Blue Jays get to Cole, defeat Yankees again
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Yankees starter Gerrit Cole gave up four runs over six innings to take the loss Saturday against the Blue Jays.
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole twice banged on the dugout roof, shouting in frustration and getting booed as New York lost for the 15th time in 19 games, beaten by the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
The AL East-leading Yankees fell to 9-20 since entering the All-Star break with a 64-28 record. After holding a 15½-game bulge on July 8, their margin over second-place Toronto is down to seven games.
The Yankees have lost six straight series for the first time since 1995. Toronto will try for a four-game sweep today.
Cole (9-6) hadn’t allowed a hit before the Blue Jays scored four times in the fifth. After he issued a walk and misplayed a grounder, Alejandro Kirk capped the burst with a two-run double.
When the inning ended, fans booed Cole and television cameras picked up the right-hander yelling and punching the bottom of the dugout roof with both hands.
Jackie Bradley hit a tworun double to start the Jays’ scoring. He delivered after Santiago Espinal doubled for Toronto’s first hit.
Matt Chapman added a solo homer in the ninth as the Blue Jays won their fourth straight. CARDINALS 16, DIAMONDBACKS 7 » Albert Pujols blasted two more homers, pushing his career total to 692 and helping St. Louis rout host Arizona.
It was a vintage night for the 42-year-old Pujols. The 11-time All-Star hit solo homers in the second and fourth off D-backs lefty Madison Bumgarner.
He nearly hit a third homer, scorching a single off the base of the left field wall in the fifth. He capped his 4-for-4 night with a single through the left side of the infield in the seventh.
With the first homer, Pujols passed Stan Musial for No. 2 in total bases in major league history and now has 6,143. Hank Aaron is No. 1 with 6,856.
The Cardinals tacked on eight insurance runs in the ninth, capped by Paul DeJong’s grand slam and Paul Goldschmidt’s threerun shot.
The Cardinals have won six straight games and 15 of their past 18.
BRAVES 5, ASTROS 4, 11 INNINGS » Matt Olson’s check-swing double to left with the infield shifted the other way brought home the tying run in the 11th, and pinch-hitter Travis d’Arnaud won it with a single through the drawnin defense as Atlanta rallied twice in extra innings to beat Houston.
The Astros scored two in the 10th, only to have Atlanta match them in the bottom half. Houston went back ahead on Jeremy Peña’s slow roller that brought home the go-ahead run, but the Braves rallied again.
Cristian Javier pitched twohit ball for the Astros. Spencer Strider surrendered three hits, walked two and struck out nine for the Braves. METS 8-1, PHILLIES 2-4 » Bailey Falter threw six innings of two-hit ball, Kyle Schwarber tripled and doubled, and Philadelphia earned a split of a day-night doubleheader against visiting New York.
In the opener, Starling Marte had three hits to lead the Mets.
The Phillies came back in the nightcap to top the NL East-leading Mets for just the fifth time in 18 games this year.
Falter (1-3) allowed one run in his first major league start since July 29.
In the first game, Michael
Perez broke an 0-for19 slump with a two-run single off former Mets pitcher Zack Wheeler (11-7). RAYS 5, ROYALS 2 » Drew Rasmussen took a no-hit try into the sixth inning in his first start since making a serious perfect game bid, and host Tampa Bay defeated Kansas City.
Rasmussen, who lost his perfect game last Sunday when Baltimore’s Jorge Mateo opened the ninth with a double, walked MJ Melendez leading off the Royals first.
Melendez got the Royals’ first hit when he lined a single into center past Rasmussen with one out in the sixth.
Rasmussen gave up two runs, two hits and one walk along with eight strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.
CUBS 6, BREWERS 5, 11 INNINGS » Willson Contreras hit an RBI single to cap a two-run rally in the bottom of the 11th and Chicago kept coming back to beat Milwaukee for its fifth straight win.
Contreras had a two-run homer in the fifth, his 20th this year.
The Cubs scored once in the ninth to tie, once more in the 10th to keep it even and finally won in the 11th.