ARLINGTON, Texas >> Kevin Gausman struck out six over eight strong innings, Daulton Varsho had a solo homer among his three hits and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Texas Rangers 2-1 on Monday.

Gausman (5-4) threw 72 of his 96 pitches for strikes, including his first 14, and didn’t walk a batter. He gave up one run and five hits.

Jeff Hoffman worked a perfect ninth for his 11th save in 14 chances.

Jacob deGrom (4-2) lost for the first time in his last seven starts, and didn’t have a strikeout in 5 1/3 innings. The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner allowed five hits and walked two.

CUBS 3, ROCKIES 1 >> Jameson Taillon pitched four-hit ball into the seventh inning, Kyle Tucker drove in two runs and Chicago beat Colorado.

NL Central-leading Chicago improved to 8-2 in its last 10 games. Colorado lost for the eighth time in nine games, dropping to a major league-worst 9-45.

Taillon (4-3) retired his first 14 batters before Mickey Moniak connected in the fifth, driving a changeup deep to right-center for his fifth homer. Moniak also hit a solo drive during Sunday’s 5-4 loss to the New York Yankees.

Taillon departed after he struck out Brenton Doyle looking for the first out of the seventh. The big right-hander struck out seven and walked none.

Daniel Palencia, the fourth Cubs reliever, pitched a perfect ninth for his third save.

Colorado’s Carson Palmquist (0-3) permitted two runs and three hits in five innings in his third major league start.

The Cubs jumped ahead when Ian Happ scored on Dansby Swanson’s groundout in the first inning.

After Moniak’s homer tied it in the fifth, Tucker singled in Matt Shaw in the bottom half of the inning. Tucker added a sacrifice fly in the seventh.

BREWERS 3, RED SOX 2 >> Jackson Chourio homered on the opening pitch from Garrett Crochet, and Milwaukee defeated Boston.

Milwaukee pushed the lead to 2-0 in the fifth on consecutive doubles by Joey Ortiz and Andruw Monasterio.

Milwaukee starter Chad Patrick pitched 4 2/3 scoreless innings, giving up three hits while walking two and striking out six. DL Hall, fresh off the 60-day injured list, came on to relieve Patrick with Jarren Duran on second base. Hall retired Rafael Devers on an easy ground out to first to end the threat.

ORIOLES 5, CARDINALS 2 >> Dylan Carlson hit a three-run homer against his former team, Charlie Morton earned his first victory with Baltimore, and the Orioles achieved their first three-game winning streak of the season, beating St. Louis.

Carlson’s drive in the fourth off Erick Fedde (3-4) put the Orioles up 5-0. Morton (1-7) took a shutout into the fifth before allowing a two-run shot by Pedro Pagés. The 41-year-old right-hander, who signed with Baltimore in the offseason, allowed four hits in six innings after losing his first six starts of the season. He’d pitched mostly in relief lately.

After Morton exited, three Baltimore relievers — Seranthony Domínguez, Yennier Cano and Félix Bautista — retired all nine of their hitters. Bautista pitched the ninth for his eighth save in nine chances.

REDS 7, ROYALS 4 >> Nick Martinez worked seven strong innings and Tyler Stephenson homered to lead Cincinnati to a win over Kansas City.

Martinez (3-5) allowed three singles through six shutout innings and finished seven innings allowing three runs on six hits with two strikeouts and no walks.

Stephenson hit a two-run homer to left in the fifth inning, his second of the season, boosting the Reds’ lead to 6-0. Stephenson had three of Cincinnati’s 14 hits.

Michael Lorenzen (3-6) allowed six runs on a career-high 11 hits with three walks and two strikeouts in five innings as the Royals lost for the third time in four games.

METS 2, WHITE SOX 1 >> Tyrone Taylor hit a leadoff double in the ninth inning and scored on Francisco Lindor’s sacrifice fly as New York mounted a late comeback to edge Chicago in the opener of a three-game series.

New York managed just two baserunners through the first six innings against Adrian Houser and left the bases loaded in the seventh before Juan Soto delivered a tying sacrifice fly in the eighth.

Steven Wilson (1-1) gave up Taylor’s double to start the ninth. Jeff McNeil was intentionally walked and Luis Torrens singled to load the bases before Taylor trotted home on Lindor’s fly to deep right field.

Dodgers 7, Guardians 2 >> Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer for the second straight game and Los Angeles defeated Cleveland.

Will Smith also went deep for the Dodgers, who bounced back after dropping two of three games in New York to the Mets.

Rays 7, Twins 2 >> Jonathan Aranda hit a three-run homer and Danny Jansen added a two-run shot as Tampa Bay extended its winning streak to six games with a win over Minnesota.

Zack Littell (4-5) allowed three hits through six shutout innings. He left with one out in the seventh after hitting Ty France with his 72nd pitch. Then, Minnesota’s Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer, his fourth of the season, off reliever Garrett Cleavinger, pulling the Twins within 3-2.

Kody Funderburk, the Twins only left-handed reliever, entered with one out in the eighth and the bases empty and allowed back-to-back singles to Aranda and Curtis Mead. A two-out, two-run double by José Caballero and Jansen’s fourth homer made it 7-2.

Diamondbacks 5, Pirates 0 >> Eugenio Suárez and Josh Naylor homered to back a stellar start from Ryne Nelson as Arizona beat Pittsburgh to end a five-game skid.

Suárez hit his 15th homer — a 109 mph shot to left-center that traveled 433 feet — for a 3-0 lead against Andrew Heaney (3-4) in the third inning. Suárez also walked with one out in the fifth before Naylor launched his sixth home run.