Simmons, Pujols lift Angels over Red Sox
ANAHEIM: Andrelton Simmons drove in three runs, including a go-ahead two-run homer and Albert Pujols went 3 for 4 with two RBIs as the Los Angeles Angels rallied for a 7-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in Major League Baseball on Saturday.
Simmons hit his 10th homer of the season to left and put the Angels ahead 4-3 in the third inning after falling behind early. Pujols doubled to score Yunel Escobar and Mike Trout to start the four-run burst.
Pujols became the 26th player to score 1,700 runs when he touched home plate after Simmons went deep. Pujols joins Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez and Willie Mays in amassing at least 600 home runs and 1,700 runs.
JC Ramirez (9-8) recorded his second win at home in 11 starts, striking out six while allowing one earned run and five hits in six innings.
David Price (5-3) gave up five earned runs and seven hits in five innings, allowing more than three earned runs for only the second time this year.
In Chicago, Kris Bryant raced home from first base on Anthony Rizzo’s bloop double, capping the Cubs’ three-run rally in the eighth inning that gave them a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals.
Bryant also had a tying, broken-bat single during the comeback.
Back-up catcher Nick Hundley singled in Kelby Tomlinson with two outs in the 12th for San Francisco as the Giants edged the Padres 5-4.
In Seattle, Nelson Cruz hit a winning single off Adam Warren in the 10th inning, and the Mariners beat the New York Yankees 5-4 after Edwin Diaz allowed a tying hit to Ronald Torreyes in the ninth.
Masahiro Tanaka had another shaky outing and New York trailed 4-2 before Aaron Judge hit his MLB-leading 32nd home run, a sixth inning drive against Steve Cishek.
Domingo Santana singled home the go-ahead run in the ninth inning after the Brewers blew a big lead, and Milwaukee ended a season-worst six-game losing streak with a 9-8 win over the Phillies.
JT Realmuto hit a pair of two-run homers and a double, powering Miami to their second straight victory. The Marlins pipped the Reds 5-4.
Miami won for only the third time in eight games, getting their first back-to-back wins since the All-Star break.
Realmuto connected in the second and sixth innings off Robert Stephenson (0-3), who made his first start of the season after 13 relief appearances. It was the catcher’s second career multi-homer game — he also had one in 2015.
In Phoenix, Bryce Harper homered and drove in two runs, Tanner Roark struck out a season-high 11 and Sean Doolittle stranded the potential tying run to preserve the Nationals’ 4-3 win over the Diamondbacks.
Roark (8-6) gave up two runs and three hits in seven innings for the NL East-leading Nationals.
Harper hit his 25th home run of the season on a full-count change-up from Anthony Banda (0-1), who lost in his major league debut.
Chris Iannetta hit a two-out RBI double in the bottom half, but the Nationals opened a 4-1 lead with a three-run sixth.
Harper hit a run-scoring double and scored on Ryan Zimmerman’s double, and Anthony Rendon beat out an RBI single that sent Zimmerman home.