Orioles victorious behind Schoop, Trumbo, Miley
MINNEAPOLIS — The Baltimore Orioles have tumbled through the last two months, with their starting pitchers the biggest part of the problem.
Wade Miley was the solution on Saturday.
support of Miley's best performance in more than five weeks, and the Orioles beat the Minnesota Twins 5-1 to stop a fivegame losing streak.
Manny Machado added an RBI double to help the Orioles beat the Twins for the first time in six meetings this season. This was just their third win in 11 games, and they're 19-36 since May 10 to fall from first place in the American League East to being tied for last.
to finish three innings in three of his last six starts, an awful stretch that saw his ERA balloon from 2.82 to 5.20. Against the Twins, he gave up eight hits and three walks, but only one run before leaving with two outs in the sixth.
“It's a good way to end it,” Orioles manager and former Mississippi State player Buck Showalter said. “That's why these guys are what they are. They don't run away from their struggles. They want to get back and make the contributions that they're asked to make.”
After Miguel Sano's 21st home run, Schoop trumped his All-Star teammate with a towering two-run shot in the fourth inning off Adalberto Mejia (4-4). The ball landed in the third deck above left field, estimated by Major League Baseball's Statcast system at 462 feet.
Mejia was removed with two outs in the seventh, after allowing five hits, three walks and four runs. He had won each of his previous three starts, but the Twins stranded 10 runners on base over the first six innings and didn't come close to the stirring comeback they produced on Friday from a 6-0 deficit for a 9-6 victory.
Rays 1, Red Sox 0
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Alex Cobb pitched two-hit ball into the eighth inning and the Rays beat the Red Sox with some help from a replay reversal.
Colome got the final four outs for his 24th save, finishing Tampa Bay's three-hitter.
The Red Sox put runners on second and third with one out in the ninth. Hanley Ramirez then struck out swinging. After rookie Andrew Benintendi was walked intentionally, Chris Young popped out to end the game.
Boston's Rick Porcello (4-11) allowed six hits, struck out seven and walked none in his first complete game of the season.
in the second. The inning was kept alive by a replay reversal of a double-play call. Donaldson hit a three-run shot in the fifth inning for his
career. Tulowitzki connected for the second straight game as Toronto bounced back from Friday night's 12-2 loss.
Marcus Stroman (9-5) pitched seven effective innings
last 13 meetings. The right-hander, who was removed from his previous start because of a blister on his pitching hand, allowed one run and six hits.
Marwin Gonzalez homered in the ninth for Houston, which hit into four double plays over the first five innings. Mike Fiers (5-4) yielded three runs and five hits in six innings.
Indians 4, Tigers 0
CLEVELAND — Mike Clevinger held Detroit to three
Michael Brantley broke a scoreless tie with an RBI double, and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Tigers.
Clevinger (5-3) allowed only one runner to reach second base and won his third straight decision.
Verlander (5-6) gave up one run in 6 2/3 innings and lost to Cleveland for the second time this week. The right-hander struck out six after the Indians snapped his streak of 331 consecutive games with at least one strikeout last Sunday.
Brantley hit a 3-2 pitch to right-center in the fifth that scored Francisco Lindor, who reached on a two-out single.
Cleveland scored three in the eighth off Bruce Rondon. Carlos Santana, returning after three days on the paternity list, had an RBI double and scored on rookie Bradley Zimmer's triple. Yan Gomes added a sacrifice fly.
The Indians played their fifth straight game without manager Terry Francona. He was released from the Cleveland Clinic on Friday night, one day after undergoing a cardiac ablation for an irregular heartbeat. Francona was resting at his downtown residence following a heart procedure and four-day hospital stay.
Francona won't manage Tuesday night's All-Star Game in Miami and is expected to rejoin the Indians and assume
series in Oakland.
Verlander lost to the Indians for the 24th time in his career, the most losses he's had against any team. He was removed with two on in the seventh and threw 115 pitches. Verlander's name has been mentioned in trade rumors as the Tigers fall further back in the AL Central. He didn't record a strikeout until fanning Zimmer in the fourth.
Clevinger retired Miguel Cabrera on a hard grounder to the mound with a man to end the sixth. The ball hit off Clevinger's leg and rolled a few feet away, but he recovered and threw to first.
hamstring injury running out a grounder in the third and was replaced by Erik Gonzalez.
Interleague Yankees 5, Brewers 3
NEW YORK — Clint Frazier hit a three-run homer off Corey Knebel with one out in the ninth, lifting the New York Yankees over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Frazier turned on a 1-0 pitch from Knebel (0-2) for his second career homer and first game-ending shot. He threw his helmet as he approached his teammates at home plate, unveiling his mop of red hair, which was then doused in yellow Gatorade.
Frazier had three hits and a career-high four RBIs in his sixth game. Dellin Betances struck out two in a perfect eighth for New York, and Aroldis Chapman (2-0) struck out the side in the ninth.
Milwaukee left-hander Brent Suter allowed two runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings. The NL Central-leading Brewers had won five in a row.