Braves load up on extra-base hits in win over Marlins

ATLANTA » Marcell Ozuna hit two home runs as part of the Atlanta Braves’ barrage of extra-base hits in their 6-3 win over the Miami Marlins on Sunday, giving the Braves their first winning homestand of the season.

Of the Braves’ 11 hits, nine were for extra bases, including six doubles. Ozuna’s second homer of the game, his 10th of the season, traveled 458 feet into the upper left-field seats in the third.

Austin Riley had two hits and drove in two runs for Atlanta. Ozuna and Riley hit back-to-back homers off Elieser Hernández in the first inning. Ozzie Albies and William Contreras hit back-to-back doubles to produce a run in the second.

Riley and Matt Olson delivered run-scoring doubles in consecutive at-bats in the fifth.

Miami’s Jorge Soler provided all of the team’s runs by hitting two homers. Max Fried (5-2) gave up the first of those in the first inning before posting five consecutive scoreless innings. The lefty gave up six hits with three walks and five strikeouts in six innings.

Kenley Jansen had two strikeouts in the ninth for his 12th save with Atlanta.

Hernández (2-5) allowed four runs in four innings. He gave up three homers, raising his season total to 14 in 43 2/3 innings.

NATIONALS 6, ROCKIES 5 » Juan Soto snapped a 15game home run drought with a two-run shot, Tanner Rainey got the final five outs and Washington held off Colorado.

Soto, who hadn’t homered since May 12 against the Mets, added a double and a walk for the Nationals, who took three of four from the Rockies. Lane Thomas had a two-run homer.

Rockies starter Kyle Freeland (1-5) exited with an apparent left leg injury with two outs in the sixth inning. Freeland, who was helped off the field, was charged with five runs on seven hits. He walked four and struck out two.

After pulling within 6-3 in the seventh, the Rockies got RBI singles from Brendan Rodgers and Sam Hilliard with one out in the eighth against Kyle Finnegan. With runners on first and third, Nationals closer Rainey struck out Elias Diaz and Charlie Blackmon.

RAYS 4, YANKEES 2 » Taylor Walls and Ji-man Choi homered for Tampa Bay’s only hits, and the team scored two runs in the seventh inning on four walks and a hit batter in a 4-2 win over New York.

Walls, in a 1 for 34 slide, homered on a 3-1 fastball from Luis Severino (3-1) for a 2-1 lead in the fifth and then made an outstanding defensive play to end the eighth inning.

TIGERS 2, GUARDIANS 1 » Harold Castro homered for the third time in three games and Jeimer Candelario also connected in Detroit’s win over Cleveland.

Detroit won despite getting just four hits. The Tigers beat Cleveland for just the seventh time in their last 28 games at Comerica Park.

RED SOX 12, ORIOLES 2 » Bobby Dalbec hit a tworun homer, one of Boston’s season-high five longballs, and the Red Sox coasted to a victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

Rafael Devers, Kiké Hernández, Franchy Cordero and Christian Arroyo each hit a solo drive for the Red Sox, who posted their ninth win in 12 games.

All five Boston home runs came in four innings against Bruce Zimmermann (2-3). He allowed a previous career-high four homers in his last start Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.

TWINS 7, ROYALS 3 » Sonny

Gray cruised before leaving in the seventh inning because of right pectoral soreness, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals behind Gio Urshela’s three-run homer.

Gray (3-1) allowed two hits and retired 14 in a row before Andrew Benintendi’s single leading off the seventh.

With a 3-1 count on Bobby Witt Jr. and Kansas City asking for a video review to try to get a hit batter call, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli and athletic trainer came to the mound as Gray appeared to be trying to stretch a muscle near hi pitching shoulder.

BREWERS 8, CARDINALS 0 » Corbin Burnes tossed seven shutout innings and Jace Peterson hit a threerun homer to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a win.

Lorenzo Cain and Rowdy Tellez also homered for the Brewers, who gained a split of the fourgame set. Milwaukee has won four of six and stretched its road record to 13-10.

WHITE SOX 5, CUBS 4, 12 INNINGS » Jake Burger atoned for a costly error with a game-ending RBI single in the 12th inning, and the banged-up Chicago White Sox topped the Chicago Cubs in a wild finale to the season series between the crosstown rivals.

Danny Mendick opened the White Sox 12th as the automatic runner, and he advanced on Andrew Vaughn’s grounder to second against Robert Gsellman (0-2). Burger then drove Gsellman’s next pitch into left for the winning hit.

ASTROS 2, MARINERS 1 » Ryan Pressly got Luis Torrens to ground into a game-ending double play with the bases loaded in the ninth inning, preserving the Houston Astros’ win over the Seattle Mariners.

Trying for its first home sweep of the Astros, Seattle took two of three from the AL West leader.

PADRES 4, PIRATES 2 » Trent Grisham hit a two-run walkoff home run in the 10th inning and the San Diego Padres, who have struggled offensively, beat the Pittsburgh Pirates To take two of three.

Grisham drove a 2-0 pitch from Chris Stratton (2-2) off the right-field foul pole to bring in automatic runner Jorge Alfaro. It was the second career walkoff homer by Grisham.

DODGERS 3, DIAMONDBACKS 1 »

Manager Dave Roberts admits he winced a little when the Dodgers’ schedule came out and he saw a 10-game road stretch in mid-to-late May that included lengthy trips to Philadelphia, Washington and Arizona.

Nearly two weeks and eight wins later, turns out it wasn’t so bad.

BLUE JAYS 11, ANGELS 10 » Lourdes Gurriel Jr. doubled home the tiebreaking run in the eighth inning for his season-high fifth RBI, and the Toronto Blue Jays overcame two homers by Shohei Ohtani to complete a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Angels with an 11-10 victory Sunday.

Raimel Tapia added three RBIs and Bo Bichette hit a tying homer in the eighth for Toronto, which capped its first fourgame sweep of the Angels in 30 years with its highest-scoring performance of the season.

METS 5, PHILLIES 4, 10 INNINGS » Nick Plummer launched a tying homer in the ninth inning for his first major league hit, Eduardo Escobar doubled home the winning run in the 10th and the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies for a three-game sweep.

Nick Castellanos put Philadelphia ahead 4-3 with a three-run homer on an 0-2 pitch from reliever Adam Ottavino with two outs in the eighth.