Cole fans 16 for 14th win
Gerrit Cole racked up a season-high 15 strikeouts over seven innings to earn his AL-leading 14th victory, and the New York Yankees snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Aaron Judge hit his 30th homer and Luke Voit had a two-run single for the Yankees, who had won 13 straight before their skid.
Cole yielded four hits and didn’t walk a batter while posting his biggest strikeout total since joining the Yankees. Aroldis Chapman pitched the ninth for his 25th save.
David Fletcher delivered an RBI double in the sixth for the Angels, whose three-game winning streak ended.
Mariners 1, Astros 0 — Seattle rookie right-hander Logan Gilbert and four relievers combined to shut out Houston for the second straight day and J.P. Crawford scored the lone run on a sacrifice fly.
Seattle took two of three in the series from the AL West leaders. The Mariners are still 6 1/2 back of Houston in the AL West but continue to hang around in the wild-card race.
Blue Jays 5, Orioles 4 — Randal Grichuk hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly in the eighth inning and Toronto beat Baltimore.
Marcus Semien hit a solo home run and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. had two hits and two RBI to help the Blue Jays take two of three from the Orioles.
Tigers 8, Athletics 6 — Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run homer, No. 502 of his career, and drove in the go-ahead run with a single in the seventh inning as Detroit snapped a four-game skid with a win over Oakland.
National League
Cardinals, Reds split — Nick Castellanos drove in six runs with a grand slam and a tworun shot in the first two innings, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 12-2 Wednesday night to split a doubleheader.
Cincinnati rocked starter J.A. Happ and regained a halfgame lead over San Diego for second in the NL wild-card race. St. Louis slipped into a tie for fourth with Philadelphia.
Paul Goldschmidt gave St. Louis the lead with his second homer of the game as the Cardinals won the opener, 5-4.
Diamondbacks 8, Padres 3 — Josh VanMeter homered in a six-run third inning as Arizona knocked out Yu Darvish early and beat San Diego.
Luke Weaver, making his first start in 3 1/2 months, took a shutout into the sixth inning. Pavin Smith and Ketel Marte had three hits apiece.
Interleague
Rockies 9, Rangers 5 — Brendan Rodgers’ two-run double put Colorado ahead during a five-run ninth inning, and the Rockies rallied from an early 5-0 deficit to beat Texas.
Cubs 3, Twins 0 — Frank Schwindel hit a three-run homer and a pair of pitchers combined on a two-hitter in Chicago’s win over Minnesota.
Justin Steele gave up one hit, walked three and struck out three over five innings. Adbert Alzolay earned his first career save. He allowed one hit and struck out five.