Apr 2, 2019 3 min read

Orlando Arcia ended his season-opening slump with a three-run homer and the Milwaukee Brewers extended their domination of the Cincinnati Reds by holding on for a 4-3 victory Tuesday night.

Milwaukee has won the first two games of the series and 15 of 21 against Cincinnati over the last two seasons. The defending NL Central champions are off to a 5-1 start, one game better than a year ago when they tied the club record with 96 wins.

Arcia was 0 for 16 when he connected off Michael Lorenzen. Arcia’s opposite-field homer barely cleared the wall in right field and snapped a 1-1 tie.

Jhoulys Chacin (2-0) gave up three hits and a pair of runs in 5 innings, including Eugenio Suarez’s RBI double. Suarez added a solo homer off Junior Guerra in the eighth.

Josh Hader gave up a walk in the ninth while getting his fourth save in four chances, leaving the Reds with a 1-3 start – same as last season.

American League

Detroit 3, N.Y. Yankees 1: Dustin Peterson laced a tiebreaking double off Aroldis Chapman in the ninth inning for his first major league hit, and the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 3-1.

Jordy Mercer added an RBI single for insurance, and the Tigers got another strong start from Jordan Zimmermann after he carried a perfect game two outs into the seventh inning on opening day in Toronto last week. This time, Zimmermann held a makeshift Yankees lineup depleted by injuries to one run in 6 innings.

Joe Jimenez (1-0) worked a hitless eighth and ended the inning with an unassisted double play after snagging Gleyber Torres’ line drive and jogging to first base himself.

Shane Greene tossed a 1-2-3 ninth for his third save.

Chapman (0-1) walked pinch-hitter Niko Goodrum with one out in the ninth and he scored easily from first when Peterson doubled over the head of left fielder Mike Tauchman.

The 24-year-old Peterson was 0 for 9 in the big leagues before connecting on a 95 mph fastball.

Baltimore 2, Toronto 1: Andrew Cashner pitched six shutout innings, and the Baltimore Orioles extended their a road winning streak to four for the first time since 2016 with a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.

Jonathan Villar had two hits and scored once for the Orioles, who improved to 4-1. Coming off a 115-loss season, the Orioles opened by winning two of three at the New York Yankees. They strung together four road wins for the first time since July 5-16, 2016, at the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay.

Cashner (1-1) allowed four hits, all singles, struck out three and walked three. He stranded the bases loaded in his final inning when Rowdy Tellez flied out on his first pitch. Cashner didn’t allow a hit until Justin Smoak’s one-out single in the fourth.

Paul Fry worked two innings and former Blue Jay Miguel Castro got his first save despite allowing Tellez’s second homer this season.

After throwing 12 consecutive scoreless innings to start his season, Marcus Stroman gave up Dwight Smith Jr.’s leadoff single in the sixth and Villar’s triple. Trey Mancini followed with an RBI single.

Stroman (0-1) allowed two runs and nine hits in 5 innings.