Arizona Diamondbacks right-hander Michael Soroka (34) reacts after striking out a batter to end the inning against the Detroit Tigers at Chase Field on March 30, 2026.
Corbin Carroll homered, tripled and drove in four runs and the Arizona Diamondbacks survived a late Detroit rally to spoil Justin Verlander’s return to the Tigers with a 9-6 victory in Phoenix on Monday.
Carroll tripled in a run in the first inning and hit a three-run homer in the second for a quick 5-0 lead off Verlander, who was making his first start with the Tigers since 2017 after signing a one-year contract in the offseason.
Verlander (0-1) gave up six hits and five runs in 3 2/3 innings. He spent his first 13 seasons in Detroit, where he won the American League Cy Young Award in 2011.
Michael Soroka (1-0) tossed five scoreless innings and tied his career high with 10 strikeouts in his first start for Arizona, which won its home opener after being swept in a season-opening three-game series by the Dodgers. He pitched an “immaculate inning” in the fifth, striking out the side on nine pitches. Paul Sewald pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his first save.
White Sox 9, Marlins 4
Miguel Vargas blasted a grand slam and drove in six runs, Austin Hays slugged a three-run homer, and Chicago earned its first win of the season, beating host Miami.
Munetaka Murakami, the first player ever to homer in his first three games with the White Sox, went 1-for-5, but his home run streak ended. Chicago bounced back after losing three straight. Davis Martin (1-0) allowed five hits and three runs in five innings.
The Marlins took their first loss after a three-game season-opening sweep. Miami was led by Liam Hicks, who hit a two-run homer and added an RBI single. Chris Paddack (0-1) made his Marlins debut, allowing eight hits and eight runs in four innings.
Rockies 14, Blue Jays 5
Troy Johnston hit a two-run homer to ignite a seven-run sixth inning as visiting Colorado defeated Toronto for its first win in four games this season.
Ezequiel Tovar had three hits and three RBIs and TJ Rumfield added three hits and two RBIs for the Rockies. Braxton Fulford added a solo homer and a run-scoring single. Reliever Chase Dollander (1-0) allowed four runs, five hits and two walks with five strikeouts over four innings for the win.
Davis Schneider hit a two-run homer while George Springer, Andres Gimenez and Kazuma Okamoto added solo shots in the Blue Jays’ first loss in four games this campaign. Toronto starter Cody Ponce hurt his right knee while trying to field Jake McCarthy’s grounder in the third inning and was carted off the field.
Astros 8, Red Sox 1
Jose Altuve slugged two home runs and Lance McCullers Jr. carried a shutout bid into the seventh inning of his season debut as Houston downed visiting Boston.
Yordan Alvarez and Brice Matthews added home runs for the Astros, who won their third straight game after dropping the opening two. Altuve posted his 15th multi-homer game and finished 4-for-4 with a walk and four runs. McCullers (1-0) allowed one run on four hits with nine strikeouts over seven innings.
The Astros pounced on Ranger Suarez (0-1) in his Boston debut. The left-hander surrendered four runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Mariners 2, Yankees 1
Cal Raleigh’s walk-off single in the ninth inning gave Seattle a victory against visiting New York.
Mariners reliever Matt Brash (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning for the victory. Luis Castillo tossed six shutout innings, fanning seven, as Seattle improved to 3-2.
Ryan Weathers went 4 1/3 innings and allowed one run on four hits in his Yankees debut. New York took its first loss after winning three straight.
Reds 2, Pirates 0
Chase Burns tossed five one-hit innings against Pittsburgh and struck out seven, and host Cincinnati plated a pair of runs to give him his first major league victory.
Burns (1-0) threw 78 pitches and walked three. Connor Phillips worked around two walks in the ninth inning for his first career save. Spencer Steer hit a fourth-inning sacrifice fly, and Will Benson followed with an RBI triple.
Pirates starter Braxton Ashcraft (0-1) tossed six innings of two-run ball.
Nationals 13, Phillies 2
Luis Garcia Jr. drove in three runs and Jose Tena notched three hits and two RBIs, guiding visiting Washington to a comfortable win over Philadelphia.
Joey Wiemer, who went 3-for-3 with a home run and a walk in each of his first two games for the Nationals, finished 2-for-4 with a walk. Foster Griffin (1-0), in his first big-league appearance since 2022, gave up two runs in five innings.
Rafael Marchan hit a two-run homer for the Phillies. Taijuan Walker (0-1) was charged with seven runs, six earned, and 10 hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Royals 3, Twins 1
Kris Bubic (1-0) allowed two hits and one run over six innings, Kyle Isbel clubbed a two-run home run and Kansas City won its home opener, defeating Minnesota.
Relievers Daniel Lynch IV, Nick Mears and John Schreiber (first save) combined to throw three scoreless innings. Isaac Collins added a solo homer for the Royals.
Matt Wallner homered for the Twins. Simeon Woods Richardson (0-1) gave up two runs on five hits over five innings.
Braves 4, Athletics 0
Bryce Elder threw six scoreless innings and Mauricio Dubon drove in three runs to help Atlanta keep the visiting Athletics winless.
Elder (1-0) allowed five hits and one walk, struck out five and picked off a batter. Braves pitchers have allowed only six runs through their first four games, logging two shutouts.
Jacob Lopez (0-1) permitted three runs on five hits and five walks in four innings as the Athletics fell to 0-4.
Cubs 7, Angels 2
Edward Cabrera pitched six innings of one-hit ball and Ian Happ homered for the third straight game to lift Chicago over visiting Los Angeles.
Carson Kelly and Moises Ballesteros both contributed two-run singles for the Cubs. Cabrera (1-0) made a scoreless club debut, and Colin Rea followed with three innings of two-run ball for a save.
Ryan Johnson (0-1) surrendered six runs and seven hits in 3 1/3 innings as the Angels took their third loss in a row. Yoan Moncada homered and Nolan Schanuel had two hits.
Rangers 5, Orioles 2
Jack Leiter struck out eight in six solid innings and Jake Burger drove in two runs as Texas won at Baltimore.
Leiter (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits. Jakob Junis, Jalen Beeks and Tyler Alexander (second save) completed a combined seven-hitter for the Rangers, who have won three straight since a season-opening loss at Philadelphia.
Gunnar Henderson hit a solo home run and a run-scoring single to provide both of the Orioles’ runs. Chris Bassitt (0-1), making his Orioles debut, allowed four runs in 4 1/3 innings.
Rays 3, Brewers 2
Nick Fortes doubled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning to give visiting Tampa Bay a comeback victory over Milwaukee.
The Rays’ Jonny DeLuca, who tied it 2-2 with a leadoff homer in the seventh, drew a two-out walk off Trevor Megill (0-1) in the ninth. Fortes followed with an RBI double to the gap in right-center.
Garrett Cleavinger (1-1) tossed a scoreless eighth inning for the win. Milwaukee lost for the first time in four games this season. Tampa Bay won its second straight after beginning 0-2.
Mets 4, Cardinals 2
Bo Bichette, who was 1-for-14 on the season entering the day, had a pair of RBIs as visiting New York beat St. Louis.
Jorge Polanco and rookie Carson Benge each had two hits for the Mets. Clay Holmes (1-0) allowed two runs on four hits over 5 2/3 innings, and Devin Williams earned his first save for the Mets with a 1-2-3 ninth.
Alec Burleson was the lone player with two hits for the Cardinals, and he drove in a run. Nolan Gorman belted his second homer of the season. Kyle Leahy (0-1) allowed four runs on eight hits in a career-high five-plus innings.
Giants 3, Padres 2
Harrison Bader homered and Landen Roupp pitched six scoreless innings as visiting San Francisco gave manager Tony Vitello his first major league win.
Roupp (1-0) allowed only two hits and two walks while striking out seven. Three relievers got the last nine outs, with Ryan Walker pitching the ninth for the save.
Walker Buehler (0-1) absorbed the loss in his first start for San Diego, permitting five hits and three runs over four innings. The Padres have scored just nine runs in their first four games, three of them losses.
Guardians 4, Dodgers 2
Parker Messick threw six scoreless innings and visiting Cleveland handed two-time defending champion Los Angeles its first loss of the season.
Steven Kwan had an RBI double and a run and Daniel Schneemann added a two-run double as the Guardians won the opener of a three-game series after splitting four games at Seattle to begin the season. Messick (1-0) gave up five hits with no walks and five strikeouts.
Los Angeles’ Roki Sasaki (0-1) allowed one run on four hits over four-plus innings. Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman drove in ninth-inning runs for the Dodgers.
–Field Level Media
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![Kevin Knight is here, he’s hungry, and ready to take over AEW Kevin Knight’s rise has been nothing short of stratospheric. A year that began with Knight having a promising run as one of All Elite Wrestling’s up-and-coming stars morphed over the course of 2026 into something much, much larger. Knight captured individual gold by winning the TNT Championship in April, and now he’s on the precipice of the biggest match of his career. Knight will stand across the ring from AEW World Champion Kenny Omega at Redemption in Montreal, headlining a pay-per-view and looking to shatter expectations in the process.I talked with Knight this week in the lead up to his match against Omega to learn what makes him tick as a wrestler, understand the decision behind joining The Don Callis Family, and learn that in a world of heroes and villans, Knight is perfectly comfortable to exist in the grey area.A turning point for Knight came in May at Double or Nothing when he shocked the world by turning on Darby Allin and joining with Don Callis to close the show. It felt like a staggering rejection of his role as fan-favorite inside the company, but it was clinical for Knight. This wasn’t about trying to become hated, but trying to elevate himself.“The goal has stayed the same,” Knight says, “become Jet 2 Belts.” Not only does he want to hold onto his TNT title, but to win the AEW World Championship as well, asserting himself at the top. “I saw the opportunity to overtake this company after Double or Nothing and figured I need to invest in myself.“Getting myself with the Don Callis Family and, seeing how he moves and how, how he’s brought so many championships to AEW, it was a no-brainer, and it’s been nothing but success ever since.”Knight speaks plainly in a business so influenced by emotion. Joining Callis wasn’t a conscious decision to make fans angry or to reject his longtime friend “Speedball” Mike Bailey, but came about organically, as with any difficult change an athlete needs to make. The NFL player demanding a trade, the NBA star making a decision — Knight is walking the same line.“He’s [Callis] been here from day one, and he’s seen people come and go. He’s seen all different types of performers, so he snatched me up. I was tagged with Speedball Mike Bailey, and he had a smile, and he was just naive to the politics of it all. [Don’s] smartened me up, giving me another angle, another perspective in attacking this game that we call wrestling.”If pro wrestling is a game, then Kenny Omega is its final boss. Not only is “The Best Bout Machine” the world champion, but he is also regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Knight might have faced a lot of challenges, but fighting Omega in Canada for a championship is on a different level. Still, Knight feels like he might have an edge — and he’s excited to“Always attack his weaknesses, attacking his weaknesses and, and knowing who he is as a person, and, and capitalizing on those weaknesses. Don Callis has known Kenny a long, long, long time, so he’s priming me up. He’s giving me some game on Kenny’s blind spots. We all love Kenny as a person, but he’s careless in some ways — so, whenever I see those openings, I’m definitely gonna definitely going to attack, take advantage.”It’s not lost on Knight that a majority of wrestling fans are writing him off on Sunday. The lingering perception is that Omega will win, move on to All In at Wembley Stadium, and have another epic match against Will Ospreay. That’s a narrative Knight isn’t willing to accept.“People are expecting this long-life anime fantasy between Omega and Osprey. Redemption is gonna be a change of course, and we’re gonna see a new era. We’re gonna see a new superstar rise to the top. I laugh at the people who look past this match. I use it as more fuel, because I love being a spoiler.”It’s big talk, but Kevin Knight has backed it up in recent months. He’s on a nine-match win streak, perfectly part of his “vision board,” which includes winning the AEW World Heavyweight Title, and then involves becoming the face of the company.“If all goes to plan, Jet Two Belts becomes a reality this upcoming Sunday, and I don’t see myself relinquishing it for anybody, that comes my way. I think I will let up and maybe relinquish the TNT title or, you know, let the other people have a little bit of fun. don’t wanna take up all the time at AEW, but AEW is gonna be set up in the next 6 months if The Jet is on top.”The groundwork for this run, this chance at the championship is built on the backs of people who lifted up Kevin Knight along the way. I asked him for his personal wrestling Mount Rushmore, the individuals who have meant the most to him during his career.“Katsuyori Shibata and Kushida, because they helped mold me. From a young lion to my first couple of tours in New Japan and being able to do Impact as well alongside Kushida. Those two guys definitely mean a lot to me. I gotta throw in there Speedball Mike Bailey because one of my first tours in Japan, one of my first matches in TNA/ Impact was against him, and then, of course, our whole run as Jet Speed and everything that we’ve been able to accomplish together. It means a lot to me, on a sentimental level. Fourth, I would like to give it up to Tony Khan just for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to go out there and show the world who and what I am, giving me the opportunity to try new things and just always encouraging me.”This is only the beginning for Kevin Knight, who will be a staple of the pro-wrestling landscape for a long, long time — win or lose.Kevin Knight will face Kenny Omega at AEW Redemption, which will air on Sunday, July 26 from CentreBell in Montreal, Canada, beginning at 6 p.m. ET #Kevin #Knight #hes #hungry #ready #AEW](https://i1.wp.com/platform.sbnation.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/07/knight.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C4.865499187579%2C100%2C90.269001624842&ssl=1 "Kevin Knight is here, he’s hungry, and ready to take over AEW Kevin Knight’s rise has been nothing short of stratospheric. A year that began with Knight having a promising run as one of All Elite Wrestling’s up-and-coming stars morphed over the course of 2026 into something much, much larger. Knight captured individual gold by winning the TNT Championship in April, and now he’s on the precipice of the biggest match of his career. Knight will stand across the ring from AEW World Champion Kenny Omega at Redemption in Montreal, headlining a pay-per-view and looking to shatter expectations in the process.I talked with Knight this week in the lead up to his match against Omega to learn what makes him tick as a wrestler, understand the decision behind joining The Don Callis Family, and learn that in a world of heroes and villans, Knight is perfectly comfortable to exist in the grey area.A turning point for Knight came in May at Double or Nothing when he shocked the world by turning on Darby Allin and joining with Don Callis to close the show. It felt like a staggering rejection of his role as fan-favorite inside the company, but it was clinical for Knight. This wasn’t about trying to become hated, but trying to elevate himself.“The goal has stayed the same,” Knight says, “become Jet 2 Belts.” Not only does he want to hold onto his TNT title, but to win the AEW World Championship as well, asserting himself at the top. “I saw the opportunity to overtake this company after Double or Nothing and figured I need to invest in myself.“Getting myself with the Don Callis Family and, seeing how he moves and how, how he’s brought so many championships to AEW, it was a no-brainer, and it’s been nothing but success ever since.”Knight speaks plainly in a business so influenced by emotion. Joining Callis wasn’t a conscious decision to make fans angry or to reject his longtime friend “Speedball” Mike Bailey, but came about organically, as with any difficult change an athlete needs to make. The NFL player demanding a trade, the NBA star making a decision — Knight is walking the same line.“He’s [Callis] been here from day one, and he’s seen people come and go. He’s seen all different types of performers, so he snatched me up. I was tagged with Speedball Mike Bailey, and he had a smile, and he was just naive to the politics of it all. [Don’s] smartened me up, giving me another angle, another perspective in attacking this game that we call wrestling.”If pro wrestling is a game, then Kenny Omega is its final boss. Not only is “The Best Bout Machine” the world champion, but he is also regarded as one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. Knight might have faced a lot of challenges, but fighting Omega in Canada for a championship is on a different level. Still, Knight feels like he might have an edge — and he’s excited to“Always attack his weaknesses, attacking his weaknesses and, and knowing who he is as a person, and, and capitalizing on those weaknesses. Don Callis has known Kenny a long, long, long time, so he’s priming me up. He’s giving me some game on Kenny’s blind spots. We all love Kenny as a person, but he’s careless in some ways — so, whenever I see those openings, I’m definitely gonna definitely going to attack, take advantage.”It’s not lost on Knight that a majority of wrestling fans are writing him off on Sunday. The lingering perception is that Omega will win, move on to All In at Wembley Stadium, and have another epic match against Will Ospreay. That’s a narrative Knight isn’t willing to accept.“People are expecting this long-life anime fantasy between Omega and Osprey. Redemption is gonna be a change of course, and we’re gonna see a new era. We’re gonna see a new superstar rise to the top. I laugh at the people who look past this match. I use it as more fuel, because I love being a spoiler.”It’s big talk, but Kevin Knight has backed it up in recent months. He’s on a nine-match win streak, perfectly part of his “vision board,” which includes winning the AEW World Heavyweight Title, and then involves becoming the face of the company.“If all goes to plan, Jet Two Belts becomes a reality this upcoming Sunday, and I don’t see myself relinquishing it for anybody, that comes my way. I think I will let up and maybe relinquish the TNT title or, you know, let the other people have a little bit of fun. don’t wanna take up all the time at AEW, but AEW is gonna be set up in the next 6 months if The Jet is on top.”The groundwork for this run, this chance at the championship is built on the backs of people who lifted up Kevin Knight along the way. I asked him for his personal wrestling Mount Rushmore, the individuals who have meant the most to him during his career.“Katsuyori Shibata and Kushida, because they helped mold me. From a young lion to my first couple of tours in New Japan and being able to do Impact as well alongside Kushida. Those two guys definitely mean a lot to me. I gotta throw in there Speedball Mike Bailey because one of my first tours in Japan, one of my first matches in TNA/ Impact was against him, and then, of course, our whole run as Jet Speed and everything that we’ve been able to accomplish together. It means a lot to me, on a sentimental level. Fourth, I would like to give it up to Tony Khan just for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to go out there and show the world who and what I am, giving me the opportunity to try new things and just always encouraging me.”This is only the beginning for Kevin Knight, who will be a staple of the pro-wrestling landscape for a long, long time — win or lose.Kevin Knight will face Kenny Omega at AEW Redemption, which will air on Sunday, July 26 from CentreBell in Montreal, Canada, beginning at 6 p.m. ET #Kevin #Knight #hes #hungry #ready #AEW")
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