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MIAMI (AP) — Sandy Alcantara pitched five effective innings for his first win in 19 months and the Miami Marlins beat the New York Mets 4-2 on Tuesday night despite getting only three hits.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Nathan Eovaldi pitched a four-hitter for the majors' first complete game of the season, and the Texas Rangers beat the Cincinnati Reds 1-0 on Tuesday night. Eovaldi struck out eight and walked none in his fifth career complete game.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Freddie Freeman is hearing it after he slipped and fell in the shower, injuring his surgically repaired right ankle and missing his second straight game for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

MIAMI (AP) — New York Mets left-hander Sean Manaea had a setback in his recovery from a right oblique strain and won’t throw for two weeks.

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton said he'll continue using a torpedo bat whenever he returns from pain in both elbows, but also declined to say whether he thought using the new model might have caused his injury.

TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer said Tuesday he hopes to be able to play catch in the next few days following a cortisone injection to treat his sore right thumb.

TORONTO — The pain of a cortisone injection to his ailing thumb isn't what has Max Scherzer hurting. "It doesn't feel good," he said of the injection, "but you'll take any pain to get out there. The pain's not the problem.

NEW YORK (AP) — Right-handed reliever Adam Ottavino is returning to the New York Yankees, agreeing Tuesday to a one-year contract. Ottavino gets $1 million while in the major leagues and $150,000 while in the minors.

Fred Costello could swing a bat about as well as he could perform a melody as a kid growing up in Syracuse, New York. He wanted to play at ballparks, and figured the best way to reach that dream was through slick fielding and a sweet swing.

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have traded minor league right-handed pitcher Nick Robertson to the Houston Astros for right-handed pitching prospect Edinson Batista.