Paredes lifts Rays over Yankees
ST PETERSBURG: Isaac Paredes hit three home runs to power up a slumping offence and help the Tampa Bay Rays break a four-game losing streak against the New York Yankees, beating the top team in the majors 5-4 in Florida on Tuesday.
Paredes, who broke up Gerrit Cole’s no-hit bid on Monday with an eighthinning lead-off single, took starter Nestor Cortes (6-3) deep in the first and third.
He added a third shot against Clarke Schmidt in the fifth. It was the seventh time in Rays history that a player had slugged three long balls, and the first since Brandon Lowe ripped three on Oct 2 against the Yankees.
Paredes, who was 3-for-3 with four RBIs and was hit by a pitch, had recorded his first career multi-homer game on May 18, with two against the Detroit Tigers.
Harold Ramirez added a homer and a double as the Rays won for only the third time in the past 10 games against the Yankees.
At Anaheim, Carlos Santana and Bobby Witt Jr combined for nine RBIs, ruining a monster night by Shohei Ohtani, as they led Kansas City to a 12-11 victory in 11 innings over the Angels.
Santana homered, doubled, singled twice and drove in five runs, while Witt homered twice and doubled.
Ohtani homered twice, including a three-run, game-tying shot with one out in the ninth, and drove in eight runs.
Angels first baseman Jared Walsh, who hit for the cycle against the Mets on June 11, nearly did it again with a double, a triple and a home run.
At Chicago, Josh Harrison knocked a game-ending single in the 12th inning to lift the White Sox over Toronto 7-6 in 12 innings.
Adam Engel had three hits and Luis Robert added two hits and four RBIs for Chicago.
Toronto scored runs in the 10th and 11th innings but went down in order against Vince Velasquez in the 12th.