Daily News (Los Angeles)

Naylor's late homers lift Guardians to win

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Josh Naylor hit a tying grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning and a three-run homer in the 11th, powering a huge comeback that carried the visiting Cleveland Guardians past the Chicago White Sox 12-9 on Monday night.

Naylor also had a run-scoring double in the eighth and finished with eight RBIs for the Guardians, who stunned Chicago by rallying from an 8-2 deficit in the ninth aided by two White Sox errors.

Andrés Giménez led off the inning with a homer and then doubled home a run in the 10th as the Guardians snapped Chicago's sixgame winning streak.

It was the first multi-homer game for Naylor, back from a horrific leg injury last season.

Naylor launched his first career slam off Liam Hendriks, handing the All-Star closer his first blown save since April 8.

Naylor's go-ahead drive came off Ryan Burr and barely cleared the right-field fence. Burr (0-1) started the 11th in place of Reynaldo Lopez, who felt lower back tightness while warming up and left the game.

Nestor Cortes took a no-hit bid into the eighth inning before Eli White singled, and Anthony Rizzo doubled in a run in the bottom half to lift New York over Texas for its sixth consecutiv­e series win.

A 27-year-old left-hander making his 22nd big league start and sixth this season, Cortes pitched a career-high 7 1/3 innings, walked four and struck out 11.

White, the Rangers' No. 9 batter lofted a 2-2 fastball into short center field for a clean hit on Cortes' final pitch. Clay Holmes (4-0) relieved and got Marcus Semien to ground into a double play.

Aaron Judge singled in the eighth off Brett Martin (0-3) and Rizzo, in a 2-for-31 slide, lofted a curveball to the gap in left-center.

Aroldis Chapman allowed a twoout single to Jonah Heim in the ninth, then retired Nick Solak on a flyout to finish the two-hitter.

Paul Blackburn threw 6 2/3 strong innings to improve to 4-0 as Oakland won at Detroit to snap a nine-game losing streak.

Tony Kemp hit a solo home run in the third and Chad Pinder added an RBI single in the fourth.

Blackburn gave up four hits before leaving in the seventh inning.

The Tigers, who managed just four hits, have lost six in a row.

Michael Pineda (1-2) took the loss, despite allowing only two runs on six hits in 6 2/3 innings.

Kyle Farmer snapped a 0-for-34 slump with a three-run homer and Brandon Drury added a three-run shot to power Cincinnati past visiting Milwaukee for its first winning streak of the year at two straight.

Tyler Wells pitched six strong innings to earn his first victory of the season and Baltimore used a six-run fifth to surge past visiting Kansas City.

Wells (1-2) allowed Ryan O'Hearn's RBI single in the first, but cruised through the rest of his start. He retired 15 of the last 18 batters he faced.

Ryan Mountcastl­e's two-run single capped the Orioles' big fifth against Carlos Hernández (0-2).

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