Haniger lifts M’s in ninth
Mitch Haniger hit a tworun home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Mariners an 8-6 victory and sweep of the three-game series over the Los Angeles Angels yesterday in Seattle.
After Jean Segura singled to center off reliever Oliver Drake (0-1), Haniger launched his 16th homer of the season over the leftfield wall to finish off the sweep. Nelson Cruz and Ryon Healy also homered for Seattle, and Healy’s upper-deck shot in the eighth inning tied the game at 6-6.
The Mariners have won 6-of-7 and 11 of their last 13 games. They host the Red Sox in a four-game series beginning tonight.
Former Sox Roenis Elias (2-0) earned the win with two scoreless innings of relief, and Seattle starter Marco Gonzales allowed seven hits and three runs in five innings.
White Sox 3, Indians 2 — Dylan Covey carried a shutout into the eighth inning, continuing his impressive June and helping host Chicago beat Cleveland.
Covey (3-1) allowed 10 hits, all singles, and walked none. The 26-year-old right-hander improved to 3-0 with a 1.53 ERA in five starts since he was recalled from Triple-A Charlotte last month.
Rays 1, Blue Jays 0 — In St. Petersburg, Fla., Matt Duffy’s RBI single with two outs in the ninth drove in the game’s only run in Tampa Bay’s win over Toronto.
Diego Castillo (1-0) got his first major league win with two innings of relief.
Ryan Tepera (3-2) pitched the final 12⁄3 innings for the Jays, who were swept in the three-game series and have lost 5-of-6 to the Rays.
Tigers 5, Twins 2 — Victor Reyes’s RBI single keyed a four-run eighth inning and host Detroit rallied to beat Minnesota.
The Tigers, playing their first game since Miguel Cabrera’s season-ending biceps injury, won for just the fourth time in 11 games.
Interleague
Nationals 5, Yankees 4 — Teenage rookie Juan Soto homered twice and drove in four runs, becoming the youngest player in 29 years to go deep in a regularseason game at Yankee Stadium, and Washington beat host New York.
Soto, the 19-year-old outfielder lofted a three-run homer into the left-field corner off Sonny Gray in the fourth inning to give Washington, shut out in its previous two games, a 4-3 lead. Soto then launched a titanic shot to right-center in the seventh against Chasen Shreve (2-1), putting the Nationals back in front 5-4.
It made Soto (19 years, 231 days old) the youngest player in Nationals history to have a multihomer game.
National League
Brewers 1, Cubs 0 — Lorenzo Cain homered and Jhoulys Chacin combined with three relievers on a six-hitter to give host Milwaukee its second straight shutout of Chicago.
Chacin (6-1) allowed four hits in six innings, striking out seven and walking four to win his sixth consecutive decision. Jeremy Jeffress pitched the seventh, Josh Hader struck out the side in the eighth and Cory Knebel finished with a perfect ninth for his sixth save.
Braves 2, Mets 0 — Mike Soroka did not allow a hit until the seventh inning, Freddie Freeman homered and drove in both runs, and host Atlanta beat New York.
Soroka, the youngest pitcher in the majors, returned from a right shoulder strain that sidelined him since May 17, to outpitch NL ERA leader Jacob deGrom in a game that lasted 2 hours, 12 minutes. Soroka (2-1) gave up one hit, one walk and struck out four in 61⁄3 innings.
Freeman has five homers in his past seven games.
Pirates 5, Diamondbacks 4 — Jordy Mercer homered and had three RBI, Jameson Taillon pitched seven effective innings and Pittsburgh avoided a sweep with a victory over Arizona in Phoenix.
Pittsburgh ended Arizona’s sweep bid with a fourrun second inning against Zack Greinke (5-5) and a sterling performance by Taillon (4-5).
Rockies 7, Phillies 2 — Ian Desmond hit a two-run homer in a five-run fourth, Tyler Anderson pitched seven strong innings and Colorado routed host Philadelphia to end a five-game losing streak.
Marlins 5, Giants 4 — Brian Anderson hit a gameending sacrifice fly in the ninth inning to lift host Miami over San Francisco.