Texas’ Marcus Semien, left, celebrates with Nathaniel Lowe after hitting a solo home run against the Oakland Athletics during the first inning Tuesday at Oakland, Calif. Godofredo A. Vásquez/Associated Press
OAKLAND, Calif. — Marcus Semien had four hits and five RBI, and the Texas Rangers scored 10 times in the second inning of a 15-8 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday.
Jonah Heim added four hits and two RBI as Texas extended its season-high win streak to four games, outscoring opponents 37-16 during that stretch.
The Rangers sent 16 batters to the plate in the second in their biggest inning since May 23, 2015, when they also scored 10 in the third against the New York Yankees.
Texas’ 15 runs matched a season high, and its 19 hits set a new mark.
Kyle McCann and Seth Brown homered for Oakland, which lost its third straight game after winning six in a row.
TIGERS 11, GUARDIANS 7: Andy Ibáñez homered his first two times up and drove in four runs and Ryan Vilade got his first major league hit and three RBI in his debut for Detroit, leading the Tigers to a win at Cleveland.
Ibáñez homered on the third pitch of the game from Logan Allen and added a three-run shot in the second. Ibáñez hit a double in the eighth inning and finished 4 for 4 with a walk and four runs.
RAYS 5, WHITE SOX 1: Zach Eflin allowed one run and six hits in seven innings as Tampa Bay beat visiting Chicago for its fifth consecutive win.
Eflin (2-4) lost the shutout when Paul DeJong homered with two outs in the seventh.
YANKEES 10, ASTROS 3: Alex Verdugo homered and tied a career high with four RBI, powering host New York past Justin Verlander and skidding Houston.
Anthony Volpe and Giancarlo Stanton also went deep off Verlander as the Yankees won their fourth straight game. Volpe finished with three RBI and Juan Soto had three hits.
Verdugo accounted for New York’s first four runs with a three-run homer in the first and an RBI single in the third against Verlander (1-1). The three-time Cy Young Award winner lasted five innings and gave up seven runs — the second-most he’s allowed in 37 regular-season and postseason starts versus the Yankees.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
DIAMONDBACKS 6, REDS 2: Zac Gallen threw six shutout innings in his first start in 11 days and Corbin Carroll had a three-run homer and five RBI as Arizona handed host Cincinnati a sixth straight loss.
Gallen (4-2) made his first start since April 26 when he left the game early due to a hamstring cramp. The right-hander allowed just one Reds hit through six innings, struck out six and walked three in not allowing a runner past second base.
INTERLEAGUE
NATIONALS 3, ORIOLES 0: Trevor Williams struck out eight in five scoreless innings, and Washington stole four bases in a win over Corbin Burnes and visiting Baltimore to move above .500 for the first time since July 2021.
PHILLIES 10, BLUE JAYS 1: Bryce Harper hit a grand slam, Cristopher Sánchez pitched seven strong innings and red-hot Philadelphia Phillies routed visiting Toronto.
Kody Clemens homered, tripled and drove in four runs for the Phillies, who have won seven straight games, 11 in a row at home and 18 of 21 overall.
ANGELS 9, PIRATES 0: Kevin Pillar homered twice and drove in six runs, helping Patrick Sandoval and Los Angeles win at Pittsburgh.
Logan O’Hoppe had four hits and two RBI for Los Angeles, which had dropped three in a row and 5 of 6 overall. Willie Calhoun walked twice and scored three times.
NOTES
BRAVES: The Atlanta Braves lost another reliever to an injury when they placed left-hander Tyler Matzek on the 15-day injured list with left elbow inflammation.
The Braves place right-hander Pierce Johnson on the 15-day IL on Sunday with right elbow inflammation.
The move with Matzek came after he allowed three runs in recording only two outs in Saturday night’s 11-2 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 33-year-old has a 9.90 ERA in 11 games this season, allowing 11 runs in 10 innings.
The Braves recalled left-hander Ray Kerr from Triple-A Gwinnett before Tuesday night’s game against the Boston Red Sox.
FOR FORMER Mets star Darryl Strawberry, suffering a heart attack was life-changing.
Strawberry experienced the health scare on March 11 and underwent a stent procedure at Missouri’s SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital that he said saved his life.
“Having a heart attack is different,” Strawberry told SNY on Monday at St. Louis’ Busch Stadium, where the Mets are playing a three-game series against the Cardinals this week.
“It’s a different feeling inside. You feel fatigued. You feel weak. You take a lot of medication. You don’t think that you’re gonna be good again. It’s been a scary time. There’s no doubt about it.”
Strawberry, 62, lives in nearby O’Fallon, Missouri.
“Without my wife (Tracy), I don’t know where I would be, because she has really helped me through this process,” Strawberry said. “It’s really been hard and very challenging, but I’ll tell you what, I’ve been able to watch a lot of baseball. I do have SNY at home, so I get a chance to see a lot of Mets games now.”
Drafted first overall by the Mets in 1980, the lefty-swinging Strawberry spent his first eight MLB seasons with the team, making seven All-Star appearances and winning a World Series in 1986. His 252 home runs with the Mets remain a franchise record.
Strawberry left the Mets before the 1991 season for a five-year, $22 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he also played for the San Francisco Giants and the Yankees during his 17-season MLB career.
He won championships with the Yankees in 1996 and 1999 but was not on the team’s 1998 World Series after being diagnosed with colon cancer.
Strawberry made a surprise appearance at Citi Field on April 14 — just over a month after his heart attack — when the Mets retired longtime teammate Dwight Gooden’s No. 16.
Shortly after Strawberry’s heart attack, Gooden called the former outfielder his “dearest brother.”
“Get well soon my pal as we have a lot to celebrate this year!” Gooden, also a member of the World Series-winning ’86 Mets, wrote on social media at the time.
Strawberry hit 335 home runs, had 1,000 RBI and stole 221 bases during his MLB career, during which he battled substance abuse issues that led to three suspensions. He won Rookie of the Year as a 21-year-old in 1983 and finished within the top six of National League MVP voting three times with the Mets, including as the runner-up in 1988.
The Mets are set to retire Strawberry’s No. 18 during a June 1 ceremony.
“I’m looking forward to that day,” Strawberry told SNY. “I’m looking forward to really being able to say thank you to the fans, to tell the fans I’m sorry for leaving, just a lot of things, and thank you to a lot of people. The day is just not about me.”
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