right-hander Hunter Brown (1-1) limited the Twins to two runs on five hits in six innings. He walked none, struck out eight and threw 61 of 91 pitches for strikes. Carlos Correa and Trevor Larnach drove in one run apiece for Minnesota, which dropped its home opener. Byron Buxton went 2-for-4. Right-hander Joe Ryan (0-1) gave up four runs on five hits, including two homers, in five innings. He walked none and struck out six. --Field Level Media