Colorado Rockies second baseman DJ LeMahieu (right) is safe at home as Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero drops the baseball in the sixth inning at Coors Field on Sunday.
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Japan’s Yu Darvish won his season debut, allowing seven hits over seven innings as the Texas Rangers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-0 on Sunday.
Darvish finished with six strikeouts, one walk and managed to pitch out of a couple of jams in the later innings to keep the contest scoreless.
Darvish began the Major League Baseball season on the injured list for the Rangers who averted a three-game sweep with the win.
Elvis Andrus broke the 0-0 tie with a two-out, two-run homer in the eighth inning.
Alex Cobb pitched well in the start for Tampa Bay, holding Texas to three singles with a walk and six strikeouts over seven innings.
Elsewhere, The Milwaukee Brewers, continuing their outstanding pitching, completed their first three-game 4-0 sweep of the Boston Red Sox in 21 years.
Right-hander Yovani Gallardo worked 6 2/3 scoreless innings in his second straight no-run start for Milwaukee (4-2) to outduel Jon Lester.
The loss was the third straight for the Red Sox (2-4), who never lost four in a row and were never under .500 during their championship 2013 season.
Chris Colabello had two hits and four RBIs and Joe Mauer had three hits as Minnesota Twins outscored the Cleveland Indians 10-7.
The Indians collected 15 hits, including four by David Murphy and three by Michael Brantley. Jason Kipnis added three RBIs, but it was not enough for the Indians (3-3), who lost two of the three games in the series to Minnesota (3-3).
Washington shortstop Ian Desmond blasted the first pitch from Atlanta Braves starter Alex Wood in the bottom of the seventh for a leadoff home run to break a 1-1 tie and the Nationals won to salvage the final game of the three-game set.
The Braves (4-2) had won nine of the previous 11 games at Nationals Park against Washington (4-2), which was 6-13 last season against the National League East champions.
