Verlander, Tucker lead visiting Astros past Yankees
Justin Verlander pitched four-hit ball over seven innings, Kyle Tucker hit a three-run homer and the Houston Astros beat the Yankees 3-1 Friday night to stop New York’s 15-game home winning streak.
The major league-best Yankees (52-19) lost for just the fourth time in their last 23 games overall.
Verlander (9-3) averaged 95.5 mph with his fastball, up from 94.8 mph coming in during his first season since Tommy John surgery. The 39-year-old righthander struck out three and walked one, lowering his ERA to 2.22.
New York got its run in the sixth when Giancarlo Stanton hit an oppositefield drive into the right field second deck for the second night in a row, his 16th home run this season.
Luis Severino (4-2) escaped two-on jams in the fourth and fifth then allowed Alex Bregman’s oneout double in the sixth. Severino walked Yordan Alvarez and threw a first-pitch fastball that Tucker drove into the right-field seats for his 14th home run this year. METS 5, MARLINS 3 » Francisco Lindor homered, doubled and drove in four runs to lead New York at Miami.
Mark Canha also went deep and Taijuan Walker pitched six-plus innings of three-run ball for the NL East leaders. Walker (6-2) allowed eight hits, walked two and struck out five.
All three runners scored on Lindor’s bases-loaded double in the sixth that gave New York a 5-2 lead.
Miami starter Sandy Alcantara (7-3), who entered with a 1.72 ERA, gave up five runs — four earned — and six hits in seven innings. CUBS 3, CARDINALS 0 » Kyle Hendricks pitched 7 1/3 stellar innings and Nico Hoerner homered to help Chicago triumph at St. Louis.
Hendricks (3-6) continued his mastery over the Cardinals, who had won 12
Kyle Tucker of the Astros breaks a scoreless tie with a three-run homer in the sixth inning against the Yankees.
of the previous 17 against the Cubs. He gave up five hits, struck out six and walked one and improved to 13-3 in 25 lifetime starts against his NL Central rivals.
RED SOX 6, GUARDIANS 3 » Christian Arroyo hit a tworun homer in the seventh and had three RBIs in his return from the COVID-19 injured list, powering Boston over host Cleveland.
The Red Sox won their fifth straight win and are now 17-4 in June and 30-12 since May 10.
Nick Pivetta (8-5) allowed two runs in seven innings. The right-hander struck out four without a walk and is 8-1 with a 1.85 ERA over his last 10 starts.
ORIOLES 4, WHITE SOX 1 » Austin Voth and four relievers combined on a onehitter as Baltimore won at Chicago.
Voth, normally a reliever, went three innings. He gave up an RBI double to Jake Burger in the second for Chicago’s only hit.
Joey Krehbiel (3-3) worked 2 1/3 perfect innings before Bryan Baker and Cionel Pérez each got four outs. Jorge López pitched the ninth for his 13th save, helping the Orioles win their third straight and fourth in five games.
BLUE JAYS 9, BREWERS 4 » Alejandro Kirk went 4 for 4 and homered for the third straight game before leaving with a bruised left hand in the seventh inning of Toronto’s win at Milwaukee.
Alek Manoah (9-2) pitched 6 2/3 strong innings, Cavan Biggio homered and Matt Chapman delivered a bases-loaded double for the Blue Jays.
Manoah struck out six and allowed five hits, three walks and two runs.
ROCKIES 1, TWINS 0 » Germán Márquez pitched 7 2/3 innings and visiting Colorado edged Minnesota.
Charlie Blackmon’s runscoring fielder’s choice was the difference for the Rockies, who bounced back from a three-game sweep in Miami.
Dylan Bundy (4-4) allowed a run in six innings for the Twins, giving up four hits and two walks. ROYALS 3, ATHLETICS 1 » Zach Greinke tossed six innings of one-run ball, Edward Olivares hit two solo homers and host Kansas City downed Oakland.
Both Grienke (1-4) and Olivares were activated from rehab assignments on Friday.
After missing 43 games with a right quad strain, Olivares belted homers to left field in his first two at-bats.
Greinke allowed one run on three hits with four strikeouts. He sat down the first nine batters before Tony Kemp hit a leadoff single in the fourth. Seth Brown hit a two-out RBI single that scored Kemp.