Astros rout Rangers

NEW YORK — Dallas Keuchel rebounded from a poor start with a complete-game shutout and the Houston Astros showed life offensively in their 5-0 win over the Texas Rangers Friday night at Minute Maid Park. Keuchel (7-11), shelled by the Tigers in Detroit Sunday, surrendered three hits and two walks while stifling the Rangers (63-47). Keuchel added seven strikeouts to end a three-game losing skid to Texas in which he allowed four-plus earned runs in each appearance this season. Orioles 7, White Sox 5: Pedro Alvarez’s hot streak continued at US Cellular Field, where he hit two more home runs to lead Baltimore to a win to start a series against Chicago. Alvarez, the Orioles’ designated hitter, went 2-for-5 and clubbed solo homers in the second and eighth innings. It was the second two-homer performance in the past three games for Alvarez, who has hit five home runs in the past three games and six in the past five, bringing his season total to 18. Pirates 3, Reds 2: Sean Rodriguez led off the bottom of the ninth with a 413-foot home run to left field to give Pittsburgh a win over Cincinnati. Pittsburgh broke a two-game losing streak. It was the start of a six-game homestand for the Pirates, who were coming off a 1-5 road trip. Nationals 5, Giants 1: Lefty Gio Gonzalez allowed just two hits and one run in seven innings and new leadoff man Trea Turner had a double, homer and scored twice as Washington beat San Francisco in a battle of first-place clubs. The Nationals, who are 21 games over .500 for the first time this year, began the day seven games ahead of the second-place Miami Marlins in the National League East. Twins 6, Rays 2: Minnesota got a go-ahead pinch-hit home run from Eddie Rosario in the seventh inning on the way to a victory over Tampa Bay at Tropicana Field. Rosario is 2-for-2 this season as a pinch-hitter with a pair of two-run homers. This one came off Rays reliever Erasmo Ramirez, who had seen the Rays take a 2-1 lead in the sixth on a solo home run by red-hot shortstop Brad Miller. Tigers 4, Mets 3: Victor Martinez smashed a long two-run homer and James McCann added an RBI single in a three-run fourth inning to bring Detroit from behind in a victory over New York for the Tigers’ ninth win in their last 10 games. Justin Verlander (12-6) faced a Mets lineup packed with seven left-handed batters and allowed four hits in six innings. He struck out nine and walked one. Cardinals 1, Braves 0: Jaime Garcia did it all on a night where the St. Louis Cardinals needed him to do it all. Garcia fired a three-hitter over eight shutout innings and fanned 11 while knocking in the only run in his shutout victory over Atlanta at Busch Stadium. Yankees 13, Indians 7: Starlin Castro’s grand slam powered a five-run third inning for New York, which went on to beat Cleveland at Yankee Stadium. Jacoby Ellsbury finished 4-for-5 with two runs scored and a seventh-inning RBI single for the Yankees, who have alternated wins with losses in their last five games. Elsewhere it was: Blue Jays 4, Royals 3; Marlins 5, Rockies 3; Mariners 6, Angels 4; Red Sox 9, Dodgers 0; Cubs 7, Athletics 2; Phillies 5, Padres 4; Diamondbacks 3, Brewers 2.