Gonzalez fuels Dodgers’ win

CINCINNATI — Adrian Gonzalez hit three of the Dodgers’ seven homers — driving in a career-high eight runs — and rookie Corey Seager had a noteworthy homer as well Monday, leading Los Angeles to an 18-9 victory and a split of its four-game series with the Cincinnati Reds.

The NL West leaders enjoyed their biggest home run splurge in 10 years. They’ve won 10 of their last 12 games against Cincinnati.

Gonzalez started it with a three-run shot in the first inning off Homer Bailey, who had his worst showing since returning from Tommy John surgery. The first baseman also had a solo shot in the fifth, when the Dodgers connected four times overall.

Gonzalez’s three-run shot in the seventh tied his career high for homers. He drove in another run with a groundout as the Dodgers scored 18 runs for the first time in 10 years.

The Dodgers needed the big game offensively. Lefthander Scott Kazmir lasted a season-low 22⁄3 innings, giving up six hits and four runs. Joey Votto singled home a run off reliever Jesse Chavez (1-0), one of his four RBIs.

Seager’s two-run shot game him 22 homers, trying Glenn Wright’s club record for a shortstop from 1930.

ORIOLES 4, NATIONALS 3: Mark Trumbo hit his major league-leading 38th home run, Jonathan Schoop also went deep, and host Baltimore beat Washington in a matchup between neighboring contenders. Rookie Dylan Bundy pitched six innings of three-hit ball for the Orioles.

RED SOX 6, RAYS 2: David Price limited his former team to two hits in eight scoreless innings, helping Boston win at Tampa Bay to move into a tie for first place in the AL East. Price walked two, struck out eight and didn’t allow a runner past first while extending Tampa Bay’s scoring drought against Boston to 25 innings dating to a series at Fenway Park before the All-Star break. Evan Longoria stopped the streak with a two-run homer off Matt Barnes in the ninth.

INDIANS 1, ATHLETICS 0: Carlos Carrasco scattered four hits over eight scoreless innings, Carlos Santana snapped a scoreless tie with a solo homer in the eighth, and Cleveland won the opener of a three-game series at Oakland.

BREWERS 4, ROCKIES 2: Chris Carter homered, and Jimmy Nelson won for the first time in seven starts as Milwaukee beat visiting Colorado.