Carlos Martinez outdueled Brett Anderson for the second time in five days and the Cardinals slipped past the Dodgers, 2-1, on Friday night at Dodger Stadium. With the win, the Cardinals extended their winning streak to four games, the fifth time this season the club has had a streak at least that long.

The Nationals’ offense came back to life and it was enough to defeat the Cubs, 7-5, at Nationals Park on Friday night, evening the four-game series.

The Giants snapped a five-game losing streak Friday night with a 5-4 victory over the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Giants catcher Buster Posey hit a solo home run with two outs in the seventh inning to give San Francisco a one-run lead. Matt Duffy and Justin Maxwell also homered as Tim Lincecum got the win, allowing five hits and four runs in six innings.

When it comes to home runs, Adam LaRoche probably has quite a few stored in his memory bank from the last 12 years.

Alex Rodriguez had four hits and moved past Barry Bonds into second place on the all-time RBIs list, Stephen Drew homered twice and the Yankees withstood a ninth-inning rally to hold off the Angels in an 8-7 victory on Friday at Yankee Stadium.

Aaron Sanchez threw eight-plus strong innings and the Blue Jays put up a big third frame in a 6-2 victory over the Astros on Friday night at Rogers Centre.

Dellin Betances stood at his locker, searching for the words to sum up what just happened. Eventually they came, and he grinned: “Thank God for Didi.”

Nationals center fielder Denard Span is so good with the glove that his teammates always expect him to make a great catch.

It was another night of milestones and celebrated names for Alex Rodriguez on Friday, as the Yankees slugger moved past Barry Bonds in lifetime RBIs and edged Stan Musial on the all-time runs scored as part of his first four-hit game since 2011.

After 390 days on the shelf, Orioles catcher Matt Wieters came back with a bang. Or, perhaps, “crack” is the more appropriate onomatopoeia. Like the crack of the bat when Wieters slugged an opposite-field double off the left-field wall at Progressive Field to put the Orioles on the board in the fourth inning of Friday’s 5-2 series-opener victory.

Jaime Garcia can’t be happy to see Clayton Kershaw. Garcia has pitched three times this year, and the Cardinals haven’t scored in two of those games. And now he has to face off against the Dodgers and the two-time defending National League Cy Young Award winner. Kershaw may just be finding his form, too.

The Angels were down by seven when they finished batting in the top of the eighth at Yankee Stadium on Friday night, so Mike Scioscia did what any reasonable manager would: He removed his top three hitters — Erick Aybar, Mike Trout and Albert Pujols — and waited out the inevitable loss.

With two scoreless innings tucked in his pocket, capping a long-anticipated debut, the A’s Pat Venditte became the first full-time switch-pitcher in the modern era of Major League Baseball on Friday night.

With the Draft only a few days away, a number of top prospects took the field Friday night as the NCAA Tournament rolled on. Eight of the 16 remaining teams kicked off Super Regional play Friday night, while the other half will open their best-of-three series Saturday.

The Red Sox shook off one of their sloppiest losses of the year with a crisp performance on Friday, downing the Athletics, 4-2, in the opener of a three-game series.

Pat Venditte became the first ambidextrous pitcher in 20 years and only the second in at least a century when he made his debut for Oakland. Thanks to Statcast, we can see that the two sides of Venditte are two very different pitchers.

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