Bichette powers Blue Jays past Yanks, wild card race tightens
TORONTO » Bo Bichette homered twice, tiebreaking home run off Clay Holmes in the eighth inning that lifted the Toronto Blue Jays over the Yankees 6-5 Wednesday night, tightened the AL wild card race and ended New York’s seven-game winning streak.
Marcus Semien hit a go-ahead, two-run homer in the first off a faltering Gerrit Cole, setting a big league record with his 44th home run of the season as a second baseman.
BREWERS 4, CARDINALS 0 » St. Louis’ team-record 17game winning streak ended as Milwaukee’s Daniel Vogelbach hit a two-run homer that backed Adrian Houser.
BRAVES 7, PHILLIES 2 » Max Fried pitched seven strong innings, Austin Riley drove in three runs, and Atlanta beat Philadelphia to move within one victory of a fourth straight NL East title.
The Braves have won nine of 11 and reduced their magic number to one. Philadelphia, which dropped 4 ½ games back in the standings with its third straight
loss, can be eliminated from postseason contention with one loss or one Atlanta win.
RED SOX 6, ORIOLES 0 » J.D. Martinez homered and drove in three runs to back a dominant pitching performance by Nathan Eovaldi, and Boston beat Baltimore to break a fourgame skid and bolster its playoff hopes.
WHITE SOX 6, REDS 1 » Carlos Rodón pitched five scoreless innings in a closely watched start ahead of the playoffs, and Chicago beat
Cincinnati.
MARLINS 3, METS 2 » Miguel Rojas’ two-run single capped a three-run rally in the eighth inning, spoiling Taijuan Walker’s longest start in more than four years and sending Miami past New York.
ROCKIES 10, NATIONALS 5 » Trevor Story had four hits in possibly his final appearance at Coors Field with Colorado, which beat Washington.
Ryan McMahon added a three-run homer in the Rockies’ home finale, which was interrupted for two hours by rain.
CUBS 3, PIRATES 2 » Willson Contreras drove in all of Chicago’s runs as the Cubs beat Pittsburgh to to end a seven-game losing streak.
TWINS 5, TIGERS 2 » Jorge Polanco launched a threerun homer in the first inning and Michael Pineda was solid in his last start of the year as Minnesota beat Detroit.
RAYS 7, ASTROS 0 » Drew Rasmussen and three relievers combined for a three-hitter, Brandon Lowe and Ji-Man Choi both homered and Tampa Bay coasted past Houston, giving them the No. 1 seed in the American League playoffs
ANGELS 7, RANGERS 2 » Shohei Ohtani sparked a four-run sixth-inning rally with his legs, and Los Angeles beat Texas to send the Rangers to their first 100loss season since 1973.
ROYALS 10, INDIANS 5 » Salvador Perez tied a Royals record with his 48th homer of the season before leaving with a sprained right ankle, and Kansas City went on to beat Cleveland.