Bregman's double gives Astros edge over the Yankees
Alex Bregman hit a two-run double and the Houston Astros held on for a 2-1 win over the visiting New York Yankees on Thursday night.
Thursday's game completes a stretch for the Astros of nine straight games against New York teams. Houston went 3-2 against the major league-leading Yankees and swept four games with the Mets, who had baseball's secondbest record before being overtaken by the Astros.
The Yankees were in town for just one game to make up part of a series that was scrapped because of the lockout.
Houston starter Luis García (65) allowed three hits and one run with six strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
Jake Meyers doubled with no outs in the third and Aledmys Díaz walked with two outs. Kyle Tucker walked to load the bases before Bregman's double put Houston up 2-0.
Anthony Rizzo hit a solo homer for the Yankees, who had a fourgame winning streak snapped.
Luis Severino (4-3) yielded three hits and two runs in six innings.
Kyle Schwarber finished off the month with another June homer, rookie Darick Hall went deep twice and Philadelphia avoided a three-game sweep with a home rout of Atlanta.
Rhys Hoskins and Nick Castellanos also homered for the Phillies.
Adam Duvall and Michael Harris II went deep for the Braves, who ended June with a 21-6 mark to equal the most victories in a calendar month since the club moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966.
Schwarber connected on a threerun shot in the third for his 12th homer in June and 23rd of the season. The line drive to deep right also was Schwarber's 47th in 458 career June at-bats.
Aaron Nola (5-5) allowed four runs and seven hits with eight strikeouts and one walk in seven innings.
The Phillies pulled away with seven runs and six hits in the second off Ian Anderson (6-5).
Castellanos' three-run homer and Matt Vierling's two-run double did the most damage in the inning.
Hall led off the third with a solo shot to right for his first career hit after going hitless in his first six atbats following a call-up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Wednesday.
Hall's second career hit also was a homer, a two-run shot in the eighth.
Backup catcher Michael Perez had three home runs, rookies Oneil Cruz and Jack Suwinski hit back-to-back shots in the second and Pittsburgh downed visiting Milwaukee.
Perez, who went 4 for 5, hit a two-run blast in the fourth inning off Brent Suter (1-2) to break a 3-3 tie. He added a two-run homer in the sixth to make it 6-4 before connecting for a solo shot in the eighth to increase the lead to 8-4.
Andrés Giménez hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning and Cleveland defeated Minnesota for its second straight walk-off win.
Giménez went deep to center on a 3-2 pitch from Tyler Thornburg.
The Guardians lead the majors with 17 last at-bats wins, including six against the rival Twins.
The Twins failed to hold a 6-3 lead in the 10th inning on Wednesday night, when the Guardians scored four times and won the game on Naylor's two-run homer.
Teoscar Hernández and Santiago Espinal each hit two-run homers, Yuseki Kukuchi struck out eight over six innings to snap a seven-start winless streak and host Toronto beat Tampa Bay.
Patrick Wisdom hit a grand slam and a solo homer en route to a career-high six RBIs, rookie Christopher Morel had a career-high five hits and Chicago beat Cincinnati at Wrigley Field.
The Cubs collected 23 hits off five pitchers. Seven of those hits came in the eighth against outfielder Max Schrock, who allowed a two-run homer to P.J. Higgins and a solo shot to Morel.
Cubs starter Kyle Hendricks (46) pitched six innings of six-hit ball and had seven strikeouts.