Red Sox snap Astros’ streak
Yankees win again; Harper homers
BOSTON — Michael Chavis homered, Xander Bogaerts hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning and the Boston Red Sox averted a series sweep against Houston with a 4-3 victory Sunday that snapped the Astros’ 10-game winning streak.
Mookie Betts scored three runs for Boston, which lost the first two games in its first meeting with the Astros since beating them in the 2018 AL Championship Series.
Carlos Correa hit a two-run homer off Chris Sale for Houston, which is 13-4 in May.
Astros outfielder George Springer, who began the day leading the American League with 17 homers, exited with lower back stiffness after striking out three times against Sale.
YANKEES 13, RAYS 5: In New York, Brett Gardner homered early, then got two hits during a seven-run burst in the sixth inning fueled by five walks that sent New York past Tampa Bay.
The Yankees took their second straight weekend series from the Rays and moved a half-game in front atop the AL East. Aaron Hicks homered for the first time since returning from a back injury and DJ LeMahieu also connected to help New York win for the 10th time in 13 games.
PHILLIES 7, ROCKIES 5: In Philadelphia, Bryce Harper homered for the second straight day and pinch-hitter J.T. Realmuto also went deep to help Philadelphia complete a threegame sweep of Colorado.
Harper’s tie-breaking, tworun shot in the sixth inning wasn’t as prodigious as his 466-foot drive in Saturday’s 2-1 victory, but this 404-footer had plenty of distance to clear the right-center wall for the NL East leaders. The $330 million slugger also had a single and an RBI groundout.
Ryan McMahon hit two homers, and Charlie Blackmon and Trevor Story also went deep. But the Rockies, who dropped 9½ games behind the first-place Dodgers in the NL West, have lost four straight.
MARLINS 3, METS 0: In Miami, Sandy Alcantara threw a two-hitter in a pitching duel with Noah Syndergaard, and Miami beat the reeling New York Mets to finish a three-game sweep.
BREWERS 3, BRAVES 2, 10 INNINGS: In Atlanta, Ben Gamel led off the 10th inning with a home run that lifted Milwaukee over Atlanta.
All five runs in the game came on homers.
DODGERS 8, REDS 3: In Cincinnati, Hyun-Jin Ryu threw seven shutout innings to extend his major league-leading streak to 31, and Cody Bellinger hit his 17th homer as Los Angeles defeated Cincinnati.
Ryu (6-1) had baserunners in each of his first five innings, but none of them got past second and he retired his last eight batters. The left-hander allowed five hits with one walk and five strikeouts, lowering his ERA to 1.52.
INDIANS, 10, ORIOLES 0: In Cleveland, Shane Bieber struck out a career-high 15 in his first major league complete game and Cleveland routed Baltimore.
A day after being held to one hit, the Orioles were overmatched against Bieber (3-2). The 23-year-old right-hander gave up five hits, didn’t walk anyone and threw 107 pitches.
ATHLETICS 5, TIGERS 3, 7 INNINGS, SUSPENDED: In Detroit, the Oakland Athletics led Detroit in the bottom of the seventh inning when the game was suspended because of rain.
BLUE JAYS 5, WHITE SOX 2: In Chicago, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit another home run, Danny Jansen and Billy McKinney also connected and Toronto beat Chicago.
Guerrero has hit all four of his homers in the last six games. The highly touted 20-year-old didn’t homer in his first 13 games after making his major league debut in late April.
RANGERS 5, CARDINALS 4, 10 INNINGS: In Arlington, Texas, Nomar Mazara hit a sacrifice fly off reliever Carlos Martinez to cap a two-run rally in the 10th inning that lifted Texas over St. Louis. ROYALS 5, ANGELS 1: In Anaheim, Danny Duffy won his third straight start and Kansas City beat Los Angeles to stop a four-game skid.
MARINERS 7, TWINS 4: In Seattle, Edwin Encarnacion made several nice plays at first base early, then hit a three-run homer in the seventh inning to help Seattle snap Minnesota’s five-game winning streak.
GIANTS 3, DIAMONDBACKS 2, 10 INNINGS: In Phoenix, Pablo Sandoval opened the 10th inning with a pinch-hit homer after shortstop Brandon Crawford made a game-saving stop in the ninth, sending San Francisco past Arizona.
PIRATES 6, PADRES 4: In San Diego, Colin Moran hit a threerun homer and finished with four RBIs, and Joe Musgrove beat his hometown Padres for the second time in two seasons as Pittsburgh won to take three of four from San Diego.
CUBS 6, NATIONALS 5: In Washington D.C., Anthony Rizzo homered, Albert Almora Jr. had three hits and Chicago held off Washington.
Chicago led 6-1 before Washington closed to within a run on a three-run homer by Anthony Rendon in the sixth inning and a solo home run by Howie Kendrick in the seventh.