Comeback lifts Yanks to London sweep of Red Sox
LONDON — Gary Sánchez hit a goahead, two-run single during a nine-run seventh inning, and the New York Yankees overcame a four-run deficit to beat the Boston Red Sox 12-8 Sunday for a two-game sweep of the groundbreaking, high-scoring trip across the pond.
DJ LeMahieu doubled off Marcus Walden (6-1) leading off the seventh and hit a two-run double against Josh Taylor later in the inning as the Yankees opened an 11-4 lead, sending 14 batters to the plate in their highest-scoring inning in four years.
Didi Gregorius went deep against Ryan Brasier in the eighth, extending New York’s record streak of games with home runs to 31. Combined with the Yankees’ 1713 win Saturday, the teams scored 50 runs on the weekend, four more than their previous scoring mark in consecutive games against each other.
Adam Ottavino (3-2), the second of six New York relievers, got the win.
Before a sellout crowd of 59,059 at Olympic Stadium, Xander Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez and Christian Vázquez became the first trio of Boston batters in four decades to hit home runs in the first inning.
Rays 6, Rangers 2
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Blake Snell struck out 12 over six innings for just his second win in 10 starts and Tampa Bay beat Texas.
Snell (5-7) gave up three hits during an 80-pitch outing. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner had an 11.94 ERA in five previous starts this month.
Tommy Pham homered for the Rays, who won consecutive games for the first time since June 9-10. The first AL wild card leaders went 13-16 in June.
After Kevin Kiermaier had an RBI single and Willy Adames added a run-scoring single off Jesse Chavez (3-3) the fourth, Pham’s fifth-inning solo shot made it 4-2.
Astros 6, Mariners 1
HOUSTON — Rookie Yordan Alvarez drove in three to back up seven strong
innings by Gerrit Cole and help Houston over Seattle to complete a three-game sweep.
Cole (8-5), who allowed just four singles after a solo homer to J.P. Crawford, struck out
10 and walked one to win his fourth straight decision. Cole leads the American League with
151 strikeouts this season. Mariners starter Marco Gonzales (9-7) allowed six hits and three runs while walking three in five innings to snap a fourgame winning streak in his first loss since June 2.
After consecutive one-run wins in the 10th inning, the Astros didn’t need any late dramatics in this one. They padded the lead with a three-run eighth inning highlighted by a two-RBI single by Jake Marisnick.
Reds 8, Cubs 6
CINCINNATI — Eugenio Suarez ended his slump with Cincinnati’s longest homer of the season, Anthony DeSclafani (5-4) pitched six scoreless innings and the Reds held off Chicago.
Phillip Ervin and Nick Senzel drove in two runs each, and Raisel Iglesias escaped with a six-out save despite allowing Jason Heyward’s three-run homer in the ninth. Kyle Schwarber also had a late connection for the Cubs.
Chicago starter Jon Lester (76) hadn’t lost to the Reds since
2016, a streak of seven straight starts. The Cubs have dropped
3 of 4 and finished June 14-15, their first losing month since May 2017.
Yasiel Puig stole two bases a day after a shouting match with Chicago reliever Pedro Strop — Puig was upset after being hit by a 3-0 pitch.
Cardinals 5, Padres 3, 11 innings
SAN DIEGO — Matt Wieters hit a two-run homer with two outs in the 11th inning, and St. Louis overcame a three-run deficit to beat San Diego and snap a five-game losing streak.
Wieters’ shot off Brad Wieck (0-1) reached the balcony on the fourth level of the Western Metal Supply Co. Building in the left-field corner. It was his fourth and came with Kolten Wong aboard on an infield single.
Manny Machado hit a tworun home run in the fourth, giving the Padres three players with at least 20, and Eric Hosmer had three hits. San Diego had its four-game winning streak snapped.
Carlos Martínez (2-0) pitched 2 2/3 innings of relief for the win and Dominic Leone got the final two outs for his first save.
Mets 8, Braves 5
NEW YORK — Newly named All-Stars Jeff McNeil and Pete Alonso had the big hits in a five-run eighth inning that rallied New York past Atlanta and snapped a seven-game losing streak.
Todd Frazier launched a long homer to begin the comeback and finished with three hits and two RBIs. McNeil and J.D. Davis also had three hits apiece for the Mets, who prevented a three-game sweep by the NL East leaders and won for only the fifth time in 18 games.
All-Star starter Ronald Acuña Jr. homered for the Braves. He had three hits and scored three times.
Edwin Díaz closed one out for New York’s beleaguered bullpen, getting three quick outs for his 17th save in 21 tries.
Wilmer Font (1-2) worked two hitless innings for his first win with the Mets. Sean Newcomb (2-1) took the loss.