Charlie Blackmon hit two of Colorado’s five homers and Jorge De La Rosa threw five efficient innings, lifting the Colorado Rockies to an 8-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants Monday night in Denver.
Nolan Arenado, Wilin Rosario, and Corey Dickerson also homered for the Rockies, who've won four of the last five. It was Blackmon’s first multihomer game of his career.
De La Rosa rediscovered his rhythm, allowing five hits and one run for his first victory of the season.
Ryan Vogelsong (0-1) never got on track and was pulled after 1⅓ innings, his shortest start with the Giants. He surrendered five runs and six hits, including three homers. Blackmon lined solo homers in the second and eighth innings. He’s now hitting .411 this season.
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Indians 4, Royals 3 — Jason Kipnis and Michael Brantley both hit two-run homers, powering host Cleveland over Kansas City Royals.
Kipnis connected in the sixth inning off Jeremy Guthrie, overcoming a 3-2 deficit.
The game was momentarily delayed in the second inning when a squirrel ran onto the field. Nick Swisher motioned for the critter to run to him, but it darted past and into the outfield grass. The squirrel was directed inside the Royals bullpen by members of the grounds crew, but the slippery rodent escaped and returned for another scamper to the delight of the crowd of 10,789. The pesky intruder hung around for another inning before it was shooed into the Indians’ center-field bullpen.
The squirrel perched on a ledge for several minutes before jumping the wall into the Heritage Park monument area.
Pirates 6, Reds 5 — Ike Davis became the first player to hit grand slams for different teams in the same April, and Neil Walker had a winning single with two outs in the ninth inning as host Pittsburgh twice overcame deficits to beat Cincinnati.
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Pittsburgh trailed, 2-0, before Davis’s fourth-inning homer off Mike Leake. Davis hit a game-winning, ninth-inning slam off the Reds’ J.J. Hoover April 5 for the Mets, who traded him to the Pirates Friday.
White Sox 3, Tigers 1 — John Danks pitched impressively into the seventh inning, and Jose Abreu and Dayan Viciedo hit RBI doubles to lift visiting Chicago over Detroit.
Chicago scored three runs in the seventh off Anibal Sanchez after managing only one hit in the first six innings. Danks allowed six hits and three walks in 6⅓ innings, but the Tigers could score only one run off him.
Ronald Belisario got five outs in relief for the White Sox, and Matt Lindstrom pitched the ninth for his second save.
Mets 2, Cardinals 0 — Jenrry Mejia pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, David Wright delivered another key hit, and host New York blanked St. Louis.
Mejia bounced back from a torn blister on his right middle finger that limited him to five innings in his last start. The 24-year-old righty began the game by striking out Matt Carpenter.
Angels 4, Nationals 2 — Raul Ibanez delivered a tiebreaking three-run double as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning on a night that Mike Trout and Bryce Harper went a combined 2 for 8 with zero runs or RBIs in their first matchup as opponents, and visiting Los Angeles beat Washington.
Braves 4, Marlins 2 — Evan Gattis hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning, leading host Atlanta past Miami.
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Brewers 4, Padres 3 — Aramis Ramirez homered, Ryan Braun drove in two runs, and host Milwaukee edged San Diego.
Cubs 5, Diamondbacks 1 — Travis Wood hit a three-run homer and drove in four runs to back his nine-strikeout performance on the mound, leading host Chicago over Arizona.
Phillies 7, Dodgers 0 — Cliff Lee scattered four hits over eight innings, struck out 10, and retired 21 of his last 22 batters to lead visiting Philadelphia in a rout of Los Angeles.