The Astros scored six runs over the first three innings, getting three home runs, en route to a victory over the Angels in the opening game of a three-game series.

Shin-Soo Choo’s two-run single capped a decisive three-run fourth inning as the Rangers rallied for a 4-3 win over the Orioles on Monday night at Globe Life Park.

After Mike Trout kept his run alive Sunday afternoon, Beat the Streak leader “Terry_Sims” leaned on another productive American League bat — Jose Altuve — to push his streak another game closer to the grand prize.

The look on Justin Upton’s face as he rounded first base in the 12th inning Monday night, his line drive to the left-field seats having ended the Tigers’ second straight extra-inning game with an 8-7 win over the Mariners, said plenty.

Willson Contreras said he wasn’t nervous before his first Major League start. After all, he hit a home run on the first pitch he saw in his first at-bat the night before as a pinch-hitter.

If there’s been one theme that characterizes the Rangers’ season-high seven-game winning streak, it’s that the team is going to scratch and claw its way to earn victory.

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Jose Abreu pummeled a 99-mph offering from closer Craig Kimbrel into the gap in right-center for a two-out, two-run double that led the White Sox to a 3-1 victory over the Red Sox in 10 innings on Monday night at Fenway Park.

Rockies first baseman Mark Reynolds wasn’t thinking history Monday, when he accounted for two of the eight combined solo homers in the Rockies’ 5-3 victory over the Marlins on Monday night. The contest, according to Stats LLC, marked the highest run total in a Major League game in which all the runs came on solo homers.

Have a week, Cleveland.

Francisco Lindor and Juan Uribe homered in a three-run eighth inning to lead the Indians to a 7-4 win over the Rays in Monday night’s series opener at Progressive Field. Cleveland has won four in a row and extended its lead in the American League Central to one game over the Royals, while the Rays have lost five straight.

Erik Kratz delivered the game-winning homer off Giants ace Madison Bumgarner in the fifth inning Monday, a solo shot that barely cleared the left-field wall — and was very nearly taken away by Angel Pagan — and led the Pirates to a 1-0 win at PNC Park.

Cardinals No. 3 prospect Luke Weaver looks to move to 4-0 for Double-A Springfield in a matchup against Tulsa on MiLB.TV at 8:05 p.m. ET.

Giancarlo Stanton on Monday blasted a home run in the first inning, and he continues to show signs that he is breaking out of his prolonged slump. The three-time All-Star also attached his name to some MLB history on a night the Marlins fell 5-3 to the Rockies at Marlins Park.

Next door was the aftermath, the fans snaked around Quicken Loans Arena waiting for their turn to plop down their hard-earned cash for a hard-earned T-shirt bearing the word “Champions.” The bid to be the one who broke the so-called curse was a kind of unspoken and painfully slow-moving foot race taking place between this city’s three major professional sports teams lo these many decades, and the Cavaliers won that race by winning the NBA Finals on Sunday night.

Commissioner Rob Manfred, who has stressed youth initiatives since taking office in January 2015, was honored for Major League Baseball’s contributions to the Harlem Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program on Monday night.

That’s how all the great ones do it.