Nats recover after blowing lead in 9th
WASHINGTON — Ryan Raburn drove in the game-winning run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth as the Washington Nationals survived another bullpen collapse for a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets on Monday night.
Curtis Granderson tied the game with a two-out, two-run homer off Nationals reliever Matt Albers (4-1) in the ninth. Granderson’s heroics came after Michael Taylor’s two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth broke a scoreless tie.
Matt Wieters opened the Washington ninth with a walk against Paul Sewald (0-3), moved to second following a sacrifice bunt and took third on Adam Lind’s deep fly ball. Following Stephen Drew’s walk, Raburn’s slow, looping liner to left field off Fernando Salas fell in front of a diving Yoenis Cespedes, scoring Wieters.
BREWERS 8, ORIOLES 1: In Milwaukee, Travis Shaw started the rout with a go-ahead single in a four-run first inning, then left after he was hit on a hand by a pitch during Milwaukee’s win over Baltimore.
Backed by 7-0 lead in the second, Brent Suter (1-1) struck out eight over six innings, allowing an unearned run and four hits — all singles. The left-hander made his second big league start, pitching in place of Chase Anderson, on the disabled list because of a left oblique strain.
Wade Miley (3-7) gave up seven runs, seven hits and two walks in 1⅔ innings.
PHILLIES 4, PIRATES 0: In Philadelphia, Aaron Nola struck out eight in seven splendid innings, and Freddy Galvis and Maikel Franco hit two-run homers as Philadelphia beat Pittsburgh.
Nola (6-5) allowed four hits and none until Jordy Mercer lined a
double down the left-field line with two outs in the fifth. Joaquin Benoit and Hector Neris completed the four-hitter.
Nova gave up four runs and seven hits in six innings.
YANKEES 6, BLUE JAYS 3: In New York, Masahiro Tanaka (7-7) pitched seven sharp innings for his second straight win following a long slump as New York beat Toronto, which has lost five in a row.
All-Star sluggers Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez sparked New York’s offense. Their consecutive singles in the first helped the Yankees scratch out two runs against Marcus Stroman (8-5). Judge’s leadoff single and Sanchez’s double set up a fourrun eighth that included Chase Headley’s two-run double off Ryan Tepera. CARDINALS 14, MARLINS 6: In St. Louis, rookie Luke Voit hit his first major league homer and drove in four runs, and Tommy Pham reached base five times as St. Louis beat Miami.
St. Louis scored four runs in the first inning and seven in the third on the way to an 11-0 lead. Voit added a two-run homer in the eighth in the Cardinals’ fifth win in six games.
Adam Wainwright (9-5) picked up his second successive win.
ROCKIES 5, REDS 3: In Denver, rookie Raimel Tapia finished a single shy of the cycle and Charlie Blackmon lined a solo shot as Colorado beat Cincinnati.
Tapia’s homer in the sixth broke a tie game as the Rockies returned home following a forgetful 1-8 trip.
Right-hander Jeff Hoffman (5-1) nearly had as many hits at the plate (two) as he surrendered on the mound (four). He went seven effective innings, with his only hiccup back-to-back homers to Scooter Gennett and Joey Votto in the sixth. Hoffman’s runscoring double in the second was his first major league RBI.
RED SOX 7, RANGERS 5 (11): In Arlington, Texas, Andrew Benintendi blooped a two-run single over a drawn-in infield in the 11th as Boston beat Texas for its fifth
straight victory.
Boston needed extra innings after Mike Napoli led off the Rangers ninth with a homer off All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel, who had blown only one of his previous 24 save opportunities. WHITE SOX 7, ATHLETICS 2: In Oakland, Calif., Todd Frazier doubled twice and drove in two runs to back Carlos Rodon’s first win of the season as Chicago beat Oakland.
One week after getting swept by the A’s at home, the White Sox jumped on Oakland starter Jharel Cotton early and got strong pitching from Rodon and two relievers to make it hold up before a crowd of 40,019 — the largest to watch a baseball game at the Coliseum in nearly 12 years.
TWINS 9, ANGELS 5: In Minneapolis, Max Kepler tied a career high with four hits, including a home run, and Adalberto Mejia (4-3) earned his third straight win as Minnesota beat Los Angeles.
ROYALS 3, MARINERS 1: In Seattle, Ian Kennedy allowed one run pitching into the seventh inning, and Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon both hit solo home runs as Kansas City beat Seattle.
DODGERS: Closer Kenley Jansen is blaming his own fans for not turning out the All-Star vote for his teammates.
The National League leaders don’t have a starting player on the NL squad revealed Sunday for the game in Miami on July 11. Jansen, left-hander Clayton Kershaw, shortstop Corey Seager and first baseman/outfielder Cody Bellinger made the team via the player ballots, but starters are elected by the fans.
“I’ll say it loud and clear again: It’s the Dodger fans’ fault,” Jansen said. He is especially upset Seager and third baseman Justin Turner weren’t starters.