NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole shook off rare control problems to pitch four-hit ball over seven innings and give the Yankees their most dominant stretch of starting pitching in 89 years, leading New York over the Chicago White Sox 7-0 Saturday for a five-game winning streak.

Cole (6-2) allowed four singles in seven innings, struck out seven and walked as many as three for the first time since Aug. 31. Rebounding from his worst outing this season, he lowered his ERA to 1.81 and ended the day with a 100.8 mph fastball that Andrew Vaughn took for a called third strike, Cole’s fastest pitch this season and the fourth-fastest of his big league career.

Cole extended the scoreless streak by Yankees starters to 30 innings.

Following Corey Kluber’s no-hitter at Texas and outings by Domingo Germán against the Rangers and Jordan Montgomery in Friday night’s series opener, Cole gave the Yankees four straight starts of seven shutout innings for the first time since May 11-16, 1932 (Johnny Allen vs. the St. Louis Browns, George Pipgras and Red Ruffing vs. Chicago and Lefty Gomez vs. Cleveland).

Cole’s lack of control was unusual. He walked five in 57 2/3 innings coming in and had a record streak of 61 strikeouts between walks.

Justin Wilson and Luis Cessa finished the five-hitter, the Yankees major league-leading eighth shutout. They have eight shutouts in the first 46 games for the first time since 1958.

New York has outscored opponents 13-1 in the last four games and clinched its seventh straight series win, moving a season-high eight games over .500 at 27-19. The five-game winning streak matched the Yankees’ season-high and made them 22-9 since a 5-10 start.

Before a season-high crowd of 14,665 on an 86-day afternoon as pandemic restrictions were eased, Gleyber Torres followed Friday night’s walk-off hit with three hits and four RBI, including a two-run double. He has raised his average to a season-high .268 from .182 before play on April 21.

Mike Ford hit a 447 foot home run over right-field bullpen.

RANGERS 8, ASTROS 4: Adolis García kept up his home run barrage, connecting twice and helping power Texas to a win over Houston in Arlington, Texas.

García, who hit a three-run, walkoff drive in the 10th inning to beat the Astros 7-5 on Friday night, had a solo homer in the fifth. The 28-year-old Cuban rookie added another solo shot in the seventh off Andre Scrubb (1-1).

García has 14 home runs this year, one behind major league leader Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Braves.

INDIANS 5, TWINS 3: César Hernández hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning off Alex Colomé, giving Cleveland a victory over visiting Minnesota that dropped the Twins to 0-8 in extra-inning games this season.

Hernández’s first career game-ending home run led off the 10th and sliced over the right-field wall to score Austin Hedges, who started at second base under pandemic rules.

Colomé (2-4) also gave up Jordan Luplow’s leadoff homer in the 10th inning of a 5-3 loss at Cleveland on April 26.

James Karinchak (2-0) got four outs, finishing a 4 2/3 hitless scoreless Indians bullpen behind AL Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber.

ROYALS 7, TIGERS 5: Andrew Benintendi drove in three runs, Josh Staumount escaped a bases-loaded jam in the ninth inning and Kansas City snapped visiting Detroit’s four-game winning streak.

RAYS 3, BLUE JAYS 1: Taylor Walls hit a pair of doubles in his major league debut and Tampa Bay won its ninth straight game, beating Toronto in Dunedin, Florida.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

BRAVES 6, PIRATES 1: Ozzie Albies hit home runs from both sides of the plate and Ronald Acuña Jr. led off with his major league-best 15th homer as Atlanta again showed off its power game and won at home.

After Acuña hit one of Atlanta’s two grand slams to lead a seven-homer attack in a 20-1 rout of the Pirates on Friday night, he didn’t wait to keep the offense rolling. With fans in the sellout crowd of 40,068 still arriving, Acuña pulled Mitch Keller’s first-pitch fastball over the left-field wall.

Acuña hustled out of the box as there was no certainty the line drive was going to clear the fence. He slowed down for the rest of his home-run trot.

It was his 22nd career leadoff shot, extending his franchise record, including three this season.

ROCKIES 7, DIAMONDBACKS 6: Charlie Blackmon hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer off Madison Bumgarner in a four-run sixth inning, left fielder Raimel Tapia made a dazzling catch to thwart a rally attempt and Colorado won in Denver.

Bumgarner (4-4), limited to four innings on Monday against the Los Angeles Dodgers because of soreness in his midsection, allowed seven runs — five earned — and eight hits in six innings as his ERA rose to 4.53. He is 2-2 in five starts since his seven-inning no-hitter against Atlanta on April 25.

The Rockies won their second straight game after a five-game skid. Arizona has lost 12 straight road games.

MARLINS 3, METS 1: Garrett Cooper hit a two-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning, and Miami won at home.

Cooper’s fifth homer of the year came on a 3-2 pitch from Drew Smith (1-1).

Mets center fielder Johneshwy Fargas made a leaping snow-cone catch to rob Jesús Aguilar of an extra-base hit to start the ninth. Brian Anderson singled with two outs and Cooper homered on a 90-mph cutter down the middle.

The Mets’ Dominic Smith tied the game at 1 with a two-out, RBI single in the eighth. Richard Bleier thought he had Smith struck out with the previous pitch and took several steps toward the dugout assuming the inning was over.

BREWERS 4, REDS 3: Daniel Robertson hit his first home run in more than two years, a tiebreaking, seventh-inning drive in his second game back from a concussion, and Milwaukee won in Cincinnati.

Robertson was hurt when hit by a pitch from the Chicago Cubs’ Jason Ada on April 25 and returned Friday, when he entered as a seventh-inning defensive replacement and grounded out.

He came into Saturday’s game in the sixth inning as part of a double switch, led off the seventh and homered on a first-pitch slider from Heath Hembree (0-1), driving the ball just over the leap of center fielder Scott Heineman. It was the 17th home run for Robertson but first since April 28, 2019, for Tampa Bay off Boston’s Chris Sale.

Robertson, batting just .103 before the homer, got his first RBI since Sept. 8, 2019.

DODGERS 6, GIANTS 3: Max Muncy hit another memorable home run into McCovey Cove, connecting off Scott Kazmir in the lefty’s first big league game since 2016, and visiting Los Angeles got its seventh straight win.

INTERLEAGUE

NATIONALS 12, ORIOLES 9: Ryan Zimmerman hit a tiebreaking three-run homer and finished with three hits, and Washington overcame a pair of five-run deficits in a 12-9 win over Baltimore in Washington.

Zimmerman’s home run in the fourth against Adam Plutko (1-1) broke a 6-all tie.

Baltimore (17-28) dropped its fifth straight and lost for the 11th time in 13 games. The Orioles led 5-0 after an inning and 6-1 after 2 1/2 frames.

Zimmerman, already the franchise leader in many offensive categories, scored his 948th run in the sixth inning, making him the leader in runs scored.

NOTES

PIRATES: Right-hander Trevor Cahill was placed on the 10-day injured list with left side discomfort.

Pirates Manager Derek Shelton said Cahill “hadn’t seen a ton of improvement” and was placed on the IL to “give him a chance to get it right.”

The move with Cahill was retroactive to Thursday, a day after he left a start against St. Louis in the second inning.

Shelton said no decision has been made on who will fill Cahill’s next scheduled start on Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs.

RANGERS: Texas right-hander Kohei Arihara needs shoulder surgery and is expected to miss at least 12 weeks.

Rangers General Manager Chris Young said Saturday that Arihara has an aneurysm in his pitching shoulder. Dr. Gregory Pearl, a vascular surgeon, is to repair the posterior circumflex humeral artery on Thursday in Dallas.

BLUE JAYS: Toronto put third baseman Cavan Biggio on the 10-day injured list with a cervical spine ligament sprain.

Toronto Manager Charlie Montoyo expects Biggio to be ready to return when eligible to come of the IL.

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