Rays win showdown series
McClanahan first to reach 10 wins
Shane McClanahan became MLB’s first 10-game winner and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Texas Rangers 7-3 on Sunday, taking two out of three in a matchup of the teams with baseball’s best records.
McClanahan (10-1) allowed three runs, all in the third inning, and four hits over seven innings. He retired his final 15 batters.
Wander Franco homered for MLB-leading Tampa Bay (4820), which improved to 31-7 at home.
Robbie Grossman homered for AL West-leading Texas, which has lost three of four. He has 27 RBIs in his past 38 games.
The first four Rays batters singled and two scored on hits by Randy Arozarena and Isaac Paredes. Tampa Bay went up 40 in the second on Taylor Walls’ RBI double and a run-scoring single by Harold Ramirez.
Grossman led of the third for Texas with his homer, followed by Marcus Siemen’s RBI single and Corey Seager’s RBI single. That was Texas’ last hit of the game.
“A hard fought series,” said Rangers manager Bruce Bochy. “You saw two good teams going at it. Two teams that put up runs, have good pitching. We’re disappointed we lost the series, but I thought we played well.”
Other games
Athletics 8, Brewers 6: Seth Brown and Brent Rooker hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning to help Oakland wrap up its first series sweep of the season. Kevin Smith also homered for the A’s, who won their fifth in a row — the first time they’ve won five consecutive games within the same season since September 2021.
The A’s trailed 2-0 before scoring four runs in the fourth off Freddy Peralta (5-6). Brown capped an 11-pitch at-bat with his three-run homer to put Oakland ahead to stay.
Reds 5, Cardinals 4: Rookie Elly De La Cruz flashed his speed, getting two hits, reaching base four times and scoring the go-ahead run with a head-first slide across the plate on an infield grounder in the eighth. De La Cruz is hitting .364 (8 for 22) with five walks, three stolen bases, a .481 on-base percentage and an 1.117 OPS in six games since his debut.
Marlins 6, White Sox 5: Miami scored twice in the eighth inning and three times in the top of the ninth. The Marlins got solo home runs from Jorge Soler and Garrett Cooper in the eighth. Jean Segura homered to lead off the ninth and Bryan de la Cruz brought home the tying and go-ahead runs with a twoout double.
Blue Jays 7, Twins 6: Cavan Biggio’s three-run homer in the eighth helped Toronto overcome a five-run deficit and avoid a three-game sweep at home. Jordan Romano worked around a leadoff walk in the ninth for his 18th save.
Diamondbacks 7, Tigers 5:
Christian Walker hit a go-ahead double with two outs in a fourrun ninth inning as Arizona extended Detroit’s losing streak to nine.
Guardians 5, Astros 0:
Shane Bieber had his most dominant start this season with nine strikeouts in seven innings and Andrés Giménez homered for Cleveland. Bieber (5-3) gave up three hits and walked two.
Orioles 11, Royals 3: Gunnar Henderson homered for the second consecutive day and Baltimore finished its three-game sweep of Kansas City. Kyle Gibson (8-3) earned his fourth consecutive victory.
Phillies 7, Dodgers 3: Philadelphia put the game away with a three-run seventh on Nick Castellanos’ two-run homer and Kody Clemens’ RBI single. The Phillies have won seven of their past eight.
Nationals 6, Braves 2: Dominic Smith and Jeimer Candelario hit two-run homers in the sixth inning as Washington ended its six- game losing streak and Atlanta’s sevengame winning streak.
Rockies 5, Padres 4: Ryan McMahon hit a tying homer in heavy rain just before 1-hour, 25-minute delay in the ninth inning, and Nolan Jones hit a game-ending 472-foot drive to win for Colorado just after play resumed.
Giants 13, Cubs 3: Joc Pederson and Thairo Estrada each hit two-run homers and drove in four as San Francisco pounded out 15 hits less than 24 hours after being no-hit for 7 2/3 innings.
Angels 9, Mariners 4:
Rookie Zach Neto, the 13th pick in last year’s draft, had his first two-homer day and Shohei Ohtani had three hits to push his hitting streak to eight games and raise his batting average for June to .381.
Red Sox 3, Yankees 2: Kike Hernandez scored the tying run for Boston in the eighth on a groundout, then drove in the go-ahead run in the 10th with a single to score Adam Duvall.