Red Sox snap 8-game losing streak
BOSTON — Rick Porcello pitched six innings of one-run ball, Sam Travis hit a two-run homer and the Boston Red Sox halted their eight-game losing streak with a 7-5 victory over the struggling Kansas City Royals on Monday night.
Rafael Devers added a solo shot for the Red Sox. Travis’ gave Boston a homer in a club-record
18 straight games in Fenway Park. The old mark was set in 1969.
Bubba Starling, Meibrys Viloria and Cheslor Cuthbert each went deep for Kansas City, with Viloria’s his first homer in the majors and Starling’s a three-run shot.
It was the seventh straight loss for the Royals, who had a
10-game skid in the season’s first two weeks.
Porcello (10-8) gave up four hits, walked two and struck out five.
Brandon Workman got the final three outs for his sixth save.
Rangers 1, Indians 0
CLEVELAND — All-Star Mike Minor struck out seven over seven innings, Nomar Mazara drove in Elvis Andrus with a sacrifice fly in the fourth and Texas beat Cleveland.
Minor (10-6) allowed seven hits and walked one as Texas won its fifth straight.
Andrus started the fourth with a triple, coming home a batter later when Mazara flew out to short center. He easily beat the bouncing throw home from rookie Oscar Mercado.
Jesse Chavez worked a 1-2-3 eighth and José Leclerc pitched the ninth for his seventh save.
Indians starter Aaron Civale (1-1) allowed a run in six innings and struck out seven in his second big league appearance.
Twins 5, Braves 3
MINNEAPOLIS — Miguel Sanó’s pinch-hit, two-run homer in the ninth inning gave Minnesota a victory over Atlanta.
Sanó’s 19th home run of the season went an estimated 443 feet off reliever Chris Martin, hitting high off the wall in center field.
Martin (0-3) was making his second appearance for Atlanta since being acquired at the trade deadline.
Trevor May (5-3) pitched two innings with one hit allowed for the Twins, who have won four in a row to stretch their lead over Cleveland in the AL Central to four games. They’ve won nine of 11.
Freddie Freeman hit his 27th homer for Atlanta, which has lost three of four and is 12-11 since the All-Star break
Minnesota’s Max Kepler hit his 31st homer.
Cubs 6, Athletics 5
CHICAGO — Javier Báez hit two of Chicago’s four homers and the Cubs’ bullpen barely held on without Craig Kimbrel in beating Oakland.
Ian Happ and Nicholas Castellanos also connected as Chicago improved to 40-18 at home with its fourth straight win.
The Cubs are counting on their depth to help them stay on top of the NL Central until Kimbrel and Willson Contreras return from injuries. Kimbrel was placed on the 10-day injured list before the game with right knee inflammation, and Contreras is expected to miss four weeks after an MRI showed a Grade 2 hamstring strain.
Oakland had won six of seven and nearly pulled off an impressive rally in its first game at Wrigley Field since 2010. Marcus Semien went deep twice for the A’s, and Nick Martini connected for his second career homer in a successful homecoming for suburban Chicago native.
Rowan Wick (2-0) got two outs for the win.
Dodgers 8, Cardinals 0
LOS ANGELES — Cody Bellinger hit a three-run homer and rookie Tony Gonsolin pitched six stellar innings of two-hit ball to earn his first major league victory as Los Angeles beat St. Louis.
Corey Seager, Justin Turner and rookie Matt Beaty had RBI doubles, and Joc Pederson also homered in the NL-leading Dodgers’ sixth win in seven games.
Los Angeles became the majors’ first team to 75 victories and improved to 4-1 on its 10-game homestand.
Gonsolin (1-1) retired 14 of the Cardinals’ first 15 batters and took a no-hitter into the fifth inning of his second career start. He yielded one walk and struck out seven, including Paul Goldschmidt with his 90th pitch to end his home debut with a standing ovation.
Michael Wacha (6-5) couldn’t get out of the fourth inning for the Cardinals, who dropped to 0-3 on their five-game California road trip.
Yankees 9, Orioles 6
BALTIMORE —New York hit five more home runs at Camden Yards, including two by Mike Tauchman, to set a major league record and win its 13th straight game in Baltimore.
New York’s power surge and sixth straight win overshadowed a memorable night for Baltimore’s Jonathan Villar, who became the fifth Orioles player to hit for the cycle and first since Felix Pie on Aug. 14, 2009. Villar tripled in the third inning, doubled in the fifth, homered in the sixth and dumped a single into right field off Aroldis Chapman in the ninth.
Tauchman delivered a bases-empty drive in the sixth inning and a tiebreaking solo shot off Paul Fry (1-4) in the eighth, his first career multihomer game. Austin Romine, Brett Gardner and Mike Ford also connected for the Yankees.
New York has hit 32 home runs at Camden Yards, a single-season record for most by a visiting team in one ballpark. The mark was previously held by the Milwaukee Braves, who hit 29 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field in 1957.
The Yankees did it in only eight games, and they can add to the record on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Adam Ottavino (5-3) pitched the seventh inning for New York and Chapman worked the ninth for his 30th save.
Blue Jays 2, Rays 0
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Rookie Bo Bichette homered and scored both runs, Jacob Waguespack pitched six impressive innings and Toronto ended Tampa Bay’s six-game winning streak.
Bichette opened the game with a double off Charlie Morton, the sixth straight game in which he has doubled. He hit his third home run leading off the third.
Waguespack (3-1) gave up four hits and a walk, striking out six in his fifth major league start. Derek Law got four outs for his second save in four days.
Morton (12-4) pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on seven hits while striking out nine.
The Rays put nine runners on base in the first seven innings, including three via Toronto errors. They were 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position and were shut out for the first time since June 28.
Freddy Galvis and Randal Grichuk also had two hits for the Blue Jays, who have won six of eight.
Reds 7, Angels 4
CINCINNATI — Luis Castillo struck out a career-high 13 and Cincinnati scored five runs in the first innings on the way to a win over Los Angeles.
Castillo (11-4) threw a career-high 119 pitches in seven innings while getting his career-best
11th win. He allowed three hits and one walk before finishing with a flourish, striking out the side in the seventh.
Raisel Iglesias picked up his
22nd save.
Mike Trout and Luis Rengifo hit solo home runs for the Angels, who have dropped nine of 11 since a four-game winning streak.
Brian Goodwin added his first career pinch-hit home run, a tworun shot to right against David Hernandez, in the ninth.