Buxton, Jeffers help Twins wallop Yankees
14 straight losses and counting for Angels
MINNEAPOLIS — Byron Buxton and Ryan Jeffers homered in the fifth inning, sending Nestor Cortes to an early exit as the Minnesota Twins cruised to an 8-1 victory Wednesday night that stopped the New York Yankees’ winning streak at seven.
Cortes (5-2) allowed season highs in hits (seven) and runs (four) over 4 2/3 innings, his shortest appearance of the year knocking him out of the major league ERA lead. It was the first time in 20 starts that he gave up more than three runs, falling one short of the longest such streak in team history.
Chris Archer (1-2) picked up his first victory for the Twins in his team-leading 11th start.
RED SOX 1, ANGELS 0: In Anaheim, Calif., Los Angeles’ losing streak reached a franchise-record 14 games when Bobby Dalbec drove in the only run with a double in the sixth inning for Boston.
Nathan Eovaldi (4-2) pitched five innings of six-hit ball with five strikeouts in Boston’s season-high seventh consecutive victory. With their second 1-0 win in three days at the Big A, the Red Sox remained perfect in June and on their 10-game West Coast trip (6-0).
DODGERS 4, WHITE SOX 1: In Chicago, Tony Gonsolin improved to 7-0, tossing three-hit ball over six innings, and Will Smith and Cody Bellinger homered early to lead Los Angeles over Chicago.
Smith hit a two-run drive in the first inning and Bellinger made it 3-0 when he connected leading off the second against Johnny Cueto (0-3), who dropped his third straight start.
Gonsolin lowered his National League-best ERA to 1.58.
RAYS 11, CARDINALS 3: In St. Petersburg, Fla., Randy Arozarena had three hits and four RBIs against his original team to help Tampa Bay beat St. Louis.
Arozarena, the 2021 AL Rookie of the Year, was a St. Louis prospect with 19 games of major league experience when he was obtained from the Cardinals in a January 2020 trade. He had an RBI double in the first inning and a two-run single in the seventh to pace an 18-hit outburst for the Rays.
BRAVES 13, ATHLETICS 2: In Atlanta, Michael Harris gave Atlanta the lead with a two-run triple in the fifth inning that spoiled Jared Koenig’s major league debut, and the surging Braves beat Oakland.
Ian Anderson (5-3) pitched six solid innings and the Braves rallied from a 2-0 deficit for the second straight night to sweep the two-game series and extend their season-best winning streak to seven.
PHILLIES 10, BREWERS 0: In Milwaukee, Aaron Nola (4-4) pitched eight sharp innings and surging Philadelphia hit four home runs to rout Milwaukee.
The Phillies won their seasonhigh sixth in a row. The NL Central-leading Brewers have lost a season-worst five straight.
ROYALS 8, BLUE JAYS 4: In Kansas City, Mo., MJ Melendez and Emmanuel Rivera drove in two runs apiece, leading Brady Singer and KC over Toronto to end a three-game losing streak. Singer allowed homers to Raimel Tapia and Zack Collins but only one other run in five innings. He improved to 3-1 in five starts while the rest of the Kansas City rotation is 3-25 in 50 combined starts.
MARLINS 2, NATIONALS 1 (10): In Miami, Sandy Alcantara pitched nine scoreless innings and Jesús Aguilar hit a game-ending single in the 10th for Miami.
Alcantara extended his scoreless string to 18 innings and has completed at least eight innings in four of his past five starts.
MARINERS 6, ASTROS 3: Cal Raleigh and Ty France both homered early and Seattle beat the Astros and finally won a series in Houston.
The Mariners took two of three from the AL West rival Astros to win their fourth consecutive series overall and first in Houston since September 2018.
GUARDIANS 4, RANGERS 0: In Cleveland, José Ramírez hit a run-scoring double to tie for the major league lead in RBIs, Shane Bieber pitched neatly into the fifth inning before a long rain delay and Cleveland blanked Texas.
Ramírez went 2 for 4 with a stolen base and his 54th RBI of the season, matching Mets star Pete Alonso.
PADRES 13, METS 2: In San Diego, Jake Cronenworth homered, doubled, singled and had five RBIs, and Sean Manaea pitched seven strong innings to beat former teammate Chris Bassitt in San Diego’s rout of New York.
GIANTS 2, ROCKIES 1 (10): In San Francisco, Donovan Walton scored on a fielding error by Charlie Blackmon in the 10th inning, lifting San Francisco over Colorado.
DIAMONDBACKS 7, REDS 0: In Cininnati, Merrill Kelly allowed one hit over six innings as Arizona beat Cincinnati and snapped a four-game skid.
TIGERS 3, PIRATES 1: In Pittsburgh, Miguel Cabrera hit a goahead RBI single in the eighth and Detroit completed a two-game sweep of Pittsburgh.
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FUTURES GAME: Mike Scioscia will manage the National League team of prospects and retired shortstop Jimmy Rollins will lead the American League group at the All-Star Futures Game in Los Angeles on July 17. Scioscia, 63, played for the Dodgers from 1980-92 and won World Series titles in 1981 and 1988. He managed the Albuquerque Dukes in 1999 and then the Angels from 2000-18, winning a championship in 2002, and the U.S. team that lost the gold medal game to host Japan at last year’s Olympics.
Rollins, 43, was a three-time All-Star during a 17-season career that ended in 2016.