Bellinger leads Dodgers past Brewers
Cubs top Cards to end losing skid; floundering Phillies fall again
MILWAUKEE — Cody Bellinger homered in the 12th inning off Milwaukee Brewers reliever Neftali Feliz, salvaging a 2-1 win Friday for the Los Angeles Dodgers on a night when ace left-hander Clayton Kershaw recorded his 2,000th strikeout.
Kenley Jansen (3-0) pitched two scoreless innings for the win, stranding the potential tying run at third with one out in the speedy Jonathan Villar by striking out Orlando Arcia looking and getting Travis Shaw to pop out to short.
The Dodgers pulled out a win and a couple impressive mound milestones, too.
Their pitchers set a franchise record with 26 strikeouts, breaking the mark of 22 set Aug. 8, 1972, in a 19-inning loss to Cincinnati .
Jansen’s strikeout of Hernan Perez in the 11th was his 36th of the season without having allowed a walk all year, setting a major league mark. The teams combined for 42 strikeouts.
CUBS 3, CARDINALS 2: In Chicago, Jason Heyward hit a tie-breaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning, and Chicago snapped a six-game losing streak with a victory over St. Louis.
Heyward also had an RBI double in the sixth and Kris Bryant homered as the Cubs washed away some of the sting from a winless road trip against the Dodgers and Padres. Anthony Rizzo reached four times and scored two runs a day after he got engaged. REDS 3, BRAVES 2, 10 INNINGS: In Cincinnati, Eugenio Suarez scored the tying run in the ninth on Jim Johnson’s wild pitch, and Devin Mesoraco led off the 10th with a homer, rallying Cincinnati past Atlanta.
Mesoraco, who got into the game as a
defensive replacement in the 10th, connected off Jose Ramirez (2-2) for his first career game-ending homer.
GIANTS 10, PHILLIES 0: In Philadelphia, Ty Blach tossed his first career shutout, Denard Span had five hits and San Francisco routed skidding Philadelphia.
Blach (4-2) scattered seven hits, struck out four and didn’t walk a batter to win his fourth consecutive start. He also became the first major league pitcher in eight years to walk three times.
The Phillies (17-35) have lost five in a row and 26 of 32. They have the worst record in the majors. MARLINS 7, DIAMONDBACKS 5: In Miami, Giancarlo Stanton matched a career high by scoring three times, and his 15th home run of the season put Miami ahead for good as the Marlins topped Arizona.
Justin Bour and Christian Yelich each hit two-run homers in the first for Miami,
which improved to 6-2 on this homestand. J.T. Realmuto had two hits and scored twice for the Marlins.
TIGERS 15, WHITE SOX 5: In Detroit, Miguel Cabrera had his 1,000th career extrabase hit, J.D. Martinez fell a single short of the cycle, and Detroit beat Chicago.
Cabrera and Martinez combined for five hits, all for extra bases, and six RBIs in eight at-bats. John Hicks and Mikie Mahtook also homered for Detroit.
PIRATES 12, METS 7: In New York, Elias Diaz hit his first major league homer and drove in six runs, lifting Pittsburgh over New York.
Diaz hit a go-ahead, three-run shot off ineffective reliever Paul Sewald (0-1) during a seven-run sixth inning.
ORIOLES 3, RED SOX 2: In Baltimore, Seth Smith and Manny Machado hit firstinning home runs off Rick Porcello to back a redemptive pitching performance by Alec Asher and help Baltimore beat Boston.
Asher (2-3) retired 16 of the first 17 batters he faced and ended up allowing two runs and three hits over 6⅓ innings. It was his second start since replacing Ubaldo Jimenez in the Baltimore rotation; in his first try, Asher yielded six runs over two innings in loss to Houston on Sunday.
BLUE JAYS 7, YANKEES 5: In Toronto, Josh Donaldson hit two solo home runs, Francisco Liriano won in his return from the disabled list and Toronto beat New York.
Justin Smoak added his team-leading 13th homer, a two-run drive in Toronto’s threerun first inning. He drove in three runs.
ROYALS 4, INDIANS 0: In Kansas City, Mo., Jason Vargas tossed his first shutout in nearly three years, outdueling Royals Josh Tomlin and sending Kansas City past Cleveland.
Vargas (7-3) allowed seven hits over the first six innings but deftly induced double plays in four of them to escape the trouble.