Price earns 5th straight win for Boston
Harper hits 19th HR as Nats win
BOSTON — J.D. Martinez hit a tie-breaking two-run homer, David Price pitched six solid innings to win his fifth straight decision and the Boston Red Sox rebounded from a seriesopening loss with a 4-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday.
Jackie Bradley Jr. added a solo shot for Boston, which avoided tying its season-high three-game losing streak. The Red Sox lost 1-0 to the White Sox on Friday with ace left-hander Chris Sale on the mound.
Jose Abreu had an RBI double for the White Sox, who had won five of eight.
Price (7-4) held Chicago scoreless after allowing two runs in the first. He gave up five hits, struck out six and walked three, improving to 5-0 in his past six starts with a 2.89 ERA.
Craig Kimbrel pitched a perfect ninth for his 20th save. NATIONALS 7, GIANTS 5: In Washington, Bryce Harper hit his National League-leading 19th homer of the season as Washington defeated San Francisco.
Harper’s 437-foot blast to right-center came off reliever Ty Blach in the fourth inning.
YANKEES 4, METS 3: At Citi Field in New York, Aaron Judge hit a tie-breaking drive in the eighth inning as the Yankees beat the Mets for their sixth straight victory in the Subway Series.
Rookies Gleyber Torres and Miguel Andujar also homered
for the Yanks, ensuring the Empire State Building would sparkle in Yankees team colors for 10 minutes after the win. The Yanks have won four in a row overall and nine of 10. ASTROS 4, RANGERS 3:
In Arlington, Texas, George Springer hit a tie-breaking single in the seventh inning as Houston overcame a wild start from Charlie Morton to beat Texas.
Morton tied an American League record with four hit batters and had a career-high six walks as the Astros allowed 10 walks, a season high. But the Rangers tied a club record with 17 runners left on base in a nine-inning game. DIAMONDBACKS 12, ROCKIES 7: In Denver, Paul Goldschmidt had his second straight two-homer game and drove in
four runs, and Arizona took advantage of a double error by Brian Shaw to rally past Colorado.
Shaw (2-5) entered the game to protect a 7-6 lead and allowed six runs — only one of them earned — while getting just two outs before leaving to a chorus of boos and insults from the crowd of 43,000-plus.
BREWERS 12, PHILLIES 3: In Philadelphia, Ji-Man Choi hit a go-ahead, pinch-hit grand slam in the sixth inning, and Jesus Aguilar and Jonathan Villar also went deep for Milwaukee in the Brewers’ victory over Philadelphia.
Aguilar also doubled and drove in three runs, and Christian Yelich had three hits for the Brewers, who won their second straight over the Phillies while outscoring Philadelphia 24-7 to keep hold of first place in the NL Central. RAYS 7, MARINERS 3: In St. Petersburg, Fla., Blake Snell overcame occasional wildness to go six effective innings as Tampa Bay stopped an eightgame losing streak by beating Felix Hernandez and Seattle.
Snell (8-3) gave up two runs and seven hits. The left-hander walked two, recorded one strikeout, hit a batter and had two wild pitches.
Hernandez (6-5) allowed six runs and seven hits over three innings in his shortest start this season. CUBS 2, PIRATES 0: In Chicago, Jon Lester combined with two relievers on a one-hitter as Chicago beat Pittsburgh, the Cubs’ 11th win in 13 games.
Lester (7-2) allowed a twoout triple in the third to Austin Meadows, then retired Starling
Marte on a ground-out. CARDINALS 6, REDS 4: In Cincinnati, Yadier Molina doubled with the bases loaded and Michael Wacha pitched tworun ball into the sixth as St. Louis earned its 13th straight win over the Reds.
TIGERS 4, INDIANS 2 (12): In Detroit, Jeimer Candelario’s two-run homer in the 12th inning gave Detroit a victory over Cleveland.
Miguel Cabrera singled off Cody Allen (2-3) with two outs, and Candelario drove a 2-0 pitch deep into the right-field stands for the first game-ending homer of his career. BRAVES 5, DODGERS 3: In Los Angeles, Tyler Flowers drove in three runs to lead Atlanta past LA. Max Munch hit his 11th homer for the Dodgers in the first, but walked his other three at-bats. ROYALS 2, ATHLETICS 0: In Oakland, Calif., Danny Duffy pitched seven innings of threehit ball as Kansas City snapped a six-game skid with a victory over Oakland.
Duffy (3-6) struck out a season-high 10 and walked three.
PADRES 5, MARLINS 4: In Miami, Travis Jankowski hit a go-ahead bases-loaded single in the eighth inning to lift San Diego over Miami. BLUE JAYS 4, ORIOLES 3: In Toronto, Luke Maile drove in the winning run with a basesloaded walk in the 10th inning as Toronto beat Baltimore.
ANGELS 2, TWINS 1: In Minneapolis, Albert Pujols hit his 623rd career homer and tied Stan Musial for seventh on the career RBIs list with 1,951, helping Los Angeles beat Minnesota after a four-hour rain delay.