UNDATED (AP) — One of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ pitching heroes in the 2020 postseason is off to a good start this year.
Julio Urías gave up a run and three hits while pitching into the eighth inning of the Dodgers’ 4-2 win at Colorado. Urias was 4-0 while allowing just three earned runs and striking out 29 in 23 innings.
The Dodgers put together a three-run first without a hit and went ahead 4-0 on will Smith’s solo shot in the eighth.
Austin Gomber issued four walks and had a throwing error in the first inning.
Also around the majors:
— Rookie Taylor Widener won his first big league start and David Peralta hit a two-run triple as the Diamondbacks downed the Padres, 3-1 to avoid a four-game sweep. Widener held the Padres to three hits over six innings while striking out five and walking three.
— Zach Davies pitched into the sixth inning in his Cubs debut, leading them to a 4-3 victory over the short-handed Pirates. Ian Happ homered and Kris Bryant reached three times as Chicago earned its second straight win after losing on opening day.
— The Astros completed a four-game sweep in Oakland as Jason Castro, Kyle Tucker and Chas McCormick went deep in a 9-2 thumping of the Athletics. Yuli Gurriel had three hits and two RBIs to help Dusty Baker tie Bill McKechnie for 14th among managers with 1,896 wins.
— The Angels blew a 4-3 lead in the ninth before beating the White Sox, 7-4 on Jared Walsh’s three-run, walk-off homer. Shohei Ohtani homered and struck out seven over 4 2/3 innings before leaving the game after a collision at home plate with AL MVP José Abreu.
— Nate Lowe clubbed a towering, three-run homer and the Rangers avoided a sweep by beating the Royals, 7-3. Isiah Kiner-Falefa furnished a two-run single in the fourth and a homer in the ninth.
— Miguel Sanó and Mitch Garver homered to back Michael Pineda as the Twins roughed up the Brewers, 8-2. Max Kepler and Sanó each drove in three runs and Pineda limited Milwaukee to an unearned run in five innings.
— Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Randal Grichuk homered off Domingo Germán as the Blue Jays took the rubber match of their three-game set with the Yankees in the Bronx, 3-1. German was on the mound for the first time since serving from a suspension for a domestic abuse violation.
— Trey Mancini and Austin Hays laced two-run doubles during a seven-run third that carried the Orioles to an 11-3 pounding of the Red Sox and their first three-game sweep at Fenway Park since August 2017. Cedric Mullins went 5 for 5 with three doubles and walk for the Orioles, collecting four hits in the initial four innings as Boston fell to 0-3 at home for the second time in club history.
— Jordan Luplow hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run seventh inning that allowed the Indians to avoid a three-game sweep, 9-3 over the Tigers. Yu Chang put the Indians up 4-3 with a two-run single off Daniel Norris in the seventh.
— The Reds clobbered the Cardinals, 12-1 as Nick Castellanos crushed a three-run homer and added a triple. Tyler Naquin also smacked a three-run shot for the Reds, who won two in a row to take the opening series in a matchup of NL Central teams that earned wild-card spots last season.
— Alec Bohm hit a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning as the Phillies nipped the Braves, 2-1 to complete a three-game sweep of the three-time defending NL East champions. Zach Eflin went seven strong innings, allowing only four hits and one walk while striking out eight.
