Gil, Yankees stay hot, overtake Red Sox for wild-card spot
Luis Gil posted his third consecutive scoreless start to begin his career, Luke Voit and Giancarlo Stanton homered and the Yankees beat the Red Sox
2-0 on Tuesday night to sweep a doubleheader and move percentage points ahead of Boston for an AL wild-card spot.
In the opener, Jonathan Loaisiga stranded the bases loaded in Boston’s final at-bat for a gutsy twoinning save after New York capitalized on a wild outing by Red Sox relievers for a 5-3 victory.
The Yankees have won five games in a row and 12 of 15 to narrowly overtake Boston for second in the AL East — New York is 68-52 and the Red Sox 69-53, a difference of .001 percentage points. The Yankees were 10½ games behind firstplace Boston on July 5 but have gone 26-11 since.
Gil (2-0) allowed three hits and four walks and struck out four in 4‰ innings in Game 2. He has yet to allow a run in 15‰ big-league innings, the longest stretch to start a career by a Yankees pitcher since at least 1961, according to Elias. The previous best was Joba Chamberlain at 15„ innings in 2007.
Brewers 2, Cardinals 0
Corbin Burnes took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and Kolten Wong had three hits and was hit by a pitch against his former team. Burnes allowed two hits and two walks while striking out three in six innings for Milwaukee, which is 16-2 in its last 18 road games.
Braves 2, Marlins 0
Jorge Soler snapped a scoreless tie with a two-out RBI single in the eighth inning for NL East-leading Atlanta, which won its fifth straight and 12th in 14 games. Austin Riley hit his 26th homer in the ninth for the Braves, who have won nine consecutive road games.
Rays 10, Orioles 0
Nelson Cruz homered twice and moved past Dave Kingman into 42nd place on the all-time home-runs list with 443, and Tampa Bay extended Baltimore’s skid to 13 games.
Bauer attorney cross-examines woman
An attorney for Trevor Bauer asked a woman why she left out “dozens of key facts” in her petition for a five-year restraining order against the Dodgers pitcher. “I don’t know,” answered the woman, who testified that Bauer choked her until she was unconscious and punched her in two sexual encounters.