Brice Turang drove in four runs and the visiting Milwaukee Brewers opened their three-game series at Detroit by pounding the Tigers, 12-4, on Tuesday.

William Contreras had two hits, drove in two runs and scored another for the Brewers. David Hamilton supplied four hits and scored twice, while Sal Frelick, Luis Rengifo and Blake Perkins each scored two runs and drove in another.

Starter Kyle Harrison gave up one run and four hits in three-plus innings. Grant Anderson (1-1) tossed two innings of scoreless relief to get the win.

Detroit starter Keider Montero (1-2) allowed three runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings.

Small ball allowed the Brewers to gain a 3-0 lead in the second. Garrett Mitchell reached on an infield single and Rengifo walked. Frelick brought in Mitchell with a single and Hamilton’s bunt hit loaded the bases. Turang followed with a broken bat single to right, knocking home Rengifo and Frelick.

Detroit broke through with a run in the fourth but came away disappointed it didn’t get more. Greene and Spencer Torkelson walked and Hao-Yu Lee singled to load the bases. Anderson replaced Harrison and promptly got Javier Baez to hit into a double play as Greene scored. Anderson then struck out pinch-hitter Kerry Carpenter.

A botched pickoff allowed the Brewers to extend their lead in the seventh. Enmanuel De Jesus got the first two outs of the inning. Hamilton then singled and Perkins walked. With Turang up, De Jesus caught Hamilton straying off second base but his throw was errant, allowing Hamilton to scamper to third. Turang then singled to left to score him and Contreras knocked in Perkins with another single.

Milwaukee erupted for seven runs in the eighth against De Jesus and Connor Seabold to make it 12-1. Gary Sanchez led off with a triple and Mitchell followed with another. Rengifo dropped in a bloop single to score Mitchell. Perkins, Turang, Conteras, Jake Bauers and Sanchez had the other RBIs during the outburst.

Detroit backup catcher Jake Rogers pitched the ninth. The Tigers scored three runs in the bottom of the inning.

–Field Level Media

Elly De La Cruz recorded his sixth career multi-homer game and drove in five runs, fueling the Cincinnati Reds to a 12-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Fla.

De La Cruz launched a two-run blast in the first inning and a solo shot in the ninth to boost his homer total to eight on the season and sixth while batting right-handed. He had five homers in 199 at-bats while hitting right-handed in 2025.

De La Cruz also had a fielder’s choice as part of a four-run sixth inning and an RBI single in the seventh.

Cincinnati’s Ke’Bryan Hayes and Dane Myers launched back-to-back homers in the second inning and Spencer Steer added a solo shot in the fifth.

Rookie Sal Stewart had a two-run single and a sacrifice fly for the Reds, who improved to 10-2 away from home after winning five in a row to start a six-game road trip.

Chase Burns (2-1) allowed two runs on four hits and struck out eight batters in 5 2/3 innings. His lone blemish was Jonathan Aranda’s two-run homer in the sixth inning.

Aranda and Ben Williamson each added a bases-loaded walk and Jonny DeLuca had a two-run double in the ninth inning for Tampa Bay, which has been outscored 24-10 during its three-game losing streak.

Myers worked a leadoff walk in the first inning and De La Cruz deposited a 2-0 sinker from Steven Matz (3-1) over the wall in right-center field to give the Reds a quick 2-0 lead.

Cincinnati doubled its advantage as Hayes and Myers each went deep with two outs in the second inning.

Steer continued the power display in the fifth inning by sending a 1-1 fastball from Griffin Jax over the wall in left-center field.

Matz struggled to find the zone, tossing just 44 of his 77 pitches for strikes before exiting after three innings. He permitted four runs on as many hits with four walks.

The Reds put the game out of reach in the sixth inning.

Matt McLain ripped an RBI double and Myers scored after he used a swim move to deftly elude the tag of catcher Hunter Feduccia on De La Cruz’s fielder’s choice. McLain and De La Cruz promptly stole a base before coming home on Stewart’s two-run single to extend Cincinnati’s lead to 9-0.

–Field Level Media

VJ Edgecombe and Tyrese Maxey combined to make 11 3-pointers and score 59 total points as the Philadelphia 76ers bounced back to even their Eastern Conference playoff series with the host Boston Celtics in a 111-97 decision on Tuesday.

Seventh-seeded Philadelphia (1-1) shook off a dismal Game 1 performance, which included making just four 3-pointers in Sunday’s 123-91 loss, with a complete reversal on the offensive end.

The Sixers shot a torrid 19-of-39 from beyond the arc in Game 2, with Quentin Grimes, Kelly Oubre Jr. and Paul George each adding a pair of made triples to supplement Edgecombe and Maxey.

Edgecombe and Maxey were the catalysts, however. The rookie Edgecombe finished 12-of-20 from the floor, including his 6-of-10 from beyond the arc, and grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds.

“This is who we are. Game 1 isn’t who we are,” Edgecombe said in his postgame interview with Peacock. “We let our offense dictate our defense (on Sunday), and we didn’t do that tonight.”

Philadelphia’s flipping of the script on the offensive end on Tuesday did indeed carry over defensively. The Sixers limited the Celtics (1-1) to 35-of-89 shooting from the floor, locking down each scoring option beyond the primary two of Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum.

Brown went for a game-high 36 points, and Tatum finished with 19 points to go with his game-high 14 rebounds. No other Celtic reached double-figures scoring, however, a stark contrast from Game 1 when the entire Boston starting five notched at least 10 points.

And while Brown shot 5-of-12 from long distance, Boston’s other shooters combined to go just 8-for-38.

Philadelphia, meanwhile, got 19 points from George and 12 from Oubre. After foul trouble limited him in Game 1, Andre Drummond came off the bench to provide the Sixers quality minutes on the interior with 10 points and eight rebounds.

–Field Level Media