Cronenworth homers in 9th, Padres get win
SAN DIEGO » Jake Cronenworth hit a solo home run with one out in the ninth inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Houston Astros 4-3 Sunday to take two of three from the AL West leaders.
Cronenworth, a firsttime All-Star this season who has struggled at the plate recently, sent a drive to right-center off reliever Ryne Stanek for his 20th homer of the season. It was the first walk-off home run in his two-year career and his second game-winning hit.
One batter earlier, Stanek (1-4) caught Manny Machado’s popup behind the mound and then tumbled over backward, popping up with the ball in his glove.
That play brought smiles from Stanek and his teammates. He didn’t look that way moments later when Cronenworth connected, immediately punching his glove with his right hand.
The Padres celebrated at the plate with a win that put them back into the lead for the second NL wild-card spot.
MARINERS 10, DIAMONDBACKS 4 (11 INNINGS) » Kyle Seager hit a go-ahead, twoRBI double to spark an 11th-inning rally and lift Seattle over Arizona to complete the three-game series sweep.
The Mariners are on a five-game winning streak and continued to make up ground in the AL playoff race. Seattle is just three games behind Boston for the final wild card spot after the Red Sox lost on Sunday.
TIGERS 4, REDS 1 » Jeimer Candelario snapped a scoreless tie with a two-run triple, five Detroit pitchers combined to frustrate Cincinnati’s offense and the Tigers captured the threegame interleague series.
Akil Baddoo led off the sixth with a line-hugging double to left field. Robbie Grossman reached one out later on Joey Votto’s error and stole second. Candelario drove in both runners with a shot just inside first base and down into the right field corner. He scored on Eric Haase’s sacrifice fly.
BREWERS 6, CARDINALS 5 » Daniel Vogelbach delivered a pinch-hit grand slam off Alex Reyes to cap a fiverun rally in the ninth inning that gave Milwaukee a victory over St. Louis.
Reyes (5-8) entered the game after the Brewers had loaded the bases off Giovanny Gallegos. Vogelbach hit a 1-0 pitch high above the outstretched arm of right fielder Dylan Carlson, who made a leaping attempt at the wall.
CUBS 11, PIRATES 8 » Frank Schwindel hit a go-ahead grand slam, Matt Duffy homered twice, including a grand slam, and Chicago outslugged Pittsburgh.
With Chicago trailing 8-7 with two outs and the bases loaded in the seventh, Schwindel hit a curveball off reliever Nick Mears to the bleachers in center turn the game around.
BRAVES 9, ROCKIES 2 » Ozzie Albies homered on the first pitch of Ryan Feltner’s major league debut, and Atlanta added three more home runs in a win over Colorado.
Austin Riley, Adam Duvall and Travis d’Arnaud also went deep for the Braves. Charlie Morton (13-5) pitched seven strong innings, allowing two runs on two hits. He walked two and struck out three in helping the NL East-leading Braves maintain a twogame lead over the Philadelphia Phillies.
PHILLIES 4, MARLINS 3 (10 INNINGS) » Odúbel Herrera hit an RBI single in the 10th inning and Philadelphia averted a threegame sweep, beating Miami.
Bryce Harper hit his 27th home run and Freddy Galvis also connected for the playoff-chasing Phillies.
METS 13, NATIONALS 6 » Javier Báez went 4 for 4 with a home run, Kevin Pillar hit a grand slam that capped a game-sealing, six-run ninth inning, and New York withstood another rally from Washington.
Francisco Lindor and Jonathan Villar also homered for the Mets, who squandered an early fourrun lead but got 4 2/3 shutout innings from their bullpen to win for the seventh time in eight games.
ORIOLES 8, YANKEES 7 » Gary Sánchez hit a grand slam and a two-run homer, but New York blew a late lead and lost again to lastplace Baltimore.
New York wasted leads of 4-1, 5-2 and 7-4 and lost for the sixth time in eight games.
INDIANS 11, RED SOX 5 » Franmil Reyes homered over the Green Monster to spark a three-run third inning — Cleveland’s franchise-record tying 19th straight game with a home run — and the Indians salvaged the finale of the series with COVID-impacted Boston.
Reyes added a two-run double and went 4 for 4, and Bradley Zimmer had a two-run single for the Indians, who matched their single-season record of homering in consecutive games, set in May 2000.
RANGERS 7, ANGELS 3 » DJ Peters homered twice, had a career-high four hits and drove in four runs, and Taylor Hearn pitched seven innings of sevenhit ball as Texas snapped a three-game skid with a win over Los Angeles.
Peters hit a solo shot in the second and a threerun blast in the third before adding a single and a late double.
TWINS 6, RAYS 5 » Nick Gordon had a game-tying RBI single in the seventh inning and a go-ahead runscoring hit in the ninth, leading Minnesota past AL East-leading Tampa Bay.
Rays rookie Wander Franco extended his onbase streak to 35 with an seventh-inning double. It’s the third longest by a player under 21 and one short of the AL-record held by Mickey Mantle,
ROYALS 6, WHITE SOX 0 » Brady Singer tossed seven scoreless innings and Salvador Perez hit another home run as Kansas City beat Chicago.
Singer (4-9) matched his season high with seven innings and allowed four hits with no walks and struck out six.