Arrieta still unbeaten as Cubs edge Cardinals

ST. LOUIS — Jake Arrieta remained unbeaten on the season despite allowing as many as four runs for the first time in nearly a year and the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8 on Wednesday.

Arrieta (9-0) joined the White Sox’s Chris Sale as the only nine-game winners in the majors.

Arrieta allowed four runs in a regularseason game for the first time since June 16, 2015.

• Blue Jays 8 Yankees 4 — At New York: Russell Martin hit his first two home runs of the season, Michael Saunders also went deep and Toronto finally broke out its big bats, halting New York’s six-game winning streak.

Marco Estrada (2-2) took a two-hitter into the seventh inning and the last-place Blue Jays won for the fourth time in six games following an 0-5 slide.

• Astros 4, Orioles 3 — At Houston: Evan Gattis hit a two-run homer and Luis Valbuena had a tiebreaking solo shot in the sixth inning that gave Houston a win.

Baltimore tied the score 3-3 with a tworun sixth, and Valbuena homered for the second straight day with an oppositefield drive, two-out to left-center field off Tyler Wilson (2-3).

• Mets 2 Nationals 0 — At Washington: Steven Matz pitched a career-high eight innings to win his seventh consecutive start for the New York Mets.

Matz (7-1) has a 1.13 ERA over his winning streak, not allowing a run in four of those starts.

• Red Sox 10, Rockies 3 — At Boston: Jackie Bradley Jr. extended his major league-best hitting streak to 29 games, Xander Bogaerts homered to extend his hitting streak to 18 games and Boston got its fourth straight win.

Steven Wright (4-4) had another solid outing, giving up three runs, two earned. He has now given up three runs or fewer in eight of his nine starts.

• Dodgers 3, Reds 1 — At Los Angeles: Joc Pederson hit a go-ahead, two-run single with two outs in the fourth inning and Scott Kazmir struck out 12, lifting Los Angeles over Cincinnati to complete a three-game sweep.

The Dodgers have won four in a row overall and nine straight against the Reds, who extended their season-high skid to 10 games.

• Pirates 5, Diamondbacks 4 — At PIttsburgh: David Freese hit a long tworun home run to cap a four-run fifth inning, Sean Rodriguez also homered and Pittsburgh rallied.

Freese hit a 451-foot blast into the Pirates’ bullpen in center field off Rubby De La Rosa (4-5) to put the Pirates ahead 5-4. They trailed 4-1 coming into the fifth but then Gregory Polanco hit an RBI double and Starling Marte drove in a run with a groundout.

• Marlins 4, Rays 3 — At St. Petersburg, Fla.: Cole Gillespie had a late tiebreaking RBI single, Marcell Ozuna drove in two runs and Miami beat Tampa Bay.

Miami took a 4-3 lead in the eighth when J.T. Realmuto singled, went to second on Chris Johnson’s sacrifice bunt and scored on Gillespie’s single off 30year old Tyler Sturdevant (0-1), who made his major league debut Tuesday.

• Indians 4, White Sox 3 — At Chicago: Corey Kluber allowed two runs over 7 1/3 innings and Cleveland roughed up a top White Sox pitcher for the second straight day.

After sending Chris Sale to his first loss after a 9-0 start, the Indians got three runs and five hits in six innings against Joel Quintana (5-4). Quintana’s ERA, an AL-best 1.98 at the start of the day, rose to 2.22.

• Rangers 15, Angels 9 — At Arlington, Texas: Rangers rookie Nomar Mazara hit the longest home run in the major leagues this season, Rougned Odor drove in three in likely his last game before a suspension and Texas beat Los Angeles.

Mazara led off the second with a drive into the second deck of the right-seat seats that would have traveled 491 feet had it landed unimpeded, according to Major League Baseball’s Statcast program.

• Twins 7, Royals 5 — At Minneapolis: Miguel Sano hit the go-ahead two-run home run in the fifth inning after Minnesota lost an early lead, and the Twins staved off another series sweep.

Eduardo Nunez and Brian Dozier each homered, too, the first two batters to face Royals starter Dillon Gee (1-2) and just the fifth pair in Twins history to go deep in their first two plate appearances of the game.

• Phillies 8, Tigers 5 — At Detroit: Odubel Herrera and Peter Bourjos homered off Anibal Sanchez, and Philadelphia Phillies salvaged the finale of a threegame series.

• Brewers 3, Braves 2, 13 innings — At Atlanta: Jonathan Villar’s run-scoring single in the 13th inning for Milwaukee sent Atlanta to another home loss.