NEW YORK — Kodai Senga allowed one hit through seven dominant innings and Francisco Lindor homered to help the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0 on Tuesday night in the first meeting this season between the NL East rivals.

Eduardo Escobar added an RBI single and Mets center fielder Brandon Nimmo robbed Nick Castellanos of a potential home run with a leaping catch at the fence.

Senga (5-3) struck out nine and permitted one baserunner — a soft single by Kody Clemens that fell in front of left fielder Tommy Pham in the third.

The rookie right-hander from Japan got six strikeouts with his disappearing “ghost forkball” and set a career high for innings in his 10th major league start.

Adam Ottavino worked a hitless eighth, getting a huge lift when rookie Francisco Álvarez threw out fellow catcher J.T. Realmuto trying to steal second after a leadoff walk.

Realmuto was initially ruled safe, but the call was overturned following a replay review that clearly showed an acrobatic tag by second baseman Jeff McNeil. It was the first caught stealing this season with Ottavino on the mound after 10 successful attempts by opponents.

David Robertson gave up a one-out single in the ninth before getting Bryson Stott to ground into a game-ending double play for his ninth save in 10 chances.

PADRES 9, MARLINS 4: Xander Bogaerts sparked a five-run ninth inning with a tie-breaking single and Matt Carpenter drove in two runs with his second double of the game, lifting San Diego at Miami.

Carpenter, who entered hitting .105 (6 for 57 in May), had three RBI. Juan Soto drove in two runs for the Padres (25-29), who were coming off consecutive losses at Yankee Stadium.

AMERICAN LEAGUE

RANGERS 11, TIGERS 6: Jonah Heim drove in four runs, Josh Jung homered and Texas won ate Detroit to improve to 35-19, the best record in franchise history at the one-third mark.

Texas second baseman Marcus Semien extended his hitting streak to a career-best 19 games with a fifth-inning single. Rangers reliever Grant Anderson (1-0) won in his major league debut, striking out seven of the nine batters he faced.

ORIOLES 8, GUARDIANS 5: Anthony Santander hit a bases-clearing triple during a five-run second inning, then added a pair of doubles to help Baltimore over visiting Cleveland.

Kyle Gibson (7-3) won his third straight start, allowing three runs and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings. Baltimore led 8-1 at the start of the sixth but still had to use its top relievers to close the game out.

ASTROS 5, TWINS 1: Alex Bregman and Chas McCormick each homered in the second inning and had two RBI and Houston built a big lead early and beat visiting Minnesota.

INTERLEAGUE

BLUE JAYS 7, BREWERS 2: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk each had three hits, Whit Merrifield reached twice and drove in two runs and Toronto beat visiting Milwaukee.

Brandon Belt and Cavan Biggio each reached base three times and drove in a run as the Blue Jays snapped a four-game home losing streak.

William Contreras hit a two-run home run, his second homer in two games, as the Brewers lost for the fourth time in five games.

CUBS 2, RAYS 1: Nico Hoerner homered and host Chicago made the most of a rare gaffe by Tampa Bay, handing Shane McClanahan his first loss of the season.

The game was tied at 1 when Ian Happ led off the sixth with a shallow fly ball that dropped between Tampa Bay second baseman Brandon Lowe and right fielder Josh Lowe in a miscommunication between the fielders.

Happ hustled into second with a double. After Seiya Suzuki struck out and Trey Mancini bounced to second, Mike Tauchman hit a tie-breaking RBI single into left field.

CARDINALS 2, ROYALS 1: Miles Mikolas pitched eight shutout innings, Nolan Arenado hit an RBI double and Nolan Gorman drove in a run with a sacrifice fly as St. Louis beat visiting Kansas City.

NOTES

ORIOLES: The Baltimore Orioles signed outfielder Aaron Hicks, less than 24 hours after Cedric Mullins went down with a strained right groin.

Mullins went on the 10-day injured list, but the Orioles are hoping Hicks can help defensively in the spacious outfield at Camden Yards. Hicks was released last week by the New York Yankees with more than 2 1/2 seasons left on his contract.

The Orioles are responsible for paying Hicks just $483,871, a prorated share of the $720,000 minimum salary. The Yankees owe him the rest of his $10.5 million salary this year, plus $9.5 million in each of the next two seasons and a $1 million buyout of a 2026 team option.

The 33-year-old Hicks hit just .188 in 28 games for the Yankees this year. He batted .216 last season.

Mullins left Monday’s loss to Cleveland after he pulled up while running out an infield grounder. Outfielder Colton Cowser is hitting .331 at Triple-A Norfolk, but he went on the IL in the past couple weeks.

BREWERS: Designated hitter/outfielder Jesse Winker was put on the 10-day injured list with a cervical strain.

Winker, 29, is batting .204 with a .315 on-base percentage and .231 slugging percentage in 39 games this season.

BLUE JAYS: Pitcher Anthony Bass apologized for expressing support on social media for anti-LGBTQ+ boycotts of Target and Bud Light.

Bass shared a post on his Instagram stories Monday urging others to spurn the American companies over support they showed for the LGBTQ+ community. Both companies are dealing with fallout from those campaigns, which have included hostile and homophobic criticisms and calls from LGBTQ+ activists not to cave to anti-LGBTQ+ groups.

The right-handed reliever made a brief statement on the field but did not take questions.

YANKEES: The New York Yankees placed outfielder Harrison Bader on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring injury.

Bader left Monday’s series opener in Seattle in the third inning after beating out an infield single. He was replaced by Greg Allen, who started in center field on Tuesday.

Bader had an MRI and shortly before the game the Yankees made the move to put him on the injured list.

Franchy Cordero was recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to take Bader’s spot.

Anthony Rizzo was out of the lineup for a second straight game due to a stiff neck, but said the soreness was improving and expected to be back on the field by Friday at the latest.

PADRES: Major League Baseball will take over broadcasts of San Diego Padres games beginning Wednesday after Diamond Sports missed a rights fees payment to the regional sports network’s parent company and let the grace period expire.

Diamond Sports, which owns 19 networks under the Bally Sports banner, said in a statement that it decided “not to provide additional funding to the San Diego RSN that would enable it to make the rights payment to the San Diego Padres during the grace period and will no longer be broadcasting Padres games after Tuesday.”

The Padres become the first team that MLB will take over production of its broadcasts. MLB set up a local media department during the offseason to prepare for a bankruptcy filing by Diamond Sports, which took place in March. Distribution plans for Padres games have not been announced, but it is likely games will air locally via MLB Network or streamed on MLB.TV.

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