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 on Sunday night to sweep a season-opening, four-game series.
The Padres are 4-0 for the first time since 1998, the last time they reached the World Series. The Braves were shut out a second straight game and are 0-4 for the first time since 2021. The Braves haven’t been swept in a season-opening, four-game series since 1980 at Cincinnati, and in a four-game series in San Diego since 1979.
The Braves have lost six straight games at Petco Park, including last season’s two-game sweep in the wild-card round.
Pivetta (1-0), who signed a four-year contract in February, faced the minimum 21 batters. He allowed a leadoff single in the third to Orlando Arcia, who was forced out at second. Pivetta struck out four and walked none.
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 and Miami beat 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 and Paul Goldschmidt).
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.
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 and Toronto beat Baltimore.
GIANTS 6, REDS 3
Matt Chapman hit a two-run homer and Heliot Ramos homered for the second time in the series as San Francisco beat Cincinnati.
ANGELS 3, WHITE SOX 2
Kyren Paris homered on the first pitch he saw after a lengthy rain delay and Los Angeles rallied to beat Chicago.
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.
RANGERS 3, RED SOX 2
Wyatt Langford and Adolis García hit solo home runs in the sixth inning to put Texas over Boston.
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 Chicago.
MARINERS 2, ATHLETICS 1
Julio Rodríguez hit a towering 438-foot, two-run homer in the sixth to give Seattle the lead and Bryan Woo pitched six dominant innings and the Mariners beat the Athletics.
CARDINALS 9, TWINS 2
Victor Scott II and Pedro Pages each hit three-run homers to propel St. Louis to a win over Minnesota.