New York Yankees' Brett Gardner points to his dugout as he runs the bases after hitting a walk-off home run during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday, April 23, 2016, in New York. The Yankees won 3-2. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
New York Yankees' Brett Gardner points to his dugout as he runs the bases after hitting a walk-off home run during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays Saturday, April 23, 2016, in New York. The Yankees won 3-2. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) Credit: ap — Frank Franklin II

Washington — Tanner Roark struck out a career-high 15 and allowed only two hits over seven innings in a dominating performance that carried the Washington Nationals past the Minnesota Twins 2-0 Saturday.

Roark and a trio of relievers combined to fan 18, the most by Washington since its arrival from Montreal in 2005.

Roark (2-2) twice struck out the side and fanned at least two in four other innings. It was only the second time in 52 career starts that the right-hander reached double digits in strikeouts — the other was on July 6, 2014, when he fanned 11 at San Diego.

Jonathan Papelbon got three outs to complete the combined two-hitter and earn his seventh save.

Yankees 3, Rays 2

New York — Brett Gardner hit a solo home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give New York a victory over Tampa Bay, spoiling the impressive major league debut of Rays top pitching prospect Blake Snell.

Gardner singled home the tying run in the seventh and then connected on a 3-1 pitch from Erasmo Ramirez (4-1) two innings later, pointing toward the Yankees’ dugout as he trotted to first base and the ball soared into the second deck in right field.

Masahiro Tanaka gave New York seven quality innings opposite Snell, perhaps baseball’s premier pitching prospect. The slim left-hander permitted one run and two hits in five innings, striking out six and walking one.

White Sox 4, Rangers 3 (11)

Chicago — Slump-ridden Jose Abreu hit an RBI single with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning, leading Chicago over Texas.

After Texas tied it in the ninth on Elvis Andrus’ sacrifice fly off David Robertson, the White Sox went on to win for the fourth time in five games.

Dioner Navarro drew a leadoff walk in the 11th from Nick Martinez (0-1), the last of five Texas relievers. Austin Jackson was hit by a pitch and Adam Eaton walked to load the bases.

One out later, Abreu grounded a single to left field for the second game-ending hit of his career. He took a .180 batting average into the game.

Indians 10, Tigers 1

Detroit — Corey Kluber struck out 10 over eight impressive innings, Yan Gomes homered and drove in five runs for Cleveland in the rout.

Kluber (1-3) happily accepted the offensive output to earn his first win of the season.

The 2014 AL Cy Young Award winner, who went 9-16 last year, gave up two hits and no walks in eight innings.

Kluber had gotten just three runs of support in his first three starts. This was his fifth game with at least 10 strikeouts and zero walks since the start of the 2014 season — only Clayton Kershaw (8) and Max Scherzer (6) have more.

Blue Jays 9, Athletics 3

Toronto — Troy Tulowitzki hit two solo home runs, Josh Donaldson added a three-run blast and Toronto snapped Oakland’s six-game winning streak.

J.A. Happ (3-0) allowed three runs and seven hits in seven innings to win his third straight start.

Ezequiel Carrera had the first four-hit game of his career and scored three times for the Blue Jays. He also made a pair of diving catches in left, one on Chris Coghlan in the fifth and another on Khris Davis in the ninth.

Mets 8, Braves 2

Atlanta — David Wright hit a two-run double, Steven Matz earned his second straight win and the New York Mets stayed hot by beating the power-deprived Atlanta Braves 8-2 on Saturday night.

Neil Walker and Asdrubal Cabrera hit back-to-back home runs in the ninth against right-hander Ryan Weber. The Mets had 15 hits and have homers in eight straight games.

The Braves have lost four straight and were held without a homer for the 12th straight game. Atlanta is last in the majors with only three homers through 17 games — 22 fewer than the Mets. It is the team’s longest drought since going 13 straight games without a homer in May 1983.

Orioles 8, Royals 3

Kansas City, Mo. — Chris Davis homered and had four hits, Manny Machado extended his hitting streak to 16 games and Baltimore beat Kansas City.

Mark Trumbo had three hits and four RBIs for the Orioles, and Tyler Wilson (1-0) won his first start this season.

Davis, who led the majors with 47 home runs last season, hit his sixth homer in the second inning and had an RBI single during the Orioles’ four-run fourth. He tied a career high for hits and hiked his average from .192 to .246.

Reds 13, Cubs 5

Cincinnati — Eugenio Suarez and Adam Duvall hit three-run homers in the sixth inning as Cincinnati finally broke through against the Cubs’ dominant pitching.

A victory would have given the Cubs (13-5) their best start since 1907, the year they won the first of their back-to-back World Series titles. A four-homer splurge ended Chicago’s domination of its NL Central rival.

This series opened with Jake Arrieta’s second career no-hitter in a 16-0 win Thursday night. Jon Lester kept it going, throttling the Reds in an 8-1 victory the following night. John Lackey couldn’t hold a 3-2 lead in the sixth inning on Saturday night.