Twins crush Cleveland
Sonny Gray pitched seven scoreless innings and Gary Sánchez had four RBIs to help the Minnesota Twins stretch their lead in the AL Central with an 11-1 blowout of the Cleveland Guardians on Monday night.
Sánchez hit a three-run homer in the second inning off Triston McKenzie (4-6). Nick Gordon and Carlos Correa added tworun homers for Minnesota, now three games up on Cleveland.
The Guardians had briefly moved atop the division last week after rallying to win two of three in Minneapolis, but they’ve lost five straight. These rivals will play a day-night doubleheader Tuesday and are meeting eight times in 10 days.
Gray (4-1) never let the Guardians get going. He gave up hits in each of the first two innings, then retired 15 of 16 before walking José Ramírez to start the seventh — his first walk allowed in 22 innings. YANKEES 9, ATHLETICS 5 >>
Josh Donaldson hit a goahead two-run double during a six-run sixth inning and New York beat Oakland.
The Yankees took advantage of two catcher’s interference calls, a hit batter and a walk to spark their rally. Donaldson lined an 0-2 fastball from A.J. Puk (1-1) into left field for a 6-5 lead.
New York won after trailing for the 23rd time this season and improved its majors-best record to 54-20.
Evis Andrus hit a threerun double for Oakland in the third.
Albert Abreu (1-0) struck out four in 2 1/3 hitless innings.
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CARDINALS 9, MARLINS 0 >> Juan Yepez had his first career multi-homer game and Adam Wainwright pitched seven scoreless innings as St. Louis beat Miami.
Yepez drove in five runs. Paul Goldschmidt went 4 for 4 with a home run and two RBIs.
Wainwright (6-5) scattered seven hits through his first five innings. He retired the final seven batters he faced and struck out nine.
Marlins starter Pablo López (5-4) gave up five runs in five innings.
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Maikel Franco hit a goahead, two-run homer in the eighth inning and Washington beat Pittsburgh.
Luis García had three hits for the Nationals, who’ve won five of seven.
Top prospect Oneil Cruz hit his first homer of the season for Pittsburgh.
Pirates reliever Chris Stratton (4-4) was an out away from working around García’s leadoff double in the eighth when Franco launched a first-pitch slider to left-center, giving the Nationals their first lead of the night.
Carl Edwards Jr. (2-1) pitched two scoreless innings, and Kyle Finnegan handled the ninth for his first save.