Rays first in AL to 90 wins

Drew Rasmussen combined with four relievers on a three-hitter, Brandon Lowe and Ji-Man Choi homered and the Tampa Bay Rays became the first AL team to reach 90 wins by beating the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0 Tuesday night.

After losing four of their previous five, the East-leading Rays hit the 90-win mark for the eighth time — all in the past 14 seasons.

Rasmussen allowed two hits in five innings. Andrew Kittredge pitched a perfect ninth for his seventh save in eight chances.

Choi’s leadoff drive in the second, his 10th home run this season, was the only run allowed by José Berríos, who lost for the first time in four starts despite scattering four hits over seven innings.

Lowe hit his 34th home run of the season in the eighth on the first pitch he saw from left-hander Tim Mayza.

Yankees 7, Orioles 2 — Aaron Judge started a five-homer barrage that backed Gerrit Cole, and New York beat Baltimore to win consecutive games for the first time since Sept. 1 and 3.

Cole allowed one run and four hits in five innings with seven strikeouts and three walks.

Judge homered hit a tworun homer in the first off a changeup from Alexander Wells, his 34th home run this season. Judge is 20-for-58 with three doubles, nine homers and 15 RBI against Baltimore this year.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a tworun homer in the third and Luke Voit followed for backto-back homers and a 5-0 lead.

Joey Gallo added his 34th homer in the eighth off Spenser Watkins and DJ LeMahieu hit his 10th homer in the ninth.

Rangers 8, Astros 1 — AllStar slugger Adolis García tied the Rangers’ single-season rookie record with his 30th homer, one of three long balls allowed by Zack Greinke in his return after testing positive for COVID-19 as lastplace Texas beat AL Westleading Houston.

Indians, Twins split — Cleveland’s Triston McKenzie cruised through six innings of the first game of a doubleheader to beat Minnesota 3-1. Ryan Jeffers had four RBI in the nightcap as the Twins gained a split with a 6-3 victory.

National League

Pirates 6, Reds 5 — Wade Miley surrendered six runs on 10 hits and Cincinnati lost for the sixth time in eight games.

Miley gave up three runs in the first and three more in the fifth before being pulled with one out.

Pirates starter Dillon Peters worked five shutout innings, surrendering five hits with five strikeouts to help Pittsburgh to its fifth win in seven games. Yoshi Tsutsugo and Jacob Stallings drove in two runs apiece.

Cubs 6, Phillies 3 — Patrick Wisdom and Alfonso Rivas hit back-to-back homers for Chicago in a win over a Philadelphia team running out of time to make a serious run in the NL playoff race.

The Phillies fell to .500 at 72-72 and have lost six of seven games.

Nationals 8, Marlins 2 — Ryan Zimmerman homered, Erick Fedde pitched five solid innings and Washington pounded out 14 hits in a win over Miami.