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Gerrit Cole throws MLB’s 2nd complete game of season

By The Associated Press hits. He struck out six and before Kyle Nelson finished
NEW YORK (AP) — Ger- walked two. Blue Jays right- a four-hitter. Alcantara (1-
rit Cole pitched a two- hander Alek Manoah (1-1) 2) permitted five runs, four
hitter with 10 strikeouts for matched career-worsts by earned, and seven hits in
his fourth career shutout allowing seven runs and six innings. He's dropped his
and the second complete nine hits. He walked four last two starts after throw-
game in the majors this and struck out five in 4 2/3 ing a complete-game
season, leading the New innings. three-hitter in a 1-0 victory
York Yankees to a 2-0 vic- DIAMONDBACKS 5, MAR- over Minnesota on April 4.
tory over the Minnesota LINS 0 NATIONALS 7, GUARDIANS
Twins on Sunday. MIAMI (AP) — Zac Gallen 6
DJ LeMahieu homered and pitched two-hit ball into the WASHINGTON (AP) —
hit an RBI single for the Yan- seventh inning in Arizona's Washington tied the game
kees, who earned a split of win over Sandy Alcantara on a reviewed call in the
the four-game series. and Miami. eighth inning and Joey
Cole (4-0) lowered his ERA Corbin Carroll homered for Meneses followed with a New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole (45) reacts after
to 0.95 in four starts, finish- Arizona, and Pavin Smith go-ahead RBI single two closing his side of the eighth inning of a baseball game against
ing off the Twins on 109 and Christian Walker also batters later for a win over the Minnesota Twins, Sunday, April 16, 2023, in New York.
pitches in only 2 hours, 7 had two hits apiece. Cleveland that averted a Associated Press
minutes. Gallen (2-1) retired his first three-game sweep.
He got the final nine outs 13 batters before Bryan De Jeimer Candelario and Luis them earned, in six innings. runs for the Guardians, who
on 25 pitches and retired La Cruz singled with one García homered for Wash- Mason Thompson (1-1) fell to 7-3 on the road. Nick
former Astros teammate out in the fifth. Gallen struck ington, which snapped a pitched a scoreless eighth, Sandlin got the loss. Cleve-
Carlos Correa on a fly ball out seven in 6 2/3 innings four-game skid. Washing- and Kyle Finnegan handled land starter Shane Bieber al-
to end it. and walked none. Kevin ton starter Patrick Corbin the ninth for his third save. lowed three runs and struck
It was Cole's seventh ca- Ginkel then got four outs allowed four runs, two of Steven Kwan drove in two out four in six innings.q
reer complete game and
his first shutout since July
10, 2021, at Houston.
RED SOX 2, ANGELS 1
BOSTON (AP) — Garrett
Whitlock threw seven in-
nings of one-run ball and
Justin Turner hit a two-run
homer to give Boston a
win over Los Angeles in a
game that lasted just un-
der two hours.
Los Angeles star Shohei
Ohtani had his 36-game
on-base streak halted; it
had been the longest in
MLB. Whitlock (1-1) allowed
three hits with five strikeouts
and two walks. Ryan Brasi-
er got the final three outs
for his first save — including
striking out Mike Trout and
getting Ohtani to fly out.
Reid Detmers (0-1) was
given the loss in an outing
where he gave up two runs
on six hits, struck out seven
and walked one in 6 1/3 in-
nings.
RAYS 8, BLUE JAYS 1
TORONTO (AP) — Shane
McClanahan pitched
six effective innings in his
fourth straight win, and
Tampa Bay avoided a
three-game sweep by To-
ronto.
Christian Bethancourt hit a
three-run homer to help the
Rays rebounded from their
first two losses of the sea-
son. Yandy Díaz reached
four times, and Josh Lowe
had two hits and three RBIs.
McClanahan (4-0) al-
lowed one run and four