Homers lift Astros

Martin Maldonado and Tyler White each homered, helping the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 10-7 on Wednesday night. Oakland’s 4-2 loss to Texas on Wednesday gives the Astros a one-game lead in the AL West.

SEATTLE — Martin Maldonado and Tyler White each homered and had three hits, helping the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 10-7 on Wednesday night.

Maldonado had three RBIs and White had two. The Astros led 9-1 before the Mariners got one back in the fifth and added five more in the sixth.

Charlie Morton (13-3) got the win despite allowing six runs before leaving the game with no one out in the sixth.

Roberto Osuna pitched the ninth to earn his 10th save and first as an Astro. The closer was acquired from Toronto last month and joined the team a week later after finishing a 75-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s domestic violence policy.

Marco Gonzales (12-9) was pitching on eight days of rest but allowed eight runs and 11 hits before leaving with no one out in the fourth. Gonzales has given up 23 earned runs and 38 hits in his last 20 innings over four starts.

The Astros took a 2-0 lead in the first with an RBI triple for White before Gonzales’ wild pitch enabled White to score from third. White’s home run came in the ninth.

The big inning for the Astros was the fourth, when they sent 10 to the plate and scored five runs to take an 8-1 lead.

Gonzales gave up six consecutive hits to start the inning before he was replaced by reliever Nick Rumbelow. Maldonado’s homer came one inning later to make it 9-1.

Oakland’s 4-2 loss to Texas on Wednesday gives the Astros a onegame lead in the AL West.

Nelson Cruz and Mitch Haniger each had home runs for the Mariners. Cruz hit an upper-deck shot in the fourth for his 31st homer. Haniger’s two-run homer in the sixth inning was his 20th of the season.

RANGERS 4, ATHLETICS 2 Mike Minor pitched six scoreless innings of one-hit ball to win his fourth straight, Joey Gallo hit his 33rd home run and the Texas Rangers snapped out of their offensive slump to avoid a three-game sweep, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Wednesday. Adrian Beltre had a pair of RBI singles to help the Rangers end a six-game losing streak to the A’s. Jurickson Profar added two hits. Elvis Andrus singled and scored after going hitless in his previous 12 at-bats. Stephen Piscotty had an RBI double for Oakland. The A’s entered the day tied with Houston for first place in the AL West. WHITE SOX 7, TWINS 3 Adam Engel broke a tie with a two-run homer in a five-run fifth, Carlos Rodon continued his torrid stretch with six strong innings and the Chicago White Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 7-3 on Wednesday. Nicky Delmonico and Tim Anderson also homered off

Twins starter Kyle Gibson (7-10), helping send him to only his second loss in seven career decisions at Guaranteed Rate Field. Chicago won for the sixth time in eight games..

BLUE JAYS 6, ORIOLES 0 Kendrys Morales homered for the fourth consecutive game, Thomas Pannone and two relievers combined on a two-hitter and the Blue Jays beat Baltimore 6-0 on Wednesday, completing a 10-game season sweep of the Orioles in Toronto. The Orioles are 1-12 against the Blue Jays this season with six games remaining, all in Baltimore.

RED SOX 10, INDIANS 4 Xander Bogaerts hit two solo homers, Andrew Benintendi had a three-run double to cap a big fourth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians

10-4 on Wednesday night to halt their threegame losing streak. Mitch Moreland added a two-run homer for the Red Sox, who lost the previous two nights in a matchup of AL division leaders. East-leading Boston, which owns the majors’ best record, is the only MLB team without a four-game losing streak this season. Edwin Encarnacion hit a pair of two-run homers in his first game off the disabled list for Central-leading Cleveland. The Indians are 17-5 on the road since July 1. RAYS 6, ROYALS 3 Brandon Lowe and Mallex Smith drove in two runs each, and the Tampa Bay Rays moved five games over .500 for the first time this season with a 6-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Lowe, who drove in the first two runs with a second-inning single off Jakob Junis, and Smith were among six Rays who had two hits each. Tampa Bay has won four straight, including the first three of a four-game seat against Kansas City. The loss clinched a sixth straight series loss for the Royals, who have lost 16 of 20 games overall. NATIONAL LEAGUE

BREWERS 4, REDS 0 Freddy Peralta was pleased with his seven shutout innings. The rookie was happier with his offensive contribution. Peralta tossed seven scoreless innings and drove in a run with his first career hit, combining with two relievers on a five-hitter in the Milwaukee Brewers’ 4-0 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday. Christian Yelich homered and finished a triple shy of the cycle, reaching base five times and driving in two runs for Milwaukee.

BRAVES 2, PIRATES 1 Ronald Acuna Jr. hit another leadoff home run and Freddie Freeman had a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to lift Julio Teheran and the Atlanta Braves over the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 on Wednesday night

for a three-game sweep. Acuna hit the fifth pitch out to right-center off Trevor Williams. It was the rookie’s 21st homer and sixth leading off the first inning, including four in the last two weeks. The NL East leaders went ahead 2-1 in the eighth when Freeman, who leads the league in hitting, sent a fly ball to deep left field off Edgar Santana.. INTERLEAGUE

CUBS 8, TIGERS 2 Jon Lester pitched into the sixth inning and the Chicago Cubs homered three times, finally breaking out of their offensive funk in an 8-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. The Cubs had scored exactly one run in each of their previous five games. David Bote ended that streak with a two-run homer in the fifth, and Lester (14-5) allowed a run and seven hits in 52/ innings. Five Chicago 3 relievers finished. Pedro Strop came in with the bases loaded in the eighth and walked in a run, but he retired James McCann on a grounder to end that threat with the Cubs still up 4-2. Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo hit consecutive homers in the ninth for Chicago to break the game open. Baez’s drive, a three-run shot, was his 26th of the year. The NL Central-leading Cubs snapped a three-game losing streak. MARLINS 9, YANKEES 3 Hours after All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman went on the disabled list with left knee tendinitis, Yankees starter Lance Lynn gave up five runs in the sixth inning and New York lost 9-3 to the last-place Miami Marlins on Wednesday night. The Yankees managed only one extra-base hit against five Miami pitchers. They committed three errors and struck out 11 times in a defeat that ended their four-game winning streak. Giancarlo Stanton, playing in Miami for the first time since the Marlins traded him last November, went 1 for 3 with an RBI and finished 3 for 9 in the series. He remained at 299 career homers.