Judge, Cortes send Yanks past Orioles
BALTIMORE — Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 37th home run, fellow All-Star Nestor Cortes pitched six sharp innings and the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 6-0 on Sunday.
Jose Trevino, another Yankees All-Star, produced the first fourhit game of his career. New York, with the best record in the big leagues, took two of three and have now won 22 of its 32 completed series this year.
Judge has seven home runs in his last nine games and leads the majors with 81 RBIs.
ASTROS 8, MARINERS 5
In Seattle, Jose Altuve and Jeremy Peña hit back-to-back home runs off Robbie Ray to begin the game, and Houston roughed up the reigning AL Cy Young Award to complete a three-game sweep of the Mariners.
Martín Maldonado had three RBIs from the No. 9 spot in the lineup and All-Star lefty Framber Valdez (9-4) took a shutout into the seventh inning for the Astros, who won their fifth straight and increased their AL West lead to 13 games over second-place Seattle.
The Mariners had won 14 in a row before Houston arrived, but were stopped cold by the defending AL champions coming out of the All-Star break.
DODGERS 7, GIANTS 4
In Los Angeles, Trayce Thompson drove in two runs and thrilled his older brother, Klay, with an RBI double during the decisive rally in the seventh inning while the Dodgers surged past San Francisco for their season-high eighth consecutive victory.
Unlikely cleanup hitter Jake Lamb delivered a tiebreaking double during that three-run rally by the NL-leading Dodgers, who have 15 victories in 16 games overall. Los Angeles swept a four-game series with the Giants at Chavez Ravine for the first time since 1995 and only the third time in the archrivals’ long history.
Gavin Lux also drove in two runs as Los Angeles’ offense overcame a mediocre start by Clayton Kershaw to earn the club’s 11th consecutive victory at Dodger Stadium. After Lux’s RBI single drove in Lamb in the seventh, Trayce Thompson’s drive to right-center scored Max Muncy and pumped up Klay Thompson, the Golden State Warriors star, in his seat right behind the Giants’ dugout.
BLUE JAYS 8, RED SOX 4
In Boston, Raimel Tapia had three hits and drove in four runs, giving him 10 RBIs for the series, and Vladimir Guerrero had four hits as Toronto beat the bumbling Red Sox for a three-game sweep.
Two days after Tapia had an inside-the-park grand slam in a record-setting 28-5 victory, he had a bases-loaded triple to spot Toronto to a 5-0 lead off top Boston prospect Brayan Bello (0-2).
The Blue Jays also took advantage of three errors and a series of other blunders by Boston, which is just a half-game out of last place in the AL East.
METS 8, PADRES 5
In New York, Pete Alonso hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Joe Musgrove and had four RBIs to retake the major league lead, leading the Mets past San Diego.
Alonso hit his 25th home run in a five-run sixth and added a RBI double high off the center-field wall in a three-run seventh that built an 8-1 lead. With 82 RBIs, he moved one ahead of the Yankees’ Aaron Judge heading into the first Subway Series game of the season at Citi Field on Tuesday night.
ANGELS 9, BRAVES 1
In Atlanta, Taylor Ward homered in a five-run first, Reid Detmers pitched five scoreless innings and Los Angeles cooled off the Braves.
Max Stassi went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs, and Ward had three hits for the Angels, who improved to 3-14 this month and snapped a five-game skid. They had dropped 14 of 16 and were a season-worst 16 games under .500.
REDS 6, CARDINALS 3
In Cincinnati, Joey Votto hit a three-run homer to back Tyler Mahle’s sharp return from injury as the Reds beat St. Louis.
The last-place Reds overcame Paul Goldschmidt’s two opposite-field homers to take two of three in the series. They’ve won eight of their last 12 games.
TWINS 9, TIGERS 1
In Detroit, Sonny Gray allowed two hits in six innings to lead Minnesota over the Tigers.
Gray (5-3) is 2-0 against the Tigers this season, permitting one run and six hits in 13 innings.
CUBS 4, PHILLIES 3
In Philadelphia, Yan Gomes hit two home runs, Drew Smyly tossed six sharp innings and Chicago completed a three-game sweep of the Phillies.
Nelson Velázquez also went deep for the Cubs, who have won four in a row. It was Chicago’s first three-game sweep in Philadelphia since July 2000.
MARLINS 6, PIRATES 5 (10 INNINGS)
In Pittsburgh, Nick Fortes and Miguel Rojas hit RBI singles in the 10th inning and the Miami Marlins topped the Pirates.
Fortes led off the 10th with a go-ahead single against closer
David Bednar (3-4).
WHITE SOX 6, GUARDIANS 3
In Chicago, Dylan Cease threw six innings in his third straight scoreless start, Leury Garcia and AJ Pollock homered, and the White Sox beat Cleveland to salvage a four-game split.
Eloy Jiménez went deep in his second straight game, helping the White Sox end a series that was shaping up as a bad one for them on a stronger note.
ROYALS 4, RAYS 2
In Kansas City, Mo., Kris Bubic went seven strong innings, Hunter Dozier and MJ Melendez had late-inning RBIs and the Royals won a series against Tampa Bay for the first time in five years.
Dozier snapped a 2-all tie with two outs in the seventh when he singled off Brooks Raley (1-1) to score Whit Merrifield. Melendez added an insurance run with a double in the eighth.
RANGERS 11, ATHLETICS 8
In Oakland, Calif., Martín Pérez allowed four hits over seven strong innings to extend his undefeated streak and beat fellow All-Star Paul Blackburn, leading Texas over the Athletics.
Pérez (8-2) had six strikeouts and won his career-best eighth straight decision. The first-time All-Star is unbeaten in his last 17 starts, passing Kyle Gibson for the Rangers’ single-season franchise record.
BREWERS 10, ROCKIES 9
In Milwaukee, Andrew McCutchen’s tiebreaking, two-run double capped a two-out rally in the eighth inning that lifted the Brewers over Colorado.
Alex Colomé (2-3) came in to protect an 8-7 lead for the Rockies and retired the first two batters he faced before the Brewers broke loose. Rowdy Tellez hit a tying single that set the stage for McCutchen.
NATIONALS 4, DIAMONDBACKS 3
In Phoenix, Keibert Ruiz had three hits, including a go-ahead single in the eighth inning, and Washington avoided a three-game sweep by beating the Diamondbacks.
The Nationals were sloppy in the field with three errors and a couple other questionable decisions. But they stayed close and tied the game 3-all on Josh Bell’s RBI double in the seventh.