Hendricks, Cubs finish off sweep of Padres
Sanchez stays hot as Yankees beat Mariners
SAN DIEGO — Major league ERA leader Kyle Hendricks pitched six effective innings and the Chicago Cubs finished off a three-game sweep, beating the San Diego Padres 6-3 on Wednesday.
Hendricks (12-7) gave up two runs and four hits, striking out eight and leaving with a 2.19 ERA. He has allowed no more than three earned runs in 17 straight starts.
Willson Contreras homered and Ben Zobrist drove in two runs to help the Cubs win for the 22nd time in 27 games. At 81-45, they are 36 games over .500 for the first time since ending the 1945 season at 98-56.
YANKEES 5, MARINERS 0: In Seattle, rookie Gary Sanchez kept up his torrid stretch with his seventh home run in the past nine games, and Masahiro Tanaka won his fourth straight start in New York’s victory over Seattle.
Tanaka (11-4) threw seven shutout innings and got the better of the Mariners and former Japan League teammate Hisashi Iwakuma (14-9).
DODGERS 1, GIANTS 0: In Los Angeles, Rich Hill pitched six dominant innings in his first start with Los Angeles and Justin Turner hit his 24th homer, lifting the Dodgers over San Francisco.
Los Angeles has a three-game lead over the Giants atop the NL West.
Hill (1-0) was on the disabled list with a blister on his left middle finger when the Dodgers acquired him from the Oakland Athletics on Aug. 1 along with outfielder Josh Reddick. He allowed five hits and struck out three while throwing 81 pitches.
ATHLETICS 5, INDIANS 1: In Oakland, Calif., Kendall Graveman pitched into the seventh inning to become Oakland’s first 10-game winner this season, and the Athletics beat Cleveland.
The A’s took two of three games from the AL Central leaders. Cleveland went into the day with the best record in the American League, but was held to one run for the third consecutive game.
ASTROS 5, PIRATES 4: In Pittsburgh, Evan Gattis hit his 20th home run, leading Collin McHugh and Houston over Pittsburgh for the Astros’ fifth victory in six games.
McHugh (8-10) gave up three runs in five innings, ending an 0-4 rut in his last five starts.
BREWERS 7, ROCKIES 1: In Milwaukee, Ryan Braun hit two home runs and Milwaukee tied a season high with its fourth straight victory, beating Colorado.
RANGERS 6, REDS 5: In Cincinnati, Yu Darvish hit only the second homer by a Texas pitcher and Adrian Beltre had a tie-breaking double in the eighth
inning in the Rangers’ victory over Cincinnati.
RAYS 4, RED SOX 3, (11): In St. Petersburg, Fla., David Ortiz hit his 30th home run in the first inning, but Tampa Bay came back from a threerun deficit to beat Boston to prevent the Red Sox from taking sole possession of the AL East lead.
ANGELS 8, BLUE JAYS 2: In Toronto, Albert Pujols moved into sole possession of 10th place on the career home run list with 584, Matt Shoemaker pitched six shutout innings and Los Angeles beat Toronto to snap an 11-game road losing streak.
ORIOLES 10, NATIONALS 8: In Washington, Baltimore closer Zach Britton saw his remarkable streak of 43 straight games without allowing an earned run end, then shut down Washington’s ninth-inning rally.
MARLINS 3, ROYALS 0: In Miami, Jose Fernandez pitched seven innings, helping Miami snap Kansas City’s
winning streak at nine. CARDINALS 8, METS 1: In St. Louis, Matt Carpenter, Randal Grichuk and Stephen Piscotty homered off New York starter Jacob deGrom to power St. Louis.
TIGERS 9, TWINS 4: In Minneapolis, Miguel Cabrera hit his 28th home run and had four hits, Justin Upton added a three-run homer and Detroit beat Minnesota.
PHILLIES 5, WHITE SOX 3: In Chicago, Tommy Joseph and Cesar Hernandez homered to back Jerod Eickhoff, and Philadelphia beat Chicago.
PUERTO RICO: Major League Baseball has agreed to hold games in Puerto Rico and will work with the players’ association to invest $5 million in developing baseball on the island.
The joint commitment will be paid out over the course of the next collective bargaining agreement. The current agreement is set to expire Dec. 1.
MLB didn’t announce any specific details on those future games. A twogame series in late May between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins was moved out of Puerto Rico because of concerns about the Zika virus.
METS: New York has put pitcher Jonathan Niese on the 15-day disabled list and say the left-hander will have knee surgery.
The Mets announced Wednesday that Niese will have arthroscopic surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery on Thursday to repair a torn meniscus.
WHITE SOX: Maybe the Chicago White Sox will change their luck by changing the name of their stadium. No guarantees, though. The ballpark currently called U.S. Cellular Field will become known as Guaranteed Rate Field starting in November. The team and the mortgage company announced a 13-year naming rights deal Wednesday.