McCutchen hits 300th homer in Pirates win
Andrew McCutchen hit his 300th home run, Jack Suwinski had a grand slam and the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 9-2 on Sunday.
The 37-year-old McCutchen, who played for the Phillies from 201921, drove a Ricardo Pinto slider into the left-field seats in the ninth for his first home run this season. He became the 13th player with 2,000 hits, 400 doubles, 45 triples, 300 homers and 200 stolen bases.
McCutchen stole home as part of a double steal in the fourth inning.
Suwinski hit his second career slam for a 5-2 lead in the sixth inning against Zack Wheeler (0-3), who allowed five runs — four earned — five hits and three walks in five-plus innings. Wheeler struck out 10. BRAVES 9, MARLINS 7 >> Marcell Ozuna hit a three-run homer off with two outs in the top of the ninth, and Atlanta won at Miami.
Atlanta wasted a 5-1 lead and fell behind 7-5 in the sixth when Jesús Sánchez hit a tying RBI single with two outs against Charlie Morton and scored on Nick Gordon's two-run homer off Dylan Lee.
Ozuna hit an RBI double in the seventh. Then in the ninth, Ronald Acuña Jr. singled off Tanner Scott (0-3) leading off, Matt Olson walked with two outs and Ozuna drove a slider with an 0-2 count to center for his seventh home run this season. GUARDIANS 8, YANKEES 7, 10 INNINGS >> Andrés Giménez's sacrifice fly capped Cleveland's wild, threerun rally in the 10th as the Guardians salvaged the finale of a three-game home series with a stunning win over New York.
Down 7-5, the Guardians
scored three in the 10th off Caleb Ferguson (0-2) on a forceout, fielder's choice and sacrifice fly.
The Yankees (12-4) had taken a 7-6 lead in the 10th on Anthony Rizzo's tworun double.
Aaron Judge hit a threerun homer for New York.
CUBS 3, MARINERS 2 >> Michael Busch homered for the fourth consecutive game and Chicago won at Seattle.
Reliever Adbert Alzolay picked off pinch-runner Julio Rodríguez to end the game.
Busch, acquired from the Dodgers in the offseason, hit a two-run homer in the fourth to put the Cubs up 3-0. The franchise record for consecutive games with a home run is five, held by four players.
DIAMONDBACKS 5, CARDINALS 0 >> Zac Gallen pitched six sharp innings and Corbin Carroll hit a two-run single in a fiverun fifth to lead Arizona at home over St. Louis.
Gallen (3-0) gave up four hits and two walks with seven strikeouts.
ASTROS 8, RANGERS 5 >> Jose Altuve homered off Nathan Eovaldi in his first two at-bats and Cristian Javier pitched seven strong innings to lead host Houston past Texas.
Javier (2-0) allowed five hits and two runs with five strikeouts.
RAYS 9, GIANTS 4 >> Amed Rosario and René Pinto homered off Blake Snell in his return to Tropicana Field, and Tampa Bay beat San Francisco.
Rosario hit a two-run homer during a threerun first and Pinto had a fourth-inning three-run drive. Pinto added a solo homer in the sixth against Kai-Wei Teng.
Snell (0-2) gave up seven hits, walked two and struck out four over four innings in his second start with San Francisco after signing a $62 million, two-year contract.
The left-hander won his first Cy Young Award with the Rays in 2018.
BLUE JAYS 5, ROCKIES 0 >>
José Berríos and two relievers combined on a twohitter, Justin Turner had three hits and three RBIs and Toronto topped visiting Colorado.
Berríos (3-0) allowed two hits, both singles, walked two and struck out seven.
ORIOLES 6, BREWERS 4 >>
Jackson Holliday delivered his first big league hit in the seventh inning, then scored the tiebreaking run to help Baltimore avoid a home sweep with a victory over Milwaukee.
Holliday, baseball's top-ranked prospect, struck out in his first two at-bats and was 0 for 13 with nine Ks since his call-up before he came up with the Orioles down 4-3 in the seventh. With a man on first and no outs, Holliday pulled a 99 mph offering from Abner Uribe (1-1) into right field for a single. Then the rookie infielder flashed his speed, barely making it from first to third on Gunnar Henderson's RBI single.
That was an important extra base, because it enabled Holliday to score and put the Orioles up 5-4 when Adley Rutschman bounced into a double play.
REDS 11, WHITE SOX 4 >>
Christian EncarnacionStrand homered and had four RBIs, and Cincinnati routed Chicago for a three-game road sweep.
Chicago dropped to 2-13, the worst 15-game start in the franchise's 124-year history, The White Sox had 14 hits in the series and has scored a major league-low 34 runs.
Encarnacion-Strand and Nick Martini hit tworun homers for the Reds.