The Dodgers rode Jerry Hairston’s two-run pinch-hit single and a two-run double by Hanley Ramirez for a 6-4 win over the Cubs, who had two-homer games from Junior Lake and Anthony Rizzo.

On Thursday night at the MLB Fan Cave, Mark Newman showed his iPhone to Elias Roman, a Mets fan born and raised in Queens, who was there as guest lecturer for a monthly MLB Fan Cave University event. As CEO and co-founder of the popular Songza free music concierge service, Roman was pleased to see the blue icon with its familiar monster logo and letter “S” for Songza — the fifth app in his order.

Braves starter Julio Teheran matched his career-high with 11 strikeouts and Justin Upton collected his second multihomer game of the season to power the Braves to a convincing four-game sweep of the Rockies with an 11-2 win on Thursday.

Daniel Nava set off euphoria at Fenway Park, completing the biggest comeback of the season for the Red Sox in the 8-7 walk-off win against the Mariners to complete the three-game sweep on Thursday.

Righty Bud Norris struck out eight in his Orioles debut and Chris Davis became the first in the Majors to reach 100 RBIs with his 39th homer in a 6-3 win over the Astros in Thursday night’s rubber game.

The Cardinals punched their way back into the win column with a 13-0 victory that sent many of the 31,999 at PNC Park home early. The win helped the club salvage a game of this five-game stop in Pittsburgh and also pushed the Cardinals back to within a game and a half of the division-leading Pirates.

Matt Cain threw eight innings of one-run ball and the offense took him off the hook for a tough-luck loss with a two-run rally off Jonathan Papelbon in the ninth, giving San Francisco a 2-1 win in Thursday’s rubber game.

Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki earned his first ejection of the season during Thursday night’s game against the Braves at Turner Field.

You could sit in the press box perch high above PNC Park and see them streaming across the Roberto Clemente Bridge more than an hour prior to first pitch. Pirates fans. Thousands of them. And they filled the seats here. In August!

Bud Norris faced the Astros on Thursday, just one day after they shipped him across the hall to the Orioles’ clubhouse. His Camden Yards debut went so well that he received two shaving cream pies to the face during a postgame interview, courtesy of new teammates Adam Jones and Alexi Casilla.

The Rangers didn’t get a chance for their fourth consecutive walk-off win. Blame Yu Darvish, who wouldn’t stop striking out the D-backs on Thursday. He was electric in his 21st start of 2013, matching a career high with 14 strikeouts in a 7-1 Rangers win at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

The D-backs on Thursday placed catcher Miguel Montero on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to July 29, as his sore back continues to ail him.

Blue Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera is headed back to the disabled list after he was pulled from Thursday night’s series opener at Angel Stadium in the fourth inning because of irritation in his left knee.

Nelson Cruz remained quiet on any details about Major League Baseball’s ongoing investigation with his association to the Miami-area Biogenesis clinic.

The Nationals announced Thursday night that Mike Rizzo has signed a long-term contract with the team and has been promoted to the position of president of baseball operations and general manager.

Angels slugger Albert Pujols will be cautious with the injured foot that has his season in jeopardy, giving it the proper amount of time to heal, but he was pretty adamant Thursday about his goal of returning this year.

During Don Mattingly’s 14-year career, Roger Clemens, Bret Saberhagen and Randy Johnson were among the American League Cy Young Award winners. But Mattingly said he can’t recall a pitcher from his era like Clayton Kershaw.