Astros: Starting pitcher Ronel Blanco received a 10-game suspension Wednesday for violating MLB’s prohibitions on foreign substances after being ejected from the game against the Athletics. The suspension was announced by Michael Hill, MLB’s senior VP of on-field operations. The penalty also includes an undisclosed fine. Blanco was ejected at the start of the fourth inning of the Astros’ 2-1 win over the A’s on Tuesday after umpires found a foreign substance that first base umpire Erich Bacchus said was “the stickiest stuff I’ve felt on a glove.” Third base umpire Laz Diaz ejected Blanco after a check of his glove before he threw a pitch in the fourth inning. The umpires, Blanco and Astros manager Joe Espada stood at the mound for a couple of minutes discussing the issue before the right-hander was ejected. Bacchus said there was nothing on Blanco’s glove when he checked it in the middle of the first, but he discovered it when he did his second check before the fourth. “I felt something inside the glove,” Bacchus said. “It was the stickiest stuff I’ve felt on a glove since we’ve been doing this for a few years now.” After Bacchus discovered the substance he called the rest of the crew in to confer. “Everybody checked the glove to make sure we all had the same thing and he had to get ejected because he had a foreign substance on his glove,” Diaz said. Blanco denied using an illegal substance. “Just probably rosin I put on my left arm,” he said in Spanish through a translator. “Maybe because of the sweat it got into the glove and that’s maybe what they found.” Espada added that when he went to the mound he saw “white powder” inside Blanco’s glove. “It looked to me when I grabbed the glove (that) there was some rosin,” Espada said. “You’re not allowed to use rosin on your non-pitching hand and that’s what it looked like to me. It was a little bit sticky with the moisture and the sweat but that’s what it looked like to me.” Blanco, who threw a no-hitter in his season debut, allowed four hits and struck out one in three scoreless innings Tuesday. He has a 2.09 ERA this season.

Marlins: Bryan De La Cruz homered, Trevor Rogers pitched five scoreless innings and the Marlins beat the host Tigers 2-0. The Marlins have won two straight and three of four after a four-game losing streak. They shut out the Tigers on Tuesday and Wednesday to win the three-game series. Four relievers finished, with Tanner Scott pitching the ninth for his fifth save. One day after Ryan Weathers pitched eight shutout innings, Rogers (1-6) held the Tigers scoreless for five innings. He allowed three hits and two walks while striking out six.

Brewers: William Contreras went 3 for 5 with four RBIs and hit one of the Brewers’ five HRs off Martín Pérez in a 10-2 blowout of the visiting Pirates. The NL Central-leading Brewers won two of three in the series before beginning a season-long, nine-game trip Friday against the Astros. Gary Sánchez, Sal Frelick, Joey Ortiz and Jackson Chourio also homered off Pérez, who gave up 11 hits and nine runs before leaving with nobody out in the sixth inning. Pérez fell to 1-3 on the season. The Brewers tied a franchise record for HRs off a single pitcher in one game. The Pirates’ Andrew McCutchen went 3 for 4, homered and scored his team’s runs.

Extra innings: Brandon Pfaadt threw seven stellar innings, Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth and the Diamondbacks beat the Reds 2-1. The host D-backs took two of three in the series and five of six from the Reds this season. Pinch hitter Pavin Smith started the D-backs’ rally with a two-out double to right field. Gurriel followed with another double to right, which wasn’t hit as hard, but still fell just out of the reach of a sliding Jake Fraley. Paul Sewald retired the Reds in order in the ninth for his second save of the season. ... Korey Lee went 3 for 3 with an RBI, Garrett Crochet tossed five scoreless innings and the White Sox topped the visiting Nationals 2-0 for their second straight win. Tommy Pham and Andrew Benintendi each singled and doubled for the last-place White Sox. Pham drove in the White Sox’s first run as they won their second straight series and improved to 11-8 since a 3-22 start to the season.