Texas Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor is doing his best to prove his second-half outburst last season wasn’t simply a fluke. Odor continued to swing a hot bat Friday night, going 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs to help lead the Rangers to a 5-1 series-opening win over the Tigers at Comerica Park.

Zack Greinke did what aces are supposed to do. With his team riding a six-game losing streak and desperate for a win, the right-hander delivered a quality start as the D-backs beat the Braves, 7-2, on Friday night at Turner Field.

D-backs catcher Welington Castillo and shortstop Nick Ahmed combined on one of the more interesting plays you will see this year.

Mired in a three-game losing streak, the Texas Rangers turned to their highly touted ace Friday night to help them snap out of an early-season funk. And Cole Hamels did just that.

Kevin Pillar hit a three-run homer in the eighth and Jose Bautista added a two-run shot of his own, as the Blue Jays picked up their fourth consecutive win with a 5-2 victory over the Dodgers on Friday night at Rogers Centre.

Carlos Correa may finally be heating up at the plate, hitting his fifth home run of 2016 while collecting three hits and a walk Friday night in the Astros’ 6-3 win over the Mariners.

The Astros want Evan Gattis to catch this season, and they haven’t been been able to work him into Major League action behind the dish. So, Gattis will head to Double-A Corpus Christi and work full time as a backstop for the next couple of weeks.

When David Ortiz went deep for a two-run shot in the Red Sox’s 3-2 loss to the Yankees in the top of the first inning on Friday night at Yankee Stadium, he tied Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski for second on the all-time list for the Red Sox with 452 homers.

Aaron Hicks picked an opportune time for his first home run in pinstripes, slugging a go-ahead blast off Rick Porcello in the seventh inning on Friday that lifted the Yankees to a 3-2 victory over the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.

Tigers manager Brad Ausmus joked before Friday’s game against the Rangers that he’d love for Jordan Zimmermann to lower his Major League-best 0.55 ERA. The right-hander didn’t do that, but he gave the Tigers a shot, allowing three earned runs over eight innings in a 5-1 loss. It was Zimmermann’s first loss as a Tiger.

The Reds have started piling up home runs during this homestand, and they continued the trend on Friday with a 5-1 victory over the Brewers. Using early home runs by Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips, Cincinnati gained its first three-game winning streak since the first three games of the season.

Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton is once again the king of home run distance. The three-time All-Star connected on a two-run homer in the eighth inning on Friday night vs. the Phillies that Statcast projected at 475 feet, longest in the Majors this season.

Giancarlo Stanton picked an appropriate time to connect on the longest home run tracked by Statcast™ this season. The three-time All-Star blistered a two-run homer in the eighth inning on Friday night that launched the Marlins to a 6-4 win over the Phillies at Marlins Park.

Blue Jays manager John Gibbons decided not to use closer Roberto Osuna in Friday night’s 5-2 victory over the Dodgers because he is dealing with a sore groin.

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Danny Salazar entered this season as a potential breakout candidate for the Indians. On Friday night, the hard-throwing right-hander continued his torrid start to the season, firing 7 2/3 shutout innings in a 7-1 win over the Royals.

The number Yu Darvish wore in his rehab start for Triple-A Round Rock wasn’t a familiar one Friday night, but the popping sound his pitches made was. Darvish, making his second rehab start in his return from Tommy John surgery, allowed one run on two hits in his three innings of work while wearing jersey No. 75.