two-run shot<\/a>, and Ozzie Albies also homered as the Atlanta Braves cranked up their power game to beat the New York Mets 5-3 on Friday night.<\/p>\nArticle continues below this ad<\/p>\n
The Braves lead second-place Philadelphia in the NL East by three games despite entering the four-game series with a 5-14 record since June 9.<\/p>\n
New York dropped 16 games under .500 for the first time since 2018. The most games under .500 for a team that reached the postseason was 16 by the 1914 Boston Braves at 12-28, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n
The Braves reclaimed their power stroke with the four homers. They had not hit as many as three homers in a game since a 5-2 win at Cincinnati on May 30.<\/p>\n
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CINCINNATI (AP) \u2014 Samuel Basallo hit a two-run homer and Trevor Rogers pitched out of trouble for five innings as Baltimore beat Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
The Orioles executed a double steal in the first inning and Gunnar Henderson scored when the throw to third base from Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson sailed into left field for an error.<\/p>\n
Basallo\u2019s 13th homer came off starter Brady Singer to make it 3-0 in the third.<\/p>\n
It was the 20th home run allowed by Singer in 17 starts this season, surpassing the 19 homers he gave up last year in 32 starts.<\/p>\n
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Rogers (6-7) limited Cincinnati to two hits and struck out four. But he matched a career high with five walks, a total he also reached May 4 against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n
Rico Garcia tossed two innings and Yennier Cano worked the eighth. With reliever Ryan Helsley placed on the injured list before the game, Tyler Wells pitched the ninth to finish the four-hitter.<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Ben Rice hit go-ahead two-run homer in the third inning after a rain delay and New York ended a seven-game losing streak with a victory over Minnesota.<\/p>\n
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Trent Grisham hit a leadoff homer and had a sacrifice fly in his return from a strained right hamstring, and Gerrit Cole (3-3) pitched five innings to help the Yankees end their longest slide since a nine-game skid Aug. 12-22, 2023.<\/p>\n
The game was stopped after Cole struck out Brooks Lee to end the third. During the 53-minute delay, the center field scoreboard showed the end of Argentina\u2019s 3-2 extra-time victory over Cape Verde in the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Following Grisham\u2019s single, Rice snapped a 1-1 tie by hitting rookie starter Mike Paredes\u2019 full-count fastball into the right-field seats. Rice\u2019s 24th homer helped the Yankees win the fourth time in 15 games and beat the Twins for the 12th time in the last 14 meetings.<\/p>\n
After Carlos Rod\u00f3n was placed on the 15-day injured list with left elbow inflammation, Cole allowed two runs and five hits in five innings. The right-hander struck out seven, walked none and was warming up in the bullpen when Rice homered.<\/p>\n
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DENVER (AP) \u2014 Jake McCarthy got Colorado started with a leadoff homer, hit a grand slam in a seven-run fifth and drove in a career-high six runs in the Rockies\u2019 win over San Francisco.<\/p>\n
McCarthy was 4 for 5 to raise his batting average to .308. He also homered twice in a 2024 game with the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n
McCarthy sent the first pitch he saw from Logan Webb (5-6) 440 feet to right center, then made it 7-1 in the third with an RBI single. He also went to right center in the fifth for the grand slam \u2014 his career-best ninth home run of the season.<\/p>\n
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After the grand slam, Hunter Goodman doubled, TJ Rumfield walked and Cole Carrigg drove them both in with his third triple. Tyler Freeman drove in Carrigg.<\/p>\n
Ezequiel Tovar was 3 for 4 with a two-run homer in the second inning, and Carrigg went 2 for 4 with three RBIs. The Rockies had 18 hits.<\/p>\n
Ryan Feltner (3-2) threw six strong innings, striking out a season-high nine. He allowed six hits and three runs \u2014 two of them earned.<\/p>\n
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Aroldis Chapman set the major league record for relief strikeouts after rookie Jake Bennett yielded five hits while pitching into the eighth inning for Boston in a victory over Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
The 38-year-old Chapman broke Hoyt Wilhelm\u2019s record with his 1,364th career strikeout as a reliever when he fanned Denzer Guzman leading off the ninth. The knuckleballing Wilhelm last pitched in 1972.<\/p>\n
Chapman allowed back-to-back singles after his milestone strikeout, but got Jo Adell to ground into a double play to secure his 17th save.<\/p>\n
Caleb Durbin hit a solo homer in the opener of a nine-game trip for the Red Sox, who have won six of eight.<\/p>\n
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In just his seventh career start, Bennett (3-3) struck out six with no walks while dominating the last-place Angels until the their two-run eighth.<\/p>\n
GUARDIANS 4, WHITE SOX 3, 10 INNINGS<\/p>\n
CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Khalil Watson singled home the winning run in the 10th inning and Cleveland rallied for a victory over Chicago to move into first place in the AL Central.<\/p>\n
It was Cleveland\u2019s second consecutive walk-off win to begin a four-game series between the top two teams in the division.<\/p>\n
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Steven Kwan began the bottom of the 10th as the automatic runner on second base. He moved to third on Travis Bazzana\u2019s single to left field and scored on Watson\u2019s base hit up the middle off Sean Newcomb (0-2).<\/p>\n
It was the first walk-off hit for Watson, called up June 17 from Triple-A Columbus. The rookie has nine RBIs in 15 games.<\/p>\n
Eric Sabrowski (3-1) got the win after retiring the White Sox in order in the top of the 10th. The Guardians\u2019 bullpen has given up only two hits in 9 1\/3 scoreless innings over the past two games against Chicago.<\/p>\n
White Sox third baseman Miguel Vargas reached 20 home runs for the first time in his five-year career with a three-run shot in the fifth.<\/p>\n
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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez hit a go-ahead grand slam off reliever Adrian Morejon in the seventh inning, and Los Angeles rallied for the second straight game to beat San Diego.<\/p>\n
Trailing 3-0, Hern\u00e1ndez sent a 90-mph slider on the first pitch from Morejon (6-2) over the wall in center field. Mookie Betts walked and Max Muncy singled to chase starter Michael King.<\/p>\n
Padres second baseman Jake Cronenworth booted a grounder by Kyle Tucker that turned a potential double-play ball into the bases loaded with no outs. Muncy was safe at second on the miscue and Betts moved to third to set up Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s sixth career grand slam.<\/p>\n
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The Dodgers came back from a 6-0 deficit to win 12-7 in the series opener Thursday.<\/p>\n
Kyle Hurt (3-1) earned the win with one inning of scoreless relief. Tanner Scott stuck out the side in the ninth to earn his 12th save.<\/p>\n
King retired the first 11 batters he faced while outpitching Dodgers starter Shohei Ohtani. The first hit allowed was a single to Freddie Freeman with two outs in the fourth that extended the slugger\u2019s on-base streak to 18 consecutive games.<\/p>\n
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kyle Stowers hit two home runs in a 4-for-5 night, Heriberto Hern\u00e1ndez, Jakob Marsee and Owen Caissie also homered and Miami beat the Athletics.<\/p>\n
Stowers had his second four-hit game of the season, matching a June 17 performance against the Phillies.<\/p>\n
Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s 414-foot three-run shot in the first inning made it a five-run game before the first out was recorded, as the first five batters all came around to score.<\/p>\n
Liam Hicks scored on Xavier Edwards\u2019 bases-loaded walk, and Stowers came across on a passed ball. Marsee\u2019s first of the night added one more run before the A\u2019s finally got out of the inning.<\/p>\n
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The A\u2019s briefly staged a rally, as Nick Kurtz hit a two-run homer in the third and Jeff McNeil had a three-run double in the fourth, but Stowers hit a solo homer in the sixth and a two-run shot in the eighth to stretch the lead back to five.<\/p>\n
SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Dylan Cease struck out nine in seven sharp innings to pitch Toronto past Seattle in a rematch of last year\u2019s American League Championship Series.<\/p>\n
Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez hit an RBI double and scored when Vladimir Guerrero Jr. singled off Mariners starter Luis Castillo in the third.<\/p>\n
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Sean Keys was 2 for 4 with a double and a run.<\/p>\n
Cease (5-4), who leads the AL with 141 strikeouts, gave up three hits and walked one. Jeff Hoffman fanned two in a hitless eighth and Louis Varland worked a one-hit ninth for his 18th save.<\/p>\n
Castillo (3-7) gave up five hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out four.<\/p>\n
BREWERS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 4, 11 INNINGS<\/p>\n
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PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Jackson Chourio\u2019s slow roller scored the go-ahead run in the 11th inning and Milwaukee went on to beat Arizona.<\/p>\n
Ryan Thompson (3-2), the eighth Arizona pitcher of the game, entered to start the 11th with automatic runner Blake Perkins at second. Thompson hit Cooper Pratt, and Joey Ortiz sacrificed the runners to second and third. Christian Yelich was walked intentionally and Chourio hit a soft grounder to the third-base side. Thompson fielded it, but threw wildly, also allowing Pratt to score. Brice Turang followed with a two-run single to left.<\/p>\n
Grant Anderson (2-3) pitched the final two innings for the Brewers, winners of four of their last five. Milwaukee, opening an 11-game trip that leads into the All-Star break, has a six-game lead in the National League Central.<\/p>\n
Garrett Mitchell hit his eighth homer, a two-run shot, off Jos\u00e9 Cabrera in the second inning.<\/p>\n
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Mitchell nearly had another homer in the third but Diamondbacks left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. made a leaping catch at the wall.<\/p>\n
In the sixth, Chourio made a similar catch in left to rob Gurriel. And then in the ninth, Gurriel made another catch on a ball Chourio hit to left center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El receptor Nick Fortes y el lanzador Bryan Baker, de los Rays de Tampa Bay, celebran tras un…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[12051,1894,72,1181,2043,1113,5,11832,731,9114,757,3800,13151,5343,3615,2004,138,1301,535,759,11189,76,87914,869,55398,815,463,2281,8570,916,17906,2092,6012,3875,49841,872,3917,22740,565,380,1332,2179,1513,307,91194,3539,4682,16408,91512,7910,81,1388,29,7728,112,6438,18402,331,2098,1553,541,1532,661,87,4154,24121,4163,4,1526,41261,2145,459,761,9677,658,9501,776,9496,297,28982,1945,109,655,7326,71483,751,468,4678,2081,9278,2550,68,2551,2549,1089,1528,12569,122,9009,7903,1868,1275,93,6878,4962,2264],"class_list":["post-742985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-adrian-morejon","tag-alec-burleson","tag-alex-bregman","tag-andre-pallante","tag-andres-gimenez","tag-aroldis-chapman","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-capsules","tag-ben-rice","tag-blake-perkins","tag-brady-singer","tag-brice-turang","tag-bryan-baker","tag-bryan-reynolds","tag-caleb-durbin","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-chicago","tag-christian-yelich","tag-cincinnati","tag-david-peterson","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-dylan-cease","tag-eric-sabrowski","tag-ezequiel-tovar","tag-foster-griffin","tag-freddie-freeman","tag-garrett-mitchell","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-grant-anderson","tag-gunnar-henderson","tag-heriberto-hernandez","tag-hunter-goodman","tag-ivan-herrera","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jake-bennett","tag-jake-cronenworth","tag-jake-mccarthy","tag-jakob-marsee","tag-james-wood","tag-jeff-hoffman","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-jo-adell","tag-joey-ortiz","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jose-cabrera","tag-jose-tena","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kevin-kelly","tag-khalil-watson","tag-kyle-hurt","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-kyle-stowers","tag-kyle-tucker","tag-liam-hicks","tag-logan-webb","tag-louis-varland","tag-lourdes-gurriel","tag-luis-castillo","tag-luis-garcia","tag-masyn-winn","tag-matt-olson","tag-max-muncy","tag-michael-harris-ii","tag-michael-king","tag-miguel-vargas","tag-mike-paredes","tag-mitch-keller","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-nathan-church","tag-nick-fortes","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-nick-martinez","tag-owen-caissie","tag-ozhaino-albies","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pittsburgh","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-rays","tag-rico-garcia","tag-ryan-feltner","tag-ryan-helsley","tag-ryan-thompson","tag-samuel-basallo","tag-sean-keys","tag-sean-newcomb","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-spencer-arrighetti","tag-steven-kwan","tag-steven-okert","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-tanner-scott","tag-teoscar-hernandez","tag-travis-bazzana","tag-trent-grisham","tag-trevor-rogers","tag-tyler-freeman","tag-tyler-stephenson","tag-tyler-wells","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-xavier-edwards","tag-yennier-cano","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}