Rojas' single in 10th clinches berth for Phillies
The National League champion Philadelphia Phillies clinched a wild-card berth, beating the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 in 10 innings on Tuesday night on Johan Rojas' RBI single.
Rojas' single off Pirates reliever David Bednar (3-3) scored pinch-runner Cristian Pache and sent the crowd of more than 30,000 fans into a frenzy.
Pittsburgh's Bryan Reynolds hit a solo shot in the seventh and Henry Davis hit one off Craig Kimbrel that tied the game at 2 in the eighth.
Phillies starter Aaron Nola struck out Ji Hwan Bae in the sixth to reach 200 strikeouts for the third straight season. Nola fanned eight in 6 2/3 innings.
BRAVES 7, CUBS 6 >> Sean Murphy reached on a two-run fielding error by right fielder Seiya Suzuki in the eighth and major league-leading Atlanta overcame a 6-0 deficit to beat visiting Chicago.
The victory eliminated the wild-card contending Cubs from the NL Central race, giving the title to the Milwaukee Brewers, who win the division for the third time in six year.
Suzuki ran to his right and called off center fielder Cody Bellinger, but apparently lost the fly ball in the lights and dropped it, allowing Matt Olson
and Forrest Wall to score,
The Braves cut it to 6-3 in the sixth on Kevin Pillar's homer, Olson's RBI single and Ozuna's RBI double. Pillar's drive gave the Braves 300 homers for the season and made them the third team in MLB history (joining the 2019 Twins and 2019 Yankees) to hit 300.
Ronald Acuña Jr. hit his 41st homer, a two-run shot in the seventh, to make it 6-5. ORIOLES 1, NATIONALS 0 >> Rookie Gunnar Henderson led off the first with a homer, Kyle Bradish had another dominant start and AL Eastleading Baltimore beat visiting Washington.
Bradish (12-7) allowed three hits, struck out four and had a pair of walks over a seasonhigh eight innings. He is 6-1 since Aug. 1.
YANKEES 2, BLUE JAYS 0 >> Austin Wells hit a two-run home run off Jordan Romano in the ninth inning and New York blanked host Toronto.
Eight days after winning his 200th game, 42-year-old Adam Wainwright said he has thrown his final pitch.
“I've thought a lot about it the last few days, but I'm in a really good place mentally,” the St. Louis Cardinals righthander said Tuesday. “No regrets about anything I ever did, no second thoughts of, am I making the right decision on pitching or retiring. I'm at peace with all of it in this spot that I've never been. I've literally left everything I had out there, for real.”
Wainwright, a three-time All-Star, pitched all 18 of his seasons with the Cardinals. He threw seven innings of four-hit ball in winning his final start, a 1-0 victory Sept. 18 over the Brewers in St. Louis.
“I knew the day after I pitched that it was going to be very hard for me to throw a ball competitively ever again,” he said.
It was the longest outing this season for Wainwright (5-11, 7.40 ERA).