Tuesday's MLB Capsules

Games played on June 2, 2015

Will be updated.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Kevin Pillar hit two home runs off Max Scherzer, including a go-ahead three-run drive, as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Washington Nationals 7-3 Tuesday night to earn a split of a day-night doubleheader.

Jordan Zimmermann pitched six-hit ball for eight innings in the opener, a 2-0 victory that ended a three-game losing streak.

Bryce Harper had a go-ahead single off R.A. Dickey, then he thrilled a fan before the nightcap by taking a selfie in right field with her phone.

Scherzer (6-4) had won each of his previous five starts and appeared poised for another with a 3-1 lead.

Pillar had other ideas, though. He drove a pitch over the wall in left in the sixth for his second homer and fourth on the season for a 4-3 lead.

Marco Estrada (2-3) pitched six innings in the second game for Toronto, allowing three runs - two earned - and six hits.

Zimmermann (5-2) struck out four and walked one to win for the third time in four starts.

Dickey (2-6) gave up eight hits, struck out six and walked one.

ROCKIES 6, DODGERS 3, 1st game

DENVER (AP) - Jorge De La Rosa threw six solid innings with a healing cut on his middle finger, Michael McKenry homered and Colorado won the opener of a doubleheader.

De La Rosa (2-2) had his start pushed back twice because of a cut he got from the seams on a baseball. The lefty allowed three runs and struck out six for his 71st win with the Rockies, one shy of matching Aaron Cook's team record.

John Axford pitched around a leadoff single in the ninth for his 10th save.

Ian Thomas (0-1) allowed four runs in three innings. The reliever was recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City to be the 26th man for the doubleheader.

Dodgers rookie Joc Pederson hit his 15th home run, a shot estimated at 477 feet and one of the longer drives in the majors this season.

RED SOX 1, TWINS 0

BOSTON (AP) - Clay Buchholz pitched eight innings and got all the run support he needed on Rusney Castillo's RBI single in the seventh as Boston ended a three-game skid.

Buchholz (3-6) struck out eight and scattered three hits before Koji Uehara took over in the ninth and picked up his 11th save to preserve the shutout.

Mike Pelfrey (4-2) had a solid start as he and Buchholz both carried a shutout into the seventh inning, when the Red Sox broke the tie. Xander Bogaerts hit a two-out double off the wall in center and scored easily on Castillo's single up the middle.

Buchholz got his first win since Boston beat Toronto 6-3 on May 10.

MARLINS 5, CUBS 2

MIAMI (AP) - Brad Hand pitched six innings to earn his fifth victory in 33 career starts to lead Miami.

Hand (1-1) improved 5-18 in his career as a starter. Even with the victory, his winning percentage as a starter (.217) is the lowest in the majors among active pitchers with at least 20 decisions, according to STATS.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a solo homer, his 16th. He has seven of Miami's 14 homers at Marlins Park this year.

Rookie Addison Russell's baserunning blunder helped A.J. Ramos earn his fifth save in seven chances.

Marcell Ozuna hit a two-out, three-run double off Kyle Hendricks (1-2) that put Miami ahead to stay in the fifth.

ATHLETICS 5, TIGERS 3

DETROIT (AP) - Ben Zobrist's grand slam highlighted a five-run seventh inning as Oakland rallied for the win.

Alfredo Simon (5-3) held the A's to one hit over the first six innings, but the Tigers scuffled defensively in the seventh, and Oakland had the bases loaded with one run already in when the right-hander was pulled. Angel Nesbitt came on in relief, and Zobrist greeted him with a line drive over the wall in right field for his sixth career grand slam.

Kendall Graveman (3-2) allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings. Evan Scribner pitched two perfect innings of relief, and Tyler Clippard finished for his eighth save.

Simon allowed four runs and four hits in 6 1/3 innings as the Tigers lost a season-high fifth straight.

PHILLIES 5, REDS 4

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Darin Ruf hit a walkoff single with one out in the ninth inning after Maikel Franco tied it in the eighth with a two-run homer to lead Philadelphia to a rare late-inning comeback victory.

Odubel Herrera led off the ninth against Tony Cingrani (0-2) with an opposite-field double to left. Herrera went to third on Carlos Ruiz's sacrifice bunt and scored on Ruf's single to right.

Jonathan Papelbon (1-0) pitched a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out two, to earn the victory.

The Phillies looked headed to their eighth straight loss before scoring two runs with two outs in the eighth.

Philadelphia improved to 2-30 when trailing after seven innings.

RANGERS 15, WHITE SOX 2

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Joey Gallo hit an upper-deck homer, doubled off the top of the wall and set a Rangers franchise record for a major league debut with four RBIs as Texas cruised past Chicago.

Gallo, the top prospect in the Rangers organization, made the jump from Double-A Frisco for what is supposed to be a short stint while four-time All-Star third baseman Adrian Beltre is on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained left thumb.

With the bases loaded in the first, Gallo hit a hard shot that got past Gold Glove first baseman Adam LaRoche. It was scored a "bad-hop single" that drove home the first two runs off Jeff Samardzija (4-3).

When Gallo came up two innings later, he hit the first pitch into the upper deck in right field - an estimated 418 feet - for a 6-2 lead.

CARDINALS 1, BREWERS 0

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Lance Lynn allowed five hits while pitching into the eighth inning and Mark Reynolds had an RBI single in the second to lead St. Louis.

Tyler Cravy (0-1) made an impressive major debut for Milwaukee, allowing a run on four hits in seven innings.

The Brewers won the series opener 1-0 and Milwaukee pitchers had thrown 19 consecutive scoreless innings before Reynolds' RBI.

Lynn (4-4) struck out five and walked one in 7 2/3 innings.

Kevin Siegrist got the last out in the eighth and most of a sellout crowd of 42,835 stuck around to see Trevor Rosenthal earn his 16th save in 17 chances. The Cardinals are 6-2 with one game to go on the home stand.

ASTROS 6, ORIOLES 4

HOUSTON (AP) - Evan Gattis hit a three-run homer and Luis Valbuena added a go-ahead solo shot in a five-run third inning for AL-leading Houston.

The Astros were in a big hole early after a four-run second inning by the Orioles, but bounced back an inning later for their major league-leading 17th comeback victory this year.

Houston trailed by 3 when the homer by Gattis made it 4-all and the Astros went back to back when Valbuena homered to right field to put Houston on top. The Astros added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Houston starter Collin McHugh (6-2) settled down after giving up four runs in the second, and the last out of that inning was the first of eight straight and 15 of 16 he retired before being replaced by Pat Neshek for the eighth inning.

Baltimore rookie Mike Wright (2-1) yielded eight hits and five runs in five innings after allowing just three runs combined in his first three starts.