Ellsbury, Gregorius power Yanks past Dodgers
Ichiro reaches multi-hit milestone for Marlins Mets edge Nats in extras Orioles beat Red Sox
Jacoby Ellsbury and Didi Gregorius homered on consecutive pitches with one out in the seventh inning, lifting the New York Yankees to a 3-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night.
Ellsbury capped a nine-pitch at-bat by lifting a full count curveball from Ross Stripling into the second deck in right field. Gregorius batted for Ronald Torreyes and sent Stripling’s fastball into the seats.
The Yankees won for the eighth time in 10 games.
Marlins 7, Braves 5
Ichiro Suzuki, not showing his age at 42, reached 900 multi-hit games in the majors with his 26th of the season and second in as many games as Miami defeated Atlanta.
Suzuki, who has 3,027 career hits in the majors, recorded a triple and single to lift his average .304, drew a walk, scored two runs and delivered an RBI the day after a three-hit game.
Matt Kemp hit his 31st homer and Freddie Freeman reached 30 for the first time in a three-RBI game for the Braves. Christian Yelich was 2-for-3 with a double, drew two walks, drove in two runs and scored one for the Marlins.
Twins 8, Tigers 1
Jorge Polanco drove in a career-high four runs and Kyle Gibson pitched eight strong innings, carrying Minnesota over Detroit.
Polanco had a two-run homer and tworun single among his three hits. Gibson posted his first victory in five starts by holding the Tigers to one run on five hits while striking out four.
Twins second baseman Brian Dozier extended his hitting streak to a career-high 17 games with three hits and also scored twice. Kennys Vargas supplied two hits and a solo homer, while Robbie Grossman added two hits and two RBIs for the Twins.
Athletics 5, Royals 4
Khris Davis homered again and Yonder Alonso hit a pinch two-run double with two out in a four-run eighth inning as Oakland topped Kansas City.
Royals starter Danny Duffy gave up a home run to Ryon Healy to lead off the eighth and after he walked Brett Eibner with one out, rookie left-hander Matthew Strahm relieved him. After Strahm gave up an infield single to Chad Pinder, Joakim Soria was summoned to protect a 3-2 lead.
Instead, Soria surrendered the two-run double to Alonso and a run-producing single to Marcus Semien. Soria has blown seven saves, matching his career worst, in eight opportunities.
Mets 4, Nationals 3 (10)
Rookie T.J. Rivera hit a solo homer on an 0-2 pitch from closer Mark Melancon with one out in the top of the 10th as New York beat Washington.
It was the first homer in the career of Rivera, who had three hits and three RBIs. Jerry Blevins fanned Daniel Murphy for the final out of the game with Jayson Werth, who had singled, on base to get the save.
The second-place Mets are nine games back of the first-place Nationals, and New York will aim for its seventh straight series win Wednesday.
Orioles 6, Red Sox 3
J.J. Hardy and Nolan Reimold each slugged homers as Baltimore posted a victory over Boston at Fenway Park.
Hardy’s three-run blast was his 10th homer of the year, while Reimold’s tworun bomb was his sixth.
Jonathan Schoop was 3-for-5 and socked his 24th homer, a solo shot in the ninth.
The Orioles pulled into a tie for second place in the AL East with the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost 6-2 at home to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.
Rangers 3, Astros 2
Elvis Andrus delivered a game-tying, two-out triple in the ninth inning and Jurickson Profar followed with an RBI single to lift Texas over host Houston.
The Rangers rallied against Astros closer Ken Giles, whose strikeout of Rougned Odor proved decisive when Odor reached on a wild pitch.
Astros catcher Jason Castro socked a leadoff home run in the sixth inning off Rangers right-hander A.J. Griffin.
Cardinals 4, Cubs 2
Alex Reyes worked 41/3 scoreless innings and Brandon Moss cracked a tie-breaking two-run homer to lift St. Louis past Chicago.
Reyes relieved ineffective Jaime Garcia and overcame six walks, allowing only one hit and striking out four as he beat Chicago in relief for the second time this year. Reyes stranded 10 baserunners in his outing, leaving the bases loaded in the second and fourth.
Another rookie, Matt Bowman, followed Reyes with two perfect innings. Kevin Siegrist, pitching the ninth because regular closer Seung Hwan Oh is battling a groin injury, earned his second save by retiring the Cubs in order.