Gurriel Jr. gashes Yanks
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. made an impressive major league debut with two hits and three RBI as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Yankees, 8-5, last night in New York.
Teoscar Hernandez homered and drove in three runs and Yangervis Solarte also connected for the Blue Jays, who have won nine of their last 11 games.
Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton broke a 50 at-bat homerless slump with his fourth shot of the season, a drive that put New York ahead 4-2 in the third.
Gurriel was called up from Double-A New Hampshire, where the second baseman was batting .347. The 24-year-old brother of Houston first Yuli Gurriel hit a two-run single in the fourth that gave Toronto a 5-4 lead, then had an RBI single in the fifth that put the Blue Jays ahead to stay at 6-5.
Gurriel signed a sevenyear, $22 million deal in November 2016 after defecting the previous February from the Cuban team that was participating in Caribbean World Series in the Dominican Republic.
Toronto starter Marco Estrada (2-1) weaved in and out of trouble over five innings. He was charged with five runs and seven hits, three of them home runs.
Seung Hwan Oh, Danny Barnes and Ryan Tepera each followed with a scoreless inning. Roberto Osuna pitched the ninth for his sixth save in as many chances.
The Blue Jays chased Sonny Gray (1-2) by sending nine batters to the plate in the fourth inning. Gray allowed five hits and five runs in 31⁄3 innings.
After Kendry Morales’ ground-rule double cut the deficit 4-3, Gurriel Jr. picked up his first major league hit, a single past diving shortstop Didi Gregorius.
A solo homer by rookie Miguel Andujar made it 5-all in the home half of the fourth.
Gurriel’s go-ahead hit came against Domingo German.
Tyler Austin hit a tworun in the first off Estrada.
Rays 8, Twins 7 — In St. Petersburg, Fla., pinch-runner Johnny Field scored the game-winning run from second base in the 10th inning as reliever Zach Duke missed first base after taking a flip from first baseman Joe Mauer on Denard Span’s two-out grounder, leading Tampa Bay over Minnesota.
Wilson Ramos had a one-out double off Duke (1-1). After Mallex Smith struck out and Adeiny Hechavarria was intentionally walked, Mauer made a diving catch on Span’s ball and made a toss to Duke, who missed touching the base on two attempts that allowed Field to score.
The safe call was upheld after a 2-minute, 16-second video review.
Alex Colome (1-2) worked a perfect 10th for the win.
Tampa Bay forced extra innings when Carlos Gomez was hit by a pitch from Fernando Rodney with two outs in the ninth, stole second and scored on Brad Miller’s RBI single to tie it at 7.
Miller (strained left groin) was reinstated from the 10-day disabled list before the game.
Minnesota had rallied from a late four-run deficit to take a 7-6 in the ninth on Max Kepler’s solo shot. Eddie Rosario had pulled the Twins even at 6 on his third career grand slam in the eighth, coming on an 0-2, two-out pitch from Sergio Romo.
Span drove in three runs for the Rays. Chris Archer, coming off a start Saturday against Philadelphia in which the right-hander gave up seven runs in four innings, limited Minnesota to two runs and four hits in 62⁄3 innings.
Royals, Tigers split — Detroit rookie first baseman Niko Goodrum dropped Jon Jay’s grounder and then made a wild throw, allowing the tiebreaking run to score in the ninth inning as visiting Kansas City snapped a nine-game losing streak, rallying past the Tigers, 3-2, in the second game of a split doubleheader.
Detroit won the afternoon opener, 3-2, on a 10th-inning solo homer by JaCoby Jones.
Orioles 3, Indians 1 — Dylan Bundy pitched six innings of five-hit ball and struck out nine to secure his elusive first win of the season, and host Baltimore topped Cleveland to end a six-game losing streak.
Manny Machado homered and Trey Mancini doubled in two runs for the Orioles.
National League
Phillies 2, Pirates 1 — Odubel Herrera hit a goahead triple in the eighth inning to lift host Philadelphia over Pittsburgh.
Herrera, Cesar Hernandez, Carlos Santana and Maikel Franco each had two hits for the Phillies, who have won nine of 11 overall while improving to 7-1 at home. It is Philadelphia’s best start at home since it won seven of eight to begin the 1981 season.