MLB ROUNDUP: Mike Trout gets hurt in Angels defeat, Braves star Ronald Acuna Jr. makes history

ANGELS 3 PADRES 10

All-Star Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels left Monday night’s game against San Diego with an apparent injury to his left hand or wrist.

Trout fouled off an 0-1 pitch from Nick Martinez leading off the eighth and immediately shook his left arm. Manager Phil Nevin and a trainer came out to check on him and he left the game.

Trout had an RBI single in the sixth but his injury compounded a miserable night for his team in a heavy 10-3 defeat to the Padres.

All-Star Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels appeared to hurt his wrist against the Padres

ORIOLES 3 YANKEES 6

Harrison Bader hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning and the New York Yankees rallied for a 6-3 victory Monday night over the Baltimore Orioles in the opener of a four-game series between AL East playoff contenders.

Anthony Volpe scored the tying run in the seventh on a wild pitch by All-Star reliever Yennier Cano (1-1) before the Yankees completed the comeback ahead of a postgame fireworks show.

Giancarlo Stanton opened the eighth with a hard single off Cano, and Anthony Rizzo followed with a single against Danny Coulombe.

After showing bunt on the first pitch, Bader drove a 1-1 sweeper into the left-field seats for his seventh homer.

BRAVES 4 GUARDIANS 2

Nobody has had a first half of the season like Ronald Acuna Jr.

Atlanta’s four-time All-Star outfielder made history Monday night by becoming the first player to reach 20 home runs, 40 stolen bases and 50 RBIs before the All-Star break.

‘Special player,’ Braves manager Brian Snitker said after Atlanta extended its winning streak to nine straight and moved 30 games over .500 by beating the Cleveland Guardians 4-2.

The 25-year-old Acuña is also just the third player to hit 20 homers and steal 40 bases in the first 84 games, joining Rickey Henderson (1990) and Eric Davis (1986).

Ronald Acuna Jr made history by becoming the first player to reach 20 home runs, 40 stolen bases and 50 RBIs before the All-Star break 

ASTROS 12 RANGERS 11

The Houston Astros know they are in for quite a fight to overtake their instate rival to win another AL West title.

They won this round, even after blowing an eight-run lead on Monday.

José Abreu and Chas McCormick had back-to-back RBI doubles in the ninth inning in a wild 12-11 win for the second-place Astros over the division-leading Texas Rangers to take three of four games in the series.

TWINS 8 ROYALS 4

Edouard Julien hit a pinch-hit, solo homer to start a five-run eighth inning and the Minnesota Twins went on to beat the Kansas City Royals 8-4 on Monday night.

Carlos Correa tied a career-high with four hits from the leadoff spot and Byron Buxton drove in a pair of runs with sacrifice flies for Minnesota, which beat Kansas City for the seventh time in eight games this season.

Julien, the Canadian rookie second baseman, hit for Kyle Farmer to lead off the eighth and sent the first pitch he saw from Royals reliever Taylor Clarke for a no-doubt homer to right field. It was the first pinch hit for Julien, who was told he was pinch-hitting but didn’t realize it was leading off the inning.

MARLINS 5 CARDINALS 4

After being swept in a three-game road series against the Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins manager Skip Schumaker felt his team had to turn it around quickly.

‘Good teams stop the bleeding,’ Schumaker said after a 5-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals Monday night. ‘They don´t continue the streak. And it felt like today was the day.’

Nick Fortes hit a go-ahead RBI single in a seventh inning rally to open a seven-game homestand for Miami that will include three more games against the Cardinals and a three-game series against Philadelphia.

In front of a home crowd of 19,638, pinch hitter Yuli Gurriel tied it in the seventh with a two-run double against reliever Andre Pallante after two straight walks. The Marlins then inserted the speedy Jon Berti to pinch run for Gurriel, and Berti scored on Fortes´ ground-ball single.

PIRATES 2 DODGERS 5 

Max Muncy hit his 18th homer of the season, and Los Angeles defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2 Monday night to get Dave Roberts his 700th win as the Dodgers’ manager.

Jason Heyward and Miguel Rojas had RBI doubles to help the Dodgers bounce back after dropping the last two games in a weekend series at Kansas City.

Caleb Ferguson (5-3), the second of six Los Angeles pitchers, got the win. Michael Grove, who was called up before the game when Clayton Kershaw went on the injured list, got the start and went four innings.

Evan Phillips worked the ninth for his 12th save

The Pirates have dropped three straight as they left nine on base and were 2 for 9 with runners in scoring position.

Max Muncy hit his 18th homer of the season as the Dodgers beat the Pirates 5-2

REDS 3 NATIONALS 2 

Joey Votto hit a two-run home run to end an 0-for-21 slump, Ian Gibaut pitched out of a jam in the sixth inning and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Nationals 3-2 Monday night in the opener of a four-game series.

Votto homered in the fourth off Jake Irvin, depositing the ball just inside the visiting bullpen in left-center field and driving in Elly De La Cruz. It’s his fourth home run in 12 games this season since returning in June.

“He´s just great,” starter Luke Weaver said. “When he´s in the box, you just feel like something could happen at any moment, and it did tonight.”

The 2010 NL MVP missed the previous 10 months recovering from surgery to repair his left biceps and rotator cuff. The 39-year-old entered the game hitting .143.

Weaver (2-2) picked up the win by allowing two earned runs on six hits in five-plus innings. He was spared a 10th consecutive no-decision – or worse – when Gibaut got through the sixth, allowing just one hit, striking out Corey Dickerson and inducing a flyout from Derek Hill.

CUBS 6 BREWERS 8

Newly signed Jahmai Jones hit a pinch-hit, three-run double in his first big league appearance since 2021, helping the Milwaukee Brewers rally for an 8-6 win over the Chicago Cubs on Monday.

With the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning, Jones hit a line drive on the first pitch from reliever Anthony Kay that one-hopped off the center field wall and scored Raimel Tapia, Christian Yelich and Owen Miller, tying the game at 6.

“The situation, bases loaded two outs, really honestly not trying to do too much,” Jones said. “Really just trying to keep it simple, try to keep it small with my approach and not get too big.

MARINERS 6 GIANTS 5

Julio Rodriguez hit a two-run double in a four-run ninth and the Seattle Mariners outlasted the host San Francisco Giants 6-5 on Monday night in the opener of a three-game interleague series.

With the score tied 2-2 and facing Giants All-Star closer Camilo Doval (2-3), the Mariners loaded the bases with no outs in the ninth on a Mike Ford single, a hit batsman and a fielder’s-choice grounder to first on which San Francisco failed to get an out.

J.P. Crawford delivered the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly, after which Rodriguez lashed his double to left field, scoring Ty France and Kolten Wong.

Teoscar’s two-out single plated Rodriguez with what turned out to be a critical insurance run and completed the four-run uprising. The rally made a winner of the Mariners’ third pitcher, Andres Munoz (2-1), who worked a 1-2-3 eighth inning with two strikeouts.

The Giants didn’t go down quietly, drawing within 6-5 on Blake Sabol’s second home run of the game, a two-out, three-run shot against Paul Sewald. Pinch hitter Wilmer Flores followed with a single to put the potential tying run on base before Sewald struck out Brandon Crawford to end it.