Baseball-Highlights of Tuesday's Major League Baseball games

May 20 (The Sports Xchange) - Highlights of Tuesday's Major League Baseball Games. - - - Braves 5, Brewers 0 The Atlanta Braves finally provided some run support for pitcher Julio Teheran, and he rewarded them with a complete-game shutout in a 5-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. The Braves scored five runs for the third straight game and extended their winning streak to three games. It was only the second time this season that the Braves' offense has scored five runs for Teheran (3-3), who won his first game since April 16. Teheran earned his second career shutout. The right-hander allowed five hits and struck out six on a career-high 123 pitches. The Brewers did not have a runner advance past second base until the ninth inning and suffered their fifth shutout. It was Milwaukee's fourth straight loss. The Brewers produced their biggest threat in the ninth but, with runners on the corners and one out, Teheran struck out pinch-hitter Rickie Weeks and center fielder Carlos Gomez. - - - Nationals 9, Reds 4 Doug Fister allowed just two runs in seven inning, and Denard Span had a career-high five hits as the Washington Nationals thrashed the Cincinnati Reds 9-4. Fister (1-1) yielded six hits and threw 109 pitches during his first home start for the Nationals. The right-hander was acquired in a December trade with the Detroit Tigers, and he began the season on the disabled list due to a right lat strain. Washington scored seven runs in the sixth to break up a pitchers' duel between Fister and Reds right-hander Johnny Cueto (4-3). Right fielder Jayson Werth and first baseman Tyler Moore had RBI singles, and a two-run single by second baseman Danny Espinosa made it 6-1 and chased Cueto from the game. Cueto pitched 5 1/3 innings and allowed six hits and eight runs (six earned) while also hitting two batters. Cueto gave up just 10 total runs, all earned, in his first nine starts. - - - Indians 6, Tigers 2 The Cleveland Indians scored five runs in the first two innings off right-hander Justin Verlander and went on to a 6-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Progressive Field. In beating Detroit for the second time in two nights, the Indians pounded out 12 hits, including five doubles off Verlander. Indians right-hander Trevor Bauer, in his first start since replacing right-hander Danny Salazar in Cleveland's starting rotation, pitched into the seventh inning to get the win. With the Indians leading 5-2, Bauer, after giving up a single to catcher Alex Avila leading off the seventh inning, was relieved by right-hander Bryan Shaw. Bauer (1-1) pitched six innings, giving up two runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and three walks. Shaw pitched two scoreless innings and right-hander Cody Allen pitched the ninth. - - - Orioles 9, Pirates 2 Chris Davis lived up to his nickname of crush by belting three home runs in the Baltimore Orioles' 9-2 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The big first baseman doubled his season home-run total with a two-run shot during a four-run fifth inning that put the Orioles ahead 6-1 then added a solo blast in the seventh and another two run-shot in the ninth. He also had four hits and five RBIs. It was Davis' second career three-homer game -- the other came on Aug. 24, 2012 against Toronto -- and seventh multi-homer game. After leading the major leagues and setting a franchise record with 53 homers last season, Davis hit just three in his first 30 games. Left fielder Nelson Cruz also homered, following Davis' shot in the fifth, to give the Orioles their second set of back-to-back homers of the season. Center fielder Adam Jones had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 14 games. - - - Blue Jays 7, Red Sox 4 Edwin Encarnacion hit two of Toronto's four homers, and the Blue Jays sent the reeling Red Sox to their fifth straight loss, beating Boston 7-4. Left fielder Melky Cabrera went 4-for-5 with a homer and catcher Erik Kratz also went deep for the Blue Jays, who won for the sixth time in eight games. Toronto entered the night three homers shy of the Colorado Rockies (62) for the major league lead. Boston, meanwhile, is enduring its longest skid since dropping the final eight games of the 2012 season. Encarnacion hit a two-run homer in the third and added another two-run shot in the sixth, his 11th of the season, putting Toronto on top 6-0. - - - Cardinals 5, Diamondbacks 0 Adam Wainwright was almost perfect. The St. Louis ace allowed a two-out double to Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Paul Goldschmidt in the fourth inning and nothing else, striking out nine in a 5-0 shutout at sold-out Busch Stadium. Wainwright (7-2) recorded his second shutout of the year and the eighth of his career. The right-hander retired the first 11 men he faced, and after Goldschmidt lined a 2-2 pitch over the head of center fielder Jon Jay, mowed through the last 16 men he faced in his first career one-hitter. Meanwhile, the Cardinals' offense tagged Bronson Arroyo (4-3) for nine hits, seven going for extra bases, and five runs over seven innings. Arroyo, who walked none and fanned six, allowed just three runs in his previous 29 2/3 innings. - - - (Editing by Mark Lamport-Stokes)