WASHINGTON (AP) — Brandon Nimmo hit a grand slam and matched a franchise record with nine RBIs, helping the New York Mets pound Washington Nationals 19-5 on Monday.
Nimmo also hit a three-run drive in his seventh career multihomer game. The 32-year-old outfielder had four hits and scored four times after beginning the day with a .192 batting average.
New York earned a split of the four-game series. The Mets have won nine of 11 overall to improve to a major league-best 20-9.
Jeff McNeil and Mark Vientos also homered for New York, which finished with 21 hits. Vientos connected for a three-run drive against Washington infielder Amed Rosario in the ninth.
James Wood and Nathaniel Lowe homered for Washington in the eighth.
TWINS 11, GUARDIANS 1
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jonah Bride had three of Minnesota’s 17 hits, Bailey Ober allowed one run in 7 2/3 innings and Minnesota rolled to a victory over Cleveland.
The Twins had 10 players with at least one hit, the first time they had done that since June of last season against the Athletics. Six had at least two hits, including Ryan Jeffers, who had a two-run homer. Jeffers had two hits and drove in three runs.
Edouard Julien also went deep for the Twins, who have won four straight and six of seven.
Ty France and Byron Buxton both had two hits and each drove in a pair of runs.
Ober (3-1) has won his last three starts and struck out two.
Starter Gavin Williams (2-2) allowed four runs in two innings.
Steven Kwan extended his hitting streak to 11 games for the Guardians, who have dropped three straight and four of five.
REDS 3, CARDINALS 1
CINCINNATI (AP) — Nick Martinez pitched six sparkling innings, and Cincinnati beat St. Louis Cardinals for their fifth straight win.
Martinez (1-3) allowed one run and five hits in the opener of a seven-game homestand. Graham Ashcraft and Tony Santillan each got three outs before Emilio Pagán finished the five-hitter for his eighth save.
Jose Trevino homered for Cincinnati, and Noelvi Marte drove in the go-ahead run with his first career triple.
Reds star Elly De La Cruz doubled in the first to extend his hitting streak to a career-high 12 games, and Gavin Lux collected three hits, including two doubles, to run his hitting streak to a career-best 12.
St. Louis right-hander Andre Pallante (2-2) allowed three runs and six hits in six innings.
ORIOLES 4, YANKEES 3
BALTIMORE (AP) — Ryan O’Hearn hit a three-run home run off Will Warren and Baltimore held on for a victory over New York.
Ramón Laureano doubled in Baltimore’s other run, and 35-year-old Japanese rookie Tomoyuki Sugano (3-1) struck out a career-high eight over five scoreless innings to help Baltimore stop a three-game losing streak.
Aaron Judge, hitting a major league-leading .405, had two hits to extend his on-base streak to 25 games and drove in New York’s first run when he hit into a forceout against Yennier Cano in the seventh inning.
Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells hit consecutive RBI doubles with one out in the eighth off Gregory Soto, who struck out Jasson Domínguez and retired Oswaldo Cabrera on a groundout.
Félix Bautista struck out Judge and Cody Bellinger during a perfect ninth for his fourth save.
ASTROS 8, TIGERS 5
HOUSTON (AP) — Jose Altuve hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning that sent Houston to a win over Detroit.
Christian Walker also had a two-run shot in the fourth to begin Houston’s comeback from a 3-0 deficit. The Astros still trailed by one when Jeremy Peña singled in the sixth. Altuve followed with his drive off Jack Flaherty (1-3) that crashed off the wall above the left-field seats to put Houston up 4-3.
Altuve had two hits and three RBIs while batting second for the first time since 2023. He asked to move out of the leadoff spot to give him more time to get ready to hit in the first inning after coming in from the outfield. The nine-time All-Star moved to left field this year after spending his first 14 major league seasons playing second base.
Houston’s victory snapped a four-game winning streak for the Tigers, who got two homers from Riley Greene and one from Kerry Carpenter but managed just two other hits.
ATHLETICS 2, RANGERS 1
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Tyler Soderstrom hit a two-run double to help JP Sears and the Athletics beat Texas.
Sears (4-2) struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings. He allowed one run and five hits in the opener of a seven-game trip.
The A’s went ahead to stay in the fifth. Gio Urshela hit a leadoff double and Brent Rooker reached on a two-out walk. Soderstrom then drove a 1-1 pitch from Patrick Corbin into the right-field corner, giving him 24 RBIs on the season.
The Rangers got one back when Kyle Higashioka doubled and scored on Jonah Heim’s two-out single in the sixth.
BRAVES 6, ROCKIES 3
DENVER (AP) — Bryce Elder pitched six solid innings, Michael Harris II hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth and Atlanta beat Colorado.
Colorado has dropped seven straight games and 15 of 16 to fall to 4-24, the worst record in the majors.
Elder (1-1) gave up a three-run homer in the first to Hunter Goodman but settled down to scatter three hits the rest of the way. He struck out four and walked two in matching his season high for innings.
Raisel Iglesias struck out Brenton Doyle looking with a runner aboard to earn his fifth save.
DODGERS 7, MARLINS 6, 10 INNINGS
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tommy Edman hit a two-run single in the 10th inning and Los Angeles blew a five-run lead before rallying to beat Miami.
Teoscar Hernández homered in his third consecutive game for the Dodgers, who opened a three-game series with their third straight win in hair-raising fashion.
Dane Myers delivered a pinch-hit grand slam as Miami rallied from a five-run deficit in the sixth, and the Marlins went up 6-5 in the 10th on Jesús Sánchez’s RBI double off Kirby Yates (3-1).
But then Andy Pages drew a leadoff walk from Ronny Henriquez (1-1) in the bottom half, and Kiké Hernández bunted both runners over before Edman’s drive to right comfortably scored Michael Conforto and Pages.
Dustin May yielded three runs on five singles and three walks while pitching into the sixth for the Dodgers. He has lasted at least five innings in all five starts since his return from a nearly two-year injury absence, providing stability to an ailing rotation that took another blow Monday when Tyler Glasnow went on the injured list.
The Associated Press