Nationals soundly put end to Astros' winning streak
Yadiel Hernandez and Maikel Franco homered and the Washington Nationals ended the visiting Houston Astros' 11-game winning streak, romping 13-6 on Saturday night.
The Astros fell one game short of matching the franchise-record 12-game winning string achieved in 1999, 2004 and 2018.
The Houston staff had a 0.91 ERA during this recent run, but the Nationals collected 14 hits and five walks against five pitchers. Starter Cristian Javier (2-1) was tagged for seven runs and eight hits over 3 2/3 innings — the Astros had allowed a total of four runs over their past five games.
Jose Siri had a homer, triple and single for Houston.
Nelson Cruz had a threerun double, two singles and a walk for the Nationals — who improved to 5-14 at home. Juan Soto doubled, walked twice and scored three runs.
Hernandez hit an RBI single in the first and added a three-run homer in the third for a 4-0 lead. CARDINALS 4, GIANTS 0 » Dakota Hudson and a quartet of relievers combined to help host St. Louis stop San Francisco's six-game winning streak.
Yadier Molina doubled, singled and scored a run. He opened the second with a double off the top of the right-center field wall for his 2,128th career hit, moving him past Mike Piazza for sixth most among catchers.
Hudson (3-2) worked around five hits and two walks in five innings.
Tommy Edman's homer in the fifth gave the Cardinals home runs in a seasonbest 10 straight games.
Paul Goldschmidt and Nolan Arenado hit RBI doubles off former Cardinals pitcher John Brebbia in the seventh.
BRAVES 6, PADRES 5 » Marcell Ozuna homered and Austin Riley hit a tiebreaking double during a fourrun rally in the eighth inning that lifted Atlanta over visiting San Diego.
The Braves tagged reliever Steven Wilson (3-1) for Ozzie Albies' RBI single, Ozuna's two-run homer and Riley's go-ahead hit.
The game appeared to turn in San Diego's favor in top of the eighth when first baseman Matt Olson misplayed Trent Grisham's grounder for a two-base error with one out. Grisham scored on Jorge Alfaro's single to tie it at 2.
After Jake Cronenworth doubled, Jurickson Profar drew a walk to set the stage for Braves closer Kenley Jansen (2-0) to face Manny Machado with the bases loaded. Machado hit a grounder to Riley at third base, but his throw to second sailed into shallow center field for an error that allowed two runs to score.
San Diego added another run to make it 5-2 on Eric Hosmer's RBI forceout.
Padres starter Sean Manaea struck out 12 in seven innings.
Braves starter Charlie Morton gave up one run and two hits in six innings and struck out nine.
WHITE SOX 3, YANKEES 2 » Luis Robert singled off Aroldis Chapman to drive home the winning run in the ninth inning and Chicago stopped New York's five-game winning streak.
With one out in the Chicago ninth, Tim Anderson singled and Yoán Moncada walked against Chapman (0-1). Robert followed with his big hit to right.
Moncada homered and Dallas Keuchel threw five shutout innings for the White Sox, who have won eight of 11.
BLUE JAYS 5, RAYS 1 » Teoscar Hernandez and Danny Jansen homered in the eighth inning and visiting Toronto beat Tampa Bay to end a five-game skid.
Jansen was activated Saturday after being sidelined for more than a month with a strained left oblique and hit his third homer in only his ninth at-bat this year.
Both homers came off Ryan Thompson (1-2), who also gave up singles to Santiago Espinal and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. in the four-run inning.
Toronto's Hyun Jin Ryu, pitching for the first time since April 16 due to an inflamed left forearm, gave up one run on four hits in 4 2/3 innings, striking out three.
MARLINS 9, BREWERS 3 » Jesús Aguilar, Jorge Soler and Brian Anderson homered, and Miami beat Milwaukee to end a five-game home skid.
Marlins starter Trevor Rogers (2-4) went 5 1/3 innings, allowing one run, five hits and striking out eight.
Solo homers from Aguilar and Soler and Anderson's two-run shot against starter Eric Lauer in the fourth helped the Marlins erase a 1-0 deficit. Aguilar's and Soler's blasts started the inning. Anderson connected after Jesús Sánchez reached on a two-out single.
RED SOX 11, RANGERS 3 » J.D. Martinez extended his onbase streak to 31 games with a first-inning homer, Rich Hill pitched into the seventh in his return from the COVID-19 list and Boston clinched its first series victory in a month with a win at Texas.
Rafael Devers also homered for Boston, which set a season high for runs and has won the first two in the three-game weekend series. Kiké Hernández drove in three runs.
The Red Sox (13-20) had only won one of their first 10 series, taking two of three at Detroit from April 1113. They had gone 0-6-2 in their series since.
Hill (1-1). making his first start since May 5, struck out four without a walk while allowing three runs and seven hits