MLB Tuesday scores, highlights, updates, news: No love lost between Red Sox, O's (2024)

Tuesday occasions a full schedule of 15 night games in MLB, so let's get busy with the on-the-field and off-the-field essentials ...

Final scores

Yankees11, Blue Jays 5 (box score)
Diamondbacks6,Nationals3 (box score)
Tigers5, Indians 2 (box score)
Pirates12,Reds3 (box score)
Red Sox5, Orioles 2 (box score)
Rays3,Marlins1 (box score)
Braves9, Mets 7 (box score)
Cubs8, Phillies 3 (box score)
Twins9, Athletics 1 (box score)
Astros8, Rangers 7 (box score)
Cardinals2, Brewers 1 (box score)
White Sox6,Royals0 (box score)
Padres6, Rockies 2 (box score)
Angels 6, Mariners4 (box score)
Dodgers13, Giants 5 (box score)

Things still testy between the Red Sox and Orioles?

There's a lot going on between the Red Sox and Orioles these days. You'll recall that on Monday, Baltimore outfielder Adam Jones was subjected to racist taunts at Fenway. On Tuesday, the Red Sox issued a public apology and promised ramped-up security at the ballpark. Meantime, Sox outfielder Mookie Betts was among those to reach out to Jones, and then Betts called upon the Fenway crowd at Tuesday night's game to give Jones a standing ovation. That's exactly what they did.

Not long after that nice moment, though, we were reminded that these two teams are long-time AL East rivals that don't particularly like each other. Here's this from the top of the first ...

That's Sox ace Chris Sale throwing behind Manny Machado. Following that possible purpose pitch, both benches were warned.

As for Machado, he was most displeased after the game (warning: bleeped profanity forthcoming) ...

There's plenty of back-story here. On Monday night, Dylan Bundy plunked Betts, so maybe this was about that. Of course, things have been particularly heated between these two teams after Machado's hard slide into Dustin Pedroia and Matt Barnes' throwing at Machado's head. Considering that Sale looked at his absolute best through the early innings on Tuesday night, it doesn't seem likely that he'd miss that far inside by accident.

Developing, possibly.

Aaron Judge brings the thunder before and during game

Yankees young cloutsman Aaron Judge entered Tuesday night's game slugging .725 to lead the AL and with 10 homers, also to lead the AL. Judge is of course a physically dominating presence. His listed height of 6-foot-7 and listed weight of 282 pounds will tell you that much.

What will also tell you that is when Judge swaps uniforms with diminutive teammate Ronald Torreyes ...

Anyhow, Judge's build has much to do with his light-tower power. Speaking of which, before Tuesday's game against the Jays, he put on a show in BP and abused some consumer electronics in the process ...

For enthusiasts of the macabre among us, here's a closer look at the murdered TV ...

In keeping with the general theme of things, Judge went out and hit his 11th homer of the season -- an opposite-field laser off off Mat Latos. Soon thereafter, No. 12 ...

And then there's this ...

Of course, all of that hardly matters to the poor, ritually abused flatscreen.

Miguel Cabrera hits career home run No. 450

Coming into Tuesday's tilt, Miguel Cabrera hadn't seen game action since April 21 because of a groin injury. Well, it didn't take long for him to get back to game speed, because in his second at bat of the night, he did this ...

That's Cabrera's fourth home run of 2017, and, much more significantly, it's also the 450th home run of his superlative career. He's now alone in 38th place on the all-time list, one ahead of Jeff Bagwell and Vladimir Guerrero. Next in Miggy's sights is Carl Yastrzemski at 452.

Quick hits

• Jeb Bush is confident that he and Derek Jeter will succeed in their bid to purchase the Marlins. Speaking of Jeter, he'll reportedly run the Marlins' baseball operations department if his group winds up buying the team.
• On the other hand, the Tagg Romney-Tom Glavine group has reportedly made the highest offer for the Marlins.
• Rangers SP Cole Hamels was scratched from his scheduled start on Tuesday after he experienced oblique tightness while warming up.
• Indians SP Corey Kluber left his start against the Tigers after three innings because of lower back tightness.
• Cubs 3B Kris Bryant left Tuesday night's game with calf tightness.
• Joe Mauer and Byron Buxton of the Twins each hit his first homer of the season on Tuesday night.
• White Sox SP James Shields says his injured lat muscle isn't progressing as he'd hoped. (Daryl Van Schouwen via Twitter)
• The Angels have activated infielder Luis Valbuena from the 10-day DL.
• The Orioles have placed C Welington Castillo on the 10-day DL with shoulder tendinitis.
• The Dodgers have activated OF Franklin Gutierrez from the 10-day DL.
• The Yankees placed 1B Greg Bird on the 10-day DL with a bruised ankle.
• The Rays have activated OF Colby Rasmus from the 10-day DL.
• The Tigers have activated 1B Miguel Cabrera from the 10-day DL.
• The Cardinals have placed LHP Tyler Lyons on the 10-day DL with a right intercostal strain.

• The Mariners acquired minor-league 3B Seth Mejias-Brean from the Reds for a player to be named later.