The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Red-hot Cardinals finish off sweep of skidding Yankees
Nolan Arenado and Paul Dejong both homered and drove in four runs to help the St. Louis Cardinals outlast the visiting New York Yankees 12-9 on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep.
St. Louis won its seasonhigh seventh straight in a slugfest that took 4 hours, 25 minutes — the longest nine-inning game in the majors this season.
DJ Lemahieu homered for the Yankees, who have lost five in a row but still have the AL’S best record.
St. Louis (60-48) moved a season-best 12 games over .500. The surging Cardinals moved two games ahead of second-place Milwaukee in the NL Central.
Arenado, who launched a three-run homer in the second inning, had three hits and leads the majors with 18 RBIS in interleague games this season.
Dejong, who broke a 6-all tie with a fifth-inning double, added a three-run drive in the eighth inning.
Aaron Judge drove in four runs for the Yankees, bringing his Al-leading total to 97 RBIS.
Frankie Montas struggled in his Yankees debut. Acquired from Oakland on Monday, the right-hander allowed six earned runs, five hits and three walks over three innings.
METS 5, BRAVES 2 » Jacob degrom struck out 12 and carried a perfect game into the sixth inning of his second start all season, pitching New York past visiting Atlanta for its 12th victory in 14 games.
Pete Alonso drove in two runs and the firstplace Mets finished with 19 strikeouts — including three in a row from closer
Edwin Díaz to end it. They took four of five from Atlanta in their NL East showdown, extending their division lead to 6½ games over the defending World Series champions.
Degrom (1-0) retired his first 17 batters — 12 on strikeouts — before walking Ehire Adrianza with two outs in the sixth.
Dansby Swanson followed with a two-run homer on the 76th and final pitch from degrom, making it 5-2.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner missed the final three months last season with right forearm tightness and a sprained elbow, then was shut down late in spring training because of a stress reaction in his right scapula. He finally returned Tuesday at Washington, throwing five innings of one-run ball. PHILLIES 13, NATIONALS 1 » Darick Hall hit two home runs and Nick Maton and Rhys Hoskins each hit tworun homers as Philadelphia completed a four-game home sweep of Washington.
Maton drove in four runs, Bryson Stott had three RBIS and the Phillies scored five runs in the fourth and eighth innings.
Aaron Nola (8-8) struck out five and allowed one run in six innings to put the Phillies (60-48) 12 games over .500 for the first time since August 2018.
The Phillies hit 14 homers in the four games, their most in any single series in franchise history. GUARDIANS 1, ASTROS 0 » Triston Mckenzie held Houston to two hits and struck out eight in eight innings, Luke Maile homered for the first time in three years and Cleveland won at home.
Mckenzie (8-8) retired 15 straight hitters before pinch-hitter Kyle Tucker walked with one out in the eighth. Pinch-hitter Jose Altuve then bounced into an inning-ending double play.
Mckenzie walked one and threw 91 pitches.
Maile’s fifth-inning homer off Christian Javier landed on the home run porch in left field for his first homer since May 20, 2019.
Javier (6-8) gave up six hits, struck out four and didn’t walk a batter over six innings.
GIANTS 6, ATHLETICS 4 » Mike Yastrzemski homered twice, Thairo Estrada also connected and San Francisco topped Oakland for its seventh consecutive interleague road win.
Logan Webb (10-5) allowed four hits in seven innings, helping the Giants take three of four in the Bay Bridge series.
PIRATES 8, ORIOLES 1 » Bryse Wilson pitched effectively into the sixth inning, Ke’bryan Hayes homered and visiting Pittsburgh snapped Baltimore’s fivegame winning streak.
Wilson (2-6) allowed a run and four hits in fiveplus innings.
RAYS 7, TIGERS 0 » Tampa Bay scored seven runs in the top of the ninth inning to beat Detroit.
With the game scoreless in the ninth, Isaac Parades hit a one-out single off Tigers closer Gregory Soto (2-6), then took third on a two-out double by Francisco Mejia. Soto walked Jose Siri to load the bases, then missed on a 3-2 pitch to Yu Chang.
Soto walked Yandy Diaz, his fifth batter of the inning, to make it 2-0.
Jason Foley replaced Soto and allowed a two-run single to Brandon Lowe, a two-run double by Randy Arozarena and an RBI single by Roman Quinn.
ROYALS 11, RED SOX 5 » Rookie MJ Melendez hit a three-run home run in the fifth inning and had six RBIS to help host Kansas City rout Boston.
The 7-8-9 hitters of Michael Massey, Nate Eaton and Kyle Isbel went a combined 6-for-9 with nine runs scored and five RBIS.