When Yasiel Puig and Justin Turner took a detour from their route to Dodger Stadium on Saturday for some pick-up game participation, they not only surprised the kids from the Boys & Girls Club of Venice as part of Major League Baseball’s Play Ball Weekend but also taught those kids a lesson about the game’s picturesque portability.

Right-hander Mike Foltynewicz threw eight shutout innings, giving up just seven hits, as the Braves won just their ninth game of the season with a 5-0 victory over the slumping Royals on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium.

Rays right-hander Matt Andriese was dominant in his second start of the season, firing a two-hit 6-0 shutout against the A’s at Tropicana Field on Saturday night for the first nine-inning complete game of his career.

On Saturday, the Orioles were only down two runs when their bats came to life with three in the sixth inning, one in the seventh and five in the eighth. Jonathan Schoop led the way with a solo home run in the seventh and a grand slam in the eighth to turn an otherwise tight game into a rout. It was Schoop’s second career grand slam and his seventh homer of the season.

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Minnesota catcher Juan Centeno delivered a two-run home run off Indians ace Corey Kluber on Saturday afternoon, providing the spark that pushed the Twins to a 6-3 victory at Progressive Field. Righty Ervin Santana turned in a solid effort that guided the Twins to the win column for the first time since May 2.

Baseball can be played anywhere, even the beach. That was the message Dodgers stars Yasiel Puig and Justin Turner helped relay to a group of 60 kids from the Boys & Girls Club of Venice on Saturday morning, when they arrived at Venice Beach for a surprise baseball play date before that night’s game against the Cardinals.

With one towering swing of the bat Saturday night at Camden Yards, Miguel Cabrera gave the Tigers’ offense some life and ended a 17-inning scoreless streak.

When Rangers right-hander Tony Barnette was growing up in Federal Way, Wash., he would have loved to have had the kind of opportunity that children got Saturday as Major League Baseball kicked off its Play Ball Weekend.

Astros right fielder George Springer continued his impressive homecoming by hitting a second-inning grand slam off Red Sox starter Clay Buchholz to give his team a three-run lead Saturday, but those wound up being the final runs Houston scored in a crushing 6-5 loss at Fenway Park.

As good as Jake Arrieta has been, Cubs manager Joe Maddon feels the right-hander can be even better.

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The decision whether to intentionally walk Red Sox slugger David Ortiz has left many managers with sleepless nights, as Astros manager A.J. Hinch might be able to attest.

David Ortiz had never hit a homer, triple and double in the same game, but that all changed on Saturday afternoon as he hit a walk-off two-bagger to give the Red Sox a 6-5 victory over the Astros in 11 innings at Fenway Park.

The Nationals needed all the offense they could get during the first game of a day-night doubleheader against the Marlins on Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park. Washington collected nine hits and defeated Miami, 6-4, as Stephen Strasburg collected his sixth win.