Mets make it exciting, hold on to beat LA
Dodgers have now lost five of last seven
LOS ANGELES — J.D. Davis led off the 10th inning with an RBI double after the Mets blew a two-run lead in the ninth, and New York hung on to salvage a four-game series split with a 5-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday.
Pete Alonso doubled home the tying run in the eighth and scored the go-ahead run on Eduardo Escobar’s sacrifice fly for the Mets, who have won eight of 11. Alonso then started the 10th on second base as the automatic runner and scored another goahead run on Davis’ hit off Craig Kimbrel (0-2).
Will Smith homered and Eddy Alvarez tied it with a two-out RBI single in the ninth for the Dodgers, who have lost five of seven.
Rookie right-hander Adonis Medina retired Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to open the Dodgers’ half of the 10th before Trea Turner reached on catcher interference, putting runners at the corners. Turner stole second without a throw but Medina coolly struck out Smith to earn his first career save in his sixth appearance for the Mets. Seth Lugo (1-1) got the win.
Starling Marte homered early in the second straight victory for the Mets, who won at Dodger Stadium after trailing in the eighth inning for the first time since July 22, 2007.
PHILLIES 9, ANGELS 7: In Philadelphia, Bryson Stott hit a game-winning, three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning after Bryce Harper tied it with a grand slam in the eighth, and Philadelphia rallied for a victory that sent slumping Mike Trout and Los Angeles Angels to their 11th straight defeat.
It was the fourth victory in a row for the Phillies, who have won all three games under interim manager Rob Thomson since he took over when Joe Girardi was fired Friday.
Trout went 0 for 3 and is hitless in his last 26 at-bats, the longest drought of his decorated career. The three-time MVP did walk and score a run for the Angels, whose last win came on May 24.
TWINS 8, BLUE JAYS 6: In Toronto, Luis Arráez went 4 for 4 with a walk, Gary Sánchez and Trevor Larnach homered and Minnesota beat Toronto.
Arráez leads all of baseball with a .358 batting average.
Six different players drove in a run and the Twins had 16 hits as they took two of three from the Blue Jays, cooling down a Toronto team that came into the series on an eight-game winning streak.
BRAVES 8, ROCKIES 7: In Denver, Matt Olson hit a three-run homer, Ronald Acuña Jr. had a solo shot among his four hits and Atlanta moved above .500 for the first time since the season’s opening week by holding off Colorado.
Ozzie Albies added a two-run single and Adam Duvall doubled and tripled for the Braves, who completed a four-game sweep and won their season-high fifth straight.
RED SOX 5, ATHLETICS 2: In Oakland, California, Franchy Cordero hit a three-run homer off Frankie Montas in the sixth inning and Boston completed a three-game sweep of Oakland.
Rich Hill pitched three-hit ball over six innings and had five strikeouts. Rafael Devers homered and drove in two runs as the Red Sox extended their winning streak to four and got back to .500 (for the first time since April 22.
The A’s lost their seventh straight and fell to 7-23 at home — the worst record in the majors and the second-worst in franchise history through 30 games. The 1920 Philadelphia A’s started 6-23-1 at home.
PADRES 6, BREWERS 4, 10 INNINGS: In Milwaukee, Jake Cronenworth hit a three-run home run in the 10th inning and San Diego extended its winning streak to three games with a victory over Milwaukee.
Trevor Gott (1-1) pitched the 10th for Milwaukee because Josh Hader had worked the ninth after the Brewers tied the game at 3 on Kolten Wong’s second home run of the game in the eighth.
MARINERS 6, RANGERS 5, 10 INNINGS: In Arlington, Texas, Abraham Toro scored on a wild pitch by Brock Burke in the 10th inning to complete Seattle’s lategame rally over Texas.
Eugenio Suarez had four RBIs for the Mariners, including a solo home run on the first pitch of the fourth inning.
GUARDIANS 3, ORIOLES 2: In Baltimore, Andrés Giménez hit a three-run homer, Zach Plesac had eight strikeouts over six innings and Cleveland beat Baltimore to win its first series at Camden Yards since 2018.
WHITE SOX 6, RAYS 5: In St. Petersburg, Florida, Jake Burger had a key hit for the second consecutive day and Chicago hung on to a large early lead to beat Tampa Bay.
Burger, who had a go-ahead, two-run pinch-hit homer in the eighth inning of the White Sox’s 3-2 win on Saturday, had a tworun double during Chicago’s fourrun first off Ryan Yarbrough (0-2).
PIRATES 3, DIAMONDBACKS 0: In Pittsburgh, Jack Suwinski followed his game-winning homer a day earlier with three hits to help Pittsburgh beat Arizona again.
The rookie has at least one hit in his past five games, and was 7 for 12 this series.
Pittsburgh took two of three from Arizona after a three-game sweep of the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
NATIONALS 5, REDS 4: In Cincinnati, Patrick Corbin pitched six effective innings, Josh Bell had a two-run double and catcher Kelbert Ruiz picked Nick Senzel off first base to end Washington’s win over Cincinnati.
Maikel Franco homered for the first time since May 14 and Washington capitalized on two fourthinning Cincinnati errors.
Corbin (2-8) overcame nine Cincinnati hits and three first-inning runs in the first to turn in five scoreless innings.
GIANTS 5, MARLINS 1: In Miami, Donovan Walton hit a grand slam and Jakob Junis pitched six innings of one-run ball in San Francisco’s win over Miami.
Curt Casali had two hits and scored twice for the Giants, who split the four-game series with Miami and finished 5-5 on their three-city road trip.
ASTROS 7, ROYALS 4: In Kansas City, Missouri, Yordan Álvarez hit his 16th home run of the season and Framber Valdez won his fifth straight start for Houston, which beat Kansas City.
Álvarez extended his hitting streak to seven games.
CARDINALS 5, CUBS 3, 11 innings: In Chicago, Juan Yepez singled home automatic runner Nolan Gorman to lead off the 11th inning, Brendan Donovan doubled in an insurance run and St. Louis claimed the five-game series against the Cubs with its sixth win in eight games.
Paul Goldschmidt chopped a pair of infield hits, stretching his on-base streak to a career-high 42 games. Albert Pujols, at DH, continued to inch up baseball’s alltime lists. The 42-year-old singled in the fourth for his 3,319th hit, tying him with Paul Molitor for ninth on the all-time list. He also played in his 3,001 game, tying him with Cal Ripken Jr. for eighth place.