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Lowe raps homer, Rays beat Rockies

The Tampa Bay Rays’ Brandon Lowe runs around the bases following his two-run home run off Colorado Rockies pitcher Ryan Feltner on Sunday in Tampa, Fla. CHRIS O’MEARA – THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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TAMPA, Fla. >> Brandon Lowe hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the first and the Tampa Bay Rays never trailed Sunday in their 6-4 win over the Colorado Rockies.

Taj Bradley (1-0) pitched six innings, allowing two runs on five hits with seven strikeouts for the Rays and Jonny DeLuca went 3 for 4. Pete Fairbanks, who had 48 saves in 56 opportunities over the past two season, allowed two hits with two strikeouts in a scoreless ninth and earned his first save of the season.

Pinch hitter Mickey Moniak hit a two-out two-run homer in the top of the seventh for the Rockies. Nick Martini hit an RBI single in the fifth and Hunter Goodman’s single in the top of the sixth drove in Tyler Freeman to make it 2-2.

Tampa Bay’s José Caballero went 1 for 3 with an RBI, a walk and a run scored — beating a late tag by catcher Jacob Stallings.

Yankees 12, Brewers 3 >> Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat, Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered twice and New York went deep four more times in a victory over Milwaukee, a day after becoming the third team in major league history to hit nine homers in a game.

The Yankees hit a total of 15 homers and scored 36 runs as they swept the three-game series.

NATIONALS 5, PHILLIES 1 >> Josh Bell and Nathaniel Lowe homered, and Washington avoided a season-opening series sweep with a victory over Philadelphia.

Bell, who was 0 for 9 to begin his second stint with Washington, ripped an Aaron Nola fastball into the center-field seats for a three-run homer in the fourth inning. Lowe ended Nola’s day with a two-run shot to center in the sixth.

BLUE JAYS 3, ORIOLES 1 >> Chris Bassitt pitched six innings to win his first start of the season, George Springer hit a two-run single as Toronto beats Baltimore.

Tyler Heineman added a solo home run, his first, as the Blue Jays split the four-game series with their AL East rivals.

MARLINS 3, PIRATES 2 >> Griffin Conine hit a home run, Derek Hill scored the winning run from third on a wild pitch in the bottom of the ninth as Florida beats Pittsburgh.

Andrew McCutchen hit a lead-off homer in the top of the second inning but Nick Fortes hit an RBI double to left that drove in Hill to make it 1-1 going into the third. The 38-year-old McCutchen now has 800 career extra-base hits, third most among active players (behind Freddie Freeman with 885 and Paul Goldschmidt with 833).

RANGERS 3, RED SOX 2 >> Wyatt Langford and Adolis García hit solo home runs in the sixth inning to put Texas over Boston.

The homers came after Boston scored twice in the top of the inning off Texas’ bullpen to spoil Jacob deGrom’s first start of the season. DeGrom allowed two hits in five shutout innings, lifted after nearing his pitch count at 73.

GUARDIANS 6, ROYALS 2 >> Tanner Bibee pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, Kyle Mazardo hit a two-run homer and Gabriel Arias and Daniel Schneemann added solo shots as Cleveland beat Kansas City.

Bibee (1-0) gave up no runs and two hits in 6 2/3 innings with two strikeouts and two walks. The right-hander bounced back after he was scheduled to make the opening day start for Cleveland on Thursday, but was scratched because of an illness.

CARDINALS 9, TWINS 2 >> Victor Scott II and Pedro Pages each hit three-run homers to propel St. Louis to a win over Minnesota.

Nolan Gorman also homered for St. Louis, which swept the series and is off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 2006.

DIAMONDBACKS 10, CUBS 6 >> Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a game-tying, two-run homer, Josh Naylor had the go-ahead RBI double and Arizona used an eight-run eighth inning to rally past the Chicago Cubs.

The D-backs trailed 6-2 in the eighth but sent 12 batters to the plate in a stunning rally. Alek Thomas and Corbin Carroll coaxed back-to-back walks from Caleb Thielbar to start the inning.

ANGELS 3, WHITE SOX 2 >> Kyren Paris homered on the first pitch he saw after a lengthy rain delay and the Los Angeles Angels rallied to beat the Chicago White Sox.

Padres 5, Braves 0 >> Nick Pivetta threw seven innings of one-hit ball in a brilliant debut with the Padres and Manny Machado returned to the lineup and hit an RBI double as San Diego beat Atlanta to sweep a season-opening, four-game series.