Dodgers 6, Reds 0

Cincinnati: Clayton Kershaw, the three-time NL Cy Young Award winner and former league MVP pitched seven scoreless innings and struck out nine as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cincinnati Reds to snap a four-game losing streak and avoid a series sweep.

Kershaw (8-4, 2.95 ERA) scattered five hits and walked two, Chris Taylor hit his 10th home run of the season and Los Angeles improved to 10-3 against Cincinnati dating back to September 2021.

Rays 4, Twins 2

St. Petersburg, Fla.: Minnesota’s Bailey Ober retired all nine batters through three innings against the Mlb-best Tampa Bay Rays.

Then the umpires had him wash his hands after a foreign substance inspection before taking the mound in the fourth and before the inning was done the 6-foot-9 right-hander had lost his perfect game and lead as the Rays went on to beat the slumping AL Central-leading Twins.

Ober (3-3) gave up four runs, three hits and two walks over 5 1/3 innings.

Umpire crew chief Jeff Nelson said it was an issue of some residue and out of an abundance of caution directed Ober to wash it.

Orioles 6, Brewers 3

Milwaukee: Gunnar Henderson hit a two-run homer with two outs in the eighth to put Baltimore ahead for good and the Orioles rallied from a three-run deficit.

Henderson’s opposite-field drive came six days after he hit a tiebreaking home run in the seventh inning of a 3-2 victory at San Francisco.

The Brewers took a 3-0 lead in the first inning and were in control for much of the game until the Orioles attacked Milwaukee’s bullpen by scoring six runs over the final three innings, allowing the Orioles to avoid a three-game sweep.

White Sox 6, Yankees 5 (Gm1) Yankees 3, White Sox 0 (Gm2)

New York: Randy Vásquez pitched two-hit ball into the sixth for his first major league win, Billy Mckinney hit his first home run with the Yankees and New York beat Chicago for a doubleheader split.

Chicago extended its winning streak to a season-high five games with a win in the opener.

After Wednesday’s game was postponed by Major League Baseball because of hazardous air quality from Canadian wildfires, conditions in the Bronx had improved by Thursday’s first pitch. According to the website IQAIR, the air quality was graded 142 before the doubleheader began.

Phillies 3, Tigers 2

Philadelphia: Zack Wheeler took a no-hitter into the eighth, Kody Clemens came through with a game-ending single and Philadelphia got its fifth victory in a row.

Brandon Marsh tied it in the ninth with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly for the defending NL champion Phillies.

Nick Maton hit a go-ahead single in the top of the ninth after Tyler Nevin broke up Wheeler’s no-hit bid with one out in the eighth for the Tigers, who lost their sixth in a row and eighth in the last nine.

Bryce Harper led off the bottom of the ninth with a double off Alex Lange (3-2), and Trea Turner walked. After J.T. Realmuto struck out, Bryson Stott loaded the bases with an infield single. Marsh tied it on a liner to deep left field before Clemens laced a 96 mph sinker into right to score Turner from second.

Blue Jays 3, Astros 2

Toronto: Brandon Belt had a tiebreaking RBI single, José Berríos pitched six innings to win his third straight decision and Toronto beat the Houston Astros.

Alejandro Kirk added an RBI double and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. reached base twice as the Blue Jays took three of four from the Astros and won the season series 4-3.

Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez left after one at-bat because of a sore right oblique.

Berríos (6-4) allowed two runs and four hits, walked two and struck out one. Yimi Garcia worked the seventh, Erik Swanson pitched the eighth and Jordan Romano finished.

Guardians 10, Red Sox 3

Cleveland: José Ramírez homered in his first three at-bats — and from both sides of the plate — to power the Cleveland Guardians.

Ramírez connected for a solo shot in the first off Matt Dermody, belted a two-run shot — his 200th career homer — in the third and added another solo blast in the sixth when the Guardians had eight straight hits and scored five times.

Ramírez came up a second time in the sixth bidding for a rare four-homer game, but struck out swinging. He had another chance in the eighth, and grounded to third.

“There have only been 16 four-homer games in the majors since 1901. The last to do it was Arizona’s J.D. Martinez in 2017. Cleveland got one from Rocky Colavito in 1959.

Braves 13, Mets 10

Atlanta: Ozzie Albies lined a threerun homer with two outs in the 10th inning and Atlanta rallied for a three-game sweep..

Orlando Arcia hit a tying solo homer off Mets closer David Robertson in the ninth to help the NL East leaders win their fifth straight.

New York, which has dropped six in a row for the first time since August 2019, had won 122 consecutive games when leading after eight innings.

The Mets (30-33) wasted two home runs from rookie Francisco Álvarez and an early grand slam from Brandon Nimmo as three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander was ineffective.

Atlanta overcame a 9-5 deficit and came back from at least three runs.