Yelich sixth player to hit for 3rd cycle
Christian Yelich hit for a record-tying third cycle — all of them against the Reds — but the Brewers’ rally fell short in the ninth inning in a 14-11 loss Wednesday in Cincinnati.
Yelich became the sixth player in major-league history to hit three cycles in a career. He joins Trea Turner, Adrian Beltre, Babe
Herman, Bob Meusel and John
Reilly in accomplishing the feat.
Yelich doubled in the first, hit a three-run homer in the third, singled in the fifth and tripled during a six-run ninth.
Tyler Stephenson drove in four runs with a pair of doubles and Colin Moran hit a three-run homer
for the Reds.
Yankees 5, Blue Jays 3
Gleyber Torres homered and drove in five runs, and host New York beat Toronto for its 15th win in 17 games.
The Yankees won their seventh consecutive series and improved to a major league-best 22-8, their best 30-game start since 2003. The Yankees are 13-0 when scoring five runs or more.
The Blue Jays have lost a season-high four straight and seven of nine.
Rays 4, Angels 2 (10 inn.)
Vidal Brujan got an RBI double leading off the 10th inning for his first hit of the season, and Tampa Bay rebounded from its no-hit loss to snap a threegame skid.
The game was a 1-0 pitchers’ duel until the eighth, with the Rays’ Shane McClanahan barely outpitching Shohei Ohtani. McClanahan had a career high-tying 11 strikeouts over seven innings of three-hit ball.
Ohtani allowed one run, two hits and two walks over six sharp innings for the host Angels, striking out five on 92 pitches.
Pirates 5, Dodgers 3
Daniel Vogelbach hit a go-ahead homer in the seventh inning, and host Pittsburgh took a series from Los Angeles for the first time since a threegame sweep in June 2016.
Jack Suwinski, who went to Taft, hit his second home run in three days for the Pirates.
Giants 7, Rockies 1
Brandon Crawford homered, and host San Francisco earned its 10th consecutive win over Colorado, which lost its fourth consecutive game.
Crawford drove in three runs and scored twice as the Giants extended their overall winning streak to five. Alex Cobb (2-1) pitched 5⅓ innings of one-run ball in his first victory since April 12.