Simmons, Angels take 2 of 3 from Yankees
Streaking Red Sox keep Phillies slumping Dodgers rally for 5th straight victory Mets top Cubs
Andrelton Simmons’ two-run homer in the seventh inning snapped a tie and lifted the Los Angeles Angels to a 7-5 victory over the New York Yankees ON Wednesday night.
New York’s Ronald Herrera (0-1), who joined the club after being called up from Double-A Trenton earlier in the day, served up the blast but the game did not end without drama.
With two out and nobody on in the ninth, the Yankees’ Aaron Hicks hit a deep fly ball to right. Los Angeles’ Kole Calhoun leaped at the wall and appeared to make the catch.
Second base umpire Tony Randazzo made the out call and the Angels began to celebrate. But New York called a replay and the play was overturned because the ball appeared -- at least to the replay umpires – to deflect off the wall into Calhoun’s glove.
That brought up Aaron Judge representing the tying run, but Judge hit the first pitch and grounded out to third to end the game.
Red Sox 7, Phillies 3
Mookie Betts went 4-for-5 with two home runs, three RBIs and four runs scored as Boston tallied five runs in the first two innings to win for the eighth time in 11 games and hand Philadelphia its eighth straight loss.
In falling a triple short of the cycle, Betts raised his average to .280 while becoming the first Red Sox player this season with double-digit home runs (11).
Xander Bogaerts had an RBI double in the first inning and a two-run single in the second for Boston.
Dodgers 6, Indians 4
Enrique Hernandez’s pinch-hit home run off Andrew Miller ignited a four-run eighth-inning rally as Los Angeles won its sixth straight.
It is the second consecutive game the Dodgers hit a home run in the eighth inning off Miller (3-2), who prior to facing the Dodgers had not allowed a home run all year. Cody Bellinger homered off Miller in the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory Tuesday.
Astros 13, Rangers 2
Derek Fisher and Jake Marisnick scored two runs apiece in a nine-run sixth inning as Houston crushed Texas.
Fisher, making his big league debut, ignited the outburst with a leadoff home run off Rangers reliever Jeremy Jeffress. Marisnick followed with his seventh homer as the following six batters reached base for the Astros.
Fisher added an RBI single later in the sixth and came home along with Marisnick when George Springer lined a tworun double to the gap in right-center field off Dillon Gee.
Mets 9, Cubs 4
Curtis Granderson hit his 300th career home run leading off the eighth inning to cap New York’s comeback victory over visiting Chicago.
The Mets had to get creative with bullpen and bench machinations after Matt Harvey lasted only four innings and second baseman Neil Walker suffered a leg injury in the third inning.
Braves 13, Nationals 2
Leadoff hitter Ender Inciarte was 3-for6 with two RBIs, Brandon Phillips was 4-for-6 with three RBIs as Atlanta crushed Washington.
The top three hitters went 10-for-16 for the Braves, who put the game away with six runs in the seventh.
Orioles 10, White Sox 6
Welington Castillo clubbed his first grand slam and collected a career-high five RBIs as Baltimore snapped a six-game losing streak.
The homer was Castillo’s lone hit, and Trey Mancini went 3-for-4 to lead a 13-hit attack for the Orioles. Baltimore’s Dylan Bundy (7-5) worked five innings, allowing five runs (four earned) on six hits. He walked three and struck out four.
Blue Jays 7, Rays 6
Russell Martin led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a go-ahead home run to lift Toronto past Tampa Bay.
Martin hit his sixth home run of the season against the Rays’ Jose Alvarado (0-1) after Tampa Bay tied the score with three runs in the top of the eighth.
Diamondbacks 2, Tigers 1
Brandon Drury’s RBI single, his fifth hit in a string of six at-bats, finished a two-run first inning and Taijuan Walker plus two relievers made it stand up to give Arizona a victory over Detroit. (Reuters)