Yankees have grand ol' time in pounding of Pirates
Aaron Judge and Aaron Hicks each hit a grand slam, Luis Severino worked six dominant innings and the New York Yankees routed the host Pittsburgh Pirates 16-0 on Wednesday night.
Judge became the first Yankees player to hit 30 home runs before the All-Star break twice in his career when he turned on a pitch from Pittsburgh reliever Manny Banuelos — acquired from New York last weekend — in the eighth and sent it into left-field seats for his third career slam.
Hicks cleared the bases in the ninth when he went deep against Pirates utility infielder Josh VanMeter, who also gave up a homer to Giancarlo Stanton.
Josh Donaldson, Joey Gallo and Kyle Higashioka added home runs for New York to boost the Yankees' season total to 139 homers, easily tops in the majors.
Severino (5-3) allowed four hits while striking out three without issuing a walk to pick up his first victory in more than a month. BRAVES 3, CARDINALS 0 >> Marcell Ozuna and Eddie Rosario hit back-to-back homers, Max Fried threw six strong innings and host Atlanta blanked St. Louis.
Fried (9-2) and Miles Mikolas (5-7) each threw four scoreless innings before Ozuna led off the fifth with his 17th homee. Rosario followed with his first homer.
Fried gave up only five hits, including two to Albert Pujols, with one walk and four strikeouts in winning his nine straight decision. CUBS 2, BREWERS 1 >> P.J. Higgins hit a tiebreaking two-out double off Josh Hader in the ninth inning, and Chicago rallied for a victory at Milwaukee.
After Brewers starter Corbin Burnes threw seven shutout innings, the Cubs broke through against Milwaukee's bullpen by scoring in each of the last two frames.
Patrick Wisdom led off the ninth with a walk for Chicago and stole second one out later. Higgins brought home Wisdom by sending Hader's 1-1 slider just inside the right-field line.
METS 8, REDS 3, 10 INNINGS >> Brandon Nimmo's three-run homer capped a five-run 10th and New York rallied for a road win over Cincinnati.
Starling Marte grounded an RBI double over third base off Hunter Strickland with one out in the ninth, scoring Nimmo from first to tie the game at 3. NATIONALS 3, PHILLIES 2 >> Josiah Gray struck out 11 in six innings and shook off Kyle Schwarber's second consecutive two-homer game to help last-place Washington beat host Philadelphia.
Luis Garcia hit a two-run double in the seventh inning off Phillies starter Aaron Nola (5-6) for a 3-2 lead.
Schwarber's two homers off Gray (7-5) increased his NL-best total to 27.
TIGERS 8, GUARDIANS 2 >> Miguel Cabrera hit a two-out, two-run single in the fifth inning as part of his three-RBI day to help host Detroit complete a four-game sweep against Cleveland for the first time since 2013.
Tigers pitcher Michael Pineda (2-3) allowed two runs and five hits over five innings.
The Guardians' Shane Bieber (4-4) gave up five runs on seven hits and three walks.
WHITE SOX 9, TWINS 8, 10 INNINGS >> Andrew Vaughn tied the game with a two-run homer in the eighth and Leury Garcia hit a game-ending single in the 10th to give Chicago a win over Minnesota.
The White Sox trailed five times in the game and tied it each time before taking their first and only lead in extra innings to avoid a three-game sweep.
Playing his first game since April 23, Eloy Jiménez made an impact for the White Sox with a two-run homer in the fourth that tied the game 3-all and an RBI hit in the seventh that made it 6-6.