Demeritte, Fried lead Braves to win over Cubs
ATLANTA » Travis Demeritte hit his first big league homer in nearly three years and made an impressive catch to back another strong outing by Max Fried, giving the Atlanta Braves a much-needed 3-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday night.
The World Series champions won for only the third time in their last eight games. The Cubs have lost six of seven.
It was Demeritte’s first homer with the Braves and fourth of his big league career. He hit the first three with the Detroit Tigers in 2019, the last of them on Sept. 12 against the New York Yankees.
BREWERS 12, PIRATES 8 » Willy Adames homered twice and drove in a career-high seven runs, and Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh.
MARINERS 8, RAYS 4 » Logan Gilbert pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings, Adam Frazier hit a three-run double and Seattle won their fourth straight, over Tampa Bay.
PADRES 9, REDS 6 » Eric Hosmer hit his first homer of the season and Jake Cronenworth added a bases-loaded triple during an eight-run fourth inning that sent San Diego past struggling Cincinnati.
PHILLIES 10, ROCKIES 3 » Odubel Herrera homered, doubled and drove in three runs, Zach Eflin pitched six strong innings and Philadelphia again took advantage of some shaky Colorado defense in a rout of the Rockies.
TWINS 5, TIGERS 4 » Detroit catcher Eric Haase made a throwing error on a botched rundown, capping a chaotic play that gave Minnesota two runs for a wild win over the Tigers.
YANKEES 12, ORIOLES 8 » Anthony Rizzo homered three times to take over the major league lead, Aaron Judge connected on his birthday and Joey Gallo ended the longest home-run drought of his career as New York outslugged Baltimore.
MARLINS 5, NATIONALS 1 » Miami outfielders Jesús Sánchez and Avisaíl García each threw out a runner at the plate in the fourth inning, and Joey Wendle hit his first home run for the Marlins, a three-run shot that helped produce a victory over reeling Washington.
BLUE JAYS 6, RED SOX 5 (10) » George Springer hit a tworun homer to force extra innings, Raimel Taipa hit a game-ending sacrifice fly in the 10th, and Toronto handed slumping Boston their fourth straight loss.
ROYALS 6, WHITE SOX 0 » Daniel Lynch pitched six crisp innings and Kansas City handed Chicago their eighth straight loss.
METS 3, CARDINALS 0 » Chris Bassitt pitched six strong innings, and New York beat St. Louis for its franchise-best sixth straight series win in a chippy game.
ASTROS 5, RANGERS 1 » Jake Odorizzi allowed one hit over six innings to end a long winless drought, and a rejuvenated Kyle Tucker homered and drove in three runs to power Houston past Texas.
ANGELS 4, GUARDIANS 1 » Mike Trout homered and drove in three runs, and Patrick Sandoval pitched seven innings of two-hit ball as surging Los Angeles defeated Cleveland for their third straight victory.
DIAMONDBACKS 5, DODGERS 3 » David Peralta hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and also started one of Arizona’s five double plays as the Diamondbacks put on a defensive clinic to beat Los Angeles.