BALTIMORE >> Dean Kremer allowed three hits in seven innings, Ryan O’Hearn hit a go-ahead, two-run homer and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals 3-0 on Friday night for a rare low-scoring victory in their first shutout this season.

Last-place Baltimore improved to 2-16 when scoring three or fewer runs and won back-to-back games for only the second time this year.

Kremer (3-4) and Michael Wacha (1-4) battled for six scoreless innings before Adley Rutschman led off the Baltimore seventh with a double. O’Hearn followed with a drive to left-center field for his sixth home run of the year.

Emmanuel Rivera, playing because infielder Ramón Urías was scratched with right hamstring tightness, added an RBI single later in the inning.

Kansas City lost for just the second time in 11 games. Bobby Witt Jr. went 0 for 4, ending his 22-game hitting streak, as the Royals were blanked for the fourth time.

Yennier Cano pitched the eighth, and Félix Bautista finished the four-hitter for his sixth save in six chances.

Wacha allowed three runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Kansas City turned inning-ending double plays in the first and second, and Kremer got some help in the seventh when shortstop Gunnar Henderson made a nice sliding play on a grounder behind second base.

Phillies 3, Diamondbacks 2 >> Kyle Schwarber and Max Kepler hit solo homers in the seventh inning to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 on Friday night.

Schwarber moved into a tie for the major league home run lead when he hit his 10th of the season off Arizona reliever Jose Castillo (0-1) to tie the game 2-2.

One out later, Kepler hit a home run into the right-field seats to put the Phillies ahead. It was his fourth homer this season and his first off a left-handed pitcher this year.

Schwarber also had an RBI double in the first inning to give Philadelphia an early lead.

Tanner Banks (1-0) earned the win in relief by pitching a 1-2-3 seventh. Jose Alvarado pitched the ninth for his sixth save for Philadelphia.

Jesús Luzardo pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on nine hits for the Phillies, who have won five of their last six.

Arizona starter Merrill Kelly was having an efficient and effective start, throwing just 60 pitches through five innings and allowing one run on four hits, but he appeared to injure himself while warming up in the sixth inning and had to be removed from the game.

The Diamondbacks did not announce the nature of the injury before the conclusion of the game.

Yankees 3, Rays 0 >> Max Fried combined with two relievers on a one-hitter to become the major leagues’ first six-game winner and lead the Tampa Bay Rays 3-0 on Friday night.

Aaron Judge hit his second triple of the season and doubled in the sixth ahead of Paul Goldschmidt’s three-run homer to raise his major league-leading average to .430 and extend his on-base streak to 28 games.

Nearly two weeks after a no-hit bid against the Rays ended in the eighth inning with a retroactive scoring change, Fried (6-0) allowed a clean single to José Caballero with one out in the fifth.

Fried struck out six, walked two and got 10 groundball outs as he won his sixth straight start and helped the Yankees improve to 7-0 in his outings. He lowered his AL-leading ERA to 1.01 in his third scoreless start this season. Fried is 4-0 with a 0.00 ERA following Yankees losses.

Goldschmidt hs third homer of the season in the fifth after left-hander Mason Montgomery relieved Ryan Pepiot (2-4).

Devin Williams threw eight pitches in a perfect eighth in his third straight hitless outing since he was dropped as New York’s closer. Luke Weaver struck out two in a perfect ninth for his third save.

New York has pitched three shutouts this year — all against the Rays.

Tampa Bay has lost four straight games, totaling just three runs. The Rays have been blanked five times.

Goldschmidt raised his average to .361, second in the majors behind Judge, and is hitting a big league-best .586 (17 for 29) against left-handers.

Athletics 6, Marlins 1 >> Gunnar Hoglund won his major league debut by allowing one run over six innings to lead the Athletics over Miami 6-1 on Friday night and extend the Marlins’ losing streak to six.

A 25-year-old right-hander who pitched at the University of Mississippi, Hoglund (1-0) struck out seven, walked none and allowed six hits, including Dane Myers’ leadoff home run in the sixth.

Hoglund was selected by Toronto 19th overall in the 2021 amateur draft and was among the prospects acquired by the A’s in the March 2022 trade that sent third baseman Matt Chapman to the Blue Jays.

Blue Jays 5, Guardians 3 >> Nathan Lukes hit a two-out, two-run single in the eighth inning to snap a tie and give the Toronto Blue Jays a 5-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Friday night.

Guardians star José Ramírez left in the third inning because of a sprained right ankle. The six-time All-Star was struck in the back by a throw from pitcher Chris Bassitt as he ran out an infield single and stumbled awkwardly over first base before ending up in the dirt.

Lukes lined the winning hit off right-hander Jakob Junis (0-1) to end Cleveland’s three-game winning streak.