Orioles starter Miguel Gonzalez fired a season-high 7 2/3 scoreless innings as Baltimore tied its “home” series with a 4-0 win over Tampa Bay on Saturday night.

Gio Gonzalez worked seven scoreless innings, aided by some sterling defense, to help the Nats eke out a 1-0 victory over Jon Niese and the host Mets at Citi Field on Saturday night. Niese allowed one run over seven innings.

The Blue Jays scored six runs in the sixth inning to help them pull away for a 11-4 win over the Indians on Saturday, as Jose Bautista drove in four runs and Russell Martin added a solo home run.

Coming off a Cy Young Award, the expectations were high for Corey Kluber in 2015, but his season has gotten off to a rough start, falling to 0-4 after Saturday’s loss to the Blue Jays.

Dee Gordon provided the speed and Martin Prado delivered the power in the Marlins’ 7-0 victory over the Phillies Saturday.

October baseball in early May? That’s how it felt Saturday, when the Pirates and the Cardinals got into it for 11 more tense innings before Matt Carpenter’s sacrifice fly off Jared Hughes with one out in the 11th gave St. Louis another 2-1 win. Their second consecutive extra-inning win over the Bucs by that score extended the Redbirds’ winning streak to five.

Josh Hamilton took live batting practice and shagged balls in the outfield at the Rangers’ spring training facility in Surprise, Arizona on Saturday. A five-time All-Star with the Rangers from 2008-12, the recently acquired Hamilton is currently on the 15-day disabled list as he continues to recover from right shoulder surgery.

Albert Pujols returned from a tight left hamstring Saturday, starting at first base against the Giants at AT&T Park and hitting in his customary No. 3 spot in the lineup.

Matt Joyce’s batted ball could’ve snuck into the outfield for a game-tying hit in the ninth inning Saturday, but instead it struck pinch-runner Taylor Featherston to became the final out of a 5-4 Angels loss to the Giants.

Ever since Blake Swihart was selected by the Red Sox in the first round of the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, he tried to envision what it would be like to throw on the gear and catch a game at Fenway Park. Saturday afternoon, a day after Ryan Hanigan suffered a broken bone in his right hand, Swihart got to find out. He batted ninth for the Red Sox in a rivalry showdown with the Yankees.

The Yankees, according to their general manager, “have the right, but not the obligation,” to award bonus money to 39-year-old DH Alex Rodriguez if they determine certain milestones he reaches are “commercially marketable” in the career home runs chase.

Brett Gardner smacked a go-ahead two-run single to left in the top of the fifth, and the Yankees preserved the lead from there, taking a 4-2 victory over Wade Miley and the Red Sox on Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park. Boston will try to avoid a sweep in Sunday’s finale of the three-game rivalry series.

Jeff Samardzija will be a free agent for the first time in his career at the end of the 2015 season, but he has enough to worry about in-season without giving great thought at this point to what his future holds.

While the Rockies’ Nolan Arenado is also worth a look, the question here is who should be the NL’s starting third baseman in the All-Star Game — the Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter or the Cubs’ Kris Bryant?

Every lineup, every day, as they are made public by the clubs.

It’s been a frustrating two weeks on the disabled list for Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez, who was forced to watch his team slump through the worst opening month in franchise history. Beginning Saturday, he can help them try to dig out.

The Blue Jays made a change on their pitching staff Friday, optioning southpaw Daniel Norris to Triple-A Buffalo and purchasing the contract of left-hander Andrew Albers from their highest affiliate.