Martinez blasts another HR, Red Sox top White Sox
BOSTON: JD Martinez clubbed his major league leading 21st home run to break a 2-all tie in the fifth inning and send hosts Boston Red Sox past the Chicago White Sox 4-2 in the second of a three-game series on Saturday.
Martinez crushed an 0-1 change-up from White Sox starter Carlos Rodon (0-1) approximately 391 feet into the Red Sox bullpen in right-centre field, one at-bat after Xander Bogaerts reached on Jose Abreu’s throwing error.
Jackie Bradley Jr also hit a solo homer, his third of the season, for Boston, who bounced back from a 1-0 loss in Friday’s series opener. Red Sox starter David Price (7-4) allowed two runs on five hits and three walks with six strikeouts in six innings.
Boston have won five of seven and 14 of their last 20 games.
Aaron Judge hit the tie-breaking homer leading off the eighth inning as the Yankees came back to beat their cross-town rivals 4-3 at Citi Field.
The Yankees have won four straight and nine of 10. The Mets have lost the first eight games of a nine-game homestand and have scored just 11 runs in the process.
The Mets’ fortunes appeared to be changing in the first inning, when manager Mickey Callaway’s revamped line-up scored three runs in a span of 15 pitches.
Jeimer Candelario drilled a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the 12th to give Detroit a 4-2 victory over visiting Cleveland.
Candelario was 0-for-5 until he crushed his 10th homer of the season off Indians closer Cody Allen (2-3). Miguel Cabrera set up the blast with a two-out single.
Warwick Saupold (4-1) pitched two innings of shutout relief to get the victory. Victor Martinez had two hits and an RBI for Detroit.
Albert Pujols and Ian Kinsler hit home runs, and starter Tyler Skaggs pitched seven strong innings as Los Angeles won their sixth straight game, topping Minnesota 2-1 in Minneapolis. Pujols’ solo shot in the sixth inning, his ninth of the season, tied him with Stan Musial for sixth place on baseball’s all-time RBI list with 1,951.
Kinsler homered for a third straight game, lifting a slider off Twins starter Kyle Gibson over the left-field fence with none on and two out in the third inning. It was Kinsler’s eighth home run of the season and third of his career off Gibson.
Jon Lester pitched seven scoreless, one-hit innings, and a couple of early runs held up for Chicago in a 2-0 win over visiting Pittsburgh.
Justin Wilson pitched a perfect eighth inning, and Steve Cishek had a perfect ninth to complete the shutout.