Andy Pages’ career-best three home runs and six RBIs carried the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers to a 12-2 victory over the Houston Astros on Wednesday.

Los Angeles starter Tyler Glasnow left after an inning with low back pain. Jack Dreyer (2-1) earned the win by throwing two scoreless frames. Six relievers combined to hurl eight innings of one-run, four-hit ball.

Shohei Ohtani posted two hits, two runs and an RBI for the Dodgers, who won their third game in four tries and took the three-game set.

Houston starter Lance McCullers Jr. (2-3) lasted just 2 2/3 innings, allowing six runs on four hits, striking out four and walking three. In relief, Jason Alexander yielded five runs on nine hits across 4 1/3 frames, striking out a pair and walking five.

Houston opened the scoring in the bottom of the first as Brice Matthews connected on his fourth homer of the year,a drive to left on Glasnow’s third pitch of the game.

After Kyle Tucker doubled and Dalton Rushing singled in the second, McCullers’ wild pitch evened the score.

Glasnow was then replaced by Dreyer after trying to pitch in the second.

Alex Freeland walked and Ohtani doubled to begin the third, before two more wild pitches from McCullers gave the Dodgers a 3-1 edge.

Following walks to Freddie Freeman and Tucker, Pages belted his sixth homer of the year to left to extend the lead to 6-1 and chase McCullers.

Freeman’s double in the fourth off Alexander pushed the margin to six.

Muncy laced a one-out single in the fifth before Pages hit his second homer, another shot to left, to give the Dodgers an 9-1 advantage. Later in the inning, Ohtani lined an RBI single.

Freeland’s single extended the lead to 11-1 in the seventh.

Against Blake Treinen, Zach Cole singled to cut the Astros’ deficit to nine.

First baseman Cesar Salazar pitched the ninth for Houston, allowing Pages’ third homer, a shot to left.

–Field Level Media

The Detroit Tigers fired Triple-A manager Gabe Alvarez after an investigation into alleged harassment claims by a female employee, The Athletic reported Wednesday.

The Tigers announced Tuesday that Alvarez’s contract had been terminated due to an undisclosed “violation of club policy.”

Alvarez, 52, was in his second season as manager of the Toledo Mud Hens, who were 17-16 under his leadership.

Sources told The Athletic that Alvarez was fired following a human resources investigation into the complaint.

Neither the Tigers nor Alvarez and his representatives responded to The Athletic’s requests for comment.

A major leaguer for parts of three seasons, Alvarez was a career .222 hitter with seven home runs and 33 RBIs over 92 games for the Tigers (1998-2000) and San Diego Padres (2000). During nine seasons in the minor leagues, Alvarez batted .278 with 114 home runs.

A second-round pick out of Southern California in 1995, Alvarez served as an assistant coach at his alma mater starting in 2010. He was hired by the Tigers to be the manager at Double-A Erie starting in the 2022 season and was promoted to manager at Toledo in October of 2024.

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Cameron Young might be the hottest golfer on the PGA Tour with two victories and two other top-five finishes in his past five events.

And the World No. 3 is not interested in changing much during a hot streak, including whether it’s time to shave his beard.

“Yeah, I don’t think it’s coming off. I’m kind of afraid to see what I might look like without it,” said Young, who turns 29 on Thursday. “It’s been a couple years now and, yeah, I don’t know, we weren’t allowed to have a beard in college, so it was one of those things, as soon as I was allowed to, I just did it for no reason, other than that.

“Yeah, it’s been there since. Between that and not having to deal with it on a daily basis, it’s kind of lower maintenance and I’ve grown accustomed to the way I look with it.”

Young went to college at Wake Forest, located approximately 90 miles from Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte where he will tee it up in the Truist Championship, beginning Thursday.

“Always nice coming back to North Carolina and especially here,” Young said. “I mean, this is a top-notch golf course facility and tournament. I always look forward to coming back here. It’s quite a challenge, so I really look forward to the challenge of this golf course.”

Young tied for second at Quail Hollow in 2022 before tying for 59th the next year and tying for 34th in 2024. He bounced back to tie for seventh last year.

He figures to be a contender at Quail Hollow this week after winning last week’s Cadillac Championship by a mammoth six strokes. He posted a 19-under 269 at Trump National Doral’s Blue Monster Course outside Miami, with President Trump in attendance.

“Last week was a really good week,” Young said. “I feel like a lot of pieces came together pretty well. Yeah, difficult golf course, kind of an atypical week with the President around, just some different things that go on with that piece of it. But I feel like I did a really good job just staying where I was and doing my job. Yeah, very pleased with the outcome.”

Young’s strong year leaves him only behind No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 2 Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland in the rankings. It also has increased his own notoriety but he said handling the rise in outer noise isn’t as challenging as maintaining his own mental game.

“Yeah, it really hasn’t been too different, in my opinion,” Young said. “I do a few more things like this (press conference), but most of the noise and the noise that’s probably more difficult to deal with is the noise in your own head.

“So to me that’s where a lot of my time is spent. … Those World Rankings are based in the past. It’s a good indicator of how you’ve played recently or whatever it is, but that No. 3 next to my name in the World Ranking doesn’t give me one thing this week. Doesn’t give me one thing next week.”

–Field Level Media