Category: Major League Baseball (MLB)

Enrique Hernandez hit the tiebreaking RBI single with one out in the 10th inning as the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 3-2 victory over the New York Yankees in the Bronx on Sunday night.

After Kenley Jansen retired the Yankees in order in the ninth, Hernandez scorched a single through the drawn-in infield to left field off Ron Marinaccio (2-3) to score automatic runner Adam Duvall, who ran for Justin Turner and took third on a grounder by Triston Casas ahead of the tiebreaking hit.

Hernandez also factored in Boston tying the game in the eighth when he opened the inning with a single that went by LeMahieu at third into left field. Hernandez took second when second baseman Gleyber Torres did not come off the bag fielding the throw from left fielder Billy McKinney, allowing the ball to go by.

After Reese McGuire walked, the runners were sacrificed by Pablo Reyes. The Yankees kept their infield back and Jarren Duran hit a slow grounder to second base as Hernandez easily scored.

Chris Martin stranded automatic runner DJ LeMahieu at third by striking out rookie Anthony Volpe to secure his first save with Boston.

Turner homered in the second inning for the Red Sox, who won for only the third time in their last nine games.

Jose Trevino hit a fluky two-run single in the second, but the Yankees fell to 3-4 since losing Aaron Judge to a bruised right big toe. The Yankees were held to three hits and went hitless after the fourth.

Boston starter Brayan Bello allowed two runs on three hits in seven innings. Bello struck out three and walked two before Nick Pivetta, Jansen (2-3) and Martin combined on three hitless innings.

New York’s Clarke Schmidt allowed one run on four hits in 5 1/3 innings. Schmidt struck out four, walked none and retired the final eight hitters he faced.

After Turner reached the right field seats with his eighth homer, the Yankees had second and third following a double by McKinney. Trevino scorched a ground ball that caromed off the second base bag by Hernandez into center field for a 2-1 lead that lasted until the eighth.

–Field Level Media

Zach Neto homered twice, Shohei Ohtani had three hits and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Seattle Mariners 9-4 Sunday afternoon in the rubber game of a three-game series in Anaheim, Calif.

Matt Thaiss contributed two hits and three RBIs to an Angels offense that scored in five of eight innings and totaled 13 hits. A sign of things to come came in the first inning, when Angels leadoff hitter Taylor Ward hit Mariners starter Logan Gilbert’s second pitch of the game into the left-field bullpen for a home run.

The offensive onslaught made things easier for Angels starter Griffin Canning (5-2), who gave up four runs (three earned) on seven hits in five innings. He struck out seven and did not walk a batter.

Canning has won his last three decisions, compiling a 2.63 ERA over his past four starts.

Two outs after Ward’s leadoff homer off Gilbert (4-4), Brandon Drury doubled and scored on a single by Thaiss, the Angels going up 2-0. Gilbert gave up seven runs (six earned) on eight hits, struck out two and didn’t issue a walk in three-plus innings.

Neto’s first homer of the game, a solo drive in the second, increased the Angels’ lead to 3-0 before Los Angeles added three more in the third. Ohtani and Mike Trout began the third with back-to-back singles, and one out later, both scored on a double by Thaiss.

Hunter Renfroe followed with an RBI double and the Angels led 6-0.

A two-run homer by Teoscar Hernandez in the fourth got the Mariners to within 6-2, but the Angels added a run in the bottom of the inning on a sacrifice fly by Trout to go back up 7-2.

A solo homer by Mike Ford in the fifth and a sacrifice fly by Eugenio Suarez in the sixth narrowed Seattle’s deficit to 7-4.

But the Angels got two insurance runs in the eighth, with Neto leading off the inning with his second homer and Drury adding an RBI single for a 9-4 lead.

–Field Level Media

Joc Pederson and Thairo Estrada each homered twice, shortstop Brandon Crawford made his major league pitching debut and the San Francisco Giants rebounded from a near-no-hit defeat with a 13-3 shellacking of the visiting Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon.

After totaling eight hits in the first two games of the series, including just one on Saturday, the Giants erupted for 15 hits, seven for extra bases, and their fourth-most runs of the year to salvage one win in the three-game set.

Pederson got the parade in motion with a two-run home run in the bottom of the first off Cubs starter Hayden Wesneski (2-3), who had hit Estrada to lead off the inning.

After the Cubs tied the game on a second-inning error and a third-inning Yan Gomes infield out, Pederson went deep again in the last of the third, this time scoring Casey Schmitt with his seventh home run of the season.

Blake Sabol chipped in with a pair of RBI singles and Michael Conforto added a two-run single before Estrada took over the heavy lifting for the Giants. His solo homer led off a two-run sixth that increased the lead to 10-3, and he closed the scoring in the eighth with a three-run shot, his ninth homer of the year.

Wesneski lasted just three innings, charged with five runs on four hits. He walked one and struck out four.

The Giants went without a traditional starter for the second straight day and watched six pitchers — including Crawford — limit the Cubs to seven hits.

Trusted to preserve a 10-run lead in the ninth, Crawford allowed a walk and a single to the first two batters he faced before getting a fielder’s choice, flyout and popout in foul territory.

Rookie Tristan Beck (1-0), who allowed two runs (one earned) in two innings of early relief, was awarded with his first big-league win. John Brebbia served as an opener for the second day in a row.

Pederson finished 4-for-4 with four RBIs and four runs for the Giants, while Estrada scored three times and drove in four runs.

The multi-homer game was the 20th of Pederson’s career and the third for Estrada.

Schmitt, who scored twice, joined Sabol and Estrada with two hits.

Nico Hoerner had two hits for the Cubs, who completed a 4-6 California swing.

–Field Level Media

Nolan Jones hit a walk-off home run into the second deck in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 after a rain delay in Denver on Sunday.

Coco Montes homered among his two hits in his major league debut and Ezequiel Tovar and Ryan McMahon also went deep for Colorado.

Jake Cronenworth homered and Fernando Tatis Jr. had two hits for San Diego.

The Rockies trailed 4-3 entering the ninth, and with a heavy rain falling McMahon led off with his 10th homer, a shot off Tom Cosgrove. The game then went into a 1 hour, 25-minute delay. After play resumed Brent Honeywell (2-4) got the first two batters before Jones smacked a 472-foot homer.

It was his fourth of the season.

San Diego’s Blake Snell allowed a run on three hits and struck out 12 in seven innings, both season highs. He stayed in the game despite taking a line drive by Randal Grichuk off his foot in the seventh inning.

He got the final two batters, the last on a strikeout, to finish his day.

Colorado placed veteran Charlie Blackmon on the 10-day injured list with a fractured right hand suffered last week at Kansas City, and he is expected to miss four to six weeks.

Colorado took advantage when Snell left the game. Jones led off the eighth with an infield single and Montes homered to tie it.

With the rain picking up, the Padres went ahead in the ninth when Ha-Seong Kim scored on a wild pitch by Justin Lawrence (3-3) to make it 4-3.

The Rockies went ahead 1-0 in the first inning on Tovar’s fifth home run of the season.

The Padres tied it in the third inning when starter Dinelson Lamet’s errant pickoff throw to first allowed Tatis to advance to third, and he scored on Juan Soto’s sacrifice fly.

San Diego took the lead in the fourth on Cronenworth’s two-run homer, his seventh.

Lamet gave up three runs (two earned) and six hits over five innings. He struck out five and walked three.

–Field Level Media

Pittsburgh Pirates veteran Andrew McCutchen lined a single to left field in the first inning Sunday against the New York Mets for his 2,000th career hit.

In his return with the Pirates, after playing his first nine seasons in Pittsburgh, McCutchen delivered his 52nd hit of the season with the single against New York right-hander Carlos Carrasco.

McCutchen became the fifth active player with 2,000 career hits, after Miguel Cabrera (3,110), Joey Votto (2,093), Nelson Cruz (2,043) and Elvis Andrus (2,027).

After 15 seasons, McCutchen entered Sunday’s game with a career .277 batting average and an .837 OPS with 295 home runs and 1,025 RBIs. His first-inning hit was his 1,515th with the Pirates.

McCutchen has also played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Brewers. He first played with the Pirates from 2009-17, earning National League MVP honors in 2013.

–Field Level Media

Dynamic rookie Elly De La Cruz reached base four times, scored twice and drove in a run as the resurgent Cincinnati Reds defeated the host St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 on Sunday.

De La Cruz went 2-for-3 with two walks and a stolen base for the Reds, who won for the fifth time in their last seven games.

Cincinnati starting pitcher Hunter Greene allowed three runs on six hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out nine batters and walked two.

Ian Gibaut (6-1) recorded five outs to earn the victory and Alexis Diaz pitched the ninth inning to earn his 15th save.

Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright allowed three runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. Jordan Hicks (1-4) took the loss after giving up a run in one inning.

The Reds struck first with Jonathan India’s two-out homer in the first inning, his seventh blast of the season.

The Cardinals surged ahead 2-1 in the second inning. Willson Contreras walked and moved to third on Dylan Carlson’s double. Jordan Walker lined an RBI single to left and Tommy Edman hit a run-scoring chopper.

Cincinnati tied the game 2-2 in the third inning on singles by Curt Casali, Matt McClain and De La Cruz. But the Cardinals moved ahead 3-2 in their half of the inning when Paul Goldschmidt singled and scored on a triple from Nolan Arenado.

The Reds tied the game 3-3 in the sixth inning. De La Cruz walked, stole second base, moved to third on a flyout and scored on Tyler Stephenson’s single.

Greene hit Carlson with a pitch with one out in the bottom of the inning, then walked Walker. Gibaut entered and retired the next two batters to keep the game tied.

De La Cruz drew a leadoff walk from Hicks in the eighth inning, took second on a groundout and third on a passed ball. With the infield pulled in, the speedy De La Cruz scored the winning run on Stephenson’s fielder’s-choice grounder to shortstop Paul DeJong.

–Field Level Media

Jorge Soler homered twice and Bryan De La Cruz delivered a clutch two-out double to drive in the go-ahead runs as the visiting Miami Marlins rallied for a three-run ninth inning to beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on Sunday.

The White Sox had led comfortably 5-1 after Luis Robert Jr. hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh. But the Marlins chipped away with solo homers from Soler and Garrett Cooper in the eighth to cut the lead to 5-3.

Jean Segura homered in the top of the ninth to cut the Chicago lead to one, before Jonathan Davis reached on a catcher’s interference call and Soler walked. With two out, De La Cruz ripped a double down the left-field line to score both runners and give the Marlins the lead.

Bryan Hoeing (1-1) was credited with the win in relief for Miami, while A.J. Puk notched his seventh save with a 1-2-3 ninth. Kendall Graveman (1-3), who surrendered all three Miami runs in the ninth, took the loss.

Chicago right-hander Lucas Giolito, who had pitched six no-hit innings in his last outing against the New York Yankees on June 6, kept the Miami bats silent early, running his scoreless innings streak to 10 2/3 innings without much trouble.

That changed when Soler crushed a fastball 410 feet into the center field seats for a 1-0 Marlins lead.

Meanwhile, left-hander Braxton Garrett was even more effective in the early innings for Miami. Garrett gave up only a first-inning double to Robert and infield singles to Clint Frazier and Andrew Benintendi through 5 1/3 scoreless innings with one walk. He struck out three White Sox on 10 pitches in the second.

Soler’s second blast, in the eighth, was his 19th of the season and moved him into a tie for second in the majors with Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees, behind Pete Alonso of the New York Mets (22). Cooper’s 427-foot shot to center cut Chicago’s lead to 5-3.

Giolito struck out eight and scattered six hits with one walk over his seven innings to get the win.

–Field Level Media

Seth Brown hit a game-altering three-run homer in the fourth inning and Brent Rooker followed with a solo shot as the Oakland Athletics ran their winning streak to five games by beating the host Milwaukee Brewers 8-6 on Sunday.

Esteury Ruiz doubled in two important insurance runs in the ninth as Oakland swept the three-game series, their first sweep of the season and their first five-game winning streak since 2021.

Trailing 8-3 with two outs and nobody on base in the ninth, the Brewers got a hit and three walks against Oakland closer Trevor May. Left-hander Sam Long came on to give up a bloop single for two runs to Abraham Toro, but he got Blake Perkins on a slow grounder for his second save of the season.

Left-hander JP Sears (1-3) picked up his first win since last Sept. 20. In five innings, he allowed two runs on six hits and a hit batter and struck out five.

Christian Yelich homered in the second inning for the Brewers and Owen Miller doubled in a run in the third, but the Athletics took the lead against Milwaukee starter Freddy Peralta on two swings of the bat.

Ryan Noda singled to open the fourth and Peralta (5-6) hit the next batter. Brown then won an 11-pitch at-bat with Peralta, hammering a line-drive homer to right field, his fourth of the season. Rooker followed with his 13th, a 413-foot shot to left field.

In five innings, Peralta surrendered four runs on three hits, two walks and a hit batter. He fanned five.

The Brewers trimmed their deficit to 4-3 in the sixth on Perkins’ RBI single off reliever Sam Moll, but Oakland got the run back in the seventh on Kevin Smith’s home run to left field, his fourth of the season, against Bryse Wilson.

Trailing 5-3 in the eighth, the Brewers had runners on first and second with one out against right-hander Shintaro Fujinami, but lefty Richard Lovelady came on to get a popout and Rowdy Tellez’s long flyout to center field.

After Ruiz’s two-run double in the ninth, Noda followed with his second hit, an RBI single.

Willy Adames, Yelich, Miller and Perkins each had two of Milwaukee’s 10 hits, and Luis Urias reached base three times on a walk and two hit-by-pitches. The Brewers were 3-for-12 with runners in scoring position and lost their fourth straight game.

The Athletics had only six hits, four for extra bases.

Brewers manager Craig Counsell was away for his son’s high school graduation. Bench coach Pat Murphy led the team.

–Field Level Media

Wander Franco ripped a three-run homer and Shane McClanahan became the first pitcher in the majors to reach 10 wins as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Texas Rangers 7-3 in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Sunday afternoon in the rubber match of a three-game series.

Franco went 2-for-4 while Harold Ramirez added three hits for the Rays, who have won eight of their last nine.

McClanahan (10-1) recorded his 10th quality start of the season by allowing three runs on four hits in seven innings. He walked one and struck out five.

After Texas pulled within 4-3 in the third, Franco gave the Rays some breathing room an inning later with his eighth home run of the season and first since May 9. The Rangers never seriously threatened the rest of the way en route to their third loss in the last four games.

Texas struck for all three of its runs in the third, getting a solo shot from Robbie Grossman before Marcus Semien added an RBI double and Corey Seager followed with a run-scoring single.

But McClanahan settled down from there, tossing four perfect frames to close his outing.

Colin Poche pitched a 1-2-3 eighth to set the stage for Jason Adam, who issued two walks and surrendered Josh Jung’s double as the Rangers loaded the bases in the ninth.

However, Adam escaped unscathed, getting Ezequiel Duran to ground into a game-ending double play.

Grossman, Semien and Jung provided the only extra-base hits for the Rangers, who also got a single from Nathaniel Lowe in addition to Seager’s to account for their five total hits.

Texas starter Martin Perez (6-2) was shelled for seven runs on a season-high 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings. He walked three and fanned two.

Tampa Bay wasted little time jumping out in front, taking a 2-0 lead in the first inning. After the Rays loaded the bases before recording an out, Randy Arozarena lined a run-scoring single to right and Isaac Paredes followed with an RBI fielder’s choice.

An inning later, Taylor Walls pulled an RBI double down the third base line and eventually scored on Ramirez’s single to extend Tampa Bay’s lead to 4-0.

–Field Level Media

Cavan Biggio hit the go-ahead three-run home run in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Minnesota Twins 7-6 on Sunday afternoon.

Matt Chapman hit a two-run homer for the Blue Jays, who overcame a 6-1 deficit to salvage the final game of the three-game series after dropping the first two.

Donovan Solano hit a solo home run for Minnesota.

Toronto right-hander Kevin Gausman allowed six runs, seven hits and four walks in 4 2/3 innings before the bullpen locked down the victory.

Minnesota right-hander Louie Varland allowed four runs, six hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out six.

Minnesota scored four runs in the first inning. Edouard Julien led off with a double, Solano walked and Alex Kirilloff hit an RBI double to right. Carlos Correa walked to load the bases and Trevor Larnach hit a two-run single off the right-field wall for a 3-0 lead. Another run scored on a Royce Lewis infield hit to shortstop.

Toronto scored once in the first inning. George Springer and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled and Chapman hit a sacrifice fly.

Home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt left the game in the bottom of the fourth after being hit on the arm by Daulton Varsho’s foul ball. Brian Walsh moved from first base to home plate in a three-man crew.

Solano hit his first home run of the season with one out in the fifth, on a shot to center that just eluded Varsho’s leap. Correa doubled and Larnach walked as the Blue Jays’ Thomas Hatch replaced Gausman and allowed an RBI single to Lewis, who improved to 7-for-7 in the series.

Toronto scored three in the fifth as Biggio singled, Springer walked and a run scored on Guerrero’s fielder’s-choice grounder. Chapman followed with his ninth homer of the season.

Nate Pearson (4-0) pitched the seventh and eighth innings for Toronto, allowing only a double.

Emilio Pagan (3-1) allowed singles to Alejandro Kirk and Santiago Espinal and Biggio’s fifth home run of the season in the bottom of the eighth.

Jordan Romano pitched around a walk and a stolen base in the ninth to earn his 18th save.

–Field Level Media