>>Cardinals Power Past Reds
Miles Mikolas won in his first big league game after a three-year stint in Japan and hit a home run to help spoil the Milwaukee Brewers' home opener, Paul DeJong connected for the second straight game, hitting his third homer this season, powering the Cardinals to an 8-4 win on Monday.
Mikolas (1-0) gave up a two-run homer to Eric Thames and solo shots to Lorenzo Cain and Manny Pina. But the 29-year-old righty benefited from the Cardinals' own outburst at hitter-friendly Miller Park.
Mikolas gave up seven hits and four runs in 5 2/3 innings in his first big league start since Aug. 25, 2014.
Cardinals 3B Jedd Gyorko left before the bottom of the seventh with a strained right hamstring.
DeJong's two-run shot, highlighted a four-run sixth that gave St. Louis an 8-2 lead.
Jack Flaherty makes his first start of the season against the team he faced in the 2017 season finale. He allowed four runs on five hits over five innings on Oct. 1, his only career outing against Milwaukee.
Chase Anderson starts in his first turn since tossing six shutout innings to begin the 2-1 win in extra innings on opening day in San Diego.
>>Reds Blank Cubs
Rookie Tyler Mahle pitched one-hit ball for six innings, Raisel Iglesias struck out Anthony Rizzo with the bases loaded to end the eighth, and the Cincinnati Reds edged the Chicago Cubs 1-0 Monday for their first win of the season.
Eugenio Suarez tripled in the fourth and scored on Adam Duvall's groundout.
Mahle (1-0) earned the victory in only his fifth major league start, outpitching Tyler Chatwood (0-1) in his Cubs debut.
The Cubs managed only four baserunners against Mahle, who walked two, hit one and struck out a career-high seven.
Ian Happ singled in the eighth, but Iglesias came in later and Rizzo to swing through a fastball to escape. Iglesias got last four outs for the save.
Chicago has been blanked in back-to-back games for the first time since last May 26-27, when the Dodgers beat the Cubs 4-0 and 5-0.
Jon Lester (0-0) gave up four runs - three earned - in only 3 1/3 innings of an opening 8-4 win at Miami. He's 5-1 with a 4.27 ERA in 13 career starts against the Reds. Cody Reed (0-0) starts in place of the injured Brandon Finnegan for Cincinnati.
>>Blue Jays Double Up White Sox
Russell Martin hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning, Josh Donaldson and Aledmys Diaz each had a solo shot and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 4-2 on Monday night for their third straight win.
All six runs in the game came on homers.
Welington Castillo went deep twice for the White Sox, his sixth career multihomer game and third straight against Toronto. Castillo hit five home runs against the Blue Jays in 2017, his highest total against any opponent.
Martin erased a 2-1 deficit with a two-out drive into the left-field bullpen off Danny Farquhar (1-1). The homer was Martin's first of the season.
Seung Hwan Oh (1-0) got the win despite allowing Castillo's second homer, a tiebreaking shot in the top of the seventh, during his only inning of work.
Ryan Tepera pitched the eighth and Roberto Osuna finished for his second save.
Castillo also connected off left-hander Jaime Garcia in the fourth.
Making his first start for the Blue Jays, Garcia allowed one run and four hits in six innings. He walked two and struck out seven.
Donaldson went deep for the first time this season with an opposite-field drive off Reynaldo Lopez in the sixth.
Donaldson faced the White Sox dugout and pretended to blow a whistle after he crossed home plate. The gesture was directed at Chicago first base coach Daryl Boston, who blows a whistle to acknowledge great defensive plays by his team. Boston was seen laughing at Donaldson's display.
Diaz added an insurance run with a first-pitch drive off Farquhar in the eighth.
Lopez allowed one run and two hits in six innings. The right-hander walked two and struck out six.
Lopez held the Blue Jays without a hit until Curtis Granderson led off the fifth with a liner that caromed off shortstop Tim Anderson.
Miguel Gonzalez is 7-4 with a 3.63 ERA in 15 career games against Toronto.
