The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Phillies edge the Mets in 10 innings in NL East showdown
Left fielder Matt Vierling threw out the speedy Starling Marte at the plate to end the ninth and the Philadelphia Phillies showed off sharp fielding in beating the New York Mets 2-1 in 10 innings Friday night.
In the sixth inning, Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm made a barehanded, off-balance throw to get Marte at first and pitcher Ranger Suárez snared a comebacker by Francisco Lindor. In the 10th, Bohm hit a sacrifice fly for the goahead run.
The Mets had a six-game winning streak stopped and also lost infielders Jeff Mcneil and Eduardo Escobar to early injuries. Mcneil exited after grounding out in the second with a right thumb laceration and Escobar departed with left side tightness.
The Mets lead the NL East and the Phillies, second in the wild-card race, are 9 ½ games behind New York with Atlanta in between them.
In the ninth, Vierling caught a shallow flyball by pinch-hitter Daniel Vogelbach and threw out Marte at the plate.
Bohm’s go-ahead sacrifice fly came against Mychal Givens (6-3).
Max Scherzer struck out six and allowed three of his nine hits in the opening inning when the Phillies scored their first run on Bohm’s RBI single.
PADRES 10, NATIONALS 5 » Juan Soto had two hits and got a standing ovation in his return to Washington, and San Diego beat Washington after Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. was suspended 80 games for a positive drug test.
Soto, one of the best hitters in baseball at age 23 and a World Series champion in 2019 with Washington, was traded to San Diego on Aug. 2.
Soto has reached base in every game with the Padres. He just missed his second homer with San Diego when he doubled off the right-field wall in the Padres’ seven-run fifth inning. He singled later in the inning to drive in Austin Nola.
San Diego starter Mike Clevinger (4-4) allowed one run on three hits in five innings, walking four.
ASTROS 7, A’S 5 » Kyle Tucker hit a grand slam in the fifth inning to rally Houston to the win over Oakland. Houston trailed 2-0 before breaking loose for a six-run rally in the fifth. Tucker’s 21st homer of the season gave Houston a 5-2 lead.
RED SOX 3, YANKEES 2, 10 INNINGS » J.D. Martinez had three hits, including a game-tying RBI single in the ninth, and Tommy Pham hit a walk-off single in the 10th to lead lastplace Boston past Aaron Judge and AL East-leading New York.
Judge hit his major league-leading 46th home run in the third inning.
GUARDIANS 8, BLUE JAYS 0 » Cal Quantrill pitched seven shutout innings and won his fifth straight decision, and Josh Naylor hit a tworun home run as surging Cleveland beat Toronto for its sixth straight win.
Cleveland’s José Ramirez hit a three-run home run, his 22nd, and finished with four RBIS as the Guardians roughed up Blue Jays righthander José Berríos (8-5), who allowed eight runs and eight hits in four innings.
CARDINALS 3, BREWERS 1» Jordan Montgomery pitched six strong innings in a second straight scoreless outing for his new team, Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado homered, and St. Louis edged Milwaukee.
St. Louis, which has won 11 of 14, pushed its lead over Milwaukee in the NL Central to 1 ½ games. The Cardinals won their ninth straight at home, the longest streak since a ninegame run June 2-29, 2015.
ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 3» Longtime minor leaguer Wynton Bernard singled, stole a base and scored in his major league debut, helping Colorado beat Arizona. The 31-year-old Bernard toiled in the minors for more than 10 years before having his contract selected by Colorado on Friday. He made it a memorable debut when he helped spark a seventh-inning rally that put the Rockies in front for good.
WHITE SOX 2, TIGERS 0 » Michael Kopech struck out a career-best 11 in six innings of no-hit ball and Andrew Vaughn hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the seventh inning, leading Chicago over Detroit. Kopech, who walked three, was lifted despite blanking the Tigers on 85 pitches throught six innings.
BRAVES 4, MARLINS 3 » Michael Harris II had two hits, including a tiebreaking two-run homer in the eighth inning, leading Atlanta past Miami. Eddie Rosario singled and doubled, and Matt Olson also went deep for the Braves in the opener of a four-game set.
ORIOLES 10, RAYS 3 » Jorge Mateo had a career-high five hits, Adley Rutschman and Cedric Mullins homered off the Tropicana Field catwalk, and Baltimore beat Tampa Bay. Rougned Odor had four of the Orioles’ 19 hits as Baltimore won for the eighth time in 10 games and moved into an AL wildcard spot, a half-game ahead of the Rays.
MARINERS 6, RANGERS 2 » Star rookie Julio Rodriguez got two hits in his return to the Seattle lineup and the Mariners took over the first wild-card position in the American League by beating Texas. Rodriguez had missed the Mariners’ previous 11 games with a wrist injury.