Phillies hand reeling Cubs their 11th consecutive defeat
Bryce Harper homered and tied a career high with five hits, Andrew McCutchen smacked a grand slam and the Philadelphia Phillies handed Chicago its 11th straight loss, beating the Cubs 15-10 at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night.
Rhys Hoskins also went deep. The Phillies jumped on Jake Arrieta (5-9) after beating Chicago 13-3 the previous night and finished two shy of a season high with 16 hits.
The Cubs, meanwhile, extended their worst skid since they dropped 12 in a row in May 2012. They remained winless since Zach Davies and three relievers combined to no-hit the Dodgers on June 24. And with Arrieta failing to make it through the second inning in his second straight start, they fell into a huge hole.
Harper had a seasonhigh four RBIs. His threerun drive in the seventh made it 15-4.
McCutchen smacked his third career grand slam and second this season in the first inning.
Hoskins chased Arrieta with a two-run double in the second, making it 7-0.
Aaron Nola (6-5) went six innings, allowing four runs and six hits. He struck out eight and walked one.
Bryan Reynolds drew a four-pitch walk from Tyler Matzek, forcing in the winning run in the ninth inning and giving Pittsburgh a victory over visiting Atlanta and a three-game winning streak.
Rodolfo Castro, recalled from Double-A before the game, worked an eightpitch walk from Matzek (0-3) leading off the ninth.
Adam Frazier slapped a single though a big hole at shortstop, and Ke’Bryan Hayes walked on a full count. Reynolds then took three fastballs and a slider for the second game-ending RBI of his career.
Pedro Severino and Cedric Mullins homered off Steven Matz, Anthony Santander also went deep and host Baltimore defeated Toronto.
The Blue Jays hit three home runs, too, including No. 28 by Vladimir Guerrero Jr., but all those long balls came after the Orioles had taken a 7-1 lead.
After Severino put Baltimore in front with a tworun drive in the fourth inning, Mullins’ team-high 16th homer with a man on launched a five-run fifth and chased Matz (7-4).
Making his first major league start, Orioles righthander Spencer Watkins (1-0) allowed one run and three hits over five innings.
John Hicks became the first player to homer in his first four games with the Rangers/Washington Senators franchise and added a goahead single in the seventh to lead Texas over Detroit.
Hicks hit a two-run homer in the fourth.
Yordan Álvarez hit two homers and drove in five runs, José Altuve drove in the go-ahead run with a single, and Houston rallied to beat Oakland for its fifth consecutive win.
The Astros took the lead with a three-run outburst in the sixth inning. Altuve gave the Astros their first lead with a two-run single.
Carlos Rodón pitched six strong innings and Chicago beat Minnesota.
Catcher Zack Collins, making the start after Yasmani Grandal went on the injured list with a torn tendon in his left knee, had a two-run single in the second inning after two walks and two errors by the Twins.
It was the only hit by Chicago in seven innings against Minnesota starter
José Berríos (7-3), who struck out 10.
Rodón (7-3) allowed one run on seven hits. He struck out eight and didn’t walk a batter as Chicago snapped a three-game skid.
New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom likely lost one of his last two starts planned heading into the All-Star break when Tuesday night’s game against the visiting Milwaukee Brewers was rained out.
The game was called after a wait of nearly 21/2 hours and rescheduled as part of a day-night doubleheader today.
DeGrom had been scheduled to start against lefthander Brett Anderson (2-5, 4.69). New York had planned to have deGrom start the final game before the break on Sunday but is not likely to use him on short rest.
DeGrom was rescheduled to start today’s opener.