Baseball

CLEVELAND (AP) — Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt's Jr.

TORONTO — The bottom half of the Orioles' batting order delivered in the opener of a four-game series in Toronto. On Tuesday night, the top half showed it has plenty of power too.

BOSTON (AP) — Max Fried struck out a career-high 13 batters in seven strong innings, Ozzie Albies hit a tiebreaking three-run homer and the Atlanta Braves beat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 on Tuesday night.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pete Alonso hit a 446-foot homer, Harrison Bader launched a two-run shot and the New York Mets beat the Washington Nationals 6-3 on Tuesday night.

MIAMI (AP) — Brandon Lowe had a three-run homer, a double and drove in five runs to the lead the Tampa Bay Rays to a 9-5 win over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night.

NEW YORK (AP) — San Diego Padres infielder Tucupita Marcano was banned from baseball for life for betting on the sport and four others were suspended for one year by Major League Baseball on Tuesday in the game’s biggest gambling scandal in decades.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Rookie Jared Jones pitched six shutout innings and Jack Suwinski homered after being called up from the minor leagues as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0 on Tuesday night.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — As an interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara was supposed to bridge the gap between baseball star Shohei Ohtani and his English-speaking teammates and fans as the duo traveled from Southern California to ballparks across the U.S.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rob Thomson had a quick reply as to what would keep David Dahl — a former first-round draft pick and NL All-Star since banished to the minors — in the lineup after he went deep in his Philadelphia Phillies’ debut.

CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling Chicago White Sox reinstated Luis Robert Jr. from the injured list, and the All-Star center fielder was in the starting lineup Tuesday against the crosstown Cubs.