WASHINGTON-Stephen Strasburg struck out a career-high 15 while allowing three hits over seven innings to lead the Washington Nationals over the Padres 3-0 on Saturday.
Strasburg (6-1) singled and scored Washington's first run on Bryce Harper's third-inning grounder, and Michael A. Taylor hit a two-run homer for the second consecutive game. Matt Albers and Koda Glover provided hitless relief, with Glover getting his fifth save.
Clayton Richard (3-6) gave up three runs and 10 hits in six innings.
ANGELS 5, MARLINS 2
MIAMI-Mike Trout hit his major league-leading 16th homer, a first-inning drive into the left field beer garden estimated at 443 feet.
J.C. Ramirez (5-3) limited Miami to an unearned run in seven innings.
Cameron Maybin put Los Angeles ahead to stay in the third when he tripled and scored on Andrelton Simmons' groundout. Maybin also singled, stole two bases and scored three times.
Vance Worley (0-2) allowed two runs and two hits in five innings.
RED SOX 6, MARINERS 0
BOSTON-Brian Johnson (2-0) pitched a five-hitter, struck out eight and walked none in his first big league appearance at Fenway Park, and Boston stretched its winning streak to a season-high six games. He became the first Red Sox pitcher to throw a shutout in his first Fenway start since Pedro Martinez on April 11, 1998.
Xander Bogaerts' RBI single triggered a three-run first inning and Bradley hit a two-run homer in the sixth
Rob Whalen (0-1) gave up five runs and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings in debut for Seattle, which has lost seven of eight.
YANKEES 3, ATHLETICS 2
NEW YORK-Rookie Jharel Cotton (3-5), brought up before the game, held the Yankees hitless until Matt Holliday's tiebreaking, two-run homer with two outs in the sixth. New York won with only two hits-the first time the Yankees have done that with so few at home since 1988.
Sabathia (5-2) gave up two runs and six hits in 6 1/3 innings, struck out nine and walked three. He has won three straight starts for the first time since 2013.
Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge was in the right spot for a pair of key catches to boost the AL East leaders, who won with just two hits.
Dellin Betances escaped a second-and-third, one-out jam in the eighth, an inning that included the ejections of A's hitter Jed Lowrie and manager Bob Melvin for arguing strike three calls, and closed for his fifth save.
PHILLIES 4, REDS 3
PHILADELPHIA-Tommy Joseph hit a solo homer in the fourth inning and a game-ending single in the ninth off Michael Lorenzen (3-1) as Philadelphia won for the third time in 13 games. Cesar Hernandez and Michael Saunders also homered for the Phillies.
Hector Neris (2-2) pitched a scoreless ninth. combining with Edubray Ramos, Pat Neshek and Joaquin Benoit for 3 2/3 shutout innings.
BREWERS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 1
MILWAUKEE-Chase Anderson (3-1) didn't allow a hit until Nick Ahmed singled up the middle off the glove of second baseman Eric Sogard leading off the eighth. On Aug. 16, 2015, Ahmed blooped a single to right-center leading off the eighth inning for the Diamondbacks' first hit against Atlanta's Shelby Miller.
Anderson (3-1), who then left, struck out a career-high 11 and walked three, throwing a career-high 114 pitches.
Jett Bandy hit a three-run double off Zack Greinke (6-3) in the fourth, and Jesus Aguilar homered. Arizona had won its previous five games.
ROYALS 5, INDIANS 2
CLEVELAND-Alex Gordon hit a tying single off Boone Logan in the sixth inning and scored on Alcides Escobar' two-run double against Nick Goody. Danny Salazar (3-5) walked Whit Merrifield starting the inning.
Jason Vargas (6-3) allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings. Kelvin Herrera worked the ninth for his second save in two days and No. 11 on the season.