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Baseball-Highlights of Monday's MLB games

April 4 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Monday's Major League Baseball games. Dodgers 15, Padres 0 Clayton Kershaw pitched seven innings of one-hit ball, and the Los Angeles Dodgers recorded the biggest Opening Day shutout win in baseball history, routing the San Diego Padres 15-0 Monday. Manager Dave Roberts won in his debut, prevailing over another rookie manager, San Diego's Andy Green. Rockies 10, Diamondbacks 5 Colorado rookie Trevor Story made history in his major league debut while spoiling $206.5 million right-hander Zack Greinke's first Arizona start in the Rockies' 10-5 victory over the Diamondbacks on Monday in the season opener at Chase Field. Story hit a three-run home run in a six-run third inning and added a bases-empty homer in the fourth, becoming the first rookie to produce a multi-homer game in his major league debut on Opening Day. Rangers 3, Mariners 2 The Rangers got just one hit, but they took advantage of two Seattle Mariners errors in the fifth inning to score three times. The Texas win snapped a nine-game Opening Day winning streak for the Mariners. Seattle ace Felix Hernandez took the loss and his record on Opening Day fell to 6-1. Three walks around an error by third baseman Kyle Seager produced one Texas run. Prince Fielder tied the game with the Rangers' only a hit, an RBI bloop single to left. That tied the game 2-2, and an error by shortstop Ketel Marte allowed the go-ahead run to score. Cubs 9, Angels 0 Jake Arrieta began the 2016 season pitching like the Cy Young Award winner he was last year. The Cubs right-hander threw seven scoreless innings, leading Chicago to a 9-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night in the season opener at Angel Stadium. Giants 12, Brewers 3 Denard Span drove five runs, Matt Duffy sent in four and the Giants clubbed four home runs, opening the 2016 season with a rout at Miller Park. San Francisco had 15 hits against four Milwaukee pitchers and broke the game wide open in the eighth, scoring five runs on three consecutive home runs -- by Joe Panik, Buster Posey and Hunter Pence. White Sox 4, A's 3 Left-hander Chris Sale allowed three runs over seven innings and struck out eight, lifting the Chicago White Sox to a 4-3 season-opening victory against the Oakland A's at the Oakland Coliseum on Monday night. Sale allowed seven hits and walked one. Reds 6, Phillies 2 Joey Votto's two-run single with the bases loaded highlighted a five-run eighth inning on Opening Day before 43,683 fans, the largest regular-season crowd in the history of Great American Ball Park. Shortstop Zack Cozart went 3-for-3 with two doubles and an RBI to become the first Reds player with three hits on Opening Day since Barry Larkin in 2001. Nationals 4, Braves 3 (10 innings) Daniel Murphy hit a home run and added an RBI double in the top of the 10th inning to give Dusty Baker a victory in his debut as Nationals manager. The Braves tied the score with a run in the bottom of the ninth, and the Nationals won on an unearned run in the 10th after second baseman Gordon Beckham threw away a grounder hit by Ryan Zimmerman with one out. Murphy knocked him in with his double and Nationals closer Jonathan Papelbon pitched a perfect 10th inning to record the save. Orioles 3, Twins 2 Matt Wieters lined a single to center with two outs in the bottom of the ninth that scored Chris Davis with the winning run. Davis began the game-winning rally with a two-out walk off of right-hander Kevin Jepsen (0-1). Mark Trumbo followed with his fourth hit of the game, a single to center, which moved Davis to third. Wieters then lined his single to center on the first pitch. Blue Jays 5, Rays 3 The Blue Jays got three home runs off Tampa Bay starter Drew Smyly, then got enough clutch outs with runners on base to escape with its second win of the season. Toronto got home runs from Josh Thole, Michael Saunders and Josh Donaldson, building a 5-1 lead. R.A. Dickey (1-0) lasted five innings to get the win. Indians-Red Sox postponed The Cleveland Indians game against the Boston Red Sox was postponed due to a forecast of precipitation and wind chills in the teens. The game has been rescheduled for Tuesday at 1:10 p.m. Yankees-Astros postponed The New York Yankees game against the Houston Astros was postponed because of rain and wintry weather. The game was rescheduled for Tuesday afternoon.