Yankees’ Germán earns 16th win; Braves top Mets
Dodgers hit six homers in rout of Marlins; Phillies edge Cubs
NEW YORK — Domingo Germán pitched seven strong innings to become the first 16-game winner in the majors as the New York Yankees beat Baltimore 8-3 on Tuesday night, running their winning streak over the Orioles to 15 games.
Germán (16-2) allowed two runs, five hits, struck out seven, walked one and won his career-high seventh straight decision.
DJ LeMahieu homered on the first pitch he saw to get the Yankees going. Aaron Judge added a tworun double in New York’s four-run fourth.
Gio Urshela had three more hits, including an RBI single in the fourth. Cameron Maybin had a two-run single in the second, and Gary Sánchez and Mike Tauchman added RBI doubles as the Yankees totaled 15 hits.
New York is on its longest single-season winning streak against one foe since beating the 103-loss Philadelphia Athletics 15 in a row in 1954.
BRAVES 5, METS 3: In Atlanta, Ronald Acuña Jr. homered and threw out a runner at the plate to back Max Fried’s fifth straight win, leading Atlanta past New York.
Acuña sparked a two-run first against Zack Wheeler by leading off with a long single off the wall in right-center, coming around to score his 100th run of the season. In the fourth, he lined a 409-foot drive to left for his 34th homer.
Acuña ended the sixth by scooping up a single to left by Juan Lagares and rifling a one-hop throw to the plate to get Todd Frazier.
Fried (14-4) went six innings, yielding six hits and three walks. Wheeler (9-7) was pounded for 12 hits and all five Atlanta runs.
DODGERS 15, MARLINS 1: In Miami, rookie Will Smith had his first two-homer game, and LA twice hit back-to-back homers in a rout of Miami.
Cody Bellinger tied a career high with his 39th home run and Justin Turner hit his 20th for the Dodgers, who totaled six homers and a season-high 13 extra-base hits.
The six homers tied the record for most by a team at Marlins Park, which opened in 2012.
PHILLIES 4, CUBS 2: In Philadelphia, J.T. Realmuto homered and drove in the tie-breaking run with an RBI double in the seventh inning to lift Philadelphia over Chicago.
Jason Vargas allowed two runs and five hits in six innings. Blake Parker (2-2) and Mike Morin each tossed a hitless inning and Hector Neris finished for his 21st save in 25 chances.
Cubs starter Jose Quintana had a career-best 14 strikeouts in six innings.
DIAMONDBACKS 9, ROCKIES 3: In Denver, Jarrod Dyson homered on the second pitch of the game during a five-run first inning and was later involved in a quirky double play as Arizona cruised to a win over Colorado.
It was Dyson’s third career leadoff homer — all this season. Christian Walker, Nick Ahmed and David Peralta added two-run homers off Jeff Hoffman (1-4), who was called up from Albuquerque to make an emergency start following Jon Gray’s late scratch due to left ankle soreness. Hoffman surrendered seven runs over two innings.
The strangest play of the night was on an inningending double play in the eighth that involved tagging out two Diamondbacks runners caught in rundowns. With runners on first and third, Dyson grounded a ball to first baseman Daniel Murphy, who trapped Ahmed between third and home. Ahmed was eventually tagged out and Dyson, who had broken toward second, eventually was tagged out going back to first.
TWINS 7, BREWERS 5: In Milwaukee, Christian Yelich returned to the starting lineup and sparked a late rally, but it wasn’t enough for Milwaukee as Marwin Gonzalez hit a three-run home run off Josh Hader to propel Minnesota to a come-frombehind win.
With Milwaukee trailing 4-1 in the seventh inning, Yelich hit an RBI double and scored on Yasmani Grandal’s three-run home run, his 20th of the season. That gave the Brewers a 5-4 lead.
But Gonzalez followed in the eighth with his blast, his 14th, to put the Twins ahead to stay.
It was the fifth blown save for Hader, an AllStar for the second consecutive year. The lefthander has allowed four home runs in his last six appearances.
NATIONALS 3, REDS 1: In Washington, Brian Dozier hit his 17th home run, Juan Soto hit a second-deck shot for his 25th and Joe Ross extended his scoreless streak to 17⅓ innings for Washington.
Ross (3-3) allowed one run and five hits in his 6⅔ innings. The run came when the final batter the righty faced, José Iglesias, delivered an RBI single.
Daniel Hudson earned his third save of the season as Washington won its third game in a row.
BLUE JAYS 3, RANGERS 0: In Toronto, five Blue Jays pitchers combined on a five-hitter, and Teoscar Hernandez and Billy McKinney hit back-toback home runs as Toronto beat Texas.
Toronto won for the fifth time in seven games. Texas has lost six of seven. Albuquerque’s Ken Giles got his 15th save.
ASTROS 6-1, WHITE SOX 2-4: In Chicago, Ivan Nova allowed tossed a four-hitter and the White Sox took advantage of an injury to Houston ace Gerrit Cole that caused him to miss his scheduled start for a 4-1 win and split of their doubleheader.
Houston won the first game 6-2 behind six solid innings from Zack Greinke (12-4) in his second start with the Astros and solo home runs by George Springer and José Altuve.
Albuquerque’s Alex Bregman sat out both games for Houston with a shoulder injury.
RED SOX 7, INDIANS 6 (10): In Cleveland, Jackie Bradley Jr. homered with one out in the 10th as Boston edged Cleveland after blowing a late lead and potential win for ace Chris Sale, who got his 2,000th career strikeout in the third inning.
Rafael Devers had six hits — four doubles — and made a costly error at third base for the Red Sox, who won for just the fourth time in 16 games.
Bradley drove a 2-0 pitch from Nick Wittgren (4-1) over the wall in right field for his 14th homer, allowing the Red Sox to hang on.
CARDINALS 2, ROYALS 0: In Kansas City, Mo., Jack Flaherty tossed seven innings of three-hit ball, and Tommy Edman and Paul Goldschmidt drove in the only runs for St. Louis.
Flaherty (6-6) struck out seven with a lone walk in his sixth consecutive stingy start since the AllStar break. He’s allowed 20 hits with 50 strikeouts and 0.70 ERA over that span.
GIANTS 3, ATHLETICS 2: In San Francisco, Madison Bumgarner struck out nine over seven innings and outdueled fellow left-hander Brett Anderson as San Francisco beat Oakland.
Evan Longoria and Kevin Pillar each hit RBI doubles during a string of three straight two-out doubles by the Giants in the sixth against Anderson (10-8). MARINERS 11, TIGERS 6: In Detroit, Kyle Seager homered three times and Tom Murphy added two to help Seattle beat Detroit.
Seager and Murphy hit back-to-back homers in the fourth and sixth innings before Seager added his third in the ninth.