How’s that for turning the page? Nice going, Yankees. Way to put Wednesday’s pine tar incident in your rearview mirror.

A’s left fielder Yoenis Cespedes departed Thursday’s game in Houston in the seventh inning with strained left hamstring. He’s expected to miss at least a couple of games.

Xavier Nady’s single up the middle in the 12th inning scored Jedd Gyorko as the Padres edged the Nationals, 4-3, on Thursday night before a crowd of 22,904 at Nationals Park.

CC Sabathia pitched six solid innings, Mark Teixeira hit his first homer of the season and rookie Yangervis Solarte drove in four runs as the Yankees routed the Red Sox, 14-5, on Thursday at Fenway Park.

Led by Josh Donaldson’s first career two-homer game, the A’s pushed aside their three-game losing streak and cruised to a 10-1 series-opening victory. “He was the catalyst for a great offensive night,” manager Bob Melvin said of Donaldson, who reached base five times.

The Orioles, who have had plenty of question marks in their rotation and lineup in the opening month, did their best to silence them Thursday night in an 11-4 come-from-behind, series-clinching victory over the Blue Jays.

A day later, there appeared to be no setbacks for Phillies left-hander Cole Hamels as he opened his season with six innings and 86 pitches in Wednesday night’s 5-2 loss to the Dodgers.

Clayton Kershaw will make a Minor League rehab start for Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga on Friday night. Whether that’s his only rehab start before returning to the Dodgers remains to be seen.

St. Louis ace Adam Wainwright, who departed his last start in New York with a right knee tweak diagnosed as hyperextension, passed a side session and got the thumbs up to take his regular turn in Sunday’s series finale against the Pirates.

Yankees right-hander Michael Pineda has been suspended for 10 games by Major League Baseball on Thursday for “possessing a foreign substance” during Wednesday’s game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Max Scherzer avoided any appearance of a Sports Illustrated cover jinx, fanning 10 over six innings to earn a 7-4 victory over the White Sox on Thursday afternoon at Comerica Park.

Zack Greinke struck out 11 while holding the Phillies to two runs on five hits in seven-plus innings, and Yasiel Puig’s RBI triple and Hanley Ramirez’s solo homer helped the Dodgers’ right-hander improve to 4-0 on Wednesday night in Los Angeles.

Chris Colabello added to his American League-leading RBI total with four more runs driven in, including a go-ahead two-run single off Josh Lueke in the 12th inning, to lead the Twins to a 6-4 win over the Rays on Wednesday night at Tropicana Field.

Once things had calmed down, Yankees manager Joe Girardi did something absolutely brilliant. He summoned pitcher Michael Pineda to a private place up the tunnel from the visitors’ dugout at Fenway Park on Wednesday night.

Michael Pineda was ejected when an illegal substance was discovered by home-plate umpire Gerry Davis at the urging of Red Sox manager John Farrell, forcing the Yankees to go to their bullpen early in a 5-1 loss on Wednesday at Fenway Park.

A strange play occurred in the sixth inning during the Nationals’ 5-4 victory over the Angels on Wednesday night. After Adam LaRoche singled off right-hander Jared Weaver to lead off, Bryce Harper tried to bunt for a hit on a 2-2 count, but he fouled out to catcher Chris Iannetta.

Right-hander Brandon Cumpton will be recalled from Triple-A Indianapolis to start Thursday afternoon’s series finale against the Reds, stepping into the slot left vacant when Wandy Rodriguez went on the disabled list.