Baseball-Highlights of Friday's MLB games

April 15 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Friday's Major League Baseball games. Dodgers 7, Giants 3 Enrique Hernandez homered twice and drove in four runs, Charlie Culberson drive in three, and Clayton Kershaw got the best of Madison Bumgarner in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 7-3 victory Friday night against the San Francisco Giants. Hernandez homered to center on the first pitch Bumgarner (1-1) threw, and added a second solo shot in the third, this time to left, that broke a 1-1 tie. It was his first leadoff homer and his first multi-homer game of his career. Braves 6, Marlins 3 Adonis Garcia drove in three runs and the Atlanta Braves snapped a nine-game losing streak to start the season with a 6-3 victory over the Miami Marlins on Friday. The Braves avoided a 0-10 start that would have matched a club record set in 1988. Cardinals 14, Reds 3 St. Louis broke a Busch Stadium III record with six homers as the Cardinals walloped Cincinnati for their sixth win in seven games. Matt Holliday belted two homers, including a 449-foot solo shot in the sixth inning that gave him the 20th multi-homer game of his career. Orioles 11, Rangers 5 Baltimore designated hitter Mark Trumbo hit two home runs and drove in five runs as part of nine-run seventh inning as the Orioles rallied past Texas. Baltimore trailed 5-1 going into the seventh before bludgeoning three Texas pitchers for nine runs and seven hits, including four home runs. Nationals 9, Phillies 1 Bryce Harper had three hits including a two-run homer as Washington improved to 8-1 with a victory over Philadelphia. The Nationals halted the Phillies' three-game winning streak. Philadelphia starter Jeremy Hellickson lasted three innings after staking the Nationals to a 5-0 lead in the first inning. The righty had his ERA jump from 1.54 to 4.30, giving up six runs (five earned) and seven hits to go with a walk one and three strikeouts. Brewers 8, Pirates 4 Ryan Braun hit two long two-run homers and Jimmy Nelson took a shutout into the seventh inning before faltering as Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh. Braun blasted a 460-foot shot off the batter's eye in center field against Kyle Lobstein in the sixth to put the Brewers ahead 5-0. Astros 1, Tigers 0 Dallas Keuchel pitched eight shutout innings and extended his home winning streak to 17 consecutive regular-season decisions in Houston's victory over Detroit. Keuchel (2-1) pitched without the benefit of much run support. It didn't matter. He surrendered five hits -- all singles -- and didn't issue a walk until Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias worked one with one out in the eighth. Mets 6, Indians 5 New York hit four home runs -- including three in the span of seven batters in a five-run fifth inning -- to beat Cleveland. Michael Conforto, Alejandro De Aza, Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker all homered for the Mets, who came into the game with a major league-low two home runs. Red Sox 5, Blue Jays 3 Rick Porcello allowed two hits in 6 1/3 innings -- both home runs by Edwin Encarnacion-- as Boston defeated Toronto. Porcello (2-0) allowed a second-inning home run to Encarnacion (his first homer of the season) and that was the only hit for the Blue Jays until Encarnacion, who had all three Toronto hits, cracked a two-run shot in the seventh. White Sox 1, Rays 0 Great base running by veteran Jimmy Rollins and a clutch hit by Melky Cabrera helped Chicago outduel Tampa Bay. Cabrera's RBI single in the ninth inning gave White Sox pitcher Chris Sale all the support he needed. Sale (3-0) threw his first complete game of the year and needed a ninth-inning leaping catch at the wall by Cabrera to save the shut out. He allowed two hits and struck out nine, and sat down 16 straight Rays' batters at one point and also retired the final seven. Rockies 6, Cubs 1 Chad Bettis allowed three hits in six shutout innings and successfully nursed a one-run lead into the sixth as Colorado defeated Chicago. The Rockies won their third straight while the Cubs saw a five-game winning streak snapped. Mariners 7, Yankees 1 Chris Iannetta hit a tiebreaking two-run home run with nobody out in the fifth inning and drove in three runs as Seattle opened a nine-game road trip with a victory over New York. Former Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano heard boos from fans before each at-bat and had an RBI single and scored a run. Cano had two hits in his seventh game in New York as a Mariner against the Yankees and also scored on Adam Lind's RBI base hit in the sixth. Twins 5, Angels 4 Byung Ho Park's RBI double in the eighth inning lifted the Minnesota Twins to a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday at Target Field for their first win of the season. The Twins (1-9) were the final team in the majors to record their first victory after Atlanta defeated Miami earlier Friday. Royals 4, Athletics 2 Eric Hosmer hit a solo home run, Kendrys Morales went 3-for-4 with his 500th career RBI, and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Oakland A's 4-2 at the Coliseum on Friday night, winning their fourth straight game, all on the road. The Royals led 3-2 with one out in the top of the ninth, but Hosmer extended their lead with his first home run of the season, a blast to deep center off A's left-hander Sean Doolittle. Hosmer crushed Doolittle's 1-1 fastball. Diamondbacks 3, Padres 2 Arizona turned two infield singles, a stolen base and a throwing error into an unearned, ninth-inning run off right-hander Fernando Rodney Friday night to defeat the Padres 3-2 at Petco Park. With the Padres employing a shift against the left-handed hitting Jake Lamb, the Diamondbacks' third baseman hit a grounder to the right of shortstop Alexei Ramirez and beat it out for a single.