After Wilson Ramos hit a two-run double in the eighth that drew the Nationals within 4-3, Harper launched his ninth homer of the season, tagging Twins closer Kevin Jepsen to open the ninth. By far one of the craziest, too.
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Bryce Harper is so good that even his replacements hit big-time home runs.
He continues to be among the best players in the game, and is batting. He should be back in the outfield for this one with Eduardo Nunez playing third.
The Twins move to 5-12 on the season.
Jacob deGrom led the New York Mets to a 3-2 win over the Atlanta Braves and a series sweep, the San Francisco Giants fell 5-4 to the Miami Marlins, the Tampa Bay Rays crushed the New York Yankees 8-1 and the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 4-1. He cranked out three more homers to bring his league-leading total to eight along with 22 RBI, also the best in the bigs. Hughes was effective but had no run support in a hard luck loss.
Washington Nationals’ Bryce Harper slides home to score on a single by Daniel Murphy during the first inning of a baseball game against the Minnesota Twins, Friday, April 22, 2016, in Washington.
Josh Donaldson scored twice for Toronto.
The 36-year-old Werth transitioned to left last season, but was limited to 88 games due to injury, so the question remains as to how well he’ll adjust to being out there every day.
ORIOLES 8, ROYALS 3 (at Kansas City) – Chris Davis homered and had four hits, Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to 16 games and Baltimore rolled.
“I was throwing four pitches to lefties and righties”, Roark said.
Tigers manager Brad Ausmus juggled his lineup, leaving slumping Miguel Cabrera and Justin Upton on the bench. The game went into extra innings, and kept going, until the 15th.
Minnesota starter Tyler Duffey left in the fifth inning after being struck in the upper right arm by a line drive off the bat of den Dekker.
Murphy, who went 2 for 4 to raise his average to.411, has hit safely in 14 of 16 games.
One inning later, Heisey walked it off in the 16th, hitting the latest walk-off homer in Nationals/Expos history.
“I imagine that if I was on the other side”, Baker continued, “you’re going to see them doing a lot of first ball hitting, cause they don’t want to get deep in the count, but this team is a first-ball hitting team anyway”. He carries a 2-1 record, but his ERA is now 4.32, and most of the damage inflicted on Scherzer has come in the first inning. Chris Coghlan, Khris Davis, and Josh Reddick each hit solo home runs for the Athletics. Pujols ended a career-worst 0-for-26 skid with his 563d career homer, tying Reggie Jackson for 13th place all-time.
Tanner Roark struck out a career-high 15 batters in seven innings and Ryan Zimmerman drove in two runs in the first as the Washington Nationals beat the Minnesota Twins 2-0 on Saturday. They were also the only Twins to reach 2nd base.
Dodgers 12, Rockies 10: Jake McGee collapsed in the ninth, allowing five runs on five hits and one walk in just 2/3 of an inning.
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Strasburg struck out 10, walked none and allowed seven hits over 7 1-3 innings. Utley followed with an RBI double.
