Pujols busts out of slump
Yankees subdue Red Sox Pirates edge Nationals in 18 innings Ichiro does in on 3,000 in majors
Cole Hamels took advantage of an early lead and scattered four hits as the Texas Rangers salvaged the finale of a threegame series with a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
Hamels, who no-hit the Cubs in his last Wrigley Field visit in 2015 while with the Phillies, worked eight innings for his longest outing since going eight on May 22.
Hamels (10-2) struck out seven with an unearned run as the Rangers snapped a four-game losing streak.
Mets 5, Phillies 0
Jacob deGrom recorded his first career complete game in scintillating fashion, allowing just one hit as New York blanked Philadelphia.
The 28-year-old, who lowered his ERA to 2.38, improved to 6-4 on the year after striking out seven and walking one. DeGrom has struck out at least six in 10 straight starts.
Reds 1, Brewers 0
Billy Hamilton scored the winning run from third on a passed ball in the bottom of the ninth to lift Cincinnati over Milwaukee.
In the bottom of the ninth, Hamilton’s 24th stolen base put him at third and he raced home when Smith’s pitch skipped a few feet away from Jonathan Lucroy.
Braves 1, Rockies 0
Chase d’Arnaud delivered an RBI single with two outs in the ninth inning to give Atlanta a walk-off victory over Colorado.
Ender Inciarte singled leading off the Braves’ ninth against Gonzalez German and moved up on a sacrifice bunt and wild pitch. Then Jace Peterson drew a two-out walk to set the stage for d’Arnaud.
German (2-1) got a quick strike, but then d’Arnaud connected with a fastball and lined the winning hit into left field. It was d’Arnaud’s third hit of the game.
Yankees 3, Red Sox 1
Masahiro Tanaka outpitched David Price in their first matchup to win his fourth straight decision, and the Yankees ended Boston’s six-game winning streak Sunday night with a 3-1 victory over the Red Sox.
Starlin Castro keyed New York’s threerun fourth inning with a double that scored Didi Gregorius from first base, snapping a 10-game drought without an RBI.
No. 9 batter Austin Romine lined a go-ahead single with two outs off the glove of diving second baseman Dustin Pedroia. Jacoby Ellsbury added another RBI single off Price, who gave up 11 hits in 52/3 innings as the Yankees prevented a three-game sweep.
Price (9-7) had only one strikeout following three consecutive outings with 10.
Pirates 2, Nationals 1 (18)
Starling Marte had three hits, including a solo homer with two outs in the top of the 18th inning, to help Pittsburgh avoid a three-game sweep.
The homer came off Washington reliever Oliver Perez (2-3) and came on the first pitch of the at-bat. It was the longest regular-season game in terms of innings in Nationals franchise history.
Pittsburgh reliever Jonathon Niese struck out Danny Espinosa with two runners on base in the bottom of the 18th to end the game.
Marlins 6, Cardinals 3
Ichiro Suzuki drew closer to a cherished major league milestone and Miami took the rubber game of a three-game series matching National League wild-card hopefuls.
Suzuki’s three hits led the Marlins’ 13-hit attack against the Cardinals. He needs only six hits to reach 3,000, and nearly had a fourth hit. But his infield single in the third was erased after a replay review revealed he was barely nipped at first.
Giancarlo Stanton snapped a 3-3 tie for the Marlins in the seventh with an RBI double off reliever Jonathan Broxton (1-2), scoring Christian Yelich. Stanton scored on a one-out sacrifice fly by Don Kelly for a two-run advantage.
Blue Jays 5, Athletics 3
Josh Donaldson lined a two-run, tie-breaking double with two outs in the top of the ninth as Toronto to avoided a sweep.
Justin Smoak reached safely on an infield single with one out against A’s reliever John Axford in the ninth. Junior Lake lined a single to center, moving pinch runner Andy Burns to second. Then with two outs, Donaldson hammered his 96-mph fastball down the left-field line.
Roberto Osuna pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 19th save.
Angels 8, White Sox 1
Albert Pujols hit two homers and drove in four runs to lead Los Angeles.
Pujols has 17 homers this season and 577 for his career. His 1,187 career extra-base hits moved him past Frank Robinson into 10th place in that category.
Before Sunday’s outburst, Pujols had just one home run in his previous 16 games.
Jered Weaver (8-7) retired 13 of the final 15 batters he faced to pick up his third win in four decisions as LA secured its third consecutive victory and its seventh in nine games.
Diamondbacks 6, Dodgers 5
Jake Lamb homered and drove in two runs and Robbie Ray pitched seven scoreless innings as Arizona hung on for a victory.
Lamb’s RBI single started a three-run first inning, and he later hit a solo homer in the fourth. He was 7-for-12 with two doubles, a triple and a homer in the three-game series.
The Dodgers scored all their runs in the final two innings, when Justin Turner drove in four with a two-run homer in the eighth inning and a two-run single in the ninth.
LA trailed by one and had runners at the corners with one out in the ninth, but reliever Jake Barrett struck out Yasiel Puig and Chris Taylor to end the game.