Angels erupt early in shutout of White Sox

Santiago's first win of the season helped the Angels (6-7) snap a three-game losing streak. The Angels dropped their second in a row and fifth in their last six games.

The White Sox threatened to extend their lead, loading the bases on singles by Frazier, Cabrera and Austin Jackson.

REDS 6, ROCKIES 5: Tucker Barnhart hit a game-ending single in the ninth inning, and Cincinnati overcame a bullpen meltdown and took advantage of a Colorado baserunning blunder to beat the Rockies at home.

The White Sox are 10-5, their best start in a decade, matching the 2006 team.

The Angels mustered three hits in their fourth loss in five games.

RH Jered Weaver (1-0, 4.35) vs. LH John Danks (0-2, 7.94).

Anthony Rizzo accounted for the Cubs' first run with a long leadoff homer in the fourth.

Harper went 1-for-4 with a run-scoring double. Geovany Soto did his part with an RBI single that scored Calhoun and the hit parade continued as Johnny Giavotella added a single of his own to score Simmons.

Athletics 5, Yankees 2 - Kendall Graveman tossed three-hit ball into the seventh inning and struck out eight, pitching Oakland over slumping NY.

Three starts into the season, all of the doubts seem to have been erased. His 108 pitches got him into the eighth inning Wednesday, and he now has seven consecutive starts of seven innings or more, dating back to last September. He struck out six and gave up four hits in 6 1/3 innings.

Jordan Zimmermann kept putting up zeros, and Victor Martinez collected his 1,000th career RBI as the Detroit Tigers staved off the Kansas City Royals.

Two years ago, Sale won his first five decisions.

You can't hit him, and maybe now you can't outlast him, because Sale has learned the value of pitching efficiently.

The Angels are playing a day game at U.S. Cellular Field for the first time in four years.

Braves rookie center fielder Mallex Smith, charging toward left field, made a diving attempt for Turner's sinking drive off Jason Grilli (1-1) but the ball bounced off his glove.

The Dodgers tacked on an insurance run on a single by Yasmani Grandal against Alexi Ogando, who relieved Grilli with the bases loaded. "That run could've changed the game".

With Adam Jones at the plate, a pitch from Biagini got past Thole and Joseph sprinted home.

Bourjos, batting ninth in manager Pete Mackanin's reshuffled lineup, victimized Hansel Robles, the last of six Mets pitchers. Richards had intended the 96-mph fastball to be low, below the strike zone, with the count already 0-1.

The victory wasn't the cleanest for Hamels against the aggressive-swinging Astros. Shoemaker then gave up hits to three of the next four batters, but escaped.

Braun had two singles, walked twice, scored twice and drove in a run, raising his average to.340 on the young season.

St. Louis scored four runs in the first two innings against Kyle Hendricks, starting with a two-run homer by Matt Holliday in the first after a Stephen Piscotty double. "You can still pitch well but it could be a five inning game for him". Unlike in Tampa when The Condor struck out nine batters, Sale pitched more to contact only recording three punch-outs.

Today will be only Weaver's third start of the season.