Sanchez, Yankees down O’s
Gary Sánchez hit a threerun homer in the ninth inning to cap a rally fueled by mistakes, and the New York Yankees pulled out a 10-7 victory against the Orioles last night in Baltimore.
Gleyber Torres homered twice for the Yankees, who trailed 6-1 after four innings and 7-3 after six.
At that point, the Orioles fulfilled their stature as the team with the worst record in the AL. They threw to the wrong base, missed popups and were outscored 7-0 in the final three innings.
New York scored in the seventh on an overthrow by left fielder Dwight Smith Jr., who fell for a fake tag-up on third base. In the ninth, right fielder Joey Rickard threw to the wrong base on a single, Smith heaved the ball past the plate on Aaron Hicks’ tying sacrifice fly, catcher Pedro Severino misjudged a foul pop that preceded a two-out walk to Luke Voit and Sánchez connected off Mychal Givens (0-1).
Zach Britton (2-0) worked the eighth and Aroldis Chapman got three outs for his 12th save, ending by striking out Jonathan Villar with a 101 mph fastball.
New York’s third straight comeback win, sandwiched around a defeat on Saturday, was led by Torres. The shortstop is 17-for-35 against the Orioles with three multihomer games, and eight of his 10 home runs have come against Baltimore. Sánchez hit seven of his 13 versus the Orioles, who have allowed a major league-leading 97.
Hanser Alberto and Renato Núñez homered for the Orioles. Subbing in the leadoff spot for the slumping Villar, Alberto moved within a triple of hitting for the cycle by the fourth inning.
Athletics 6, Indians 4 — Brett Anderson left the game in the sixth inning with a cervical strain, and Oakland hung on to win in Cleveland.
Anderson (5-3) allowed one run in 5⅓ innings, improving to 4-0 with a 0.94 ERA in six starts against the Indians. The 31-year-old lefthander was injured in the fifth inning when he ducked to avoid a ball hit up the middle by Roberto Pérez. Both pieces of Pérez’ broken bat nearly hit the pitcher.
Astros 3, White Sox 0 — Jake Marisnick and Tyler White homered and Brad Peacock had another solid start to lead host Houston to a shutout win in Chicago.
Playing without George Springer, who leads the American League with 17 homers, the Astros got pop from the bottom of the lineup to give them at least one homer in 17 straight games. They’ve piled up 40 home runs in that span, and the two last night helped them to their 11th win in 12 games.
Rangers 10, Mariners 9 — Asdrúbal Cabrera hit two of the team’s five homers, Mike Minor struck out 11 in six innings and host Texas held off a late Seattle rally.
Hunter Pence, Joey Gallo and Rougned Odor also went deep. The Rangers twice had back-to-back homers while winning for the fifth time in six games since losing five in a row.
Minor (5-3) had pitched 29 innings in a row at home without giving up a run before Seattle, down 7-0 at the time, scored twice in the sixth. That scoreless streak for the lefty was the longest by any pitcher ever at the Rangers’ ballpark that is in its 26th and final season.
National League
Mets 5, Nationals 3 — Amed Rosario and Pete Alonso homered in the first inning as host New York, after learning embattled manager Mickey Callaway is staying around, broke out of its offensive funk to get a victory against Washington.
Meanwhile, the Mets announced Yoenis Céspedes broke his right ankle in an accident on his ranch.
The oft-injured slugger has been sidelined most of the past two seasons and was home recovering from surgery on both heels. New York had hoped he could return sometime after the All-Star break, but this setback puts Céspedes’ entire season — and perhaps his career — in jeopardy.
Elsewhere in baseball — The Braves have added veteran help for their patchwork bullpen by acquiring righty Anthony Swarzak from Seattle for left-hander Jesse Biddle and right-hander Arodys Vizcaino. As part of yesterday’s trade, Seattle is sending Atlanta $1,788,172 to cover approximately onethird of the $5,677,419 remaining in Swarzak’s $8 million salary this year . ...
Longtime Los Angeles Angels media relations director Tim Mead will take the reins from Jeff Idelson as president of baseball’s Hall of Fame on June 24, about a month ahead of schedule.
Idelson, Hall president since 2008, announced on Feb. 4 he planned to retire following this year’s inductions on July 21. The Hall said on April 30 Mead will succeed him but announced the new plan yesterday.