MLB ROUNDUP

RAYS 5, BLUE JAYS 3 » Denard Span drove in his team-leading 24th run to help the surging Tampa Bay Rays beat Toronto.

The Rays chased Aaron Sanchez (2-3) in the fourth, taking a 4-1 lead on Span’s single and a sacrifice fly by Matt Duffy. Span’s 24 RBIs have come in 90 at-bats.

Jake Faria (3-1) allowed a run and three hits in 5 1/3 innings as the Rays got their 11th victory in 14 games to improve to 15-16. Alex Colome, the fourth Tampa Bay reliever, got five outs for his sixth save.

Teoscar Hernandez and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. each homered for the Blue Jays, who have lost eight of 12.

Sanchez, who entered 1-0 with an 0.86 ERA in three starts at Tropicana

Field, gave up four runs, five hits, four walks and had three strikeouts in 3 2/3 innings.

TIGERS 3, ROYALS 2 » Jordan Zimmermann allowed two hits over five scoreless innings, Nicholas Castellanos had three extra-base hits and the Detroit Tigers beat Kansas City.

Zimmermann (2-0) improved to 4-0 with a 1.48 ERA in seven appearances, including six starts, against the Royals.

Castellanos had an RBI double as the Tigers scored three runs in the first inning off Jason Hammel (04). Detroit held on from there, even after Kansas City cut the lead to one in the ninth. Lucas Duda led off with a double and scored when center fielder Leonys Martin dropped Alex Gordon’s line drive. Shane Greene struck out Alcides Escobar and Jon Jay to strand Gordon and log his sixth save. YANKEES 5, INDIANS 2 » Shortstop Francisco Lindor’s double error led to a pair of runs in a four-run fifth inning off previously unhittable Trevor Bauer, Sonny Gray won for the first time in a month and the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians for their 14th win in 15 games.

New York is in its first 14-1 stretch since 1998 Yankees won 114 games during the regular season and then the first of three straight World Series titles.

The Yankees have won eight straight home games for the first time since 2010.