Rays walk off with wild win
Kevin Kiermaier scored the winning run on a wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning last night and the Tampa Bay Rays came back from a six-run deficit to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-6 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Kiermaier led off the 10th by stretching a hit into a double off Buddy Bosher (0-2), and scored the gameending run after a walk and Willy Adames’ bunt. First baseman Brandon Drury fielded the bunt and threw to third in an unsuccessful attempt to force Kiermaier. After two strikeouts, Bosher’s pitch to Austin Meadows bounced through catcher Danny Jansen and Kiermaier scored.
Diego Castillo (2-6) got the win after one inning of relief.
Avisail Garcia, Willy Adames and Meadows hit two-run homers off Blue Jays starter Trent Thornton in the fourth inning, quickly erasing a six-run Toronto lead.
It was the third time in the last four Blue Jays-Rays meetings in which a team came back from a deficit of six or more runs to win.
White Sox 5, Tigers 3 — Dylan Cease pitched five solid innings and José Abreu homered and drove in three runs to lift visiting Chicago to a victory over Detroit in the first game of a doubleheader. Welington Castillo also homered for Chicago, and Jake Rogers went deep for Detroit.
Cease (2-4) allowed two runs and seven hits, striking out six with one walk. He also beat Detroit on July 3 before losing his next four starts.
Rangers-Indians, ppd. — The game between Texas and host Cleveland was postponed by rain. The game was called off at 7:25 p.m, about 15 minutes after the scheduled start. The teams will play a traditional doubleheader at 1:10 p.m. today.
National League
Brewers 4, Pirates 3 — Yasmani Grandal had two doubles and an RBI and visiting Milwaukee, without a resting Christian Yelich, beat Pittsburgh.
Grandal drove in Ryan Braun with a double to leftcenter, the first hit off Pirates starter Steven Brault, in the fifth inning, before scoring when Trent Grisham grounded into a double play as the Brewers moved out to a 2-0 lead.
Grandal doubled again in the seventh inning off Francisco Liriano (4-3), giving Milwaukee runners on second and third with no outs.
A one-out walk to Grisham loaded the bases, and Braun scored on a sacrifice fly by Orlando Arcia to give Milwaukee a 3-2 lead.
Mets 5, Marlins 0 — Zack Wheeler (9-6) pitched eight efficient innings, Wilson Ramos and Pete Alonso homered, and host New York beat Miami for its 12th win in 13 games.
The hard-charging Mets improved to 58-56 a night after surpassing the .500 mark for the first time since early May. New York has the best record in baseball since the All-Star break and improbably entered the day 2½ games behind Philadelphia for an NL wild card despite looking like trade deadline sellers in mid-July.
Interleague
Athletics 11, Cubs 4 — Lefthander Jon Lester was tagged for a career high-tying 11 runs in only four innings, with Dustin Garneau and Stephen Piscotty hitting three-run homers that led Oakland over host Chicago.
Garneau’s drive to the back row of the bleachers in left field was the big blow in an eight-run, second-inning burst. The A’s went on to their seventh win in nine games.
Reds 8, Angels 4 — Tucker Barnhart hit two of his team’s five home runs, Aristides Aquino included one among his three hits and came up with a clutch catch ashost Cincinnati beat Los Angeles to complete a sweep of their two-game interleague series.