Orlando Sentinel

AROUND THE HORN

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■ Red Sox: Xander Bogaerts hit the Red Sox’s first grand slam since late in the 2016 season and drove in a career-best six runs in a 10-3 win over the Rays, the seventh in a row for the Red Sox. J.D. Martinez hit his first home run since signing this spring. Rick Porcello (2-0) gave up three runs on six hits, striking out seven with no walks in 71⁄3 innings.

■ Giants: Andrew McCutchen hit a three-run homer to cap a 12-pitch at-bat in the 14th inning, giving him a career-high six hits in a 7-5 victory over the Dodgers. McCutchen drove in four runs and raised his batting average from .083 to .258. Buster Posey also homered. The game lasted 5 hours, 16 minutes.

■ Royals: Lucas Duda homered off Trevor Bauer, and Ian Kennedy pitched six innings of fourhit ball in a 1-0 victory over the Indians. Bauer complained he didn’t have enough time to warm up before facing Duda. “With the new (Commission­er) Rob Manfred time (nonsense) ... it’s hard to get loose sometimes,” he said. It’s not safe, but whatever.”

■ Reds: Eugenio Suarez’s tiebreakin­g three-run homer in the eighth helped the Reds cool off the Pirates 7-4. Down 4-0, the Reds got RBIs from Joey Votto and Jesse Winker before Suarez tied it with a two-run single in the sixth. Suarez finished the job with his blast off George Kontos. The Pirates had won six of seven.

■ Yankees: Sonny Gray gave up three runs on four hits in six innings in an 8-3 win over the Orioles that snapped a two-game skid. Brett Gardner, Aaron Judge and Tyler Austin drove in two runs apiece . ... LHP CC Sabathia (hip) and 3B Brandon Drury (migraines) went on the DL.

■ Mets: Asdrubal Cabrera’s RBI double tied it, and he scored the go-ahead run on Todd Frazier’s groundout in a 3-2 win that ran the Mets’ streak to four. Under new manager Mickey Callaway, the Mets are 6-1. Bryce Harper hit his fifth home run for the Nats, whose skid reached four. Manager Dave Martinez was tossed for the first time for arguing after Anthony Rendon was ejected.

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