Severino 1-hitter, Judge HR power Yankees past Tigers 3-0

NEW YORK (AP) – Luis Severino combined with two relievers on a one-hitter to continue New York’s run of outstanding starting pitching performances, and the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 3-0 on Saturday. Aaron Judge hit his MLB-best 21st homer on the first pitch in the bottom of the first inning, and the Yankees won their fifth straight and for the ninth time in 11 games since their only three-game losing streak this year May 22-23. Anthony Rizzo also went deep and Josh Donaldson lifted a sacrifice fly for the Yankees, who have outscored opponents 33-3 during their streak. Severino (4-1) struck out 10, Michael King breezed through the eighth and Clay Holmes notched his eighth save, extending his career-high scoreless streak to 26 innings. Detroit rookie Beau Brieske (0-5) allowed two runs on three hits in six innings, and Miguel Cabrera had his 3,033rd career hit. CUBS 6, CARDINALS 1, 1ST GAME CHICAGO (AP) – Matt Swarmer earned his first big league win and Frank Schwindel had a homer among his three hits, leading Chicago over St. Louis in the first game of a doubleheader. Swarmer (1-0) allowed two hits and one earned run in six innings, striking out six and walking two. Swarmer helped snap Paul Goldschmidt’s 25-game hitting streak. The Cardinals star went 0 for 2 with a strikeout, a groundout and two walks, and fell one game short of the longest hitting streak in his career. Schwindel hit his eighth homer in the fifth inning and Rafael Ortega hit an RBI double later in the inning. Schwindel added two more hits, including an RBI single in the sixth. Oviedo (0-1) allowed three earned runs in five innings in his first big league start this season. Tommy Edman homered in the sixth for St. Louis. RED SOX 8, ATHLETICS 0 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Nick Pivetta pitched two-hit ball over seven innings to win his fifth consecutive start and Boston beat Oakland. Alex Verdugo had three hits and two RBIs as Boston won its third straight. Trevor Story doubled twice and made a tremendous defensive play. Xander Bogaerts added an infield single and became the career leader in games started by a Red Sox shortstop. Pivetta (5-4) was crisp with seven strikeouts and two walks. Since losing at Baltimore on May 1, Pivetta has given up six earned runs in 41 innings – an ERA of 1.32. Paul Blackburn (5-2) lost his second consecutive start and allowed seven hits and four runs in four innings, raising his ERA from 2.15 to 2.62. MARLINS 5, GIANTS 4 MIAMI (AP) — Jesús Sánchez hit a game-winning sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and Miami beat San Francisco. Giants reliever Tyler Rogers (0-2) allowed Jesús Aguilar’s leadoff single and hit Avisaíl García. A balk by Rogers advanced pinch runner Luke Williams and García before Sánchez’s drive to medium center scored Williams for the Marlins’ first walk-off win of the season. Tyler Scott (1-1) pitched a scoreless inning for the win. Miami starter Pablo López overcame a line drive off his pitching shoulder by Thairo Estrada in the second and pitched seven innings of four-run ball. The shot, timed at 104.4 mph, caromed to second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr., who threw Estrada out at first. NATIONALS 10, REDS 8 CINCINNATI (AP) — Juan Soto hit a three-run homer and a solo shot, and Maikel Franco and Luis Garcia drove in ninth-inning runs to rally Washington past Cincinnati. The Reds led 7-3 after a five-run fifth inning that included Albert Almora Jr.’s second career grand slam. Soto’s three-run shot in the seventh got the Nats within a run. In the eighth, Franco singled, took two bases on a wild pitch and trotted home on Garcia’s double to tie the score. In the ninth, Reds reliever Hunter Strickland (0-2) surrendered three more runs on four singles.