DENVER (AP) — Jackson Chourio homered and doubled to drive in five runs as the Milwaukee Brewers cruised to a 17-2 win over the slumping Colorado Rockies. The Brewers have taken the opening two games against Colorado to secure their first series win at Coors Field since 2018. Brice Turang had a pair of singles to give him at least one hit in all 12 games. The franchise record to open a season is 13 games by Dickie Thon in 1993. William Contreras smashed a two-run homer as part of a five-run third inning to break open the game. Ryan McMahon homered for the Rockies.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Joe Ryan continued his mastery over Kansas City, giving up just two hits over seven scoreless innings in the Minnesota Twins’ 4-0 victory over the Royals. Ryan (1-1), who struck out four and did not give up a walk, is now 7-0 in nine career starts against the Royals with a 1.30 ERA in 55 1/3 innings. Seth Lugo (1-1) threw 109 pitches for the Royals, allowing two runs on five hits in 5 2/3 innings. The Twins got a run in the fourth on Edouard Julien’s RBI single to right. France’s two-out single in the sixth drove in Correa for a 2-0 lead. The Twins got home runs in the eighth and ninth.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Joel Eriksson Ek scored a career-high four goals in his return from a lower-body injury, Kirill Kaprizov had his second of the game in overtime in his first game back and the Minnesota Wild outlasted the San Jose Sharks 8-7 on Wednesday night. Minnesota moved into the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference when the St. Louis Blues lost at Edmonton in a late game. The Wild and Blues each have 93 points, with St. Louis having played one more game. Eriksson Ek missed the previous 21 games. Kaprizov also returned from a lower-body injury after missing the last 28 games. Kaprizov — who also had an assist — scored his 25th goal of the season at 1:01 of overtime.