Cards knock around Mets' Syndergaard, take 6-3 lead  —  The Cardinals roughed up New York Mets ace Noah Syndergaard for six runs and eight hits in the first four innings Sunday at Busch Stadium.  —  Marcell Ozuna's two-out double to left center in the fourth chased home Paul Goldschmidt with the sixth run.

Athletics look to avoid sweep against Blue Jays  —  A's send Brett Anderson to the hill to avoid sweep against Toronto Blue Jays  —  The Oakland Athletics dropped their first two games against the Toronto Blue Jays this weekend, losing their first home series since last June.

White Sox make a late comeback, but fall 4-3 to the Tigers  —  Photos from the White Sox-Tigers game Sunday, April 21, 2019, in Detroit.  —  Daniel Norris struck out six batters in five innings to earn his first win in two years and help the Tigers beat the White Sox 4-3 on Sunday.

Angels' sixth straight loss comes on same night Pujols tops Ruth on Elias RBI list  —  ANAHEIM, Calif.-There was a time not long ago when Angels starting pitcher Trevor Cahill was thought of as groundball specialist.  His 54.9% career groundball rate entering Saturday's game against the Seattle Mariners …

Reds top tumbling Padres, 4-2  —  SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Padres are officially, statistically just ordinary.  —  If not for the fact they had been so much more for a couple weeks, playing so extraordinarily in San Diego and St. Louis and San Francisco and Phoenix, mediocre might be an achievement …

Corey Kluber, Indians down Atlanta Braves 8-4 in opener of doubleheader  —  Max Moroff homered and had two RBIs for Cleveland, which won its fourth straight.  —  CLEVELAND (AP) — Corey Kluber bounced back from one of his worst outings in recent years by working seven innings …

Judge has ‘pretty significant strain,’ will be out awhile  —  Aaron Judge has a “pretty significant strain” of his left oblique, according to Yankees manager Aaron Boone, and it will be several weeks before the Bombers can even estimate when the slugger will return.

Rays place Meadows on IL, activate Wendle  —  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays have placed outfielder Austin Meadows on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right thumb.  —  Meadows was hurt when he awkwardly slid into third base on a two-run triple in the seventh inning of Saturday night's 6-5 loss to the Boston Red Sox.

Rosario, Twins go deep to sweep Orioles, 6-5 and 16-7  —  Eddie Rosario extended his power surge with three home runs in a doubleheader sweep by the  —  Minnesota Twins, who slammed a record-tying eight long balls against the  —  Baltimore Orioles in a 16-7 victory Saturday night after hitting three in the opener.

Amid plunking debate, MLB's marketing is all-in on bat flips  —  NEW YORK (AP) — When Tim Anderson spiked his bat and yelled toward his White Sox teammates, Major League Baseball's self-described “spicy” Twitter account was among the first to weigh in.  —  “LET THE KIDS PLAY,” proclaimed @Cut4 …