— Astros 8, Red Sox 2
Jose Altuve went 4-for-4 with two homers, four runs scored.
Lance McCullers Jr allowed four hits in his 7 IP.
Astros won their last three games, scoring 28 runs.
— Giants 3, Padres 2
San Francisco manager Tony Vitello gets his first major league win.
Landen Roupp allowed two hits in his six IP.
Harrison Bader got the Giants on the board with a solo HR
— Mets 4, Cardinals 2
Clay Holmes got 17 outs, allowed two runs.
Mets bullpen got the last 10 outs, allowed only one baserunner.
Bo Bichette knocked in two runs for the 3-1 Mets.
— Reds 2, Pirates 0
Chase Burns allowed one hit in his five IP.
Reds scored both their runs in the fourth inning.
1-3 Pittsburgh scored total of six runs in their last three games.
— Rays 3, Brewers 2
Nick Fortes had the game-winning double in the 9th inning.
Milwaukee led 2-1 after the sixth inning.
Yandy Diaz homered; he is 11 for 20 this season.
— White Sox 9, Marlins 4
White Sox got their first win, Marlins their first loss.
Miguel Vargas hit a grand slam, knocked in six runs.
Liam Hicks homered, had three RBI for Miami.
— Rockies 14, Blue Jays 5
Rockies had 17 hits, got their first win of the year.
Colorado led 2-1 after the fifth inning.
Ezequiel Tovar went 3-for-6 with 3 RBI, 2 runs scored.
— Famous birthdays, March 31st:
William Daniels, 99
Shirley Jones, 92
Christopher Walken, 83
Gabe Kaplan, 82
Mike Bass, 81
Rhea Perlman, 78
Ed Marinaro, 76
Mick Luckhurst, 68
Ron Brown, 65
JR Reid, 58
Steve Smith, 57
Kamren Curl, 27
— College basketball coaching changes:
Former Cincinnati coach Wes Miller is the new coach at NC-Charlotte.
Pepperdine hired Virginia assistant Griff Aldrich as its new coach.
St Bonaventure is expected to hire Daemen College coach Mike MacDonald as its new coach; MacDonald is a St Bonaventure alum; he’s coached at Canisius, Medaille and has been at D-II Daemen since 2015, going 58-2 the last two years.
NC State hired Tennessee assistant/former Wolfpack player Justin Gainey as its new coach.
Longtime Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson is the new coach at Utah State; Jacobson was UNI’s head coach for 20 years, making five NCAA Tournaments, including a Sweet 16 back in 2010, when his Panthers upset Kansas in the second round.
— Jacobson will be Utah State’s 7th coach in 12 years, even though they’ve made six of the last seven NCAA Tournaments. Utah State is moving to the new-ish Pac-12 next fall, where they’ll compete with Gonzaga and San Diego State.
— I’m guessing that Duke’s loss to UConn Sunday night ended a lot of people’s chances to win their bracket pools.
— Was watching the Cubs game on TV Sunday; their dugout reporter is Taylor McGregor, who sits by the far end of the Cubs dugout, right by the field. A foul ball winds up in her area; she picks it up, and turns around to hand it to a kid who is sitting in the front row of the stands, with his parents.
The kid, however, is wearing St Louis Cardinals gear; she pulls the ball back, says “You’re Cardinal fans!!!” and flips the baseball to someone else. It was kind of funny; they didn’t say if the parents thought it was that funny.
— First week of baseball season, Player of the Week in both leagues was a rookie, Cleveland’s Chase DeLauter and Sal Stewart of the Reds.
— Milwaukee Brewers signed minor league prospect Cooper Pratt to an 8-year, $50M contract; Pratt hit .238 in AA ball last year. He must be a hell of a fielder.
— Seattle Seahawks will be featured this summer on HBO’s Hard Knocks; in the summer of 2027, NFL Films will feature the New England Patriots on Hard Knocks.
