Home run for Judge, Yanks
Aaron Judge hit a long homer, Masahiro Tanaka pitched seven innings of one-run ball and the Yankees beat the Chicago White Sox, 9-1, last night to wrap a superb homestand in New York.
New York went 8-1 in its first stretch at Yankee Stadium this season, its most wins in a homestand since going 9-1 from July 17-26, 2009.
Judge followed Starlin Castro’s three-run shot in the fifth with his 448-foot drive for the Yankees’ first back-to-back homers of the season. Chase Headley and Aaron Hicks also went deep to give New York a season high four home runs.
Dylan Covey (0-1) got knocked around in his second major league start, allowing eight runs, 10 hits and three homers over five innings.
Rays 8, Tigers 7 — A throwing error by Jose Iglesias allowed two runs to score in the ninth inning as Tampa Bay rallied to beat Detroit in St. Petersburg, Fla.
The Tigers shortstop stumbled while trying to turn what would have been a game-ending double play, instead his error cost Detroit the victory.
Athletics 9, Rangers 1 — Khris Davis hit his seventh home run of the season, Yonder Alonso and Chad Pinder also went deep, and host Oakland routed Texas.
Josh Phegley hit a tworun double in a four-run first that gave a quick lead to Jesse Hahn (1-1), who allowed one run and two hits over six innings, struck out four and walked four.
Astros 5, Angels 1 — Dallas Keuchel (3-0) threw seven solid innings, Josh Reddick finished a single shy of the cycle and host Houston beat Los Angeles.
Indians-Twins, ppd. — The Cleveland-Minnesota game was postponed because of rain in Minneapolis.
National League
Cubs 7, Brewers 4 — Addison Russell hit a threerun homer off Neftali Feliz that capped a four-run ninth inning and lifted host Chicago over Milwaukee, who got a home run from ex-Red Sox Travis Shaw.
Cardinals 2, Pirates 1 — Dexter Fowler hit his first two home runs for host St. Louis, which finished off a sweep with its third straight 2-1 victory over Pittsburgh.
Mets 5, Phillies 4 — Jay Bruce homered twice and drove in five runs, including a tiebreaking shot in the eighth inning that sent host New York over Philadelphia and halted a fourgame losing streak.
Nationals 14, Braves 4 — Bryce Harper had two homers, including a grand slam, among four hits and visiting Washington overwhelmed Atlanta.
Padres 1, Diamondbacks 0— Jhoulys Chacin (2-2) pitched eight scoreless innings and Erick Aybar hit a homer to lift host San Diego past Arizona.
Interleague
Orioles 2, Reds 0 — Ubaldo Jimenez (1-0) allowed only a pair of singles while pitching into the eighth inning, and visiting Baltimore overcame a dominating performance by Cincinnati rookie Amir Garrett to secure the shutout.
Garrett (2-1) tied the Reds’ modern record for a rookie left-hander by striking out 12 in seven innings.
Mariners 10, Marlins 5 — Rookie Mitch Haniger extended his hitting streak to 13 games with three hits and four RBI, and host Seattle beat Miami for its fifth win in six games.
Miami’s Ichiro Suzuki, in possibly his final game at Safeco Field, hit a home run on the first pitch of the ninth inning off Evan Marshall. Suzuki spent the first 111⁄ seasons with the M’s. 2
Royals 2, Giants 0 — Jason Vargas (3-0) scattered four hits over seven innings with nine strikeouts and no walks and host Kansas City finally scored off Madison Bumgarner to split the two-game series with San Francisco.