Down late, Rays rally past Yankees
Michael Perez hit an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Tampa Bay Rays rallied late to beat the New York Yankees 4-3 on Sunday.
Mike Brosseau started the ninth with a double off Zack Britton (0-1) but was thrown out at third on Brandon Lowe’s grounder. Lowe advanced to second on a wild pitch before Manuel Margot walked.
After both runners advanced on Willy Adames’ grounder to first, Perez lined a single to right as the Rays took three of four from the AL East leaders.
Perez drove in the only run on a sacrifice fly in the Rays’ 1-0 victory over New York on Friday night, which was his 28th birthday.
Brosseau and Lowe both homered in the seventh, when the Rays tied it at 3.
Ryan Thompson (1-0) worked a perfect ninth for his first major league win.
Royals 4, Twins 2 — Rookie right-hander Brady Singer fought his way through five innings, including taking a ball hit with an exit velocity of 100 mph off his throwing hand, to earn his first major-league win.
The Royals scored early and relied on their stingy bullpen for four innings as they completed a threegame sweep of the Minnesota Twins at Kauffman Stadium.
Rangers 7, Angels 3 — Los Angeles Angels right fielder Jo Adell was charged with a rare four-base error when a fly ball from Texas’ Nick Solak popped out of the rookie’s glove and flew the few remaining feet over the fence in the Rangers’ win.
The play was initially ruled a home run for Solak, but the official scorer changed it to an error after consulting with the Elias Sports Bureau.
Athletics 7, Astros 2 — Benches cleared and even the stands emptied during Oakland’svictory over the Astros, tempers flaring at last between the AL West rivals months after Houston’s sign-stealing scandal was brought to light by Oakland pitcher Mike Fiers.
The Athletics’ ninth straight win was far overshadowed by what erupted in the seventh inning at the Coliseum.
Oakland’s Ramon Laureano got hit by a pitch — for the third time in the threegame series — this one by Humberto Castellanos with one out in the seventh. Laureano began exchanging words with animated Astros hitting coach Alex Cintron, then left first base, threw down his batting helmet and began sprinting toward him.
Astros catcher Dustin Garneau tackled Laureano before the A’s outfielder reached Cintron, and a wild scene ensued.
National League
Ronald Acuna Jr. homered twice and Freddie Freeman also went deep to spoil Howard’s anticipated start and lead the Atlanta Braves to a doubleheader sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies with an 8-0 win on Sunday.
Acuna also homered in Atlanta’s 5-2 victory in the first game. He had four hits in the second game and added his fourth career multihomer game.
“I don’t think Ronald needed anybody else on his team today,” Freeman said. “He kind of took care of everything. Pretty amazing to watch.”
Mets 4, Marlins 2 — Jacob deGrom dodged trouble for five innings, rookie Andrés Giménez had three hits and scored three runs, and the New York Mets won a home series for the first time this season by beating the Miami Marlins.
DeGrom (2-0) allowed two runs and seven hits, marking the 25th time in his past 27 starts he permitted three runs or fewer. He struck out six, walked two and threw 98 pitches.
Brewers 9, Reds 3 — Christian Yelich homered, tripled and drew a bases-loaded walk as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied to beat the Cincinnati Reds for their first home victory.
Justin Smoak broke out of a slump and delivered hits from each side of the plate during a six-run rally in the sixth that put the Brewers ahead for good. Milwaukee poured it on in the seventh with back-to-back homers from Keston Hiura and Yelich.
Dodgers 6, Giants 2 — AJ Pollock and Mookie Betts each hit a three-run homer, rallying the Los Angeles Dodgers past the San Francisco Giants.
The Dodgers have won nine of 12, and took two out of three from their NL West rivals. Their 29 homers lead the majors.
In the eighth, Will Smith drew a leadoff walk and Kiké Hernández followed with a double off Caleb Baragar. They scored on Betts’ shot to left-center after he was hitless in his first three at-bats, making it 6-2.
Padres 9, Diamondbacks 5 — Dinelson Lamet was brilliant in taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning and Fernando Tatis Jr. continued his remarkable power surge with a two-run homer off winless Madison Bumgarner, who allowed four of San Diego’s club-record six long balls as the Padres beat Arizona.
Manny Machado homered twice for the Padres. Wil Myers, Francisco Mejia and Ty France also went deep.
Interleague
Tigers 2, Pirates 1 — Spencer Turnbull pitched seven strong innings and Miguel Cabrera singled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth as Detroit edged the Pittsburgh to sweep the three-game series.