NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat, Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered twice and the New York Yankees went deep four more times in a 12-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, a day after becoming the third team in major league history to hit nine homers in a game.
The Yankees hit a total of 15 homers and scored 36 runs as they swept the three-game series.
A day after homering three times for the third time in his career and finishing with a career-high eight RBIs, Judge hit a two-run homer off Aaron Civale (0-1) in the first inning, sending a full count 89 mph fastball into the lower left field seats.
After hitting 58 homers last season, Judge is the first Yankee with four homers in the opening three games. Judge finished with 11 RBIs in the series.
GIANTS 6, REDS 3
CINCINNATI (AP) — Matt Chapman hit a two-run homer and Heliot Ramos homered for the second time in the series as San Francisco beat Cincinnati.
It was a pitchers’ duel through the first five innings. Reds right-hander Nick Martinez (0-1) retired the first 13 batters before Ramos launched his 1-1 pitch into the left-field stands to put the Giants ahead 1-0.
Chapman’s two-run homer in the sixth made the score 4-0. Martinez allowed four earned runs with a walk and five strikeouts.
Giants right-hander Robbie Ray (1-0) had a perfect game through five innings, but things unraveled for him in the sixth.
Gavin Lux broke up the no-hitter when a leadoff single. Then Austin Wynn hit a two-run homer, his first of the season, and Matt McLain added a solo shot, his second, to make the score 4-3.
Ray retired one batter in the sixth before exiting after allowing three earned runs with a walk and four strikeouts.
Cincinnati had the tying run at the plate in the eighth. Santiago Espinal grounded to Chapman who tagged lead runner Jacob Hurtubise then threw to first to complete an inning-ending double play.
Camilo Doval retired the Reds in order in the ninth for his first save.
NATIONALS 5, PHILLIES 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — Josh Bell and Nathaniel Lowe homered, and Washington avoided a season-opening series sweep with a victory over Philadelphia.
Bell, who was 0 for 9 to begin his second stint with Washington, ripped an Aaron Nola fastball into the center-field seats for a three-run homer in the fourth inning. Lowe ended Nola’s day with a two-run shot to center in the sixth.
Washington starter Mitchell Parker (1-0) put two runners on in each of the first three innings but escaped trouble each time. He pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings, allowing seven hits and striking out five.
Kyle Finnegan entered with the bases loaded and none out in the ninth, allowing an RBI grounder before retiring the next two batters for his first save.
Nola (0-1) allowed five runs and six hits in 5 1/3 innings while striking out eight.
Paul DeJong had three hits for Washington. Rookie Dylan Crews struck out in all three of his plate appearances a day after going 0 for 5 with five strikeouts. He is 0 for 11 this season.
Catcher J.T. Realmuto (bruised foot) and shortstop Trea Turner (back spasms) did not play for the Phillies. Realmuto fouled a ball off himself Saturday and left in the seventh, while Turner missed his second game in a row.
BLUE JAYS 3, ORIOLES 1
TORONTO (AP) — Chris Bassitt pitched six innings to win his first start of the season, George Springer hit a two-run single as Toronto beats Baltimore.
Tyler Heineman added a solo home run, his first, as the Blue Jays split the four-game series with their AL East rivals.
Orioles right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano left his major league debut after four innings because of cramping. Sugano (0-1) allowed ...
