Braves right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. is helped onto a cart Saturday after he was injured trying to make a catch on what turned into an inside-the-park home run by Miami’s Jazz Chisholm Jr. Lynne Sladky/Associated Press
MIAMI — Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. was carted off the field in tears with an apparent right leg injury during Atlanta’s 5-4 win over the Miami Marlins on Saturday.
Acuña landed awkwardly on his right leg after jumping on the warning track in right field to try to catch a drive from Jazz Chisholm Jr. in the fifth inning. He slammed into the outfield wall and crumbled on the warning track, immediately grabbing toward his right knee while Chisholm sprinted out an inside-the-park homer.
Acuña tried to walk off but dropped back to the ground in shallow right field. A trainer tended to him while a cart was retrieved, and concerned teammates gathered quietly around him.
No further details on the extent of the injury were immediately available.
Acuña is slated to start in the outfield for the NL All-Star team in Tuesday’s game, his third appearance. He is hitting .283 with 24 home runs and 52 RBI for the three-time defending NL East champions, who started the day in second place behind the New York Mets.
Freddie Freeman had a two-run homer and an RBI single for Atlanta, which has won three straight over Miami.
RAYS 5, BLUE JAYS 2: Brandon Lowe homered twice and Mike Zunino also connected, helping Tampa Bay beat visiting Toronto for its sixth consecutive win.
Ryan Yarbrough (6-3) pitched five innings of two-run ball, improving to 5-0 in his last 12 appearances. The left-hander is 8-1 in 16 appearances against Toronto.
Matt Wisler (one hit in 1 2/3 innings) and Pete Fairbanks (1 1/3 innings) combined for three innings before Diego Castillo finished the six-hitter for his 13th save. Rays relievers have given up two hits over 16 scoreless innings in the past three games.
Lowe has four career multihomer games, including May 21 against the Blue Jays.
Marcus Semien hit his 22nd homer for the Blue Jays, who have lost four of five.
Toronto led 2-1 before Tampa Bay scored three times in the third. Zunino led off the inning with his 19th homer. Kevin Kiermaier then doubled and Lowe made it 4-2 with a two-run shot off Ross Stripling (3-5).
Lowe opened the scoring with his 19th homer, connecting on the first pitch leading off the first. He has gone deep six times over his last eight games.
YANKEES 1, ASTROS 0: Gerrit Cole demanded on the mound that Manager Aaron Boone let him get the final out, then struck out Yordan Alvarez with a 99 mph fastball on his career-high 129th pitch to cap a win at Houston.
Aaron Judge hit a solo homer and Cole did the rest, completing a three-hitter for his fifth career complete game and third shutout. His only other nine-inning shutout was May 4, 2018, against Arizona while he pitched for Houston.
TWINS 9, TIGERS 4: Jorge Polanco hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the seventh inning and Minnesota rallied from a four-run deficit to beat visiting Detroit.
Alex Kirilloff also homered for Minnesota to put the Twins on the board in the sixth. Luis Arraez drove in two insurance runs with an eighth-inning single.
WHITE SOX 8, ORIOLES 3: Brian Goodwin had four hits, including a solo homer, and drove in three runs as Chicago won at Baltimore for its fourth straight victory.
PIRATES, METS SPLIT: Pete Alonso homered, Jeff McNeil drove in two runs and New York salvaged a doubleheader split against visiting Pittsburgh with a 4-2 victory.
The Pirates won the opener, 6-2, behind five innings and a tiebreaking homer by Tyler Anderson off Marcus Stroman.
GIANTS 10, NATIONALS 4: All-Star Brandon Crawford had three hits, including his 18th home run, and San Francisco = thumped visiting Washington.
ATHLETICS 8, RANGERS 4: Jed Lowrie hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the 11th inning after an earlier home run, and Oakland won in Arlington, Texas.
INDIANS 14, ROYALS 6: Cesar Hernandez and Oscar Mercado each hit a three-run homer, and Cleveland won at home against struggling Kansas City.
NOTES
ALL-STAR GAME: Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto will take over from injured San Francisco catcher Buster Posey as the National League’s starter in Tuesday’s All-Star Game at Coors Field.
St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina earned his 10th All-Star selection, among 10 replacements announced Saturday by Major League Baseball, then said hours later he would also skip the game. He was replaced by Milwaukee catcher Omar Narvaez.
Major League Baseball said Dodgers outfielder Mookie Betts is injured and won’t participate, though Betts played an entire nine innings Friday night.
Kansas City second baseman Whit Merrifield and Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson also earned selections from the players’ ballot, replacing Houston second baseman José Altuve and shortstop Carlos Correa.
The commissioner’s office picked Washington’s Max Scherzer, the Dodgers’ Walker Buehler, the Mets’ Taijuan Walker and Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta as additions to the NL pitching staff.
MLB also added Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner to the NL roster, and Oakland pitcher Chris Bassitt and Tampa Bay second baseman Joey Wendle to the AL roster.
Houston outfielder Michael Brantley and San Diego pitcher Yu Darvish are withdrawing because of injuries.
Cleveland pitcher Shane Bieber, Angels outfielder Mike Trout and Washington outfielder Kyle Schwarber were previously ruled out because of injuries.
Houston reliever Ryan Pressly will miss the game because of paternity leave.
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