Overview
- Detroit, which had dropped four straight after an Arizona sweep, blanked St. Louis 4-0 Friday in its Comerica Park home opener.
- Framber Valdez worked six scoreless in his Tigers home debut, recording the club's first home‑opener quality start since 2019 after a brief hand check in the fourth.
- Catcher Dillon Dingler opened the scoring with a two-run homer in the fourth, and Riley Greene and Javier Báez added run-scoring hits to secure the 4-0 result.
- Boston ended a five-game slide with a 5-2 win over San Diego Friday at Fenway Park before a sellout crowd of 36,233 during a tribute to the 1986 Red Sox.
- Sonny Gray logged six steady innings as Willson Contreras crushed a 423-foot tiebreaking homer over the Green Monster and Marcelo Mayer followed with a two-run shot to the right-field bullpen.