Dodgers beat Marlins to end six-game losing streak
MIAMI — For one afternoon, finally, the Dodgers were better than last.
Justin Turner tied a career high with five RBIs and Kenta Maeda pitched eight innings Thursday to help Los Angeles beat the Marlins 7-0 and end a streak of six consecutive losses, all against last-place teams.
With the win, the defending National League champions climbed out of the cellar themselves in the NL West. Rap music blared in the postgame clubhouse, a contrast to the somber atmosphere of late.
“I thought the radio in the clubhouse was out the last six days,” manager Dave Roberts joked. “But we fixed it. So we have music. The worm has turned.”
Turner, who broke his left wrist in spring training and made his season debut Tuesday, hit a three-run double for the Dodgers’ first hit in the third inning. He added a two-run double in the fourth and also singled to finish 6-for-13 in the series (.462).
Maeda (3-3) allowed two hits and no walks in his longest outing of the season.
RED SOX 6, ORIOLES 2: In Boston, David Price took a shutout into the ninth inning and held Baltimore to five hits in his first complete game this season, leading Boston past Baltimore.
J.D. Martinez hit a two-run homer in the first, and Xander Bogaerts homered with two on during a four-run fifth.
Price (4-4) struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter while winning consecutive starts for the first time this season. Andrew Susac led off the ninth with a double, the first Baltimore player to reach second base in the game. Manny Machado spoiled the shutout bid with a two-out homer, but Price finished off Baltimore on Jonathan Schoop’s pop-up.
PHILLIES 6, CARDINALS 2: In St. Louis, Vince Velasquez pitched shutout ball into the seventh inning, and Carlos Santana and Pedro Florimon each hit home runs in Philadelphia’s victory over the Cardinals.
Velasquez (4-4) gave up five hits in 6⅓ innings, struck out five and walked two in recording his third straight win.
Odubel Herrera reached base three times to extend his onbase streak to 43 games, fifthlongest in franchise history. It is also the longest streak in the majors since Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman reached in 46 successive games in 2016.
WHITE SOX 4, RANGERS 2: In Chicago, Welington Castillo hit a tiebreaking two-run single in Chicago’s four-run eighth, helping the White Sox beat Texas.
Yoan Moncada had three hits for Chicago, which had lost nine of 10. The White Sox improved the majors’ worst record to 11-29, still a franchise record for worst 40-game start.
Nate Jones worked the ninth for his second save.
PIRATES 5, PADRES 4: In Pittsburgh, Gregory Polanco led off the seventh inning with a double and scored the goahead run on an error, leading the Pirates over San Diego for their eighth win in nine games.
ATHLETICS 10, BLUE JAYS 5: In Toronto, Matt Olson hit a three-run home run, Khris Davis and Matt Chapman added two-run shots, and Oakland beat Toronto.
Davis went 4 for 4 and scored three times as Oakland won for the second time in its past 13 games north of the border.
CUBS-BRAVES PPD.: In Atlanta, the final game of a three-game series between Chicago and Atlanta was postponed because of rain.
The Braves announced that the game will be made up Aug. 30.