Jones took a 90 miles per hour fastball from Twins reliever Justin Haley to the face in the third. I can't play in the games, so I don't exactly know what I'm allowed to do when I am on the DL.
Twins-Tigers resume series after scrap, Scherzer gets Mets on Sunday night, Jays feeling very blue, Nova faces Yanks in Pittsburgh.
Detroit's JaCoby Jones was hit in the face by a pitch, and two innings later, Minnesota slugger Miguel Sano punched Tigers catcher James McCann in the mask as both dugouts emptied after Matthew Boyd threw a pitch behind Sano.
John Hicks had three hits, including his first career homer, and drove in five runs to lead Michael Fulmer and the Detroit Tigers to a 13-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. He let up three runs in six frames at Tampa Bay on Tuesday but wound up on the wrong end of a 5-1 score.
In the 8th inning, Max Kepler hit his second home run on a line to right field, this one of the "2-run" variety, 10-4 Tigers. He was called up from Triple-A Toledo with outfielder JaCoby Jones going on the disabled list with a laceration of his lip from being hit in the face by a pitch a day earlier.
The Detroit Tigers placed first baseman Miguel Cabrera on the 10-day disabled list with a strained right groin.
New Orleans begins to take down Confederate monuments
Lee statue at Lee Circle; the Jefferson Davis statue on Jefferson Davis Parkway; and the P.G.T. Liberty Place is one of four Confederate-era monuments the city intends to remove.
Aquino (1-0) allowed two runs and six hits over six innings to earn his first career victory. RHP Jordan Zimmermann (1-1, 5.94) starts the opener on Monday night Mariners ace Felix Hernandez (2-1, 3.65).
The loss broke the Astros' three-game win streak. He'll face the Tigers 11 days after they tagged him for five earned runs in four innings at Comerica Park.
Rizzo connected in the first inning against left-hander Cody Reed (1-1), who was moved into the Reds' injury-depleted rotation. Iglesias went on the seven-day concussion disabled list on Friday.
NATIONALS 3, METS 1: Gio Gonzalez pitched no-hit ball into the sixth inning to win again at Citi Field as Washington won at drizzly NY for its sixth straight victory. In 14 starts following the deal, Nova has walked three batters and pitched four complete games, and he's 6-4 with a 2.87 ERA in that time. He was supposed to pitch Friday night, but was scratched with a stiff neck.
Pinch-hitter Jason Castro hit a solo homer in the ninth, but Rodriguez closed it out by striking out Joe Mauer with a runner at first base. Detroit has won seven of the last nine games against Minnesota.
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