The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Giants’ Rodon has complete effort in win over Padres
Carlos Rodón retired 22 of the final 23 batters to finish a three-hitter for his third career complete game as the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres 3-1 on Saturday.
Wilmer Flores hit a tworun homer for the Giants.
Rodón (8-5) allowed his only run in the second inning. He got Kim Ha-seong to ground into a double play to end the second, and then was one out away from throwing seven perfect innings to end it before he walked Luke Voit. The lefthander struck out Jorge Alfaro to end his brilliant afternoon.
Rodón had 10 of his 12 strikeouts from the third inning on. He walked two. He allowed three singles in the second to load the bases, and the Padres got their only run on first baseman Brandon Belt’s error.
Luis Garcia (4-5) walked All-star Joc Pederson with one out before Flores drove a 1-2 pitch into the left field seats, his 10th.
RED SOX 6, YANKEES 5 » Alex Verdugo hit a tying single in the eighth inning and a winning two-run single that capped a three-run 10th, lifting Boston over New York. Aaron Judge and Anthony Rizzo gave the Yankees a 5-3 lead with RBI doubles in the 10th off Jake Diekman. PHILLIES 1, CARDINALS 0 » Kyle Gibson kept the ball in the park this time against St. Louis and Alec Bohm broke a scoreless tie with a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning as Philadelphia won its third straight and fifth in six games. Gibson, tagged for four straight home runs by St. Louis in the first inning at Citizens Bank Park in his previous start, combined with a pair of relievers on a two-hitter. He gave up two hits and walked none in seven innings.
METS 5, MARLINS 4, 10 INNINGS » Tomás Nido hit a tying double with two outs in the 10th inning and scored the winning run on a throwing error by reliever Tanner Scott, and New York rallied to beat Miami. Pete Alonso homered and Francisco Lindor lined a two-run shot for the NL East leaders, who overcame injuries to right fielder Starling Marte and catcher James Mccann in the middle innings. Both exited the game and are headed for MRIS today.
The Mets got their fourth walk-off win and improved to 7-0 in extra innings.
BRAVES 4, NATIONALS 3 »
Austin Riley homered off Patrick Corbin, Kyle Wright pitched seven-plus innings to win his 10th game, and Atlanta held on to beat Washington. The Braves moving a season-high 16 games over .500, improved to 28-8 since June 1, best in the NL over that span. Atlanta leads the NL with 132 homers, trailing only the New York Yankees for the major league lead.
WHITE SOX 8, TIGERS 0 »
Johnny Cueto allowed five hits over eight innings, Gavin Sheets hit a threerun homer and Chicago ended Detroit’s season-high six-game winning streak. Cueto (3-4) and José Ruiz combined on a six-hitter in the 11th shutout against the Tigers this season. Cueto struck out five and walked none.
REDS 5, RAYS 4, 10 INNINGS » Kyle Farmer scored the tying run on a wild pitch and Nick Senzel hit a game-ending single as Cincinnati rallied in the 10th inning for fourth walk-off victory in eight games.
RANGERS 9, TWINS 7 » Marcus Semien hit a tiebreaking RBI triple in the eighth inning after earlier being part of back-to-back homers with fellow off-season pickup Corey Seager for the first time, and Texas beat AL Centralleading Minnesota.
ATHLETICS 3, ASTROS 2 » Oakland rookie Zach Logue pitched five innings of three-hit ball after being recalled from Triple-a and dealt Houston its second loss in 12 games. Logue allowed two runs and set down his final 10 batters after Martín Maldonado’s second-inning sacrifice fly. Lou Trivino worked the ninth for his seventh save in eight chances.
GUARDIANS 13, ROYALS 1 » José Ramírez hit his first home run in nearly a month, rookie Nolan Jones connected for the first homer of his career and Cleveland stopped a five-game skid. The Guardians totaled a season-high 23 hits and led 11-0 after four innings. Amed Rosario homered off Royals center fielder Michael Taylor in a two-run ninth.
DIAMONDBACKS 9, ROCKIES 2 » Madison Bumgarner pitched six effective innings and Josh Rojas had three RBIS in Arizona’s win over Colorado. Bumgarner allowed two runs on six hits and struck out five to pass Catfish Hunter (84th) and Dan Haren (83rd) on baseball’s all-time strikeout list with 2,014.
PIRATES 4, BREWERS 3 » Ben Gamel hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run seventh inning and Pittsburgh rallied to beat Milwaukee. Pittsburgh was held to one hit through six innings by Brewers starter Brandon Woodruff before erasing a three-run deficit in the seventh.
MARINERS 2, BLUE JAYS 1 » Carlos Santana hit a tworun homer in the seventh inning to lift Seattle over Toronto.